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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Iran, I ran so far away - flock of seagulls
Last post by Lods -
Quote from: kruddler – on
Quote from: DJC – on
Meanwhile, there's panic buying at service stations and I expect that there'll be a run on dunny rolls  ::)

I've been hiding under a rock the past few days due to a family emergency....and not sure when all this actually kicked off.

However, the first thing i saw on my phone was an article telling everyone to go and stock up on fuel because of the war with Iran will limit supply and increase costs.

Can't remember where the article was from, but clearly i wasn't the only person to see it as i've had 4 other people talk about that very issue today.

Best fill up if you can get a good price before the petrol people jack it up...which they'll do regardless.

Barnaby Joyce asked a question about supply during Question time today.

Energy Minister Chris Bowen said Australia has 36 days worth of petrol and 34 days worth of diesel stockpiled.

Joyce took a point of order and asked whether the stored reserves were on Australian soil or on ships.

Bowen said either in Australia “or on ships in our economic zone”...so on the way.
Apparently those stocks are pretty normal which surprised me...in fact better than usual so 'no worries' just yet.



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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Iran, I ran so far away - flock of seagulls
Last post by DJC -
Plan EB, what plan?

There's Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi waiting in the wings and cheering the US on, but I'm not sure that the Iranians will want to change an authoritarian theocratic regime for an authoritarian monarchical regime.

I suspect that the USA thinks that chopping the head off the snake will encourage the populace to rise up and establish a western style constitutional democracy. 
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Iran, I ran so far away - flock of seagulls
Last post by ElwoodBlues1 -
Quote from: DJC – on
Well, it's on again and more serious this time.

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader for the last 36 years, has been killed by air strikes, along with other leaders of the Islamic Republic of Iran.  Of course, that's a misnomer as the regime is not republican or Iranian but is a Shia cartel that has brutally suppressed all other Iranian political and religious groups since they seized power in 1979.  I don't think too many folk will be mourning Khamenei and his thugs.

The other side of the coin is that the USA and Israel started a war without UN approval and, in the case of the USA, without the constitutionally required Congressional approval.  On top of that, only about 25% of Americans support the war and that number will probably drop as the war drags on, casualties increase and the price of oil climbs.

Other issues are the expansion of the conflict to other Middle Eastern nations, the closure of the Straits of Hormuz, the fact that regime change has never been achieved through air strikes and always requires boots on the ground, and the potential for Iran to become a failed state like the other Middle Eastern nations that have had forced regime change.

Ukraine is happy because the supply of Iranian Shahed drones to Russia will dry up.

Meanwhile, there's panic buying at service stations and I expect that there'll be a run on dunny rolls  ::)
Good summary, Id like to know what the plan is now the old Ayatollah has been terminated if there is a plan? or will Iran descend into a civil war and the rest of the world will have to pick up the pieces. The old regime are still in control of the military on the ground and Ali Larijani while not a Cleric is tipped as the readymade replacement who has already declared there will be revenge. Food and water are in short supply and oil supplies blockaded, so refugees galore and an ongoing conflict other countries have to navigate around. The USA really need to complete the job when they make these attacks or not get involved at all and have a history of these unfinished interventions that take years to resolve and then rely on other countries to cleanup the mess.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Iran, I ran so far away - flock of seagulls
Last post by kruddler -
Quote from: DJC – on
Meanwhile, there's panic buying at service stations and I expect that there'll be a run on dunny rolls  ::)

I've been hiding under a rock the past few days due to a family emergency....and not sure when all this actually kicked off.

However, the first thing i saw on my phone was an article telling everyone to go and stock up on fuel because of the war with Iran will limit supply and increase costs.

Can't remember where the article was from, but clearly i wasn't the only person to see it as i've had 4 other people talk about that very issue today.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Iran, I ran so far away - flock of seagulls
Last post by DJC -
Well, it's on again and more serious this time.

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader for the last 36 years, has been killed by air strikes, along with other leaders of the Islamic Republic of Iran.  Of course, that's a misnomer as the regime is not republican or Iranian but is a Shia cartel that has brutally suppressed all other Iranian political and religious groups since they seized power in 1979.  I don't think too many folk will be mourning Khamenei and his thugs.

