You probably are compared to your baseline self (another comment goes more extensively on this subject) but maybe you have enough driving skills and common sense to minimize the risks somewhat.
I'm looking at the newest versal chips from Xilinx/AMD for a new design and buying a SoM & designing our carrier board could fit the bill nicely. We're still very early in the design process, we need to get prices for the chips too to see if it's an idea worth pursuing.
I don't often post here (I forgot to check the guidelines), should I have left the original title "(bcachefs) Trouble in the kernel" ?
While the article that follows is well written, the original title feels very vague and clickbaity for me. Like "you won't guess what's wrong with this !!!".
I felt this give a much better idea of the content (technical problems that exposed people problems) and give chance to people that don't want to read about kernel politics / drama a chance to skip the article.
Maybe because people seem to be very emotional about this right know? I'm myself not sure if this is related to the woke mind virus or Kent being a dick
We only have the point of view of becachefs main developer here of course, but some things regarding some kernel developer and the CoC committee seem to be really concerning.
I had the chance to visit the new datacenter of my college and on the server exhaust side there is a radiator as tall as the rack with cold water in it. All the pipes are under the floor.
IIRC they mainly put power hungry compute nodes for the clusters in this new datacenter and I remember that servers full of GPUs had crazy power draw. The water then goes through an heat exchanger to help generate hot water to heat the campus and for the taps.
The elections can be skewed with different kind of manipulation (social media, troll farms, electronic ballot hacks) and the popular candidate can still win.
It's fair to assume Putin would try to influence the elections in trump's favor as he would have been beneficial for him.
The Ukraine invasion would have been much easier if trump had been relelected, finished pulling out of nato and kept the more isolationist policy that was in effect during trump.
IMO trump was also doing a lot of damage to the US and it's position on the world stage which is also beneficial for Putin.
> The Ukraine invasion would have been much easier if trump had been relelected, finished pulling out of nato and kept the more isolationist policy that was in effect during trump.
It wouldn't have occured because NATO and the US wouldn't have been escalating it the way they did post and pre Trump.
I know this is not the right narrative (TM) but for anyone who remembers wars are not about good Vs evil but geopolitics, they'll realize the interests at play.
But hey, Iraq has WMDs and Vietnam... Er... Something.
There is also a third approach that is the best if you have a predictible base load with surges sometimes imo: hybrid cloud
You basically run the base load in your own data center and the surges go to the cloud. My university is evaluating this because sometimes you have multiple labs that need a lot of compute resources at the same time and local compute cluster has finite capacity.
Norway is far from being the only that has oil but to me it seems it has / had the best management of this resource. From what I understand the money doesn't go to a few people / companies but a good part is used to prop up the economy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_in_Norway
Most of the oil money goes to the sovereign wealth fund, but the industry itself is huge including both drilling operations, corporate and a gigantic service sector and so on which of course participates directly in the economy. Oil is taxed at a very high rate and that tax money is what goes to the sovereign wealth fund. F.ex. Equinor, the majority state owned oil company payed 50 billion dollars in tax for 2022.
Some of the funds profit can be used to prop up the state budget, but it's regulated so as to not over heat the economy.
This is an important point; rather than just serving as a supplier of the raw resource, local industry has developed lots of equipment which is used within the oil&gas sector worldwide, ensuring we have something to fall back on when we're done pumping hydrocarbons out of the ground.
The industry is currently seeing the writing on the wall, though, and is trying to reinvent itself in a greener hue - for instance, my employer, who's been developing handling systems for ROVs and various seismic exploration equipment are now going all in on motion compensated walkways intended to bring crew and equipment out to offshore wind turbines.
Anyway, once petrodollars dwindle, we are reasonably well positioned to handle the transition. These are exciting times for engineers!
