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New comment by skeletoncrew2 in "Japanese, French and Omani vessels cross Strait of Hormuz"

skeletoncrew2 — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 17:20:43 +0000

I only give Trump about 25% credit for that joke, the reporter tee’d it up too much. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fFmA0xlINGg&ra=m

New comment by skeletoncrew2 in "Electrical transformer manufacturing is throttling the electrified future"

skeletoncrew2 — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 22:01:15 +0000

I’m just noting the article doesn’t have anything specific of value to say about tariff’s. This is not directed at you but rather the reporters: I can read general opinions on tariffs or political parties anywhere; I need details relevant to transformers here to not just ignore other opinions

New comment by skeletoncrew2 in "Electrical transformer manufacturing is throttling the electrified future"

skeletoncrew2 — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 21:52:33 +0000

Sure, I’m just saying the article was pretty long but pretty short and declarative on the impact of tariffs. Earlier in the article for example is said there was still a factory in the US where the magnetic core material was made.

New comment by skeletoncrew2 in "Why the most valuable things you know are things you cannot say"

skeletoncrew2 — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 19:15:49 +0000

Or maybe inductive vs deductive reasoning

New comment by skeletoncrew2 in "Electrical transformer manufacturing is throttling the electrified future"

skeletoncrew2 — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 18:48:37 +0000

Yes this is the most glaring issue. There also two disconnects later in the article: at the end it laments how china has been increasing transformer manufacturing but the US government has done nothing. Then in the next sentence its mentions trumps tariffs have increased transformer costs, I. E. Government action to increase domestic production. It also glosses over the new DOE rule on how transformers are made…so maybe there is a larger story there relevant to the lack of supply.

New comment by skeletoncrew2 in "Know why you don't like OOP"

skeletoncrew2 — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 17:47:13 +0000

I think one of the reasons OOP gets a bad reputation is simply that the naming conventions are unintuitive. For example it is sort of unclear what inheritance actually means in practice. In the context of this essay, why does inheritance only apply to allocating objects, but not to methods? In other words, maybe the point of inheritance is to facilitate a more general method, that is capable of operating on the common subset of two different types of objects?

New comment by skeletoncrew2 in "Why the US Navy won't blast the Iranians and 'open' Strait of Hormuz"

skeletoncrew2 — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 22:45:34 +0000

The article is reflecting on the observed reality that US Navy operations in this war are taking Iran’s littoral combat power into account by operating its ships further from the Iranian coast…why can’t you imagine that they are operating this way under Trump?

New comment by skeletoncrew2 in "Why are executives enamored with AI, but ICs aren't?"

skeletoncrew2 — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:33:43 +0000

I’d posit that AI is good at tasks that managers have to do: it is a world composited primarily of processes and procedures set up by humans, about other humans. In other words it is just like an ai trained on text. At the worker level you have to interact with the real, outside world in some way. If I could have AI take the wheel for every share point tracker management manages to cook up, I’d be raving about it too.

New comment by skeletoncrew2 in "Build America, Buy America law causes construction delays amid US housing crisis"

skeletoncrew2 — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:11:08 +0000

Alternate headline: Government Creates New Rule that Delays Construction of Government Subsidized Housing, amid alleged crisis.

New comment by skeletoncrew2 in "The decline and fall of the Roman currency empire"

skeletoncrew2 — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 23:43:24 +0000

Haha this article doesn’t seem to know much about money: in paragraph 1 it notes that Roman gold coins in India could be melted and reformed into other gold valuables, then in paragraph 2 it asserts that this suggests Rome ran a trade deficit.

It later claims that currency may have caused a plague…hello maybe it was trading that caused the bacteria to move