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!
I helped someone that had to use taichi code written by a PhD student and it was a bit weird. It looks a lot like python but you have to code like you would in cuda (e.g control flow), there is no magic.
For this we had to calculate forces to animate some kind of polygon with a lot of joints and we could not just call sycipy from the taichi code. I had to implement a very dirty polynomial equation solver in taichi for the demo
You can inflict extreme pain on someone by just talking without raising a finger nor your voice. Especially if this person cares about you.
It can be voluntary or not but dismissing it like that seems strange to me. It's not because it doesn't leave physical scars that it can't cause trauma.
It guides you through making a Gameboy emulator step by step. When I did it I remember that something that was a bit frustrating is that you had to do things a certain way that only made sense much later when other pieces of the puzzle fell into place
I think it's a similar situation as if you only have a hammer everything looks like a nail.
You can probably find a solution with what you already now (as a junior programmer) as most problems programmers have to solve are not that hard but you may completely miss a better solution because you had no idea it was possible. I may be fine but you may also lose a lot of time later because it wasn't.
I agree that it's possible to self teach almost everything in CS but the point of university is to speed up the discovery of CS from scratch and have solid foundations. You certainly don't know everything graduating university but should now where to look when you have a problem imo.
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.