Prewar average was 20 mil barrels per day so even with that effort the world market is still short about 1.5 billion barrels in that timeframe

Can’t believe one damaged bag is still referenced 17 years later

Lol I was like why do those words sound familiar

Heart aerospace’s website indicates the X1 demonstrator has a 140kt “VNE” - never exceed - speed. So it’s probably safe to assume cruise speed would be closer to 100kt, and $5 of electricity used in half an hour might equate to around 50nm straight line distance.

It’s pretty impressive for a plane roughly equivalent in size to a 30-seat turboprop airliner like the EMB 120

The X1 demonstrator is more comparable in weight and power to an EMB 120 Brasilia, a 30-seat turboprop. Forum chatter seems to indicate those burn around 1000 lbs per hour, or $335/hr in fuel using the $0.59/liter price you mentioned.

Dropping down to $10 is still pretty decent lol

Agreed it’s by far the most compact ITX case I have seen, and I’ve looked on and off since 2019. And yet it has basically no compromises except low CPU cooler height clearance.

It’s mostly correct, but even before McDonnell Douglas in the early 90’s Boeing actually had repeat issues of 737 rudders reversing direction in flight, causing accidents. Their response was exactly the same as the MAX8 crashes, cover it up and blame the pilots. It even sounds to me like they tampered with evidence according to Admiral Cloudberg’s telling of it: https://imgur.com/a/5wcFx8M

Boeing, which had packed the valve for shipping, did not explain why it kept the spring and the end cap. It instead tried to steer the NTSB toward a conclusion that the crash was caused by a wind rotor

I certainly still agree things got MUCH worse after the merger though

For what it’s worth, neither Iran nor the United States have actually signed and ratified the UNCLOS and therefore are not actually members of it nor bound by its rules.

Its such an insult to say
“Reddit delivers the opposite: deep discussions, passionate debates,”
When they have continually pushed to minimize that format of reddit. The official app works the same way as all of Meta’s products, infinite scrolling content, their new website design severely restricts the comment section to just a few replies, instead requiring you click “see more” over and over if you want to continue reading a discussion. Now they are attempting to gatekeep their old.reddit format as well, restricting the ability to view discussions even further.

I have been a reddit user since the mid 2010’s and it is so frustrating to see what once was truly the best place on the internet to discover new things, fall so far

Ah okay so those are basically in between storage and RAM. I was thinking of the models which combine SSD plus the extra Optane cache, those I’ve read require at least 8th gen Intel chips and probably more I don’t know of

plastic cowling shaped like an anime titty

Lmao

Also thanks for the detailed write up. I’m interested in your mention of Optane, is that usable in Linux? I was under the impression all those optane drives on eBay would have limited functionality

Have to be accused of a crime first for this to apply. The victim here was purely the target of extra customs search due to his support of a politically unfavored cause

I spent a lot of time researching and testing different methods for that, the only thing that worked was LACT in Linux. Using that I was able to undervolt 100mV and GPU power usage dropped about 10%. On my B450 ITX board with a Ryzen 2400GE CPU the entire system pulls 30w idle from the wall, and about 300w inferencing with VRAM filled. (330w before LACT).
My fan solution ended up being to buy the 80mm 3d-printed shroud off ebay, the fan that came with it was super loud so I switched to an arctic p8 Max, and control it with the motherboard targeting a t-sensor header with the probe attached to the backplate.

The article talks a lot trash about AMD and ROCm but vulkan works fine too. In fact from a datacenter GPU standpoint there is an AMD option called the V620 available on US EBay that I was able to haggle to $350, with 32GB VRAM, 512GB/s bandwidth, and runs the same Qwen-3.6-27b at about 20t/s. I would argue that’s even more cost effective.
It requires a few of the same fan shenanigans this guy did but there is no need to pull specific past software versions to make it usable in Linux

My last console was a PS4 but even that wasn’t exactly plug and play was it? I thought every time you’d bring a game disc home it would usually have to do a major update before it would be willing to launch the game

If you are having trouble getting the 6800xt to work with pi.dev I’d be surprised if the V620 would be any different, but I haven’t tried that tool. I can attempt it and get back to ya in a couple days if you’d like.

I ended up getting it purely as it seemed like the cheapest option for 32GB VRAM that didnt have discontinued driver support. Around Jan/Feb 2026 the MI60’s had recently blown up in price but the V620 still seemed niche/slept on partially because AMD hasn’t released an SR-IOV driver for this. Servethehome forums had a big thread about how these aren’t particularly useful for home server/virtual machines as a result. I think it’s still possible to pass it through to docker containers but I haven’t tried it yet.

This guy accepted a $350 offer for mine:
www.ebay.com/itm/157133307609
Then you’ll need a shroud:
www.ebay.com/itm/286347509481
The optional included fan works well, pushes 60CFM but is LOUD. I ended up replacing it with an Arctic P8 Max which is much quieter but only pushes 40CFM, but cools it fine with -100mV undervolt in LACT.

I started out playing around with code generation using Ollama/open-webui and qwen 2.5 coder 14b on a 3060 12GB, but ended up on a winding journey with an ex datacenter card called the AMD V620. Its roughly equivalent to an RX 6800XT, but with double the VRAM. At this point i’ve really done nothing productive with it but learned a lot about bios settings, GPU/ROCm drivers, and custom fan solutions/PWM controls trying to get it setup and optimized haha.

It’s pretty sick though, that amount of VRAM with 512GB/s bandwidth can run Qwen 3.6 27B dense with 100k context window at 20 tokens/sec in LM studio. Draws 300 watts at the wall on my ITX chassis (idling about 30w).

I’ve been dabbling in building an aviation weather and field condition report application using this, but my next step is to rebuild my VS Code environment into a new machine. I’m kinda enjoying just fucking around with building the hardware too though

How could they leave us hanging like that? This is OUTRAGEOUS. It’s UNFAIR

Also lol at being named “McFeeters”

It’s interesting to me that nowhere in the article and really nowhere in the comments does anyone raise the question of why do the Faroe Islanders do these hunts in the first place?

Obviously people living close to the sea have always gotten large portions of their diet from seafood, so are they actually preserving and eating all of the whale/dolphin meat they are harvesting?

If so then it doesn’t seem to me like a question of should the hunt be banned, unless we also want to discuss banning all other forms of hunting and animal husbandry.
It seems instead that we should be asking if they are doing it less humanely than other forms of hunting or animal husbandry, and if so what can be done to reduce the whales’ suffering?