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This is exactly why I'm working on the safety vision system tech that I am.
This industry is not going anywhere anytime soon. In fact it will be more vital as the space economy ramps up.
We need to be able to run faster turnarounds and accelerated construction projects without sacrificing safety outcomes.
THAT is the problem I'm working on solving.
Lots of great coverage of Global Energy Show, but here are some tidbits I picked up that might not make the news:
1. The world will need ~30 million barrels/day in new growth to 2050. This accounts for demand growth but also supply loss as some basins mature and decline. /1
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Talking to one of the camera assistants on this show.
He decided a while ago that Beyond Meat was a better investment than Tesla because he doesn't like @elonmusk
Anyway, that one stock has basically wiped out about 50% of his portfolio because he bought at the peak
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Insurance companies make real maker spaces nearly impossible.
And then organizations staff those spaces with people who think they're teaching a kindergarten class.
“Makerspaces” aren’t really makerspaces, they’re like intro to engineering classes. It’s a huge pain.
I went to one today to get a some filament for a calibration print on my portable printer. They couldn’t give me new filament because of some “policy.” After a manager got involved, they sold me a morsel of recycled stuff for $1. That comes out to about $100/kg, roughly 10x bulk filament cost.
You also can’t take anything out of the lab. To use a hot glue gun or even a screwdriver, you have to hand over your student ID, they register a second card, you scan both. You get logged for trying to glue something 😂There are like 3 safety courses before you can use a soldering iron.
Half the space is cutesy textile and fabric printing machines. The other half has a filament recycling line that costs several times more to run than just buying filament in bulk.
It’s the same attitude from the student “supervisors” at every lab on campus. They explain things you never asked about. I went for some filament and got a completely irrelevant explanation of PLA vs PETG vs ABS, and was told several times it would probably get tangled without a spool. Even a total beginner just asking for filament doesn’t need to be lectured. Answer the question, and offer more if someone wants it. Every question turns into some sort of knowledge dump, and everything needs approval from someone with a title.
These spaces are a fine place to learn what a 3D printer is, but completely useless for projects.
I was going to put some machines in a campus lab and donate some filament, but the rule is any equipment you bring in is university property, and you’d have to ask permission to use your own machine, so they can get lost.
UIUC is probably the school most fixated on getting students jobs, so you’d think they’d make it easy to work on the thing employers care about most, which is projects.
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The average Canadian will not be moved in the slightest by any of the below arguments.
As long as Conservative = Bad in their nightly Nightmare Rectangle Firmware updates, they will never vote Conservative. Ever. Their homes could be a smoking ruin around them and they still will not relent.
To recap the last few days…
1️⃣ the liberals announce a historically catastrophic budget (called “manifest our destiny”… seriously, your comms people need to get out of Ottawa every once in a while)
2️⃣ Trump loses midterms, and then they have to backtrack and tell the truth, which is that despite lobbyists, strategists and insiders on mainstream media airwaves helping to push the message—dems winning more seats in the midterms impact approximately 0 on tariff policy (added pressure may or may not help. But unlikely)
3️⃣ unions who previously told their members to vote for Carney come out and condemn them because *gasp* they should have actually voted Conservative and the Liberals did nothing meaningful to save Canada’s economy from their disastrous policies (that they could just reverse if they wanted…) and Stellantis is selling.
P.S how’s trade diversification going? We’ve gotten, what… a few days worth of trade with the U.S. in difference with all those press conferences and repeated hollow slogans across the world?
4️⃣ international press coverage about Canada’s healthcare system being such an overworked and overwhelmed mess that veterans seeking care are being offered MAID.
5️⃣ new reports that focus on the macro show Canada created ZERO private sector jobs in several years…
Is this a Trudeau 2.0 brewing?
That’s the thing about socialism… eventually you run out of other people’s money. And tax the rich seems to just keep making the rich move out of the country, or hire cheap temporary labour… which displaces wages and jobs.
I know there’s more… what did I miss?
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This is correct.
You cannot have a single honest conversation with pretty much anyone in Canada. They have no idea what's happening at any level in the country.
They flat out refuse to let reality get in the way of their opinions.
Canada irks me because almost no one is honest about what’s happening.
There are tradeoffs, be honest about it!
And the notion that Justin Trudeau or some politically connected person is waiting 6 months for a hip replacement is laughable.
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This is one of the worst IPO's of all time.
The most insane pump and dump scheme of all time
Anthropic has launched the roadshow for its proposed initial public offering: anthropic.com/news/roadshow-…
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AI is basically a hellish nightmare for mechanics. Your 200 point inspection that costs a billion dollars an hour means nothing when I can easily diagnose problems and part numbers with Grok.
