I figured but I couldn’t figure out what the connection between Black and drive-thru is. There’s no Uber in my country, we have Bolt and sturr.

Those are brands, not inventions. However, Otto, Benz and Diesel were all Germans, so modern cars along with both common types of ICEs were invented by Germans.

Do the white drivers not wanna go to drive thru or what

If it operates like an agency, it’s already at a disadvantage because the real profit is being made by someone else anyway. Otherwise it’s a neat idea.

You don’t hire an agency to break even, you hire an agency to work on projects you assume will bring you profit. In my industry in particular, you might hire some agency employees, spend a few hundred thousand a year, to help finish a product that will rake in tens of millions a year, or to create some internal tooling that saves you millions in employee productivity.

Okay, I was a bit wrong - they were not REALLY open source, but they had the whitepaper available, they published the dataset, and you could download the model itself, just not the source code. You can find it here

Right now it’s an instance of broken clock being right. OPENAi is a nonprofit. Its proceeds should go into further research and the models should be open sourced - like they used to be! Instead they want to milk it as much as possible quickly.

I’ve unfortunately become disillusioned with ableism. There are things I’ll never learn that some other people find easy and there are things I find easy that some others will never learn.

I deleted a 500 if not 1000 word stream of consciousness here, but the gist of what I was trying to get across is that unless you’re interested or naturally talented in something, you’ll never be good at it. Time and time again you’ll see someone with a lot of experience in their field who has no idea what they’re doing. It just doesn’t come naturally and no amount of perseverance will change that. You can certainly become mediocre, just not great.

I spent an hour or two per week for 9 years on drawing, same for singing. I’m no good at either, despite the fact that I was consistently getting practice. Diagnose and repair a car, even a modern one that a lot of old school mechanics would be afraid of? No problem and it’s not even what I do for a living.

I mean they also mentioned “knowing how to do as many different possible things as I can”, which to me sounds like a person who’s flexible and a fast learner. These are properties that can’t be taught, maybe not even learned with experience. And super valuable.

I thought this was pretty universally known in the US because I’m not from the US and never been further south than NYC when I did visit, but even I have seen it in some movie and immediately picked it up based on the tone and connect. I mean it was pretty much “he said something incredibly stupid” -> “oh bless his heart” between some southern grandmas

Might’ve been Big Mommas House, might’ve been something else entirely.

Some at least pretend to. “If we didn’t have to police the world, we could save so much on military spending, Europe should get its’ own shit together”

And while I as an European agree about the last part, I still think NATO is a beneficial alliance to everyone involved.

Otherwise we might as well hand him all of Europe on a silver platter.

And sadly I believe that a lot of Americans would prefer isolationism and are fine with this, as they’d get to cut military spending.

Of course, Europeans buy American goods and vice versa. If Russia ruled over all of Europe, Putin could just stop all trade with the US as a giant middle finger.

Yeah I’d much rather take that over any sexuality. It’s a much deeper insight into my personality than just “straight”.

His official title is commander-in-chief. The generals answer to him AFAIK.

I reckon that in all likelihood the Project 2025 folks will piss him off at some point and he’ll just throw a tantrum and refuse to work with them. Doesn’t mean he’ll suddenly turn into a leftist, but if he doesn’t play ball, they’ll have trouble getting anything passed.

It would help your point if you told us what these virtual spaces being bulldozed are.

Oh yeah, definitely.

German cars of the past are the epitome of “durability, not reliability”. Now they no longer have that durability, but have increased reliability in the first part of ownership I think.

My old E-class must’ve had like 700k km or more in reality (it’d been nicely adjusted to <400k km, but some modules showed higher mileage… hmmmmmm) and the engine still ran just fine, transmission shifted just fine… But the power steering failed, sunroof leaked and ruined the sunroof control module, and the parking sensors didn’t really work either… Oh and I had the dreaded injector seal issue multiple times.

Keeping up with maintenance goes a long way towards keeping most cars on the road (unless they’re BMWs, but that’s a whole other story).

Ironically, well maintained BMWs have significantly better durability than Hyundais of that era, just not reliability.

I see M57 engined BMWs doing 500k+ km all the time. ZF 6HP transmissions are pretty good too. Yet the BMW E60/E61 and similar era 3 and 7 series that had these engines and transmissions are considered very unreliable, because everything else around that super solid core breaks down every now and then. They last forever, they’ll just leave you stranded crying when some plastic pipe in the god damn cooling system breaks again.

Yeah, instead of “no one cares about what car you drive” it should be “you shouldn’t concern yourself with the opinion of anyone who cares about what car you drive”.

15yo Hyundai hatchback

surprisingly reliable

You’ve been lucky then. That I believe is in the era of Hyundai/Kia where they’d chew up replacement engines like crazy. But I guess it didn’t affect all engines.

Snow ball method’s great when you’re really up shit’s creek and aren’t going to be done paying everything off anytime soon anyway.

By paying off the smaller loans first, your total minimum monthly payment is reduced quicker, leaving you better off psychologically because you finally have money to spend on food, but also you can then use the extra money every month to pay off the debts with worse interest rates.

Personally I wouldn’t fully adhere his snowball method OR the optimal “high interest first” strategy. I’d first identify the low hanging fruit and then look at the rest as a tradeoff between “how quickly could I pay this off” vs “how much would not having this payment anymore improve my life” vs “how much is this going to fuck me in the ass with interest if I don’t pay it off ahead of schedule”.

Explains that one time I had a bottle of disgusting flavoured whiskey, let it sit half-empty for a few weeks or even months, and then it was actually pretty good