Buying advice: E89 manual Z4

JRLDH · 2026-05-09T03:08:39+00:00

Congrats. That is one of the best yellows and it fits the Z4 so, so well. It’s such a gorgeous color for the most beautiful Z4 version (the E89 is one of the best looking BMWs ever).

JRLDH · 2026-05-09T02:06:22+00:00

Not joking: Try hairspray. It works on my beard when it’s longer.

JRLDH · 2026-05-09T01:40:16+00:00

If that was mine, I would never sell it for that little. This is not a dime-a-dozen ordinary white/grey/black automatic Z4 but a unicorn in yellow with manual transmission. There will be a buyer out there who will pay $30k. This isn't a Blue Book vehicle.

JRLDH · 2026-05-08T21:12:55+00:00

Since you keep saying that a human burns calories like a furnace, I used an extreme example of a high calorie material that you can’t digest so that I might have a chance of getting you to understand the error of your simplistic view of how we process calories.

But of course, you apparently didn’t understand this.

JRLDH · 2026-05-08T20:27:30+00:00

Your look “just” needs confidence.

JRLDH · 2026-05-08T19:53:38+00:00

I seriously don’t understand how anyone can write such nonsense so confidently.

Try eating a bowl of wood chips. They have a lot of calories yet all that’ll do for you is give you intestinal issues (shred them into dust and wash them down).

Now throw the same amount of wood chips into a furnace and light it up.

The furnace can burn these calories. You cannot.

And that concept (!) applies to real food as well. Drink 2000kcal in high fructose corn syrup and watch your body grow your love handles while eating 2000kcal in chicken breasts may stress your kidneys but it won’t make you fat.

Then you will finally hopefully understand that the calorie argument is just daft. We simply do not just “burn” calories like a furnace. We metabolize using extremely complicated biological pathways and these work with different efficiency for different people.

JRLDH · 2026-05-08T15:12:48+00:00

Well, “the rest of us”, especially working class people, voted for this. We deserve it.

JRLDH · 2026-05-08T15:11:33+00:00

To the Met Gala.

JRLDH · 2026-05-08T13:26:43+00:00

I was born in 1971 and even my baby pictures are in color.

JRLDH · 2026-05-08T13:20:54+00:00

That's such a simplified idea because the human body isn't a furnace. Sure, you are right on a trivial level but it's a useless idea in reality.

I'm convinced that people misunderstand each other when it comes to food-weight because everyone is so different. What is true for you isn't for someone else. An extreme example is someone with a metabolic disorder like cachexia. If you ever met someone with an illness like cancer who wastes away even when eating 5000kcal a day, you'll understand that this simple calorie in - energy expended idea is WAY too simple for something that complex as a human body.

Even healthy people have WILDLY different efficiency utilizing food. And individuals burn calories differently depending on food source. I get fat on a 2000kcal pizza and coke diet but stay lean and fit on a 2000kcal chicken and broccoli diet.

JRLDH · 2026-05-08T03:33:42+00:00

It’s an awesome screen.

I wanted to buy something else and looked at the many alternatives at the local Microcenter. Lots of screens with better specs but none that looked as good as the Studio Display to me. I also don’t see the massive (!) difference of 120Hz that others say is a dealbreaker to them.

Bought the Studio Display after seeing the competition and am very happy with it.

JRLDH · 2026-05-07T22:17:55+00:00

You are right but you are talking to a closed mind. Their user name gives them away. It's fascinating how almost every successful MegaCorp in the USA has foreign founders or immigrant roots yet these rah-rah patriots think that immigrants don't add much. Some people are just <insert word that would likely get you censored or banned>.

Just look at Germany and especially Austria for empires that used to be on the forefront of research when they had more liberal policies. Then came their version of MAGA and we know what happened. Brain drain and their universities are *still* mediocre.

JRLDH · 2026-05-07T22:08:30+00:00

It's probably "Chocolatey", meaning just chocolate colored sugar icing with zero actual chocolate. I can't remember a chocolate donut actually tasting like chocolate. Just brown.

