Iain Magee
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Iain Magee
@iainmagee
Technology Director - AI | Azure | C# | .NET | Angular - Interested in tech, software, business, energy, travel, politics and faith.
Northern Ireland Katılım Ocak 2008
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War is raging across the world sending shockwaves that hit the living standards of our constituents.
Yet the Tories have us spending 11 hours in the HoC debating process and minutae that does nothing to reflect the priorities of the British people in these times of crisis.
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@github @OpenAIDevs A really odd time to massively hike pricing just when copilot seemed to be gaining momentum.
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🆕 @OpenAIDevs GPT-5.5 is now generally available and rolling out in GitHub Copilot.
Our early testing shows
➡️ It delivers its strongest performance on complex agentic coding tasks
➡️ It resolves real-world coding challenges previous GPT models couldn’t
Try it out in Copilot CLI or @code. 👇
github.blog/changelog/2026…
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We are getting a grip of the finances after the Truss market crash and Sunak recession.
Much more to do.
BBC News (UK)@BBCNews
Government borrowing falls by £20bn in year to March bbc.in/4e44K4y
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Blindingly obvious and perfectly out!!
Ed Miliband@Ed_Miliband
You can’t solve a fossil fuel crisis by doubling down on fossil fuels. The only route to energy security is clean homegrown power that we control.
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I have spoken to the protesters today.
They are willing to allow 10 loads of fuel out of Whitegate today for emergency services.
This could increase tomorrow if there are positive results from the talks today.
The government must engage.
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This is embarrassing, Delete it, President @realDonaldTrump - unless you want everyone to think you’ve lost your marbles.
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@dorfman_p These ideological lunatics have driven energy policy for far too long in this country. It's long past time for a more rational, sustainable and effective approach.
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More than 65 leading UK scientists have warned against new oil and gas drilling in the North Sea, urging the government instead to prioritise renewable energy as a more cost-effective response to the energy crisis.
"As climate scientists, we urge leaders to look to the cheaper solutions we have already, that we know work ..
Wind and solar now the lowest-cost sources of electricity."
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It is blowing my mind how many people don’t seem able to grasp that oil & gas in the North Sea is not “ours” but was sold off to private companies who will trade it on the international market like any other fuel.
We don’t get any kind of privileged access to this fuel.
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In addition to pushing ahead with renewables, we need to extend & support domestic oil/gas extraction in the short/medium term, and build nuclear generating capacity at pace for the medium/long term .. but we can't even fill in potholes at pace so it's not looking likely!!
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Or maybe he's finally stopped listening to utter craziness from the "green" lobby that has resulted in a failed generation of energy policy and damaged our country (and the environment) enormously. This is a tiny fraction of what he actually needs to do in order to reach net zero sustainably but at least it's a start.
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A terrible decision, and one which will do huge damage to the Government's climate credentials.
As Ed knows, this drilling won't lower bills, but instead it sends a clear message that Britain won't be a world leader on ending oil and gas exploitation
Times Politics@timespolitics
Ed Miliband to approve first major North Sea gasfield project in decade #Echobox=1775165616" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">thetimes.com/uk/politics/ar…
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@ret_ward What nonsense. The goal does not always determine the path.
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@jonburkeUK @marcuswquinn China is also building coal powered plants! This constant cherry picking of stats to try and make your point is just silly. We need a sensible, balanced and sustainable approach to transition. That's all! What we have at the moment is neither.
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@marcuswquinn 1/ China is the largest investor in domestic renewable energy in the world.
2/ A two-megawatt turbine pays back its build energy and emissions in 6-12 months, then runs clean for the next 25+ years.
3/ We had a renewables manufacturing industry that was killed by FiT cuts.
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83% of Britain’s electricity is currently zero carbon.
This is an incredible achievement of which we should be rightly proud and motivated to go further, faster.
Instead, we’ve got fossil fuelled politicians telling us we should be focusing on 93% depleted North Sea oil & gas.
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Time for the fossil fuelled reply guys to have a wee lie down, because at 17:57 on 28 March 2026, Britain is getting 72% of its electricity from zero carbon sources.
Every unit of home grown clean energy we generate makes Britain more free and secure…☀️💨♻️⚡️🔋🇬🇧
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You're spot on with a lot of what you have been posting on oil & gas recently but much of this is just not accurate. Who knows in future but EVs at the moment almost always cheaper to run, and when charging at home *substantially* cheaper. Even taking into account a higher purchase price. It's also a nicer car to drive: faster, convenient, smooth, quiet! And I fail to see the difference between charging per mile and per litre - still charging you for usage effectively. Being "all in" on domestic oil, gas, nuclear etc does not mean we need to be all out on wind, solar, EVs etc. Both have their place.
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Rubbish
EVs are more expensive to run than ICE cars almost all the time particularly if you can't charge at home
I can fill my ICE car in bare minutes, and drive for hundreds of miles before filling up again. I can put the heating or ac on, the stereo, the heated seat and steering wheel, the windscreen wipers and any other thing and not worry about the impact on my fuel level
And I can do so knowing that my car doesn't contain highly polluting materials such as rare earth magnets
I am a bit annoyed the government takes half what I pay at the pump in tax but I don't have to worry about being charged for every mile I drive the way EV drivers do (or will soon)
And heat pumps are straight up more expensive because electricity is more expensive so unless you home is extremely well insulated which most aren't, it costs more to run
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If you want to help bring down fuel costs for others, reduce demand.
