I would laugh too if this wasn’t going to be a major influence on US policy towards Ukraine in the coming months.

https://github.com/007revad/Synology_HDD_db

Just saying.

Technically correct. If Ukraine folded to Russian aggression, there would be no war. Just Russian tanks peacefully visiting Europe like it was 1964.

Which is why I’ll close with: Slava Ukraini!

PS: looking purely at impact of military investments (albeit in a foreign military) Joe Biden might be the American leader that managed to inflict the largest Russian military losses since the second World War, at the cost of practically 0 American lives.

Nobody “made” money here . Ask yourself: who was on the other side of the bet? Pension funds? Retail investors? Insurance companies?

This was a brazen act of highway robbery. There’s a reason SEC is supposed to pursue insider trading. Once the trust in the system is lost, the whole thing folds like a wet deck of cards. Supposed to, but they won’t do a damn thing about this.

You can’t park this at the door of a single individual. This is systemic grift. Fuck the party of law and order.

But… the swamp…

Proceeds to elect Darth Shreck for a second term.

Long long piiiiig.

Please insert face in designated slot; the next available leopard will feast on it momentarily.

I’m in full on rant mode, who has time to edit :>

I know what frunk stands from: funky trunk, given the smell. And I had premium connectivity included, doesn’t do squat unless you use Spotify, which no thanks (for different reasons). I have carefully curated “car music” on an USB drive, but noo. Search will only return Spotify results.

Painted wall? That’s high tech shit.

I got a Tesla from my work before Elon went full Reich 3, and try this:

• break on bridge shadows on the highway
• start wipers on shadows, but not on rain
• break on cars parked on the roadside if there’s a bend in the road
• disengage autopilot and break when driving towards the sun
• change set speed at highway crossings because fuck the guy behind me, right?
• engage emergency break if a bike waits to cross at the side of the road

To which I’ll add:

• moldy frunk (short for fucking trunk, I guess?), no ventilation whatsoever, water comes in, water stays in
• pay attention noises for fuck-all reasons masking my podcasts and forcing me to rewind
• the fucking cabin camera nanny - which I admittedly disabled with some chewing gum
• the worst mp3 player known to man, the original Winamp was light years ahead - won’t index, won’t search, will reload USB and lose its place with almost every car start
• bonkers UI with no integration with Android or Apple - I’m playing podcasts via low rate Bluetooth codecs, at least it doesn’t matter much for voice
• unusable airco in auto mode, insists on blowing cold air in your face

Say what you want about European cars, at least they got usability and integration right. As did most of the auto industry. Fuck Tesla, never again. Bunch of Steve Jobs wannabes.

I think you nailed it. In the grand scheme of things, critical thinking is always required.

The problem is that, when it comes to LLMs, people seem to use magical thinking instead. I’m not an artist, so I oohd and aahd at some of the AI art I got to see, especially in the early days, when we weren’t flooded with all this AI slop. But when I saw the coding shit it spewed? Thanks, I’ll pass.

The only legit use of AI in my field that I know of is an unit test generator, where tests were measured for stability and code coverage increase before being submitted to dev approval. But actual non-trivial production grade code? Hell no.

A 100% accurate AI would be useful. A 99.999% accurate AI is in fact useless, because of the damage that one miss might do.

It’s like the French say: Add one drop of wine in a barrel of sewage and you get sewage. Add one drop of sewage in a barrel of wine and you get sewage.

PiHole

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