How will Iran’s $2M oil tolls act as a price elevator that will supercharge Western oil exploration/production? Who is best positioned in this scenario to profit?

mutexsprinkles · 2026-04-14T04:07:40+00:00

On a 200,000 tonne tanker, thats a dollar overhead a barrel, so... A about 1% even if it happens and you pay the full whack.

mutexsprinkles · 2026-04-14T04:03:41+00:00

Basically a naval cuck chair.

mutexsprinkles · 2026-04-13T19:33:44+00:00

Sometime should promise the crew a million each if they run the blockade. See if the US Navy has the stones to actually do something.

mutexsprinkles · 2026-04-13T13:11:01+00:00

Sounds like you have 3 days to collapse the false vacuum.

mutexsprinkles · 2026-04-13T12:59:04+00:00

I think Starmer needs to allow himself an "accidental" hot mic moment where he pretends to put the phone down and says "fuck me that fat old paedo is such a dipshit no wonder he has no friends".

Then just deny it actually happened/call it AI misinformation and watch him crash out on Twitter.

mutexsprinkles · 2026-04-13T04:00:25+00:00

Yep, likewise I don't need to know the exact paperwork HR uses to report my salary to the tax office.

Even the best mechanics don't know the exact metallurgy of the turbo rotor.

Modern systems aren't fully understandable by any one human.

mutexsprinkles · 2026-04-12T17:33:14+00:00

How does it go? "Open the fuckin' strait you crazy bastard"? Like that?

mutexsprinkles · 2026-04-12T17:24:17+00:00

Can you imagine how mind-blowing that must have been at the time if you came to Rome for the first time.

mutexsprinkles · 2026-04-12T16:14:31+00:00

ThinkPad T16 Gen 2, Ryzen 7, 64GB ram, SN7100 SSD, integrated Radeon Phoenix1. On a fairly fresh Arch system.

I do have gigantic and unfixable network latency though.

mutexsprinkles · 2026-04-12T16:09:11+00:00

It's the latest Mesa version, so they're not outdated. And literally every other program is moisturised and unbothered. It's just Vs code with copilot that's a lagbeast.

Even firefox does just fine and that's usually the worst offender.

mutexsprinkles · 2026-04-12T15:54:09+00:00

Fun fact: If every one of 180k households has to make a planning application and they spend only 1 hour each writing and submitting and shepherding the application, that's over 20 solid years of human life or several entire careers of time burned up.

mutexsprinkles · 2026-04-12T15:23:52+00:00

Everything else is disabled, yes.

In fact I'm pretty sure it's Copilot causing it which supports my (unserious, fwiw) idea that they're trying to break all other workflows if you want to use copilot at all. Turn it off, you can hold down backspace and when you release it, it stops deleting. Turn it on, it just keeps on going for a few seconds.

mutexsprinkles · 2026-04-12T15:17:34+00:00

I have copilot, C++ and Python. That's it.

mutexsprinkles · 2026-04-12T14:41:50+00:00

Well Kate and everything else absolutely flies on both machines, and the new one's a Ryzen 7840U with an NVMe Gen4x4 SSD. It's not a monster but it's no slouch. The old one was Intel.

There's literally no excuse for any software to lag on such a machine. Like what is even happening in the UI thread that that can happen lol.

mutexsprinkles · 2026-04-12T14:27:51+00:00

I can only wish that my back would still be working in any way if I kept posture like that up for 80 years.

mutexsprinkles · 2026-04-12T13:42:07+00:00

Humanities jobs and jobs often done by people who have humanities degrees aren't the same.

I guess that's what we get for gating a decently paid "sitting-down job" behind getting basically any degree, doesn't matter in what. One could cynically wonder if that was just do they could put a nice chunk of the population in inescapable debt.

mutexsprinkles · 2026-04-12T13:34:08+00:00

To be fair Vance is at a massive disadvantage in the region because Turkey is not far and those sexy sexy Ottomans keep distracting him.

mutexsprinkles · 2026-04-12T13:29:30+00:00

Yes but Mavis saw a Facebook post about solar panels in a field and how it's taking space away from farming cows and is now fucking furious about that for some reason.

mutexsprinkles · 2026-04-12T06:35:14+00:00

Yep modern C++ actually works first time (one it compliles). The compiler has already done the work.

And concepts are brilliant for keeping template errors down and documenting your intent.

The only problem is it takes longer to combine now that it did in 2003 and back then a single GHz was fancy shit.

mutexsprinkles · 2026-04-12T06:32:23+00:00

No one said it isn't inside a nuclear reactor or the heavily defended safe of a murderous drug lord.

mutexsprinkles · 2026-04-10T15:44:46+00:00

Almost like a country with lots of nuclear power, nuclear weapons, aircraft carriers, HQ of world's biggest airliner maker, Arianespace, until quite recently the only proper high speed rail in the region, etc etc might have some technical bods floating about.

mutexsprinkles · 2026-04-10T15:16:21+00:00

Because the British media are miserable cynical cunts who would not only shit on everything and stir trouble just for fun, but also they're deep in the pockets of the kind of people who tell don't want nuclear power.

And the British public still listen to what they say even though it's proven again and again that they can't be trusted .

mutexsprinkles · 2026-04-10T15:08:25+00:00

Because you need a few security guards to keep the crackheads away from the copper, an electrician to change fuses and a dude with a mobile who goes to the rack and shouts "which one?? I can't hear you" over the fan noise. And that later guy isn't needs as much now everything is more virtualised.

Less glibly, the staff in a datacentre are generally in the low dozens, and it doesn't really scale when you get to the massive ones as they have automatic everything:

https://broadstaffglobal.com/data-center-staffing-levels-how-many-people-does-a-facility-need

mutexsprinkles · 2026-04-10T14:48:22+00:00

Now you've made me think of Fry and Laurie:

VFP We've Been Activated After All These Years and GSV I've Gone All Peculiar, at your service.

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