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New comment by mkoubaa in "Iran war energy shock sparks global push to reduce fossil fuel dependence"

mkoubaa — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 13:29:57 +0000

I think the parent comment was referring to the same fanatics you are

New comment by mkoubaa in "Iran war energy shock sparks global push to reduce fossil fuel dependence"

mkoubaa — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 13:29:19 +0000

Some of them will not exist at all in their current form by summer

New comment by mkoubaa in "Oil nears $110 a barrel after gas field strike"

mkoubaa — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 02:04:48 +0000

It's known for certain yet still not priced in already. You can study why later.

New comment by mkoubaa in "$96 3D-printed rocket that recalculates its mid-air trajectory using a $5 sensor"

mkoubaa — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 23:55:26 +0000

I have no problem with the proposition that the post-ww2 global order is responsible for a billion deaths.

New comment by mkoubaa in "Oil nears $110 a barrel after gas field strike"

mkoubaa — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 19:43:29 +0000

Its going to get a *lot* worse.

New comment by mkoubaa in "Oil nears $110 a barrel after gas field strike"

mkoubaa — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 19:39:18 +0000

That goes for both parties involved in the assassination game, and I'm pretty sure the Russians won't tap out first

New comment by mkoubaa in "Oil nears $110 a barrel after gas field strike"

mkoubaa — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 18:36:59 +0000

Nixon method of ejection indeed.

He did say he wanted regime change after all

New comment by mkoubaa in "Oil nears $110 a barrel after gas field strike"

mkoubaa — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 18:34:54 +0000

Real life isn't a James Bond movie. The next guy in line is more belligerent than Putin

New comment by mkoubaa in "$96 3D-printed rocket that recalculates its mid-air trajectory using a $5 sensor"

mkoubaa — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 17:53:14 +0000

Tell that to the 60 million people who died in the Holodomor.

New comment by mkoubaa in "Users hate it, but age-check tech is coming"

mkoubaa — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 15:33:03 +0000

I refuse to use any non-essential app that requires my government id and I'm not the only one.

New comment by mkoubaa in "Tech hobbyist makes shoulder-mounted guided missile prototype with $96 in parts"

mkoubaa — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 15:28:13 +0000

Exactly. Revolutions are awful things that are only defensible if the conditions are brutal enough. And even then, there has to be the caution that the revolution can be co-opted by infinitely worse people than those that were overthrown (take the Russian revolution, for example)

New comment by mkoubaa in "A new Bigfoot documentary helps explain our conspiracy-minded era"

mkoubaa — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 02:48:47 +0000

It still is, and it is plainly a true conspiracy. Hence its placement at the top end of the spectrum.

What else has been covered up? Oh boy...

New comment by mkoubaa in "A new Bigfoot documentary helps explain our conspiracy-minded era"

mkoubaa — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 02:33:58 +0000

They're all on a spectrum between flat earth and Epstein didn't off himself, with some clustering at either end

New comment by mkoubaa in "Python: The Optimization Ladder"

mkoubaa — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 16:27:25 +0000

That's because you assume an algorithm implemented on top of the C implementation of python is equivalent to a C implemention of the algorithm. You don't understand how CPython works.

New comment by mkoubaa in "MCP is dead; long live MCP"

mkoubaa — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 23:24:10 +0000

If you can't write a good CLI I doubt you could write a good MCP

New comment by mkoubaa in "Python: The Optimization Ladder"

mkoubaa — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 23:20:57 +0000

The language itself is not the issue, the implementations are wildly different in other ways

New comment by mkoubaa in "AI Gets Wrong Woman Jailed for Six Months, Life Ruined"

mkoubaa — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 17:43:50 +0000

Give them a hammer and everything becomes a nail

New comment by mkoubaa in "Qatar helium shutdown puts chip supply chain on a two-week clock"

mkoubaa — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 20:57:42 +0000

Don't reply to breppp it's an obvious spy/operative account.

New comment by mkoubaa in "Qatar helium shutdown puts chip supply chain on a two-week clock"

mkoubaa — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 20:56:21 +0000

Even Alexander the Great's conquest of Persian was mostly a soft coup. That country is a fortress.

New comment by mkoubaa in "Shall I implement it? No"

mkoubaa — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 23:53:07 +0000

When a developer doesn't want to work on something, it's often because it's awful spaghetti code. Maybe these agents are suffering and need some kind words of encouragement