omnomynous

The oil in Russia did not disappear off the face of the planet, it's just temporarily inaccessible. The global demand for oil did not disappear, there was just a supply shock of sociopolitical origin.

Sooner or later, Russia will either stop the invasion or be stopped. Regardless of which outcome occurs, the global oil market will begin to stabilize after the oil that exists in Russia starts flowing again.

It's not a stretch to guess that oil prices could easily drop back below $100/barrel once this occurs, even if just briefly, as the increased pumping by OPEC will take a couple days to be dialed back.

I'm not a financial advisor, and this is not financial advice, but I'm currently shorting oil.

I am probably going to get downvoted into oblivion despite just sharing my lived experience, but I felt kind of similar to this on a smaller time scale for a couple days after my first and second pfizer doses. I would, at random times, have ZERO recollection of what I did in the time window starting ~20 minutes ago and ending ~20 seconds ago. Like, questioning whether my phone was stolen because there were photos in my camera roll that I was positive I had never seen before. I saw my GP about it and they suggested 8 hours of sleep with a regular schedule (I do), making sure I take a multivitamin (I do), making sure I'm getting adequate nutrition (I do), and to come back in a week if it was still happening.

Mine luckily cleared up after a few days, but I got it again the day after I got my 2nd dose, which also fortunately cleared up after a few days. Got Moderna for my booster and did not experience that with Moderna at all. I'm starting to wonder if I got unlucky and just got 2 bad batches from Pfizer or if it was possibly psychosomatic / stress-originating rather than chemical/biological.

One suggestion I have, something that helped me feel a lot more comfortable and secure in the world was asking family / close friends if they had noticed changes with me lately, and leaning on them to help me reconstruct a timeline of when it started happening. I hope that can offer assistance to you, but definitely see a doctor (or multiple doctors, if you are unsatisfied with the treatment, or want further confirmation of the diagnosis / other ideas) too if you haven't already.

Cynical opinion:

- Most users, regardless of whether they purport to care about their privacy or security, don't even fundamentally understand either concept thoroughly enough to even appreciate that they're missing.

- Users are lazy (prefer web app over installation process, or even just taking the time to download a compiled portable binary). Devs are lazy ("why make 3 or 4 clients when we can make 1?"), on the basis that humanity is lazy. A desire to preserve energy and "take the easy way" is hard-coded into our DNA. It's ostensibly a good thing in most circumstances, just not this one.

- Younger people (a considerable chunk of my own generation included) are increasingly not functionally computer literate[1]. While virtually everyone is smartphone literate these days, I believe the days are numbered in which the laptop and desktop computer are used by anyone other than students, technology professionals, hobbyists, and serious PC gamers.

I understand that these hypotheses taken together are a pretty bleak outlook for the form factor of the personal computer that many of us deeply cherish and couldn't imagine life without, but we are the exception in broader society at this point, not the norm[2].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30253526 [2] https://www.broadbandsearch.net/blog/mobile-desktop-internet...

It would not, but it did bring it down to a crawl of maybe 3-5 mph.

I have, I owned a Tesla Model S P85D for a while. Had to turn off one-pedal-driving. I found it substantially less intuitive than two pedals for any kind of spirited driving, which is what I do every time I get in I car I own. I've had 5 corvettes, 3 GT-R's, and currently driving an 800 hp Mercedes AMG GT S (2 door coupe, not that horrid 4-door atrocity), so I'm admittedly not the target demographic either for one-pedal-driving or EV's more broadly, as they currently stand.

My standards for what qualifies as "strong" braking are probably bordering on alien for most people, too - about 95 feet for 60 mph to 0. That Tesla took almost 120 feet. A new Honda Accord takes about 130 feet.

Regen braking is extremely weak and takes a much longer distance than you'd imagine to bring the car to a complete stop. The best use-case for it is slowing from high speeds to moderate speeds, whereby the deceleration is greatest and the recharging is most powerful. For instance, imagine exiting an 80 mph highway onto a 40 mph access road. It's worth noting that the rate of deceleration on regen brakes decreases as the speed approaches zero, rather than the reverse as with non-thermally-overloaded friction brakes. Fundamentally, this occurs for the same reason that stopping a given car from 120 mph takes more than twice the distance compared to stopping the same car from 60 mph - part of the equation of calculating the kinetic energy (what's powering regen brakes) of a moving vehicle involves squaring the speed of the vehicle. With this in mind, braking duty cycle of a typical urban or suburban mail truck (which does a lot more 25-0 than 80-40), is pretty much the worst possible duty cycle for use alongside regen brakes - you are getting almost no energy back and almost no braking force in this specific duty cycle.

I'm lazy and comfortable with my big tech TC

>Money doesn’t just materialize out of thin air to make that work.

Except when money does materialize out of thin air with fractional reserve banking. That's not for us, though. Obviously, we all know that burnin'-money for us tech folks grows on VC trees these days.

I found where they parked it. https://www.google.com/maps/place/38%C2%B043'29.8%22N+93%C2%...

Can't we just set up an orbital solar panel array beyond the space debris field, have it always rotate to point at the sun 24/7, and just get a really big extension cord to connect back to earth, and call it a day?

Look, if we're gonna spend a gorgillion dollars we don't have, let's at least be efficient with it. We're engineers, damnit!