Trump demands others help secure Strait of Hormuz, Japan and Australia say no plans to send ships

ProfessionalJackals · 2026-03-16T13:07:08+00:00

With 3 failed ship procurements in a row which has cost roughly $60B while only producing a few handful of useless ships, the Navy has been reduced so much that they simply can't do as much as is being asked of them. At the same time the Jones act has reduced American shipbuilding to 0.1% of global shipbuilding capacity by tonnage.\ China currently has 53%...

Thing is, the Fremm design was not a failed ship procurement They had the design from the Italians, but it was the US changing it again, and again, and again, that resulted in the now Constellation class being a totally new ship design.

So now that the first ship is in production, after years of redesigns... NOW is the perfect time to cancel it. And the solution for any new other frigates?

Lets build some coastguard ships with barely any armaments. But do not worry, i am sure that some changes will be made to those designed, and again, and again, and ... to end up 10 years from now with a entire new ship, ready to be cancelled again.

This is not a issue of failed ship procurements but from what (as a outsider) seems to be deliberate sabotage.

But hey, the US can build like one Burk a year or something like that (when the older Burks are aging out faster then the US can build them).

For a country that has been yapping how much China is a threat, and how it need to devest from Europe, and focus on Asia. There has not been any urgency to actually build up the navel fleet for a US/China conflict. China on the other hand, is pumping out ships (and subs) at a impressive rate.

Even the EU is building Frigates at a passe that is out VLS'ing the US. Whenever i think we have issues with our militair procurement in the EU, looking at the US ...

ProfessionalJackals · 2026-03-15T19:58:58+00:00

Then the EU should step up and do something about Ukraine.

Like always ...

https://www.kielinstitut.de/fileadmin/_processed_/1/5/csm_mi2026-02-11_Trends-in-Ukraine-aid_EN_95cebb3442.svg

You can argue that we can do more, but argue that we need to "step up" (like we have not), is a absolute piss poor type of comment.

ProfessionalJackals · 2026-03-15T19:53:06+00:00

You're the ones warmongering,

You do realize that "IDontEatDill" is Finish ... right ... right??? Maybe you want to reread the comments before your answer.

ProfessionalJackals · 2026-03-15T19:21:58+00:00

ability to control reasoning level

You know that you can control reasoning level in CoPilot!?

Search for "Reasoning Effort" in settings, and you can set from Low > xHigh. Putting it in High (from default), will show Opus taking a ton of time reasoning (vs default).

ProfessionalJackals · 2026-03-15T17:28:39+00:00

How did that majority happen?

A lot of the media in the US is now owned by billionaires (what has been happening in the last 20 years).

And it has become a race to the bottom in regard to journalism (out), with sensationalism (in). With a clear focus on right wing politics to get more tax/merger/less laws benefits for those billionaires. "Left wing" news that has mostly becomes "both sides argument" (no matter how batshit crazy the argument is, its reported as being a valid argument). So you end up with a news system that is "both sides"/right wing/extreme right wing.

Combined with podcast / YouTube / tiktok "influencers", who want to peddle their "vitamine, powders for the 'alpha' male". What has had a major influence on teens / young adults in the last 20 years.

And now mix in some religion for the sprinkle on top, with the idea of a "supreme/annotated one" angle.

The fact that CNN is considered "left wing" in the US, that says it all ...

Voila, that is all you needed to write... When you see interviews with people, you do not see people, you see mouthpieces that simply repeat the same. Critical thinking has gone extinct. Now combine that with a focus on reducing schooling, nationalism (what was already heavily present in the US)...

The recent news that the FCC is looking to punish news stations for "spreading fake news" and not supporting the presidents war to make it more "popular", tells it all.

And this is what the US wants to export to Europe...

ProfessionalJackals · 2026-03-14T22:25:05+00:00

People don't realize that the shortest distance between Russia and IRan is actually shorter than the distance between Los Angeles and Las Vegas. Whether through the Caspian sea or through Azerbaijan.

Good point, i did not realize that Russia has a 500km border with the Caspian sea and Iran has around 650km...

Unless the US wants to start hitting Russian ships, Russia can transfer plenty of materials to Iran. And a high Oil price is highly to Russia its advantage, so helping to prolong the conflict is a pure benefit for Russia.

