I live in a community in the Pacific Northwest that was built in 2018 and (almost) every home (22/23) has (Carrier) heat pumps; for some unknown reason, the other has heated floors.
Many of us are proponents of heat pumps thanks to reduced costs and emissions *but* we've not had a generally good experience possibly (!) as a result of bad installation and definitely due to limited numbers of indoor heads (if I close my main bedroom door, the rest of my upper floor has no heating/cooling).
There's always someone in the community frustrated that their house is too cold/hot, that the condensation drains are blocked and water is running down an interior wall, that an indoor head or the condenser is having problems, or that there's unexplained coolant leak.
People moving into the community are inheriting issues with at least 2 homes having to augment/replace the system. To save breaking into the walls, this often necessitates putting the power, coolant and drainage lines on the outside of the house and then boxing the result.
We're saving money on monthly bills (probably; we don't have a comp) but many of us have spent quite some $$$ on maintenance and replacement equipment.
I've spent 1.5 years in a brand-new building with Mitsubishi heat pumps. It had some initial trouble with a faulty electronic component, but afterwards it worked quite fine, needing little if any attention.
Not only are my AI chats more personal than my Google searches but with these false friends reporting this information back to Google's (and others') advertising engines, suggests to me that this will become a more accurate, more difficult to avoid and thus bigger business for Google.
Each of those has tradeoffs compared to Dockerfiles (I have no need for bazel, but if I did, then adding `rules_oci` might be a win-win, rather than using a Dockerfile). If I used Nix, then the Nix dockerTools would be a huge win (I don't use Nix). If I were shipping Go programs, `ko` would likely be a good baseline.
Buildah is the only serious alternative in my opinion.
You lose automatic layer caching, but in exchange you can use the same tools (RUN, ADD, etc) within a much more powerful shell environment.
I wrote a Buildah wrapper that uses a shell script harness to polyfill the familiar Dockerfile syntax while adding several extra goodies - mainly the ability to bake runtime arguments (mounts, ports...) into the image. Very handy!
Buildah's ability to mount the container in an unshare environment is pretty magical for copying stuff in and out of it.
That said, in the end I'd still rather build containers with something other than an imperative sequence of commands, so my heart is going to be forever with nix2container and bazel's rules_oci.
Your insight is helpful almost as much as knowing that other people like me are out there too.
I think (!?) I've finally let go of a project that I've been working on for a couple of years.
A key tenet of the project (which I frequently forgot) was that it was a way for me to learn|refine technical skills and to keep me entertained|occupied.
The project certainly achieved those objectives for me and I'm a better person for doing it.
Good luck to you and I hope you continue to succeed!
My maternal grandmother lived with kidney disease and my mother and (maternal) aunt both had kidney disease too and have both had kidney transplants (ironically each from their partner).
A good friend had a kidney transplant too from her twin sister which means that she has negligible anti-rejection medications.
My mother's transplant was more than 10 years ago. She's had issues including, as a consequence of being immuno-supressed, cancer from Epstein-Barr virus (she recovered) but she's otherwise enjoying her 80s with her several grands and a great.
My father (her donor) continues to thrive and has had no obvious negative consequences to his life-saving gift.
They still bicker!!
My sister, cousins and I have our creatinine and potassium levels monitored.
I had an elevated potassium test recently and it's depressing to be reminded how fragile life is. In my case, a follow up test appears to indicate that the prior test was exceptional (and I think can be explained).
We have 2 kidneys but only one heart, liver etc. and so, while there's an evolutionary benefit, experience suggests that people do just fine with one kidney.
To every brave and selfless person who's donated an organ, you have my utmost respect and gratitude.
Fun fact: kidney transplant recipients generally have 3 kidneys: the OGs and the donated kidney
Many of us are proponents of heat pumps thanks to reduced costs and emissions *but* we've not had a generally good experience possibly (!) as a result of bad installation and definitely due to limited numbers of indoor heads (if I close my main bedroom door, the rest of my upper floor has no heating/cooling).
There's always someone in the community frustrated that their house is too cold/hot, that the condensation drains are blocked and water is running down an interior wall, that an indoor head or the condenser is having problems, or that there's unexplained coolant leak.
People moving into the community are inheriting issues with at least 2 homes having to augment/replace the system. To save breaking into the walls, this often necessitates putting the power, coolant and drainage lines on the outside of the house and then boxing the result.
We're saving money on monthly bills (probably; we don't have a comp) but many of us have spent quite some $$$ on maintenance and replacement equipment.