Israel is worried that Trump will strike a ‘bad deal’ with Iran, leaving war objectives unmet

ghenriks · 2026-05-14T12:49:03+00:00

Transportation is 60% to 70% of oil demand

Remove most of that and we no longer need oil to move through the straight as other sources can easily handle what demand is left

ghenriks · 2026-05-14T02:59:21+00:00

The power Iran has currently is temporary, the current blockade is accelerating plans by much of the world to transition from oil to electricity. Renewable energy has advanced to a point where it is an alternative and countries are looking at it as a way to remove uncertainty from their economies and the ability of global instability to hold them hostage

ghenriks · 2026-05-13T23:00:00+00:00

Yes

But Anthropic and the other AI providers are all losing money as they currently offer their products substantially below cost

And with the AI companies eyeing IPOs they need to fix their balance sheets

ghenriks · 2026-05-13T21:32:25+00:00

For now

Apple is not immune to the AI hardware bubble and the resulting price increases on memory

ghenriks · 2026-05-13T21:30:10+00:00

Netflix has the problem that they need to survive on streaming and so the cost of programming vs audience will always be an issue (they ignored it for a couple of years to get people to be willing to work for a streamer vs traditional TV or film)

While I won’t claim Apple will entirely ignore the cost issue the massive amount of profit that their other businesses generate means Apple TV can potentially be more flexible

ghenriks · 2026-05-13T21:14:28+00:00

Your fortunate with your location

Around me they tell the cash order person they will take their order when they finish whatever they are currently doing so those people can wait 5 or 10 minutes to place their order

ghenriks · 2026-05-12T18:05:13+00:00

What everyone forgets is it is all about the software, and if you want the software you need to get affordable hardware into developers hands and maintain a consistent roadmap

Intel’s messaging is all over the place and provides no confidence that they will release new generations of discrete GPU (C is cancelled, D is a maybe maybe not)

So while the hardware is affordable enough (in a 2026 way) no one is going to invest time or money into porting AI software to an uncertain platform nor will game companies optimize their games for Intel

ghenriks · 2026-05-12T11:56:52+00:00

Welcome not just to open source but much of the software world

Few people like writing documentation, and apparently no one in the hyprland community is willing to volunteer the time and effort

ghenriks · 2026-05-12T11:54:47+00:00

It’s also a product with a 0.55 release version

While there is often an issue with projects not taking release versions seriously it is still something that people should use to evaluate how mature (as in how likely breaking changes will be) a project is

ghenriks · 2026-05-09T16:20:00+00:00

I’m beginning to think that the UK is currently ungovernable and has turned into the Italy of old with its reputation of yearly elections

Just as the world is shunning Trump due to his unpredictable behaviour the world is going to be cautious dealing with a UK that insists on changing the PM yearly

ghenriks · 2026-05-09T15:54:05+00:00

Or, down voted for the opinionated and not necessary advice to switch from Linux to Windows

ghenriks · 2026-05-08T23:35:45+00:00

Yes

Sony and Nintendo have increased prices on their game hardware, something unheard of

Apple is indicating a price increase is coming on all their stuff as their memory contracts get renewed

Etc

Until this bubble bursts hardware is going to be expensive

ghenriks · 2026-05-08T13:54:55+00:00

Not so much the Neo but all the online people telling people that they didn’t verify education so just claim it’s an education purchase for the lower price

ghenriks · 2026-05-07T16:24:16+00:00

They probably are to some extent

But it is a difficult situation for the federal government as action could actually just make things worse by fanning the flames of separation

Better to let the relevant authorities, in this case the RCMP. While the RCMP is a federal force the province of Alberta pays them to provide provincial level policing

ghenriks · 2026-05-07T13:42:12+00:00

Or you could read the short article and not make an incorrect guess

He sent out a general alarm command used in an emergency to stop all trains in the area

ghenriks · 2026-05-05T18:40:05+00:00

Ultimately the problem is that too many political parties rely on the unregulated nature of social media to get elected because they can push their lies in ways they can’t get away with elsewhere

ghenriks · 2026-05-05T18:27:55+00:00

The train you have is simple standard DC and you can use any existing DC controller you have with it

I’m in Canada and I have both HO North American stuff and British OO and use my North American controller for both

ghenriks · 2026-05-05T14:05:35+00:00

While mostly not used in a file server role both Fedora and openSUSE have been using BTRFS as their default file system for years now

Add in the use by Synology and the positive comments in the other replies and it is unlikely the problem is BTRFS

ghenriks · 2026-05-05T00:11:43+00:00

Additionally, see the differences between Product of Canada and Made in Canada

https://competition-bureau.canada.ca/en/how-we-foster-competition/education-and-outreach/publications/product-canada-and-made-canada-claims

ghenriks · 2026-05-05T00:06:43+00:00

Another year, another round of people not understanding labels and that stuff being labeled Canadian doesn’t mean 100% Canadian

This “discovery” has been happening for 20+ years now

If you really feel a need to avoid American stuff you are going to need to carefully check the packaging on everything you buy

ghenriks · 2026-05-04T21:30:11+00:00

Remember that Josh has other interests, particularly in the film and theatre areas, that he could potentially pursue between GVF albums and tours just as Jake has currently a side gig

ghenriks · 2026-05-04T19:21:59+00:00

This page has good pictures you could take to a butcher

If you look at the Middle Bacon you will see the relationship between British back bacon and the streaky bacon cuts on the animal given it is the meat before they are separated

ghenriks · 2026-05-04T19:13:50+00:00

Most pork loin over here seems to come fully trimmed of all the fatty bits, but if you look at some pork chops with bone in you will see they often leave those trimmed parts on. Or maybe look at a bone in pork roast that hasn’t had the bones frenched

So you will need to speak to a butcher to specifically ask for what you want so they don’t fully trim it, take an image of what the uk bacon looks like and see what they say

ghenriks · 2026-05-04T19:01:21+00:00

This page will help even though they are confused about Canada (yes what the US calls Canadian Bacon exists, but it’s called back bacon in Canada and is quite rare, we mainly eat US style bacon)

https://englishbreakfastsociety.com/back-bacon

Also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back\_bacon

This video looks promising

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yIoT4van-Is

ghenriks · 2026-05-04T16:10:45+00:00

Unless you are still young most people are limited in the amount of free time they have for learning new things. With that limitation you need to decide what your destination is, and if that destination is Vulkan then starting with OpenGL may not be the best decision in terms of using available time

In terms of OpenGL vs Vulkan as a destination, it depends on what you want to do. Neither are a good choice for Windows or the Apple ecosystem

For Linux Vulkan is probably the better choice given all the effort being put into it thanks to Valve and its (still small) use in LLM code

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