From my VERY brief understanding: this is like if you want the hole-punching of a VPN, but your stuff is public, so not only do you not want all the security of a VPN, but it works against you. But I'm happy to be corrected!
You don't have to have it public. You can have your app gate against any auth method you like to implement on top. And you can have private relays to segregate your traffic and discovery depending on setup.
> Reopening the Strait of Hormuz within 30 days "under Iranian arrangements"
Oh my goodness. So it stays closed for the better part of a month (or more, who knows), then opens up with each ship paying Iran for passage. I very much look forward to how this will be spun as some kind of a "win" for the United States.
Why z.ai and not an ollama pro plan that can use all the open models? Real question, not snark. I've only ever done ollama and wonder what I'm missing.
Because I bought a year's subscription in December, when it was still $6/mo :P
I have decently capable hardware, but stuff like Qwen 3.6 and Gemma 4 still doesn't compare to agentic editing with a frontier model. Right now, OpenCode's $10/mo "Go" plan is what I'd be looking to try once my year expires.
Feels like every day for three months there's a piece about how tomorrow the price of gas is going $200/barrel. It never does though. Gas may just be a lot more elastic now than it was 50 years ago, or even 3 years ago. I have no idea, but I'll believe it when I see it.
I haven't seen any articles saying "tomorrow" oil is going to $200/barrel. I have seen lots of articles predicting that once the stocks run out, the price will go to $200/barrel. The articles differ on exactly when that will happen. But seems like it's closer now than it was a month ago. People who are downstream of a stock, and have never experienced that stock running out, will not believe that it can run out until they see it. In the past, someone has always come along and refilled it before it hit zero. Maybe some deus ex machina will arrive to refill it again. Hard to see what that will be this time, though.
It's a lot more interesting to actually look at the mechanisms, then just to play "I'll believe it when I see it." Right now there are huge drawdowns of storage capacity in the US and Europe and China. Those have finite lifespans, although China has a lot of storage (120 days at 2025 rates.) Also, Chinese refiners have stopped processing as much fuel. Lastly, there's been a big reduction in consumption of transport fuels (again, mostly in China). These have combined to reduce prices in the US and take China off the buying market, so we're seeing lower prices than you might expect.
But this stuff won't last forever. If the Hormuz blockage doesn't resolve, things will get bad. You're seeing a patient that's a little more resilient than we thought, but who is mostly being carried through by massive blood transfusions. This buys time, but does not heal the patient.
All of the predictions I see are of the type, “If nothing changes and reserves are depleted, prices will spike to very high levels.” We have yet to bottom out reserves, so yeah, prices have yet to hit record levels, but we are moving there day by day. There was a lot of slack oil in the system before this started, but it can only last so long.
How is China reducing the consumption of transport fuels? Is that driven by changes in individuals' fuel consumption patterns or by a change on the industrial side?
Sounds like they're burning through their reserves as well. But since China's economy is more centrally controlled, it's likely they keep bigger reserves.
Wow, this is perfect. I've never found a sports app that was better than going to google.com and typing a team name. This is finally it. All I want to know, when it's getting about 4pm and my eyes start to glaze over: is there a game tonight?
I open and close terminals _constantly_, but I'm usually pretty weird in my workflow, so no comment on your first question.
I run a scrolling WM and have settled into a habit of opening terminals when I need them, then closing them right after. I'll open a terminal, git pull, close it. Etc. I also use a terminal that launches cold in 10-20 ms, so it's not like a pay a price for it.
This is actually what I thought this post was about! But then I saw the Ghostty reference, which, in my experience, is not very fast to launch at all. I got it opening new windows quickly by running the main process as a systemd service, but Foot launches way faster without all that fuss, and allows you to go the daemon route if you want it _even_ faster.
EDIT: Just want to clarify, no shade on Ghostty. That project is cross platform and uses the 100% defensible decision to use the full GTK stack on linux. Foot is Linux AND Wayland only, and uses that very restrictive environment to optimize the hell out of startup and general performance.
I constantly open and close terminals too. Maybe I'm doing a quick lazygit check on cwd. Maybe I'm opening up an ephemeral claude/codex session for a couple questions about why a test failed. Or quickly editing a file with vim. Or remembering where I put that file with yazi or fzf. -- I don't even know, but all of it is contingent on it being fast to open a new terminal in cwd.
So much so that I vibe-coded my own terminal emulator for vertical tabs on macOS (using libghostty for the terminals) that is faster and less weird than iTerm.
Most voters don’t understand how the US government works, so EOs seem to be a way to pretend that the executive can pass laws. A way to make good on the campaign promises that require laws to be passed, which is usually all of them.
UTF-8 notoriously doesn't prevent ambiguous encoding by construction, but only prohibiting it in the specs. It's known as overlong encoding. It's up to the encoder/decoder to prevent, correct, or reject it. This burden on the software is exactly what TFA tries to eliminate with the bijou64 format (unfortunately replacing it with another burden: overflow check).
Yup, very "Georgist", which I'm a huge fan of. You can move your money to another country, or hide it entirely in stocks that you borrow against until you die. But, you gotta live somewhere. Land is the only thing the state really has, and it's limited; it's the best thing to tax.
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