It is not just oil and helium supply chains, it is nitrogen fertilizers also, and in a season when they are needed the most:
https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/nitrogen-ammonia-a...
Qatar helium shutdown puts chip supply chain on a two-week clock
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Living in developing countries taught me to never plugin expensive computers without a surge protector UPS.
Honestly even in "developed countries" it's not worth blindly trusting that the power in your house/building is clean. It's cheap and easy enough to just put any expensive hardware on a UPS rather than speculating what's going on behind the walls.
Doesn't even sound like a developed country to me. Is that the US or something?
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It's horrible. Bad quality, bad latency, can't mod the games etc. And worse you have to pay for it when you already have a more than capable computer.
i wouldnt go as far to say "its horrible". i would never recommend it to someone who otherwise has a capable computer, of course, but it really isnt that bad. i gave it a pretty thorough test out of curiosity, and when they sponsored a few streamers i watch, it was totally fine. with the caveat that you have a decent internet connection and its probably not good for twitchy games like counter strike. and, as far as i…
And it works on the Vision Pro via the next update.
Re: Qatar helium shutdown puts chip supply chain on a two-week clock
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Silver lining: literally all Macs are a total steal right now.
I bought a Mac Mini in February and maxed out the ram and storage. Now, it seems like that was a prescient move, but honestly I really only bought it for photo editing and playing the new World of Warcraft expansion (don't judge me!).
Serious question: how does WoW still appeal to players except for habit social connections to keep them locked into the game? I used to spend nights and love the game, now, even with all these expansions it feels exactly like it was in 2006 but without what happened to the gaming world in the past 20 years.
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Why did we sell it instead of lease? This seems like something that should be in public hands.
Ideological idiocy, the dismantling of anything public turning into private hands is ideologically pure for libertarian-inclined folks, no matter how strategically stupid it might be.
Seems more directly capitalist than libertarian to me.
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#276Re: Qatar helium shutdown puts chip supply chain on a two-week clock
#277Step 1: Put the helium in a blimp Step 2: Fly around the straight and over to Taiwan Step 3: Pump it into the chip factory There you go, solved it.
Zeppelins are back, baby!
Re: Qatar helium shutdown puts chip supply chain on a two-week clock
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well it was signed into law by obama, so there's that.
I like the guy, but he was GOP-lite as a president, served corporate interests.
The GOP isn't "crypto-libertarian" by any stretch of the imagination. That's probably even more absurd than the people who suggest the GOP is "financially conservative".
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#279Re: Qatar helium shutdown puts chip supply chain on a two-week clock
#280Will this crash the AI bubble?