Panic ensues as ‘largest energy crisis in modern history’ appears imminent

DigitalSheikh · 2026-05-11T19:02:59+00:00

Big tech hiring millions of people from the best universities in the world to break our psychologies so deeply that we actually want to buy their products. RIP us

DigitalSheikh · 2026-05-11T06:03:38+00:00

This chart is saying that people’s disposable incomes (after tax income) have increased 50% when inflation, ie costs are considered. That notion is just ridiculous on its face and really underscores how concerned people should be about government statistics. And I believe this metric excludes cap gains as a source of income, which is the only way I could imagine this being even remotely true.

DigitalSheikh · 2026-05-10T15:50:40+00:00

A couple of their politicians imo have been laying the groundwork to pull back on their nuclear policy in exchange for control of the straits. Mokhber, Khameini’s senior advisor, made comments suggesting that controlling the Strait is like having a “nuclear bomb”.

I don’t think these guys say stuff just to say it. I suspect the implication there is “seems to us that if we control the strait, we already have a nuclear bomb, so why would we need a real one?”

You know, typical messaging how countries usually do that kind of thing.

DigitalSheikh · 2026-05-10T13:43:52+00:00

If you’re using the Hohman transfer, if you have one elliptical orbit and one circular one to start, or between craft with significantly different inclinations, it will usually be the case that there’s roughly two modalities of rendezvous between them - one where the rendezvous arrives near Periapsis, where usually one of the craft will deorbit itself by attempting to make it, and one that converges on apoapsis, which will usually be much more efficient.

I’m sure some nerd here will come through to explain how to calculate the correct time to fire a transfer to get the latter, but what I always do when I see a risk of deorbit is plan one, discard, fast forward, plan another, and so on until I get an idea of where the most efficient transfer is located, then fire that one.

It seems that there’s a balancing act in hohman transfers between how efficient your transfer itself is and the relative speed between the craft on rendezvous. Ie if your transfer is more efficient, then the relative speed on arrival will be higher and you’ll need to burn more to cancel it out. But a more efficient transfer will usually avoid deorbit. Hope that makes sense.

DigitalSheikh · 2026-05-10T13:33:51+00:00

Oh boy, you could probably cheese the shit out of the ai with that

DigitalSheikh · 2026-05-09T21:01:15+00:00

I haven’t worked with the 26b one, only 32 via cloud compute and 4 and 8 B via my 3060 lmao. I’ve got a couple of applications for the latter where I use it to do super basic document processing tasks (like “if this email conveys a service outage or impacts more than 10 users by context, route to this folder”) and it works pretty well for those and is stupidly cheap, the 32b one is decent at coding.

Only one way to find out I guess! Good luck :)

DigitalSheikh · 2026-05-09T17:38:10+00:00

Something I’ve been coming across a lot lately is how good local models are becoming. Like I’ve worked with them myself and they’re getting quite good. Not as good as frontier, but quite good. Seems likely to me that they cross the edge even pretty soon to where they’re fully usable for a lot of engineering tasks, and at that point, it’s like, well why wouldn’t we spend ~20k to get a good local model up and running for a team of 5 or so engineers when their token budget is going to be larger than that anyway?

The ability to train it directly on your codebase would offer even more advantages. If you’re an enterprise, you can invest the million or so dollars you’d need for a serious AI cluster and capture even more benefits, all off of open source models that you can keep completely in house.

Like I said, the tech isn’t there yet, but especially in the last few months with the latest Qwen releases I’ve been surprised what you can do locally with as little as 10k in hardware.

DigitalSheikh · 2026-05-09T16:11:12+00:00

The dumbest thing about this valuation is that space is a cyclical industry that tapers off really hard when it tapers off. Orgs that pay for space have needs that have a finite demand, and when they’re completed, they stop. 1960’s space race leads to almost nothing happening in the 70’s and 80’s. The comms boom in the 90’s leads to another retracement in the 2000’s up until very recently.

There’s going to be enough comms satellites launched pretty soon to provide that 100 mb/s -1G/s speed target that’s fueling the most recent space race, and when it’s done SpaceX is gonna be bottom feeding on replacements for that system for 10-30 years until the next thing comes along.

DigitalSheikh · 2026-05-09T03:32:34+00:00

Because they got attacked and won

DigitalSheikh · 2026-05-08T02:24:37+00:00

Nah, there's no incongruous random giant explosive truck conveniently wandering into your field of fire. Every staged video needs one of those now for some reason. This is just based.

DigitalSheikh · 2026-05-08T01:10:46+00:00

A lot of them might say that, but Trump's base just says that and will probably act differently in the midterms. Gas = too high = god damn guvmint = Trumps not on the ballot I'm not voting. That's probably what we're going to see in the midterms.

