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They were also able to drastically cut their own internal demand and external sales/shipments (the article mentions jet fuel to other Asian nations). This was possible because thei…

In researching this question, 40% of the refineries in the U.S. can process light crude efficiently. They all can refine it, but the more technically adept refineries that speciali…

It might be said that this article casts China as a "super capacitor" in that it can store and release massive quantities of oil at will. It also has its own domestic oil productio…

DEC also blew a fortune on the ECL VAX. "Meanwhile, the engineering team's predictions about the relentless march of CMOS proved true. By 1991, the NVAX was also on the market, off…

This interview with Allen Baum seems to imply that DEC was quite aware of what could easily be done with Alpha, and what could not. I'm also assuming that ARM code density was bett…

For everyone who says that the Alpha was a technically-superior CPU design that should have prevailed, I will draw attention to an interesting fact: "According to Allen Baum, the S…

I realized some time ago that Oracle spelled backwards is "el caro," which (according to Google translate) means "the expensive one" in Spanish.

The apparent takeaway is that Apple devices on AT&T have reduced privacy. This may change, obviously. Likely for the worse.

Question 1: How can I escape an imminent oil shock? Question 2: How can I escape an AI bubble demonstrated by CAPE? I'm using Claude, and I'm good so far.

Then WAL mode is not safe for you. "Transactions involving multiple attached databases are atomic, assuming that the main database is not ":memory:" and the journal_mode is not WAL…

Date and time are a deeper loss for me.

If I donate, can we get the Lineage keyboard with all the symbols in the same places? I'd actually love to have the Holo keyboard back. That was my favorite.

This reference from Germany indicates that self-defense is lawful even if it ends the attacker's life, as long as the violence is not excessive for the situation. https://se-legal.…

Google is never going to put their administrative access in a restricted sandbox. That is diametrically opposed to their interests in data collection.

I'm not sure that I agree that iOS devices have equal protection. The recent Darksword exploit should give everyone pause in asserting that iOS is secure: https://www.malwarebytes.…

It appears to me that the "water envelope" refers to chemical hydrates of water. So the nanostructures allow a maximum size of hydrates. How is this flushed after collection? What …

Should I be worried that my plant is owned by Apollo? No, because I am retiring next month!

I don't really have an oar in this water, but... "Judge approves a $1.5B Anthropic settlement over pirated books used to train the Claude chatbot" https://abcnews.com/Technology/wi…

I use: find . -name '*.log' -print0 | xargs -0 rm For this simple example (derived from the article), find also has a delete operator. This null termination is now a POSIX standard…

I have read elsewhere that spinning mercury would be used as the mirror.

If you find something that binds you inextricably with the global economy, then you have power. Oil is not that thing. The neon from Odessa and Mariopol was obviously not that thin…

I have lived with this violence all of my life. I was a fresh teen in the Carter hostage crisis. I know Eisenhower's role in starting it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian…

Intel 7, 10nm technology (assuming DUV, not EUV) is the most advanced processing node in Israel. Iran could step up, and join the silicon shield, by working to replace the lost neo…