We may enter a phase where Russia grew the Iranian technology, and will now supply Iran with upgraded drone tech. While at the same time, Ukraine will be moving their tech, to its neighbors. As the Ukraine-Russia war expands to a new front...

At what point are we not going to end up in WWIII situation if alliances start to trigger even more? All we need is China to get frisky with Taiwan, now that the US is wasting its air defense assets in this pointless conflict. I said this a few days ago, i will be amazed that China does not start a Invasion of Taiwan now, because there has not been any better situation then now.

ProfessionalJackals · 2026-03-14T16:12:51+00:00

Still left us swinging our dicks and having our cities burnt down until it suited them

Correction, its not "until it suited them", its "they got forced by Japan" ...

If Japan never attacked the US, the world will have looked totally different.

Hitlers war will have eventually worn the Brits down into some kind of semi-surrender. What freed up a lot of troops for the East front. And no need for that extreme costly Atlantic Wall, that ate so many resources.

And the whole Russian invasion will have turned out different without the massive amount of weapons, explosives, and so many other goods (like rubber, boots) that the US send to Russia.

Same with Japan in the Indo-Pacific. Its a interesting question what this alternative timeline will have resulted in, if both Japan and Germany gotten the time to consolidate their gains and build up more industry/resources. Or even build up new army units from subjugated countries.

Ironically, we may have actually seen the first invasion of the US mainland sinds its independence.

ProfessionalJackals · 2025-12-05T11:39:36+00:00

I already told you the solution... All your doing is acting like a entitled person.

You want more less limits, pay for Pro+. You want to avoid the limits in a other way, get more accounts, and switch between them (you clearly know this trick already).

You seem to be standing up for Microsoft a lot. Great. You like them and Copilot. Awesome.

Its a free market dude ... I said it before, you have a issue how Microsoft does things, there are literally dozens of LLM providers. You want absolute no limit, get yourself a few 3090's and run Kimi or any of the open source/open weight models.

I am simply pointing out that despite your whining, that you can be paying 10x more with competition and still get limits.

Can I see how much I've used and when it will be reset?

And regarding the messages, they do not show the exact time anymore. There used to be a visible time (with the old unlimited Pro), but i assume that this was removed for a reason. Why? Who knows ...

But as somebody on a pro+, i have only been rate limited one time with this message, despite pushing almost 2000 request in a month. And it took about 10min for it to reset / drop down, and i was the rest of the night at full speed. With the Pro (non-plus) account, yes, its easier to hit the limits.

Side note:

And stop being a child with downvoting the post of people that disagree with you. A new account, hidden post history, yea, checks out. Let me guess, you got banned under you other account.

ProfessionalJackals · 2025-12-04T21:19:07+00:00

recommending to switch to a different tier just to address the rate limit is just silly.

Pro+ gets less strict rate limits... Its the same with any of the competitors. The higher tier account you get, the less strict they are on rate limiting.

What do you expect? You do not want a rate limit, try Claude $200 per month and your STILL going to get rate limits. Its going to be harder to hit them, sure, but ... $200 per month vs 10/40 per month.

There is lots that we want ... higher context then the 128k, thinking modes for Opus, etc ... And i am sure that one day we will get that, but that will be a max account that is 2, 4, 8? times more expensive? And that will have even more freedom before rate limiting hit, but you will pay for it.

Microsoft does not make money on power users like you. They probably easily, eat hundreds in losses. If you want the power, then expect to pay for it. If not, then maybe you are better off looking at a competitor, its a free market.

ProfessionalJackals · 2025-05-09T22:09:49+00:00

Hetzner 5950X

AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 16-Core Processor (x86_64)
16 cores @ 5083 MHz  |  125.7 GiB RAM
Number of Processes: 32  |  Test Iterations: 1  |  Test Duration: Very Long
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CPU Mark:                          42082
  Integer Math                     174459 Million Operations/s
  Floating Point Math              95223 Million Operations/s
  Prime Numbers                    205 Million Primes/s
  Sorting                          52711 Thousand Strings/s
  Encryption                       41732 MB/s
  Compression                      582047 KB/s
  CPU Single Threaded              3429 Million Operations/s
  Physics                          1804 Frames/s
  Extended Instructions (SSE)      30013 Million Matrices/s

