Somehow a 100-line SQL query is considered unmaintainable, but splitting the same logic across five services and a message queue is considered architecture.
Food Supplies
Agriculture has massively outperformed demographics all over the world. Food supplies have grown faster than the population on everything continent on Earth.
This is what abundance looks like, there is more than enough food, everywhere.
So what has this meant for prices and suppliers?
Is food now “too cheap to meter”? No. Clearly not. OK but has food become so incredibly abundant that the cost of food has fallen? No.
Food is actually more expensive than it used to be, and food inflation is something a lot of people will recognise.
So why is food getting more expensive, even as the supply of food continues to outpace demand?
Well food supplies from agriculture are waaay upstream of the consumer. The price of food on the shelves has actually risen quite sharply, but the price of food in the fields has not.
The difference is in the food processing industry… it’s manufacturing.
When you offshore all of your manufacturing industry, you also offshore all of your food processing industry too.
And so even though countries think agriculture is the source of their food security… it is not. Almost everywhere in the world has an over abundance of agriculture and heavily subsidises agriculture, even though the bottleneck in their food security is manufacturing.
Manufacturing is not subsidised, is not generally thought of as strategic and is not in a state of abundance anywhere in the world.
Increasingly as geopolitics shifts toward a multipolar world, everyone is waking up to the fact that manufacturing is king.
If you don’t have the machinery, you don’t have any security. You are a sitting duck.
Politics and AI are going to combine to make some fascinating industrial policies over the next 10-15 years.
For how technically big MTN is in Naija - they produce poor tech products.
From apps to websites to payments etc. their technology experience is very subpar
I highly recommend to read at least one technical blog per day or even per week ... the amount of depth you can get in your conversations with interviewer/friends/seniors solely from this highly appreciable
We’re sharing a solution to the Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize Problem, one of the deepest problems at the frontier of mathematics.
The proof was produced by a group of agents, using an OpenAI next-generation model significantly more capable than GPT-6 Astra.
The problem concerns whether the description of smooth three-dimensional fluid motion modeled by the Navier-Stokes equations can break down. It has remained unresolved for roughly 90 years.
TU MASA MUSCULAR EXPLOTARÁ EN TAMAÑO CUANDO ENTIENDAS ESTA LEY BIOLÓGICA:
Ir al gimnasio a sudar no sirve de nada. Tu cuerpo odia construir músculo porque gasta demasiada energía. Si quieres forzarlo a crecer, tienes que aplicar estas reglas innegociables:
محد ممكن يفهم بس أحب الرجل الي يسيطر على رغبته احيانًا و يختار إشباع النظر إلى جسدي، يتمعّن، يتفحّص، يراقب حركاتي بدون ما يقترب مني احسه شيء من الهدوء العاطفي
there is a type of female orgasm that bypasses the spinal cord entirely and travels through the vagus nerve directly to the brainstem.
it is neurologically distinct from a clitoral orgasm. it activates different brain regions. it produces different neurochemicals. and women who experience it describe it as a full body event that lasts 2 to 5 times longer than any other type.
the cervical orgasm. triggered by stimulation of the cervix, the deepest reachable structure in the vaginal canal. the nerve pathway is the vagus nerve, the longest cranial nerve in the body, running from the brainstem to the abdomen without passing through the spinal cord. this is why women with complete spinal cord injuries above the level of genital sensation can still experience cervical orgasm. the signal doesn't use the spine. it has its own highway.
the sensation is described differently from clitoral orgasm. clitoral orgasm is localized, sharp, building to a peak, then releasing. cervical orgasm is diffuse, deep, spreading through the entire body, building in waves rather than a single peak, and lasting significantly longer. some women describe emotional release during cervical orgasm including involuntary crying not from pain but from the intensity of the neurological event.
the practical challenge: the cervix is only comfortably accessible after full tenting (15 to 25 minutes of arousal). deep positions (modified missionary with legs elevated, or positions allowing deep penetration) combined with slow sustained pressure on the cervix rather than rapid thrusting. the cervix responds to sustained pressure, not impact. pressing and holding is more effective than repetitive striking.
most men have never heard of this because most sexual education focuses exclusively on clitoral anatomy. the clitoral orgasm was mapped first and received all the research attention. the cervical pathway through the vagus nerve was documented more recently and has received a fraction of the public awareness.
there are women who have experienced every type of clitoral orgasm available and have never been stimulated in the way that activates the vagus nerve pathway. an entirely separate neurological experience exists that most couples never access because nobody told them the anatomy supports it.
Giant Foundry Press
If you want to make nuclear reactor pressure vessels, wellheads, naval cannons, mega crane hooks and tackle, marine crankshafts, basically anything worthy of sci-fi cinema…
You need a foundry with a big press, so that you can forge big ingots, and work harden big forgings.
You also need an appropriately sized quench bath.
Then you need 30 years of cumulative competence with the equipment across your plant operators, your metallurgists and your quality inspectors…
Then you can make these things.
The horrible truth is that some things are so big they take 4 weeks to cool down (it’s the square-cube law), you can only make 10 per year… it takes a decade of practice to get good.
For 10 years almost everything you make will be poor, it will take 3 years of operation just to calibrate your equipment.
If you lose this stuff you never get it back, once you lose the last giant press your industrial base starts to unravel, lead times on critical components jump from 8 months to 40 months, it’s suddenly takes 5 years to repair a downed bridge, laypeople don’t understand why...
This is why.
Only 5 countries in the world can make giant ingots; China, Russia, Japan, South Korea and France… Italy and Germany the recent casualties, India probably ascend to make it 6 in a decade or so.
That is nothing, during covid UK was having a meeting online. Malawi insisted to go physically. They were allowed 6 people. The six people were the president, his wife, daughters and son-inlaws.