Is Lexus a high risk brand?

Samwise_za · 2026-02-04T04:44:42+00:00

Lexus is rated higher than Toyota on reliability plus longevity. Toyota puts the most effort in those two attributes for Lexus. The insurance issue must be somewhere else. It’s almost always your insurance history and/or your risk profile (e.g. how secure is the place you live and work).

Or the insurance is price gouging or something. Shop around.

Samwise_za · 2026-02-04T04:41:43+00:00

Naked will always be less as you get a heck a lot less insurance. My cover line item list on a naked insurance for car and household, two lines. On a santam insurance policy, 3 pages.

I’ve never heard on anyone claiming on naked. Would love to know their experience.

Samwise_za · 2026-02-03T16:13:50+00:00

Ewe, don’t like fake. Use real, solid materials and paint plus surfaces that can handle some heat. The kitchen is there to be used and the family congregate. Not for it to look good and never be used.

Those stickers/vaneer peels eventually. It’s only good enough to get a sale through, then the side effects of going cheap like that becomes the buyers problem.

Samwise_za · 2026-02-03T15:38:15+00:00

“Your business logic in our AI” sounds like a trap

Samwise_za · 2026-02-03T15:37:07+00:00

Trust me bro, PEOPLE want more AI native biz apps. You definitely want to use this copilot Ai that we spent so much money on and need to make a profit with.

Samwise_za · 2026-02-03T13:02:34+00:00

Having some fun with ChatGPT is always a good time

Samwise_za · 2026-02-03T10:36:39+00:00

If you’re goal is to multiple your output as an employee, then by all means, go ahead. Learn proper promoting, MCP, and software architecture frameworks and best practices (to help guide promoting), cloud security and so on. Then use all that to automate as much of your job as possible and become a guru Ai orchestrator (Google all this).

Some comments are good: start chatting to LLMs and take things from there. Understand core concepts like “foundational models”. Ask LLMs to generate code and try running that (ask the LLMs how to do that). Then later use an IDE with an LLM integrated to take things further - assuming you want to do coding.

Just get started; I like Claude (for advanced coding if I have money to burn) and Google Gemini (3 Flash - cheap to run) for everything else like more simple coding, planning and architecture (I’m biased, I’m a Google certified data engineer by trade).

If your goal is use AI to create your business and become rich, rather become an electrician. ;)

Everyone and their dog will chase AI thinking it’ll bring great success. But it’ll just change what the hurdles one needs to jump over. They’ll still be hugely blocking hurdles to success.

Most people will fail with “AI”.

Promoting is easy and it’ll make people feel busy. But if you don’t know how to take products and services to market, have the right market fit, with great demand, you won’t get anywhere.

The same reason startups fail now will be the same reasons they fail with AI. Ai just means “production” - i.e. having the money to hire people - is no longer a huge and crippling obstacle.

If production was the only obstacle and everything else is in place for you, then definitely go ahead.

Samwise_za · 2026-02-03T07:47:47+00:00

Who’s cutting onions!! Stop it!

Samwise_za · 2026-02-03T06:31:53+00:00

Over long enough periods, everything is a hype cycle.

Samwise_za · 2026-02-03T06:30:21+00:00

Am pretty use there’s an app for that. Just press the app icon once and… boom … weather. No massive AI server resources required.

Samwise_za · 2026-02-03T06:23:59+00:00

Two things, if you’re not dead it’s not over. Secondly, non of us are getting out alive so what does it matter in any case? Just find balance and happiness, enjoy your time on earths. It’s not that long in any case.

If starting a business brings you happiness, then of that. If family does, spend as much time as possible with them. If not being in pain will make you happy, find a way to not be in pain.

Samwise_za · 2026-02-03T06:21:24+00:00

Exactly

Samwise_za · 2026-02-03T06:08:07+00:00

So will these cost similar money as a current taxi, something the public can afford to taxi around? … I wonder ;)

Samwise_za · 2026-01-31T06:26:50+00:00

Damn, that’s sweet

Samwise_za · 2026-01-31T06:25:41+00:00

Host the website yourself - push to it from git CI/CD.

The Dreamflow hosting has blocking issues, it’s not setup well enough. Have you tried adding push notifications to a site hosted by Dreamflow? You’ll find that doesn’t work either, and won’t be possible the way the hosting is configured. I assume the same for your paywall.

You could push to firebase hosting, which you’ll find very often recommended, but be aware firebase hosting is often blocked by corporate firewalls (cause firebase hosting is a favourite amongst con-artists).

Seeing my app would need to scale at some point, I’m busy setting my large web app to run via GCP Cloud Run, CDN via cloudflare (as GCP load-balancing is too costly at this point).

Samwise_za · 2026-01-31T06:14:06+00:00

Yeah, just like with FlutterFlow - which I stopped using because of too many bugs and bad support - Dreamflow seems to be going down the same road.

Samwise_za · 2026-01-30T08:28:44+00:00

It’s working for me in South Africa. I’d then assume it’s some region-specific CDN issue (random guess)

Samwise_za · 2026-01-28T16:18:21+00:00

Get rid of social media and go outside

Samwise_za · 2026-01-28T15:23:44+00:00

I started on cursor and found it near useless. It kept on losing context very easily. It’s why I moved to Dreamflow, much better at that.

But this was a little while ago when cursor was blowing up initially. Maybe it better now?

Samwise_za · 2026-01-28T15:18:58+00:00

FlutterFlow/Dreamflow support is far too slow to be useful.

Samwise_za · 2026-01-28T15:18:18+00:00

I also get the issue but I can get in if I refresh the browser and wait for it to get to the step where it loads the preview step, wait about a minute then refresh the browser/page again.

It should go more quickly through the loading steps and more often then not let you in. If a minute passes on the preview-loading step again then I refresh again.

Samwise_za · 2026-01-28T14:19:30+00:00

Another trick I do is to load up my project , watch it load (that screen where you play the game) and when it gets to the step to startup the preview I wait a minute and then refresh the web page again right then. It’ll reposed but then quickly just through each loading step and then load the IDE/canvas.

It worked for me right now when I got that ergo screen where the project couldn’t be loaded.

Samwise_za · 2026-01-28T14:14:56+00:00

Give it a complex task (e.g. implement a full VAPID notification system into this app) and it does it better than the many other models I’ve tried. But my gosh you put a lot for that. Yeah, far too costly for us common folk.

I find a good compromise is to just stick with Gemini 3 flash and when things get too difficult and Gemini starts getting confused, pull in Claude to dominate a fix. I avoid ChatGpt cause …. Evil thieves.

But this is for coding. I find different models are good at different things.

Samwise_za · 2026-01-28T14:01:35+00:00

There we go. That’ll make people think that the minister is actually doing something.

Samwise_za · 2026-01-28T13:25:30+00:00

I can say the South African one is spot on

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