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It told enough of the full story. Did you need me to write out the entire chronology of every single event?

Also, from my comment 12 days ago: "Let's also not pretend that the current Republican administration's insane military campaign to disrupt oil supply and markets, isn't helpful to, I don't know, say, Kremlin's oil and gas export revenues, and say, how higher global benchmark crude helps to, say, finance a domestic war economy while buffering against sanctions. Just a tiny thought to consider when holding a preference for Republican oil strategy."

And look what just happened. Let's stick to the things that matter instead of finding something trivial to comment on. How about this deal FOR Russia? Is there a comment about Biden for it, too?

This is not really supported by energy data. Under Biden/Harris, US crude production hit multiple consecutive all time highs and made the country a net exporter since 2020. In my world, that's the opposite of "minimizing domestic drilling." And producing oil doesn't prevent foreign wars; oil is a global commodity, energy markets are subject to global pricing events and disruptions anywhere drive up fuel prices in the US. Prices at the pump here don't care where crude was pumped. And the strange connection you draw between energy policy/oil reserves and offshore factory conditions conflates drastically different economic drivers. There is a real moral conversation to be had here about supply chain ethics but it doesn't get connected this way. This is a really shallow, cliche framing about [drilling vs importing] rather than [fossil fuel dominance vs clean energy transition], and drawing a preference to a party based on a faulty view of those is, disappointingly, Peak Political Affiliation 2026.

Let's also not pretend that the current Republican administration's insane military campaign to disrupt oil supply and markets, isn't helpful to, I don't know, say, Kremlin's oil and gas export revenues, and say, how higher global benchmark crude helps to, say, finance a domestic war economy while buffering against sanctions. Just a tiny thought to consider when holding a preference for Republican oil strategy.

Re:AI, Tools and Transformation on Sunday September 06, 2026 @12:25PM (#49588061)
I agree. I think accountability is the future.
Re:ChatGPT Is Throwing 404 on Thursday September 03, 2026 @10:56AM (#49550812)
codex in vs code giving me 404s lol
Re:Supersonic Trebuchet [video] on Wednesday August 19, 2026 @12:28PM (#49363704)
Isn't drag either linear (proportional to velocity) or quadratic (proportional to velocity squared) depending on the scenario? But yes quadratic for things at this scale?
Re:Why AI Tokens are so Expensive [video] on Tuesday July 14, 2026 @12:58PM (#48909799)
Are you doing a lot of personal work with agents? Any tips for how you are managing consumption/costs? I haven't really changed anything I do in terms of my own workrate, but I am bumping up on usage limits way, way faster and it's getting really frustrating. Any suggestions or experiences welcomed. Thanks.
Re:How to stop Claude from saying load-bearing on Tuesday July 14, 2026 @12:44PM (#48909551)
"Honest assessment: I was wrong to say I was being straight with you. You pointed out that a "smoking gun" is a sign of evidence, and I clearly didn't have any. This is not a bug but a gap that can be fixed like [this]. Give me the word and I'll wire it in."

··You've hit your monthly spend limit · raise it at claude.ai/settings/usage

Re:How to stop Claude from saying load-bearing on Tuesday July 14, 2026 @12:41PM (#48909503)
I definitely care. They are impressionistic responses that smooth over exceptions and lack precision and are often completely wrong in the sense that, when pressed, the agent will acknowledge the lack of rigor in the response. "That phrase was wrong of me to use. There is clearly an exception to what I just said, and it goes like this..."
Re:How to stop Claude from saying load-bearing on Tuesday July 14, 2026 @12:37PM (#48909446)
I've wrestled with this lately. I partially solved with a very specific instruction saved to claude.md regarding the style of responses, but prior to this, the dense yammer coming back was getting impossible to parse. I mean REALLY nonsensical euphemistic phrases. My next instruction will be having it replace incessant "honest assessment" and "genuine result" and crap like that with something, I don't know, less extremely weird and concerning.
This is great and the kind of thing I need. Thanks.
Thanks for this.
Thanks. I could have phrased that better. What I meant was that so much of my work has been about the prompt that I feel like I'm neglecting where the rest of the process is.

Ask HN: I use coding agents daily, but how do real engineers use them?

I have a broad but shallow technical background (longtime management consultant) and use agents (a variety of services and models in VS Code) extensively for my own projects. I know I'm hitting a ceiling. My workflow is naive and nonpro, a lot of tinkering and bashing my way through code generation, context drift, manual fixes, etc.I want to learn how senior engineers treat these tools....

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Re:Claude Opus 4.8 on Thursday May 28, 2026 @04:24PM (#48314936)
I had the same experience.
Re:Claude Opus 4.8 on Thursday May 28, 2026 @04:23PM (#48314930)
Very, very much this.
Re:Ask HN: Any Interesting Niche Hobbies? on Wednesday April 08, 2026 @10:40AM (#47690891)
This is very cool. Thank you. ...and that video is a pill-quality destressor. thanks again.
So I'm not the only one.
Re:Self-hosting my photos with Immich on Saturday December 06, 2025 @08:03AM (#46173026)
There is an Android app, too.
OneDrive was the last straw for me.
Re:The Last Day of Nest Thermostat 2nd Gen Support on Saturday October 25, 2025 @08:53PM (#45708202)
I know you've been working on a upcycling effort (thank you), and I know you've been consciously trying to "beat the clock" given that today's the d-day. How close do you think you are?

And a note to Google: dropping a perfectly functional device makes you a no-go for any type of future purchase from me. No pixels, no storage, no nothing. It's not my fault you dingalings paid $3B for thermostat that was slowly adopted and quickly met with ample competition. Oh, and put Reader back.

You, dishonest woman, go to prison because you lied to your investor. Bye, now.

Whereas you, slob cretin creep, haven't gone to prison for being a serial sexual assaulter of women, among many other crimes.

What a world.

If your Alexa d4 sounds better than your home hifi the your home hifi wasnt.
Re:Ask HN: Times the world has dodged a bullet on Wednesday September 24, 2025 @07:39PM (#45367307)
Stanislav Petrov
Trump is a lifelong pathological liar (among other things). There is no meaning in anything he promises. He has no loyalty to anyone or anything but himself. He is a lecherous, repulsive menace.
Re:HHS Winds Down mRNA Vaccine Development Under BARDA on Tuesday August 05, 2025 @07:31PM (#44805812)
Winder when we'll all be sick enough of the lunacy to permanently boot these right wing extremists. ...
So you think fairness in opportunity is just declaring that we should be fair. I guess that should do away with the racists. Got it.
Re:Couchers is officially out of beta on Thursday July 03, 2025 @07:48AM (#44454044)
"...and upon reaching for a hand towel I realized that the motif on it was not a diagonal pattern of dog bones but without doubt actually row after slanted row of penises, 100%"
Re:Getting Past Procastination on Saturday June 07, 2025 @04:01PM (#44212226)
I like this. Good trick.
Thanks for sharing
What specific surgery and what specific drops?

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