slau

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Freelance cloud consultant. I have a background in telecoms, security, and databases. https://unticks.com
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Comment · 21 hours ago
I’m not touching any of that stock, most likely ever.

There’s so much money that has been poured into this, with absolutely no revenue to justify it. Trillions of investments generating billions of losses.

Now they’re looking for retail and retirement funds to pay off the debt.

This is not to say that no one will make a profit; I’m sure some people are _very_ happy.

Comment · 21 hours ago
We’ve seen a similar drop in spend. 3-5x less for entire teams comparing September and October.

It’s not clear whether people are being more careful, or if the price per effort is in free fall.

Comment · 9 days ago
Not OP, but could it be they refer to FSD?

There’s also DOGE and all the related stock manipulation that happened, the tweet promising funding to take TSLA private which obviously made people buy the stock, the ru[n|i]ning of Twitter for political gain, the creation of teams in Tesla to convince owners not to come investigate battery/range issues under warranty, etc.

Probably not quite to Theranos levels, but I can see the pattern.

Comment · 13 days ago
“I watched an unrelated YouTube video therefore I’m not convinced this movie is good” sure is a paradoxical level of judging a book by its cover.

I assume what you meant is that having heard about the person the movie focuses on, you have no interest in seeing more about her. Having felt entirely apathetic about Holmes since the early days of the Theranos scam, I can’t say I disagree with you.

Comment · 14 days ago
Most European brands I've tried only lock the cars when the speed exceeds 20 km/h.

In addition, most brands I'm aware of will unlock the car when the airbags are deployed (Kia/Hyundai, Renault, Volkswagen, Mercedes, BMW). Because these cars still have door handles, they can be opened by a bystander after a crash.

The issue is not that the doors are locked. The issue is that unlocked doors without door handles are still useless.

Comment · 18 days ago
While I don’t know anyone who at this point challenges the idea that LLLMs will have no lasting impact on the industry, what I struggle with is the handwaving and the zealotry.

Can an agentic harness be used somewhat successfully? Yes, undoubtably so. Do agents still come up with absolutely bonkers solutions on a regular basis? Also yes.

The problem, again and again, is the way that humans evaluate intelligence. When you’ve asserted that someone is reasonably smart, it will take you a very significant amount of proof of the contrary to change that opinion.

What we need, for LLMs to become reliable intellectual partners, is a way for them to convey lack of certainty. This is, by the way, also the same thing that many of the LLM-luddites want of the LLM-zealots.

Comment · 1 month ago
I actually think this is brilliant. Let the scanner IP get access to the most unpatched Wordpress, maybe even generate some garbage ERP numbers.

Once the asset scanner detects the vulns, everyone will kick into high gear to patch this.

Comment · 1 month ago
It’s practical to see battery level so I can optimise the electricity price at which I charge it.

Although it wasn’t worth the cost of the 3 year subscription so I now just estimate the charge status based on the charge’s power consumption.

If the car is at 10% battery, it may be worth charging at .15 or .3€/kWh. If it’s at 70% charge, I’ll wait until the price drops to .005€/kWh. The whole thing is automated in HA.

Comment · 1 month ago
I believe he actually addresses that in his video. He mentions that 240V ones typically include resistive elements in case they’re needed IIRC.
Comment · 1 month ago
Comment · 2 months ago
The only thing attracting me to KOReader for my PocketBook is OPDS. The few presentations I've seen show a UI so bloated (as in, the main view for reading pages crammed full of widgets on the bottom of the screen to display wifi signal, battery percentages, and progression counters) that it makes me wonder why some people use an ereader at all.

If my PocketBook had OPDS out of the box it would be the perfect device. What has your experience been? Why are you using KOReader?

Comment · 2 months ago
Comment · 2 months ago
Thanks. I appreciate you making the effort. This was kind of the response I expected. Not sure what happened in the other thread.
Comment · 3 months ago
Ittenbari in Akasaka was an absolute revelation as to what ramen can be.

Tabutchan in Osaka was the confirmation that it is the most delightful form of food invented by mankind.

Comment · 3 months ago
Je peux aussi te répondre en Français, mais je ne vois pas du tout le rapport avec la discussion.

Have you actually seen the image I'm talking about? This is the one: https://firemapsspain.online/og-image-v3.jpg

It shows a straight line across all of France, which appears to be a 100km wide line of fire. Considering my family, in France, had to be evacuated, I have friends who lost absolutely everything, yes, I get annoyed when people use AI slop that doesn't care about accuracy.

Especially coming from a website that tries to improve information about wildfires! I never commented on the content of the app. I just said it's odd that the image in question shows France burning, but Portugal is shown empty of any wildfires.

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