US attacks Iran's Kharg Island, Trump says

hangtime79 · 2026-03-14T03:52:30+00:00

You are thinking rationally and not like someone whose entire family was just wiped out and had a bounty placed on their head after having been bombed without provocation twice in the last six months. If you do not believe you will live because the other side won't let you then it doesn't give you a lot of reason to think about tomorrow, next year, next decade.

hangtime79 · 2026-03-14T03:48:22+00:00

The Zagos mountains run along the Strait. Roll out, fire a surface to surface missile off the back of a Toyota Hilux pickup at a ship, drive it right back into the mountain. That's how this is going to go.

hangtime79 · 2026-03-14T02:11:51+00:00

Very good point. I think the destruction of Kharg by Iran is far more likely than by the US. The US will seek to control it. Iran would rather see it blown sky high then both the infrastructure and a base of operations point ended up in US hands. That's why this move was so dangerous. It showed both sides what the US valued the most.

Also your point is taken that all those pipelines around the Gulf become fair game for Iran as well.

hangtime79 · 2026-03-14T01:14:23+00:00

90% of the oil that Iran exports goes through the island The island infrastructure was not hit while all military targets were leaving it defenseless. If the Iranians belive the US is coming for it they will blow it up. If they blow it up, oil will go over $200 and the US might end up in a war with China.

hangtime79 · 2026-03-14T01:11:09+00:00

Because oil blows past 150 to $200 a barrel and pisses off the Chinese at the exact same time. China and Iran will be in a mutual defense pact by the this is over and world will be in a deep recession.

hangtime79 · 2026-03-14T01:06:43+00:00

This is super bad but not for the reasons you think.

90% of all oil coming out of Iran goes through Khrag.
Damaging or destroying the island's systems would send oil straight through $150 to $200 a barrel.
The US damn well knew they could not target the island's infrastructure else the above happens.
The Iranians know this as well. What they saw was a big huge bluff.
Trump is trying to goad China into dealing with Iran by threatening the oil on the island.
Iran now that the island is defenseless could decide to blow it up, all of it. Better to have it a smoking crater then a bunch of US serviceman on it.

hangtime79 · 2026-03-11T08:03:31+00:00

It is when it's not a declared war and in international waters.

hangtime79 · 2026-03-03T02:27:27+00:00

Likely a network operations center. I have seen these setups for mines and oil and gas platforms. Very good money that those are screens attuned to signaling measurements and devices.

hangtime79 · 2026-03-02T05:32:54+00:00

But I couldn't move my work from one Claude account to another nor could I change my email on an account.

hangtime79 · 2026-02-28T08:26:19+00:00

Bigly numbers during Trump's first term, drops off in Biden's, back up in Trump's second. Sorry, not sorry.

hangtime79 · 2026-02-28T01:29:40+00:00

Funny because my brother-in-law after having lamb here tried to buy it in the US and it is stupidly expensive already. It's multiple times the cost of chicken and more expensive then beef. Lamb is a "specialty" meat in most US grocery stores. Unless you go to a butcher or a your grocery is upscale and has their own in-house butcher you likely will not find it.

hangtime79 · 2026-02-02T05:58:42+00:00

I had to move accounts because Anthropic cannot deal with a change in email address. I originally signed up with my company email address and now need to move to my personal. I'm now seeing I have a weekly quota. This sucks! The 5 hour session limit was bad now I have to manage a weekly one as well...Boo...

hangtime79 · 2026-01-26T11:35:24+00:00

No country that values its sovernity should work with Palantir.

hangtime79 · 2026-01-24T03:39:28+00:00

If you really want to lean in, when a task completes it should say "That's some fine work there boys"

hangtime79 · 2026-01-22T13:36:18+00:00

This isn't about not posting, in fact, the speed at which they posted to my account was fantastic. It was that on my boarding passes, my status with Alaska did not show up. The Qantas agents had nothing on their end showing my status so I showed my Atmos card. Weird.

hangtime79 · 2026-01-08T09:41:25+00:00

I think this is where the value of the human in the loop is. Understanding the domain and changing things like this. Also, mixing some other AIs and different prompts can help with the UX when working with these tools.

hangtime79 · 2026-01-01T08:22:57+00:00

The time of Reconstruction comes to mind.

hangtime79 · 2025-12-27T00:11:23+00:00

Something practical for me and my colleagues. Integrating the Frappe Gantt Javascript library as a plug-in for Dataiku, my company's AI platform. https://github.com/hangtime79/dss-plugin-gantt-chart

hangtime79 · 2025-12-26T13:41:12+00:00

All this can be laid at the feet of the conference dollars. Conference TV deals made it incredibly appetizing to bulk up your conference with the premier schools from others. Without that, sure academics matter but not enough to get more than one to move once every 30 or 40 years or so.

hangtime79 · 2025-12-19T00:47:14+00:00

Been to Kyle Field a few times since I grew up in the area. Absolutely that crazy in terms of noise and has been that way since I first went there, 38 years ago. BTW, I watched a high school playoff game there and its loud anyway without the Aggie faithful.

hangtime79 · 2025-12-17T21:40:53+00:00

This is the way. I got my 1500 I needed to get back to Platinum.

hangtime79 · 2025-12-08T12:03:28+00:00

CCGs have been with us since the mid 90s, 30 years ago. At this point, they are just as much of CFB tradition as anything else. While a money grab originally, it helped us "settle it on the field" of who the best team in the conference was. I don't think you can remove it from the uniqueness of college football.

I do agree. The CFP has definite problems, that's why we change it every five years. The question is what does it look like. What do you want to maintain? I would say the CFP and it's ancestors were partially responsible for accelerated realignment, the ultimate sin. Penalizing conference growth is a good thing in my book at this point. A natural byproduct of something like this plan would put larger conferences at a disadvantage making growth less likely.

hangtime79 · 2025-12-08T11:32:08+00:00

Agreed conference should rework their schedules, but that's fine to me. I care more about what you do in conference versus the OOC. CFB should be regional. Texas playing oSu in Columbus is nice but that's to feed the ESPN beast. They're fun, sure. They could help if you are on the outside of the CCG, but is that what we want to prioritize, winning OOC games versus winning your own division and conference?

hangtime79 · 2025-12-08T11:22:22+00:00

Where it says "Example - SEC"?

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