Patrick Gillett

Energy markets analyst and custard apple farmer.

[Patrick Gillett @PatrickGillett]

@Chris_arnade As a teenage employee my favourite job was refilling the sundae and shake machines. The mix came in 10L bags and was already vanilla flavoured. Yum.

Common wisdom was that the thickener relied on pig fat, which led to my nickname Pig Fatty Patty.

[Patrick Gillett @PatrickGillett]

@henrywinter I don’t really get why spying is punished so harshly. It’s not a win for integrity - it's just legally protecting training as IP. ie more corporate bollocks.

[Patrick Gillett @PatrickGillett]

@adam_tooze Seems very likely to be a case of unreliable data?

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@Chris_arnade yeah I sometimes wonder with these stories whether it's "reasoning from a price level" to paraphrase Scott Sumner. It seems likely that it was reasonably hard to produce, but also just a pretty small market so it stayed a luxury good. Like my custard apples!

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@Chris_arnade @ray_hoang30 @eigenrobot Neo-liberal, mixed with an often contradictory strong conservation movement and romanticisation of agriculture - (plus high costs) has meant that we don’t even produce enough gas to meet lng export capacity - resulting in domestic gas use always competing with the offshore bid

[Patrick Gillett @PatrickGillett]

@alexbhturnbull Agree that gas reservation is the likely outcome, but how about we ask whether we can try to produce more gas?

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@hsu_steve @Dominic2306 Fair, but we also never denied that the soviets were good at science. They failed due to misallocation of capital. The balance is different this time, we’ll see how it plays out.

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@ira_joseph To be fair, this is like the 6th time a nailed on LNG gas glut has been averted!

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@jordanschneider Do you agree "US escalate to nuclear" is 0%?

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@WarintheFuture Mr Ryan, given the US-Israeli strategy so far has been "bomb them until they submit/collapse", is there a possibility nuclear weapons are used?

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@ira_joseph @ColumbiaUEnergy Who was it who flipped that logic around a few years ago and declared FM willy nilly because they had FM at ONE of their offtakes?

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@jstevefletch @gilescoren @Telegraph Speaking of ambiguous language, your comment has conjured the unwelcome mental image of you both debating grammar in a dungeon

[Patrick Gillett @PatrickGillett]

@karpathy This may be english but is still full of unrecognisable syntax for most people haha

[Patrick Gillett @PatrickGillett]

@eastdakota The comparison is so true - Italian you’re constantly remixing oil, garlic, lemon, chilli, herbs. In Japanese it’s same mode but mirin, soy, ginger, vinegar, miso

[Santiago @svpino]

me every time claude code one-shots something i said it was impossible for AI to do

[Patrick Gillett @PatrickGillett]

@curiosityonx @agnostoxxx I can never remember the conversion - that’s only like 44.5 degrees Celsius right?

[Patrick Gillett @PatrickGillett]

The next morning we walked to the next section (Jinshanling I think?) where we had arranged pickup. It was a long walk!

[Patrick Gillett @PatrickGillett]

@johnarnold Actually 2004! there were so few controls on public spaces. We entered this section of the Great Wall just on closing time, hiked up to one of those guard towers, and camped the night. A nice old lady who lived in a shipping container on the next tower brought us cold beer