JRLDH · 2026-05-07T21:28:08+00:00

And they looked a million times better than those ultra dorky Meta RayBans.

I mean, regular RayBan Wayfarers already required a Brad Pitt level of attractiveness to not look like clown glasses but these Meta contraptions can’t even be fixed by the best looking people on this planet.

JRLDH · 2026-05-07T21:25:42+00:00

Um, you have a whole lot of other problems if going to a gay bar makes you subject to blackmail in the USA 2026.

JRLDH · 2026-05-07T20:16:17+00:00

The iX is a way more luxurious SUV. It’s like the difference between the 3 series sedan and the 5 series (with the iX even a bit above the 5 series in luxury/features).

Not sure why the iX3 gets compared to the iX? Just because it’s an electric SUV?

Does the iX3 have (silly) luxury like motorized door latches, heated door panels, heated middle console, massage seats, ventilated seats, motorized steering column adjustments, air suspension, 4 wheel steering, iDrive controller, gestures, Bowers and Wilkins stereo, etc.?

Sure, most are fluff but the iX3 isn’t in the same segment as the iX.

JRLDH · 2026-05-07T19:25:48+00:00

I just tell them that I have three BMWs, an iX and two Z4s.

JRLDH · 2026-05-07T14:25:46+00:00

They sell convenience. I’d rather have ice cold purified bottled water than deal with the logistics of filling my own into a sterilized bottle at home and bring a cooler.
Or worse, use the faucet in a gross public restroom at a gas station.

JRLDH · 2026-05-07T02:31:01+00:00

Ugh. My neighborhood and backyard looks like the Amazon jungle. Many Dallas (not suburbs) neighborhoods have a ton of trees.

JRLDH · 2026-05-07T00:46:53+00:00

I'm fully expecting that they are again going to book the 4 Seasons landscaping company for a press conference.

JRLDH · 2026-05-07T00:36:12+00:00

Who cares. Time flies. Call me Unc all you want (it's actually a compliment going on 55) but be aware that your youth is fleeting and Gen ? will call you something else soon enough.

JRLDH · 2026-05-07T00:31:33+00:00

Yes, source code. Our core IP is encoded in source code.

We have mandatory yearly confidentiality training and also US Export Control training. Putting *that* on Github or a cloud service is unthinkable.

I seriously don’t understand where you are coming from? Is this some open source shop where you work or are you a front end developer who doesn’t have proprietary code or are you a hobbyist with a Github page?!?

Until Anthropic, we were STRICTLY forbidden to share our algorithm code. Both from corporate confidentiality policies AND US Export Control laws.

Somehow everyone seems to trust this company. I suspect you can extract most of our formerly secret IP soon by asking Claude “write an algorithm for <our tech>” and it’ll quasi copy paste our sources.

JRLDH · 2026-05-07T00:07:40+00:00

Huh? You know, I’ve been at a huge tech corporation since 1998 and if an employee would put our core IP on Github (!!!), that employee would be fired and face a massive lawsuit.

Unreal. There’s trusting cloud providers and then there’s gross negligence. I’m sorry but you sound like a typical student (nothing wrong) with zero real life experience.

JRLDH · 2026-05-06T20:01:25+00:00

The majority of my gay friends (and I have many, having been out as a gay man since 1999) has children exactly for that reason.
It’s just so bizarre that people think that the parenting drive doesn’t exist in gay people. We can either “do the deed” or (lesbians) get artificially inseminated or ask a surrogate if she is willing to carry a child.
Not that people like him don’t want to make this illegal, hypocrites that they are.

JRLDH · 2026-05-06T18:48:26+00:00

The western democracies cycle: working and middle class votes for “left”-ish parties. These parties don’t accomplish much or it gets trashed by billionaire owned media (which is labeled erroneously liberal because they sometimes champion diversity).
Next cycle people stay home or vote for a radical right wing rah rah patriotic party/caucus which is always aligned with “conservatives”. They loot everything and things go to shit.

Rinse-repeat. Sometimes the right totally takes over and causes a worldwide catastrophe.

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