The other side of the coin is that the USA and Israel started a war without UN approval and, in the case of the USA, without the constitutionally required Congressional approval.  On top of that, only about 25% of Americans support the war and that number will probably drop as the war drags on, casualties increase and the price of oil climbs.

Other issues are the expansion of the conflict to other Middle Eastern nations, the closure of the Straits of Hormuz, the fact that regime change has never been achieved through air strikes and always requires boots on the ground, and the potential for Iran to become a failed state like the other Middle Eastern nations that have had forced regime change.

Ukraine is happy because the supply of Iranian Shahed drones to Russia will dry up.

Meanwhile, there's panic buying at service stations and I expect that there'll be a run on dunny rolls  ::)
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: AI
Last post by Thryleon -
The server im talking about is a single host in a VMware cluster.

The ILO tells you its health, one of its PSU's is faulty.  In most setups, you would have 2 or 3 hosts, migrate the running vm's cross host in live, and then troubleshoot the cable.  In this case, it was a single host, showing signs of failure which means the only safe way to perform maintenance is power down the VM's (during an outage window) and then you can power down the host, and troubleshoot the cables.  You would never start at the cables in a single host cluster and unplug replug live hosts.  Everyone gets one oops moment, but this is where Chat GPT either assumed I know this and didnt tell me, or assumed the host could be powered off.  Either way it stuffed up with its instructions and I knew better than to listen to it.

NEVER trust AI on its face value without questioning it, and questioning it some more, and then independantly verify it!
 
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: AI
Last post by LP -
Quote from: Thryleon – on
I refuse to use anything that is overly autonomous and needs to make decisions about my safety.  Computers are just too unreliable.  Reboot and all is well, but after the next batch of security updates, you might have a brick.
In my current Engineering R&D type job we have intrinsically safe and also high availability systems, none of them use a PC for hardware control, they are built on real-time hardware using industrial microcontrollers not a PC. We talk about MTBF measured in years of continuous service. PCs are used, but in the user interface not in hardware control.

The only way we get some semblance of reliability out of the PC based hardware control systems is to make sure they get a regular manual reboot whenever the opportunity arrives, which is usually at least once a week. Windows, Linux, macOS, BSD, it makes no difference. The longest genuine claim I have heard was about one year for a PC, but most were really talking of virtualisation of an OS on bare metal that itself gets cycled while the client OS gets a snapshot and resumes after the hardware reboots. I'm sure there will be users who have a Raspberry Pi or something like that sitting there running continuously doing mostly nothing, but that's a different story to operating continuously under genuine demand.

There is no way AI should be allowed anywhere near a robot or cobot.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 0 2026 Pre-game Prognostications Carlton vs Sydney in Sydney
Last post by ElwoodBlues1 -
Quote from: shawny – on
I hope your right mate but after watching us get humbled by a reserve team outfit last year in R1 I'm dont have a heap of confidence beating Sydney in Sydney.

In melb it may have been an even money bet but up there is never easy
 
I'm more optimistic the players will lift for the coach given this season is make or break in many ways and I think the Swans are also at the crossroads with their new coach and have sold the farm for Charlie for an instant fix when I think the problems are elsewhere.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 0 2026 Pre-game Prognostications Carlton vs Sydney in Sydney
Last post by ElwoodBlues1 -
Quote from: shawny – on
Quote from: ElwoodBlues1 – on

Shawny, apart from Charlie their list is the same as last season minus Haywood/Florent and they are relying on  organic growth plus their Coach improving his output. I'm less optimistic about their chances than the scribes, one injury to any of Heeney, Gulden or Warner and they are back struggling as Cox doesn't have the innovation or levers to pull that the top coaches have imho.

Agree they dont have depth but if they are fit their list is very strong and has less holes than ours all things being equal.
They are usually competitive and have a star laden midfield with a couple of players we don't have matchups for but I think with careful planning we can contain those players and a good start is imperative.