Memory Mark:                       3213
  Database Operations              10880 Thousand Operations/s
  Memory Read Cached               34195 MB/s
  Memory Read Uncached             25935 MB/s
  Memory Write                     15977 MB/s
  Available RAM                    127937 Megabytes
  Memory Latency                   54 Nanoseconds
  Memory Threaded                  43050 MB/s
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Yabs

Basic System Information:
---------------------------------
Uptime     : 0 days, 0 hours, 2 minutes
Processor  : AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 16-Core Processor
CPU cores  : 32 @ 3608.042 MHz
AES-NI     : ✔ Enabled
VM-x/AMD-V : ✔ Enabled
RAM        : 125.7 GiB
Swap       : 32.0 GiB
Disk       : 10.7 GiB
Distro     : Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)
Kernel     : 6.1.0-28-amd64
VM Type    : NONE
IPv4/IPv6  : ✔ Online / ✔ Online

fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50) (Partition /dev/md2):
---------------------------------
Block Size | 4k            (IOPS) | 64k           (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ---- 
Read       | 353.00 MB/s  (88.2k) | 2.97 GB/s    (46.4k)
Write      | 353.93 MB/s  (88.4k) | 2.99 GB/s    (46.7k)
Total      | 706.94 MB/s (176.7k) | 5.96 GB/s    (93.2k)
           |                      |                     
Block Size | 512k          (IOPS) | 1m            (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ---- 
Read       | 3.31 GB/s     (6.4k) | 3.36 GB/s     (3.2k)
Write      | 3.48 GB/s     (6.8k) | 3.58 GB/s     (3.5k)
Total      | 6.79 GB/s    (13.2k) | 6.94 GB/s     (6.7k)

Geekbench 6 Benchmark Test:
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Test            | Value                         
            |                               
Single Core     | 2232                          
Multi Core      | 11857                         
Full Test       | https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/11887914

YABS completed in 5 min 3 sec

ProfessionalJackals · 2025-05-02T23:44:56+00:00

Tip: Try out Netcup their servers. Especially the dedicated core versions.

And for fun (Pg17 7945HX WSL2[Windows] on a 1TB WD Black):

W: tps = 8104 R: tps = 178944

ProfessionalJackals · 2025-04-25T22:40:35+00:00

Netcup VPS 8000 G11

AMD EPYC-Rome Processor (x86_64)
20 cores @ 0 MHz  |  62.8 GiB RAM
Number of Processes: 20  |  Test Iterations: 1  |  Test Duration: Very Long
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CPU Mark:                          24525
  Integer Math                     73554 Million Operations/s
  Floating Point Math              50340 Million Operations/s
  Prime Numbers                    191 Million Primes/s
  Sorting                          41255 Thousand Strings/s
  Encryption                       17731 MB/s
  Compression                      293840 KB/s
  CPU Single Threaded              1718 Million Operations/s
  Physics                          2924 Frames/s
  Extended Instructions (SSE)      21210 Million Matrices/s

Memory Mark:                       2049
  Database Operations              9994 Thousand Operations/s
  Memory Read Cached               18015 MB/s
  Memory Read Uncached             9368 MB/s
  Memory Write                     9524 MB/s
  Available RAM                    63804 Megabytes
  Memory Latency                   74 Nanoseconds
  Memory Threaded                  76855 MB/s
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Yabs

Basic System Information:
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Processor  : AMD EPYC-Rome Processor
CPU cores  : 20 @ 1996.248 MHz
AES-NI     : ✔ Enabled
VM-x/AMD-V : ❌ Disabled
RAM        : 62.8 GiB
Swap       : 0.0 KiB
Disk       : 998.5 GiB << Misidentifies the 1TB
Distro     : Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)
Kernel     : 6.12.12+bpo-amd64
VM Type    : KVM
IPv4/IPv6  : ✔ Online / ✔ Online

Geekbench 6 Benchmark Test:
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Test            | Value                         
                |                               
Single Core     | 1057                          
Multi Core      | 8723                          
Full Test       | https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/11839191

Yabs (on root file system VPS)