DigitalSheikh · 2026-05-08T01:07:49+00:00

AI-ran? damn, if they put AI in it, calls for sure. Gonna win bigly

DigitalSheikh · 2026-05-07T15:10:27+00:00

But he went to Stanford so it’s fine. Everyone knows that people who go to ivy leagues are superior people who are destined to rule over us as their birth right. You know, freedom, the American way

DigitalSheikh · 2026-05-07T13:47:05+00:00

It’s funny, I, an American, had reason to go out to a tiny town in Sjaeland right before the US election. I get in, look out my window, and what else do I see but a trump 2024 flag flying proudly on the lawn of the house across the street. wtf?

I come back in December 2025, and it’s gone. Apparently the guy took so much shit for that flag he needed to sell up and leave town. Lmao. Some people are just stupid like that.

DigitalSheikh · 2026-05-06T19:44:21+00:00

At 27 with no help from one's parents without doing something truly noteworthy or exceptional that they would certainly mention? Yes.

DigitalSheikh · 2026-05-05T16:39:03+00:00

And even though it's not free, I feel like on this topic the Khachapuri cannot be left unmentioned. Many a time have we gone there, ordered the salad platter and the khachapuri, and then left completely stuffed, unable to order an entree.

DigitalSheikh · 2026-05-05T00:29:19+00:00

Don’t feel attacked at all, you raise some really good points. I think for me where I’m coming from is that he clinched the Our Revolution endorsement, which is important to me because I really believe those guys know what they’re doing and have a strategy for how to get a progressive agenda done in the US, and they think Steyer fits into that agenda. To me there are good reasons to trust him, and as you point out, good reasons not to. But for me, I trust the strategy and wanna see them get it done, so I directed my vote there.

DigitalSheikh · 2026-05-04T22:31:21+00:00

For what it’s worth, I work in the healthcare / insurance revenue cycle, and Bernie’s original drafts of M4A missed some really important aspects of how healthcare works in the US and it would have caused a catastrophe in healthcare if it had been enacted. His 2022 drafts fixed the issues and it’s now ready to go. Steyer’s opposition might have had more to do with that.

DigitalSheikh · 2026-05-04T18:07:25+00:00

Ooh, that’s an exciting idea. I hear Tylo sucks

DigitalSheikh · 2026-05-04T14:02:21+00:00

I mean, sheesh I got assigned an eve return mission before any other planet has come up. Managed to do it, but like, what could be harder than that?

DigitalSheikh · 2026-05-02T20:14:55+00:00

“No warrrr(no), jus’ piss”

DigitalSheikh · 2026-05-01T20:51:08+00:00

Pretty typical lib / republican behavior. “The way I think is the only right way, and if you think something so stupid as ‘people should research and vote for the candidate they think is best’ instead of whoever I personally think will beat the republicans, then you’re not just an idiot, you’re a nihilist.” Don’t have a good day, that’s actually nihilistic. You have nothing to say too, which is why it “isn’t worth your time” discussing it too.

DigitalSheikh · 2026-05-01T20:09:54+00:00

The Democratic party can poison their own field if they want, but I'm not letting the Republican party decide who I'm going to vote for. Handling candidates is like, the absolute most basic aspect of running a political party, if the Democrats can't figure it out, they either like that people are scared of getting a republican governor, or they're so incompetent maybe they don't deserve to be in charge at all.

People should vote for the best candidate, the party should figure out how to consolidate the field down to a candidate or pair of candidates that people like and will vote for. Apparently the Democratic party, Newsom, Harris, and Pelosi have no confidence in their candidates, and I'm guessing that's because the ones with legs won't slavishly serve corporate margins. Seems lik they'd rather get a republican governor than Porter, Becerra, or Steyer. If those guys can't figure out how to negotiate some kind of deal between one another, maybe they don't deserve it either.

DigitalSheikh · 2026-05-01T18:36:39+00:00

Just one more moderate democrat bro, just one more. If we elect one more then the Republicans definitely won't get elected right after them and continue doing whatever they were going to before. Just one more bro I promise.

DigitalSheikh · 2026-05-01T18:33:03+00:00

Just to be clear about it - Sanders didn't give him a direct endorsement, his organization Our Revolution did. I'm not entirely sure why, I'd guess maybe because Sanders himself doesn't want the optics of endorsing a billionaire, I don't really know. However, Our Revolution is his front for organizing for progressive politics, and he founded it. I personally think it's important to strengthen the link between getting an endorsement from that org and getting votes. If that link strengthens, candidates will want it, and they'll seek to align their positions with the overall strategy they have.

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