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You might be surprised to learn that a significant majority of the population hates the tech product that is marketed entirely as "existential" and "will replace all of their jobs" and "leave them at the mercy of 'benevolent' tech leaders".
The damage has already been done. There is no marketing that AI labs can use to come back from it.
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You can melt the mind of the average Canadian by asking them what has improved over the last 15 years despite an ever increasing tax burden.
They will mumble something about taxing billionaires, but as soon as you ask them what exactly is improved by the extra money, their minds will disintegrate.
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Canada has lost the Mandate of Hockey Heaven with it's behaviour over the last few years.
Connor Hellebuyck when asked if politics played a role in this and if being awarded a Medal of Freedom put a target on him via NJD.tv:
"You know, I’m sure it did a little bit. Is it fair? I don’t think it matters if it’s fair or not. Those are accomplishments that I will never apologize for and I will never speak negatively about. I know the sensitivity of what’s going on between the U.S. and Canada. And I’ve never gotten into politics deep with anyone because I’m a hockey player, and I play hockey. And I can only speak to the things that I do every day. And like I was saying before, I’ve loved playing in Canada. I’m enjoying my time in New Jersey. I don’t want to have to pin anyone against each other. I just hopefully give you guys some answers and can move on." #NJDevils #GoJetsGo
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Boomer at the gym: I used to just go down to the fibreglass plant after school and on fridays. You could just show up and they would put you to work.
Same boomer, moments later: all these kids today are just so lazy. They don't even want to work or get jobs
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One of the most hilarious things about Armchair Generals and Bathtub Admirals is that they assume all warfare is a carefully calculated series of moments in which one exercises absolute control at all times, and any deviation from the plan is seen as a massive failure.
Its hilarious because a read through of history shows that pretty much every battle that has ever been fought in human history is basically a series of Hail Mary's on every single down.
Sometimes you gain yards. Sometimes you get intercepted.
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Using Grok Bot to build bespoke technical reference manuals for research.
Makes it pretty easy to pick and choose rather than trying to spend thousands of dollars trying to find the right books
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If you're a Canadian and you try to do this, MNRF would descend upon you like a scene out of Black Hawk Down to take everything you and 6 generations of your family own.
The discrepancy between how the law treats Canadians and how the law treats not-Canadians is a major source of friction. MNRF and CSIS should strip these migrants of everything they have and deport immediately for this
'STAY THE FU*K DOWN… CRAWL, CRAWL, CRAWL': Canada men PINNED to GROUND as 'CARELESS MIGRANTS' SEND BULLETS FLYING OVER THEIR HEADS
He STORMS UP to group: 'NONE of you are wearing EAR PROTECTION… we YELLED FIVE TIMES'
Their reply: 'SORRY for that'
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The Canadian government took the opposite approach and said "how can we make batteries as expensive as possible?"
A battery cost $600 per kilowatt-hour. The materials it’s made of, according to Elon Musk, cost about $80.
REPORTER: Where does that gap come from?
ELON MUSK: Most people reason by analogy. They say batteries will always be expensive because they’ve always been expensive. That’s pretty dumb.
REPORTER: Why?
ELON MUSK: If you applied that reasoning to anything new, you’d never get to the new thing. You can’t say, “Horses are great, we’re used to them, and there’s no gasoline to buy, so nobody will ever want a car.” And people did say that.
REPORTER: So how should you reason?
ELON MUSK: From first principles, not by analogy. Normally we do something because it’s like something that was done before, or because other people are doing it.
REPORTER: What are first principles?
ELON MUSK: The physics way of looking at the world. You boil things down to the most fundamental truths and reason up from there.
REPORTER: Why doesn’t everyone do that?
ELON MUSK: Because it takes a lot more mental energy.
REPORTER: Can you give an example?
ELON MUSK: Batteries. Historically it’s $600 per kilowatt-hour, and they say it won’t get much better. I ask something else: what is it made of?
REPORTER: And what is it made of?
ELON MUSK: Cobalt, nickel, aluminum, carbon, some polymers for separation, and a sealed can.
REPORTER: And what does that cost?
ELON MUSK: At London Metal Exchange prices it comes to something like $80 per kilowatt-hour.
REPORTER: So that’s almost eight times less. What do you do with that?
ELON MUSK: Come up with clever ways to combine those materials into the shape of a battery cell. And then batteries can be much cheaper than anyone realizes.
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