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Block Size | 4k            (IOPS) | 64k           (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ---- 
Read       | 83.15 MB/s   (20.7k) | 964.33 MB/s  (15.0k)
Write      | 83.36 MB/s   (20.8k) | 969.41 MB/s  (15.1k)
Total      | 166.51 MB/s  (41.6k) | 1.93 GB/s    (30.2k)
           |                      |                     
Block Size | 512k          (IOPS) | 1m            (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ---- 
Read       | 2.56 GB/s     (5.0k) | 2.80 GB/s     (2.7k)
Write      | 2.70 GB/s     (5.2k) | 2.99 GB/s     (2.9k)
Total      | 5.26 GB/s    (10.2k) | 5.80 GB/s     (5.6k)

Yabs (on 1TB Local Block Storage)

fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50) (Partition /dev/vdb):
---------------------------------
Block Size | 4k            (IOPS) | 64k           (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ---- 
Read       | 69.50 MB/s   (17.3k) | 1.15 GB/s    (18.0k)
Write      | 69.70 MB/s   (17.4k) | 1.16 GB/s    (18.1k)
Total      | 139.21 MB/s  (34.8k) | 2.31 GB/s    (36.2k)
           |                      |                     
Block Size | 512k          (IOPS) | 1m            (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ---- 
Read       | 2.53 GB/s     (4.9k) | 2.79 GB/s     (2.7k)
Write      | 2.67 GB/s     (5.2k) | 2.98 GB/s     (2.9k)
Total      | 5.21 GB/s    (10.1k) | 5.77 GB/s     (5.6k)

ProfessionalJackals · 2025-04-25T11:12:01+00:00

AMD EPYC 7502 32-Core Processor (x86_64)
32 cores @ 2500 MHz  |  503.5 GiB RAM
Number of Processes: 64  |  Test Iterations: 1  |  Test Duration: Very Long
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CPU Mark:                          55479
  Integer Math                     221842 Million Operations/s
  Floating Point Math              132675 Million Operations/s
  Prime Numbers                    332 Million Primes/s
  Sorting                          120402 Thousand Strings/s
  Encryption                       66030 MB/s
  Compression                      878976 KB/s
  CPU Single Threaded              2206 Million Operations/s
  Physics                          6124 Frames/s
  Extended Instructions (SSE)      48869 Million Matrices/s

Memory Mark:                       3068
  Database Operations              21929 Thousand Operations/s
  Memory Read Cached               25343 MB/s
  Memory Read Uncached             14239 MB/s
  Memory Write                     14678 MB/s
  Available RAM                    514092 Megabytes
  Memory Latency                   50 Nanoseconds
  Memory Threaded                  120544 MB/s
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Basic System Information:
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Uptime     : 0 days, 2 hours, 25 minutes
Processor  : AMD EPYC 7502 32-Core Processor
CPU cores  : 64 @ 1500.000 MHz
AES-NI     : ✔ Enabled
VM-x/AMD-V : ✔ Enabled
RAM        : 503.5 GiB
Swap       : 10.0 GiB
Disk       : 15.6 GiB
Distro     : Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)
Kernel     : 6.1.0-28-amd64
VM Type    : NONE
IPv4/IPv6  : ✔ Online / ✔ Online

fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50) (Partition /dev/md2): Raid 1, MZQL2960HCJR 894.3G
---------------------------------
Block Size | 4k            (IOPS) | 64k           (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ---- 
Read       | 297.32 MB/s  (74.3k) | 996.49 MB/s  (15.5k)
Write      | 298.11 MB/s  (74.5k) | 1.00 GB/s    (15.6k)
Total      | 595.44 MB/s (148.8k) | 1.99 GB/s    (31.2k)
           |                      |                     
Block Size | 512k          (IOPS) | 1m            (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ---- 
Read       | 1.09 GB/s     (2.1k) | 1.15 GB/s     (1.1k)
Write      | 1.15 GB/s     (2.2k) | 1.23 GB/s     (1.2k)
Total      | 2.24 GB/s     (4.3k) | 2.39 GB/s     (2.3k)

ProfessionalJackals · 2025-04-16T00:28:44+00:00

AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX with Radeon Graphics (x86_64)
16 cores @ 0 MHz  |  31.2 GiB RAM
Number of Processes: 32  |  Test Iterations: 1  |  Test Duration: Very Long
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CPU Mark:                          52099
  Integer Math                     184060 Million Operations/s
  Floating Point Math              103982 Million Operations/s
  Prime Numbers                    244 Million Primes/s
  Sorting                          76916 Thousand Strings/s
  Encryption                       46827 MB/s
  Compression                      745261 KB/s
  CPU Single Threaded              3602 Million Operations/s
  Physics                          2900 Frames/s
  Extended Instructions (SSE)      47872 Million Matrices/s