Oil is priced globally. More drilling here doesn’t stop price spikes.
EVs and heat pumps already cut UK fossil fuel use by 14 million barrels in 2023.
So the most effective thing you can do:
Switch to an EV and / or a heat pump if you can.
Every switch cuts demand, eases prices, and improves energy security.
Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country.
🇬🇧#EV #HeatPump #CostOfLivingCrisis 🇬🇧
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Thatcher sold it off.
Reform are supposedly no longer Tories, but not one of them will criticise the legacy of Thatcher. Funny that.
Robert Jenrick@RobertJenrick
Britain has paid Norway over £100 billion for gas since 2021. For gas they’re drilling in the North Sea, the same sea Ed Miliband has banned new drilling in on the British side. Madness.
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I've only got 10% heating oil left in my tank. Actually, it's probably more than that, and I might have a few more tanks in the garden somewhere. Still, it will probably only last a few decades and so I've been working on finding alternative ways to stay warm. Making good progress on that but it takes a while. The pipe is blocked a bit now though so I've decided just to leave my oil in the tank and instead pay my neighbours to bring some of theirs to me in a bucket each day. The bucket leaks so I lose a lot getting it here, and costs a fortune to pay those kids to move it, but hey saves fixing that blockage! Got some relatives in Dubai too so I'll get them to post me some. Should be here in about 3 months. Seems like a great plan. I can also tell all my friends I'm not using any of that dirty smelly oil in my tank! Let's hope the kid's don't get sick or lose that bucket!
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1/ North Sea oil & gas extraction peaked in 1999 and has fallen by 65% since.
2/ U.K reserves are now 90% extracted.
3/ Even with new licences, extraction will fall by 95% between 2026 and 2050.
Please explain how North Sea oil and gas can deliver ‘energy security’.
Priti Patel MP@pritipatel
The conflict in Iran has shown us that failing to get serious about our energy security will make us weaker, poorer, and less able to defend ourselves in the event of conflict. Drilling in the North Sea is the answer to Britain’s energy resilience. telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/03/2…
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@karpathy @ryancarson @RhysSullivan the code works. it is just ugly. that tradeoff is going to define the next five years of software.
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Thank you Sarah, my pleasure to come on the pod! And happy to do some more Q&A in the replies.
sarah guo@saranormous
Caught up with @karpathy for a new @NoPriorsPod: on the phase shift in engineering, AI psychosis, claws, AutoResearch, the opportunity for a SETI-at-Home like movement in AI, the model landscape, and second order effects 02:55 - What Capability Limits Remain? 06:15 - What Mastery of Coding Agents Looks Like 11:16 - Second Order Effects of Coding Agents 15:51 - Why AutoResearch 22:45 - Relevant Skills in the AI Era 28:25 - Model Speciation 32:30 - Collaboration Surfaces for Humans and AI 37:28 - Analysis of Jobs Market Data 48:25 - Open vs. Closed Source Models 53:51 - Autonomous Robotics and Atoms 1:00:59 - MicroGPT and Agentic Education 1:05:40 - End Thoughts
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This could have been avoided.
Failure to insulate every home, end reliance on fossil fuels & decouple energy prices from gas left us exposed to energy shocks.
Now we must act:
Cap bill rises after June.
End fossil fuel addiction.
Lower bills, permanently.
Steven Swinford@Steven_Swinford
Energy prices will surge by £332 a year from July as the Iran war drives up the cost of oil and gas Cornwall Insight - which has a track record for accurately predicting prices - said that the energy price cap will rise from £1,641 between April and June to £1,973 from July It's up on its last prediction, when it forecast that bills would rise to £1,827. The longer the conflict goes on...
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I assume you also believe that a person who kills someone in a burglary that was committed as a "desperate last resort" should also be free from prosecution? And that you will assume from now on that every person will always act with "pure" intentions? Or does this only apply for demographics to which you apply some arbitary elevated status of victimhood? This is all logically ridiculous on so many levels.
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You can say “I think women who are denied an abortion and attempt one on their own as a desperate last resort should be charged with a crime and sent to jail”. You don’t need to lie and say “abortion up to birth had been legalised”. It hasn’t. Own what you believe.
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This kind of frothing hatred for women's freedom is just so out of touch with public opinion on abortion. MPs with even the tiniest liberal bone in their body need to have some courage and come out and defend our bodily autonomy, because at the moment Westminster is sounding like a house full of loons.
James McMurdock MP@JMcMurdockMP
I dont think being overly emotional is particularly helpful when it comes to matters of the law but for the first time since becoming an MP I am genuinely sad about what parliament has done. I am sad because I know what the consequences will be. I am sad because I know nervous first time parents might give way to doubt and opt out of parenthood and how the reality of that means they'll be denied the greatest gift life will ever give them and instead inherit a life of monstrous guilt. I am sad because, now, healthy babies will be destroyed. I am really sorry that the UK has legalised full term abortion. For what it's worth, I voted NO. I am going to squeeze my children a little tighter and thank the universe a little more than normal this morning. You cannot become unpregnant. You just become the parent of a child you killed. That is the reality of life. We must face it. My babies.
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