Everything posted by Gravy Train
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Tesla
Autopilot on HW3? That scenario is even worse and will let you run a redlight unless you're familiar with its limitations.
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Tesla
About that FSD... C'mon Elon, nobody forced you to choose LIDAR against camera sensors. Just tell us your cars are cheap.
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Русский корабль - иди нахуй
Not sure how this intel surfaced, but it was quickly walked back https://www.kyivpost.com/post/48299 Kyiv Dismisses Reports of China Seeking ‘Combat Experience’ in Ukraine https://united24media.com/latest-news/reports-suggest-china-may-seek-combat-experience-in-occupied-ukraine-following-north-koreas-lead-6440
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The Cloud Engineering Thread of Dominance
Microsoft is selling Databricks as an Azure service, so if you have a MARC commit for your tenant, this might be a better path to allocate the spend. If you're not quite there yet, but also running a Microsoft shop, you'll have to get used to their Fabric SKUs now for Azure SQL and PowerBI. Their legacy pricing models can no longer be written into new EAs.
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Dallas traffic lawyer?
I've had good luck with Berlof & Newton: https://dallasattorney.com/
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Русский корабль - иди нахуй
That battlefield looks entirely different because it's one for the poors and calculated risk. Both sides have too much to lose by engaging air assets; one side goes extinct if its kill ratio drops below 4:1, while the other is sending gokarts and goats into battle. If this theater opened to all of our shit on a conventional stage, it would be over with in mere hours. I don't understand any motive to Putin's kotowing. Russia doesn't have shit and one commander-in-chief just sidelined our entire military industrial complex. This won't last through his term. He won't last through it, either.
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DOGE: America Fucking Around
I started with EasyOptOuts for a year, then switched to Optery, using their premium service, almost at the one-year mark with them too. I didn't feel great about it either, but gave them my PII to scrape and also a copy of my Driver's License, assigning them power of attorney for opt-out requests. Their automations are nice and pulled me out of some of the B2B data brokers as well.
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Trump’s America
Taking care of Trump's job for him, CIA leadership is now discussing the potential risk of disgruntled ex-employees who might take info to a foreign intel service.
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The New Car Fanatic Thread
Buy a preowned EV unless you're leasing. Far more value on a steep depreciation curve. I wouldn't dare pay for FSD on a newer Tesla, let alone trust it for much of my driving. Porsche Taycan and Audi eTron GT are comparable offerings from the Germans with better driving dynamics, materials, fit/finish; they both introduced a refresh for 2025 with improved range. The Porsche Macan is now EV as well, and it looks more car-like in this iteration. Lucid Air is a fantastic value on the second hand market.
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DOGE: America Fucking Around
You should always have your credit file locked with the three credit bureaus. And you have to do so directly, but the National Public Data breach has likely already distributed your SSN and PII to the dark web. Our distrust of these bureaus was justified with the Equifax breach of 2017, and the lack of our inept Congress to enact harsher penalties or any form of Federal Data Privacy legislation. Since Congress willfully allows the private sector to market our data for-profilt, I also suggest maintaining the top-level feature set of Optery or DeleteMe, to let their automation keep your E-mail, phone number, and mailing address out of these databrokers. The least-expensive and hands-off service is EasyOptOuts, as a $20 annual subscription.
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Trump’s America
"Dark Gothic MAGA" by Blonde Politics? Yeah, I just watched that. It's a bit much to process and nothing that I can anticipate will be implemented in Trump's lifespan, but if the vision of these Tech Libertarians comes to light, the retard-right and the moderate-right will realize MAGA is a lie. There aren't enough racist-rights yet to make a shit.
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Ukraine War
https://www.thetimes.com/world/europe/article/russia-elon-musk-list-names-dissidents-usaid-s798gktd7
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All Encompassing Mortgage and Real Estate Thread
https://www.wsj.com/economy/housing/housing-market-delisting-home-sales-1afd45aa?st=xKsafn&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink Nationwide averages are now at 5-months of supply and everyone who delisted during the winter months will try to test the market again in the spring. Additional inventory is the only mechanism on the horizon to push pricing while rates remain high. Buyers will continue to sit on the sidelines with high rates and a weak labor market.
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All Encompassing Mortgage and Real Estate Thread
Everyone (who's not a cash buyer) seems fucked for the rest of the year. I'm still on the fence over building vs buying and want to see if we get a glut of inventory in the spring to influence price action.
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Русский корабль - иди нахуй
From the VZ interview article I posted above, the real concern is any sort of negotiated ceasefire will eventually lead to more sham elections for Putin to install his puppets: https://www.economist.com/europe/2025/02/12/transcript-an-interview-with-volodymyr-zelensky
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Русский корабль - иди нахуй
Zelenskyy knows how the options play out and that any "talks" Trump hosts will go nowhere. He's hosting these conversations in attempt to accomplish a campaign statement and doesn't care about supporting Europe. https://www.economist.com/europe/2025/02/12/transcript-an-interview-with-volodymyr-zelensky
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The New Car Fanatic Thread
I want to do that stuff but feel like the tracks are too far away to beat up my own car. BTW, is that your G87 or the instructor's? I'm gonna post some some relevent BMW content later.
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Concerts you are attending
"Daft Punk is playing at my house, my house" "You got to set them up" (repeat 30x) Fuck that song. 'Home' is kinda cool tho.
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Concerts you are attending
I'll be at that Red Rocks show also. Thursday night; I almost forgot he has two days at the venue. April 23: Rufus du Sol in Dallas April 24: Fontaines D.C. in Dallas May 11: Beach House at The Factory in StL May 14: Toro y Moi & Panda Bear at HoB Dallas May 29: Lord Huron at Red Rocks
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Trump’s America
I've got your backup. 6 x 16TB spindles in action hosting a library that's mostly sourced in HEVC. With football season coming to an end and hockey on a free streaming app, I'm not sure why I have a TV subscription now.
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Things not going well for Facebook
Meta would still monetize that by datamining your wearing experience and geolocation. At least I'm getting old enough to [happily] realize I'm not the market for those wearables, nor the 'metaverse.' Touch grass, nerds.
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Русский корабль - иди нахуй
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Yet another Texas-based databroker in your pockets-- this one for driving telematics
While the DOJ's slow grind is working on RealPage and six multi-state landlords, Ken Paxton is pursuing Allstate and Arity, a databroker incubated under Allstate, to collect, model, and resell driving data of Americans, collecting "trillions of miles" on consumers and often reselling those data profiles to other insurers. It's widely understood that the largest insurers push their on-board telematics trackers as a means for discounting raising premiums based on "safe driving habits," but in this case, Arity was buying telematics data from third-party apps installed on consumers' smartphones and vehicles. Known apps which Arity buys data from includes Fuel Rewards, Life360, GasBuddy, MyRadar, Routely, and some SiriusXM devices. Allstate also bought this data directly from automakers, including Stellantis, Toyota, Lexus, and Mazda. https://www.edmunds.com/car-news/report-finds-apps-are-selling-your-driving-data-to-insurance-companies.html
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Where Should I Retire...?
Sounds like I should pick your brain over the few neighborhoods I've been targeting in FoCo. I thought Portugal's visa system was among the easiest to get into the EU, but are Spain's or Italy's improving beyond their 'digital nomad' programs?
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WWE Semifinals
This play completely changed the outcome of the game, had it been called correctly.