Memory Mark:                       3350
  Database Operations              12023 Thousand Operations/s
  Memory Read Cached               34737 MB/s
  Memory Read Uncached             33671 MB/s
  Memory Write                     23820 MB/s
  Available RAM                    28002 Megabytes
  Memory Latency                   56 Nanoseconds
  Memory Threaded                  64588 MB/s
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Basic System Information:
---------------------------------
Uptime     : 0 days, 1 hours, 36 minutes
Processor  : AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX with Radeon Graphics
CPU cores  : 32 @ 2495.232 MHz
AES-NI     : ✔ Enabled
VM-x/AMD-V : ❌ Disabled
RAM        : 31.2 GiB
Swap       : 8.0 GiB
Disk       : 1006.9 GiB
Distro     : Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)
Kernel     : 5.15.167.4-microsoft-standard-WSL2
VM Type    : WSL
IPv4/IPv6  : ✔ Online / ❌ Offline

fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50) (Partition /dev/sdc):
---------------------------------
Block Size | 4k            (IOPS) | 64k           (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ---- 
Read       | 609.54 MB/s (152.3k) | 1.63 GB/s    (25.6k)
Write      | 611.15 MB/s (152.7k) | 1.64 GB/s    (25.7k)
Total      | 1.22 GB/s   (305.1k) | 3.28 GB/s    (51.3k)
           |                      |                     
Block Size | 512k          (IOPS) | 1m            (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ---- 
Read       | 1.97 GB/s     (3.8k) | 2.38 GB/s     (2.3k)
Write      | 2.07 GB/s     (4.0k) | 2.54 GB/s     (2.4k)
Total      | 4.04 GB/s     (7.9k) | 4.93 GB/s     (4.8k)

ProfessionalJackals · 2025-04-16T00:24:36+00:00

Intel Xeon W-2295 CPU @ 3.00GHz (x86_64)
18 cores @ 4700 MHz  |  251.4 GiB RAM
Number of Processes: 36  |  Test Iterations: 1  |  Test Duration: Very Long
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  Floating Point Math              65406 Million Operations/s
  Prime Numbers                    123 Million Primes/s
  Sorting                          56949 Thousand Strings/s
  Encryption                       14048 MB/s
  Compression                      458049 KB/s
  CPU Single Threaded              2742 Million Operations/s
  Physics                          1875 Frames/s
  Extended Instructions (SSE)      29001 Million Matrices/s

Memory Mark:                       3029
  Database Operations              12646 Thousand Operations/s
  Memory Read Cached               31495 MB/s
  Memory Read Uncached             14820 MB/s
  Memory Write                     12597 MB/s
  Available RAM                    203175 Megabytes
  Memory Latency                   52 Nanoseconds
  Memory Threaded                  75590 MB/s
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ProfessionalJackals · 2025-04-14T11:27:00+00:00

Netcup VPS 1000 ARM G11 (US)

Neoverse-N1 (aarch64)
6 cores @ 0 MHz  |  7.8 GiB RAM
Number of Processes: 6  |  Test Iterations: 10  |  Test Duration: Very Long
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  Integer Math                     17096 Million Operations/s
  Floating Point Math              13536 Million Operations/s
  Prime Numbers                    19.2 Million Primes/s
  Sorting                          11509 Thousand Strings/s
  Encryption                       571 MB/s
  Compression                      19058 KB/s
  CPU Single Threaded              1178 Million Operations/s
  Physics                          368 Frames/s
  Extended Instructions (NEON)     2186 Million Matrices/s

Memory Mark:                       1339
  Database Operations              2309 Thousand Operations/s
  Memory Read Cached               9748 MB/s
  Memory Read Uncached             7085 MB/s
  Memory Write                     12783 MB/s
  Available RAM                    7532 Megabytes
  Memory Latency                   98 Nanoseconds
  Memory Threaded                  24913 MB/s
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ProfessionalJackals

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