> This is absolutely fine. But it should preclude them from becoming a public standard.
Define "public standard". And how is HDMI one of them?
HDMI is a private bundle of IP that the license holders are free to give (or not give) to anyone. We're not talking about a statue by a government 'of the people' what should be public. No one is mandated by any government to implement it AFAICT: and even if it was, it would be up to the government to make sure they only reference publicly available documents in laws.
As a sysadmin I have sometimes wished I had source available for certain things as it would help in debugging what is going on with a certain error/behaviour. strings(1) only gets you so far.
> US President Donald Trump on Monday announced that Nvidia will be allowed to sell its powerful H200 chips to China — as first reported by Semafor — in exchange for a 25% surcharge […]
CERN is the biggest scientific facility in the world, with a huge IT group and their own IXP. Most places are not like that.
Heck, I work at a much smaller particle accelerator (https://ifmif.org) and have met the CERN guys, and they were the first to say that for our needs, OpenStack is absolutely overkill.
> Heck, I work at a much smaller particle accelerator (https://ifmif.org) and have met the CERN guys, and they were the first to say that for our needs, OpenStack is absolutely overkill.
I currently work in AI/ML HPC, and we use Proxmox for our non-compute infrastructure (LDAP, SMTP, SSH jump boxes). I used to work in cancer with HPC, and we used OpenStack for several dozen hypervisors to run a lot of infra/services instances/VM.
I think that there are two things determine which system should be looked at first: scale and (multi-)tenancy. More than one (maybe two) dozen hypervisors, I could really see scaling/management issues with Proxmox; I personally wouldn't want to do it (though I'm sure many have). Next, if you have a number internal groups that need allocated/limited resource assignments, then OpenStack tenants are a good way to do this (especially if there are chargebacks, or just general tracking/accounting).
I'm happily running some Proxmox now, and wouldn't want to got more than a dozen hypervisor or so. At least not in one cluster: that's partially what PDM 1.0 is probably about.
I have run OpenStack with many dozens of hypervisors (plus dedicated, non-hyperconverged Ceph servers) though.
> Take care of the kids that they were able to produce, making survival of even half them much less likely.
H-G societies tend to be smaller groups where everyone in the village helps with childcare, so if a parent was out of action for a while the children could still be gathered.
This is covered in the book Hunt, Gather, Parent by Michaeleen Doucleff, specifically with the Hadzabe people (Tanzania).
However, before spending money on new mechanical units, it's usually better to improve insulation and air tightness first: there's no sense heating (or cooling) and then have the conditioned air leak in/out of the house.
Further, there are hybrid / dual-fuel systems: you operate the heat pump down to X ˚C and at that point switch over to burning something.
All that said, heat pumps can be used up to at least IECC Zone 5, and with a decently insulated house in Zone 6 (you probably need pretty good insulation to get into Z7):
And while there are areas of the world where it gets that cold, how many people live there (relatively speaking)? I would hazard to guess that large portions of the human population (even in the US) do not live in areas that get much worse (on average) than -20C/-5F, and so large portions of the population are eligible for HP use. (And I'm saying this as a Canadian.)
When deciding on what kind of heating/mechanical system to get, many building codes dictate that you have to design around how much energy you house will need for you area. The historical data is readily available (left-click to scroll, right-click to choose):
For heating see "Heating DB 99%" (which means that historically the temperature has been warmer than the listed value 99% of the time, i.e., except for ~4 days out of any year (on average)); for cooling, "Cooling DB 1%" (historical temps have been lower except for 1% of the time).
> Am I alone in thinking that truck driving is an arduous job that ideally shouldn't be done by humans at all?
There are lots of people that do not have the capacity to move up the 'value chain'. All they are capable of doing are 'simple' jobs:
> To enlist in the Army, aspiring recruits typically must take the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB) test and earn a passing score. The ASVAB, with a maximum score of 99, requires a minimum score of 31 for Army enlistment.
> The ASVAB test encompasses various subject areas or subtests, including general science (GS), arithmetic reasoning (AR), word knowledge (WK), paragraph comprehension (PC), mathematics knowledge (MK), electronics information (EI), auto and shop information (AS), mechanical comprehension (MC), and assembling objects (AO).
If all/many of those jobs are automated away, how are those people supposed to make a living? It's possible to be 'too stupid' to even be in the military (or at least be in it and have a useful role).
Define "public standard". And how is HDMI one of them?
HDMI is a private bundle of IP that the license holders are free to give (or not give) to anyone. We're not talking about a statue by a government 'of the people' what should be public. No one is mandated by any government to implement it AFAICT: and even if it was, it would be up to the government to make sure they only reference publicly available documents in laws.