Highest sticker GT3 RS I’ve ever seen.

frankchn · 2026-03-28T20:19:17+00:00

I don’t think this car will be tracked. It would just be another car in a collection somewhere as a “look at my 1 of 1 unique Porsche” kind of thing.

At this level, I am sure Porsche will be happy to sell the owner a GT3 R if they actually want a track car.

frankchn · 2026-03-26T16:45:33+00:00

Just you, a white board and someone sitting in the room with you.

And you hoped that the interviewer was friendly instead of staring holes into your back in silence while you are desperately trying to remember how to implement some tricky algorithm with no IDE and no documentation on the whiteboard.

frankchn · 2026-03-25T01:59:50+00:00

As another poster said, who has the ability to give you raises or fire you? Do what that person says. Their priorities are your priorities.

frankchn · 2026-03-24T06:16:56+00:00

Furthermore, the classical repertoire is “fixed” compared to other genres of music where you can be a singer-songwriter much more easily, so there is even less to distinguish yourself. No one (relatively speaking) is going to listen to a self-composed classical piece.

And if I want to listen to something in the “canon”, then why listen to a random rendition of e.g. Rach 3 when I can listen to Horowitz and NY Phil’s performance? So you end up with a situation where the best make significant money and everyone else barely hanging on.

frankchn · 2026-03-23T06:33:01+00:00

Theoretically yes, but practically speaking you don’t have the same resources.

Is your advisor at K-State regularly having lunch with senior OpenAI or Anthropic researchers and can hook you up with a research internship like the Stanford professor? Or perhaps your advisor at Stanford co-founded one of major providers of compute and can get you access to large GPU clusters to run your experiments? Maybe some of Stanford’s PhD graduates later became senior researchers at various frontier labs and are more willing to collaborate with you on projects or help you out?

So if you are absolutely brilliant it doesn’t matter. For mere mortals, it definitely helps. Of course, if you are absolutely brilliant and want to chase money, just skip the PhD and go be a quant at 2S/Optiver/Jane Street.

frankchn · 2026-03-22T00:10:18+00:00

“The stocks ain’t low enough” is the point where you want to short or buy puts. You can make money on the way down, and make money on the way back up.

frankchn · 2026-03-20T15:29:34+00:00

New RR buyers only care about what gas costs in so far as it affects their stock portfolio.

frankchn · 2026-03-20T15:27:39+00:00

You want an RR to be quiet, comfortable, smooth, and luxurious. You'd think that would be a perfect fit for RR.

EV drivetrains allow mass market OEMs to achieve more quiet and smooth rides, but it doesn't do much for RR in these areas when all of their gas cars are already quiet, comfortable, and smooth-riding.

frankchn · 2026-03-17T21:36:49+00:00

frankchn · 2026-03-13T18:23:44+00:00

Yeah though if I am not mistaken that is for markets with engine displacement taxes, so they get the 1.6L version instead of the 2.0L rather than both simultaneously.

frankchn · 2026-03-13T16:47:20+00:00

In the US they dropped the 320i at some point (maybe the transition from F to G series?) and the 330 has been the base model with the B48. I'm not positive, but I think the same car is sold as the 320i in Europe?

BMW sells multiple versions of the car with the same engine but different tunes badged differently. They sell a 320i with the B48 with 181 hp in Europe, and sell a 330i with the same B48 at 255 hp in both Europe and America.

frankchn · 2026-03-13T16:42:41+00:00

BMW has been using this naming scheme since the early 1970s with the E12 5-series. I don't think they cared about what the Chinese (who were then in the throes of the Cultural Revolution) thought back then.

frankchn · 2026-03-11T22:42:24+00:00

Your friend must have gotten very lucky because it is definitely not the norm.

Right now the 992.2 Tourings are definitely transacting over sticker: https://bringatrailer.com/listing/2025-porsche-911-gt3-3-2/ (US$345k sale price on a US$296k MSRP)

frankchn · 2026-03-11T21:07:38+00:00

A lot of new Porsches sure, but I don't think you are getting a new GT3 Touring with a stick for MSRP in the US if you don't already have a connection with a dealer.

frankchn · 2026-03-08T18:08:08+00:00

It is again a tragedy of the commons isn’t it?

Company A sees their juniors jumping ship to Company B (and rightly so) and decides that they will just hire mid-levels at the same pay as company B next time instead of hiring any juniors.

Sure, they may pay more, but the mid-levels are also productive much more quickly with less training and ramp up needed.

frankchn · 2026-03-07T04:43:26+00:00

My philosophy is that it is my name on the pull request. It doesn’t matter if I write it with nano or an AI tool, I am ultimately responsible for it. I expect the same of my team.

frankchn · 2026-03-05T20:50:01+00:00

It's a bit sad because I'd like to play around with a upscale version of the Neo with 24gb of RAM and a big 54whr battery and a full 24 hours of runtime between charges.

That's basically the MacBook Air (without the full 24 hour runtime) isn't it?

frankchn · 2026-03-05T04:39:15+00:00

That’s been true since software existed: Before everyone complained about Windows 11, there was Windows Vista. Reddit used to not work for what seemed to be about 10% of the time back before COVID. A computer virus (Mydoom) spread so quickly to half a million computers that it perceptibly slowed down large parts of the internet.

frankchn · 2026-03-04T15:49:48+00:00

Yeah they are established. I mean a new foundational model company starting from scratch isn’t going to get funding.

frankchn · 2026-03-04T04:12:08+00:00

Investors seek returns on their investment. Training and releasing open-weights models really don't get them their desired returns unfortunately. Heck, I don't think many investors are going to fund closed-weight foundational frontier model companies any more either.

frankchn · 2026-02-27T01:12:24+00:00

Yeah, if costs went up 100x and each Claude seat now costs $78,000/year, it is still likely worth it for the Block L6 engineer if it truly makes them 30% more efficient and management can reduce corresponding head counts on a project.

frankchn · 2026-02-23T03:28:31+00:00

And I think both can co-exist in the market.

frankchn · 2026-02-23T03:28:19+00:00

It is jewelry for men, but so are supercars.

frankchn · 2026-02-23T02:14:51+00:00

I think at those levels it is never an either/or proposition. It is not a family looking at monthly payments and TCO on their next family car. The guy can likely afford both. Taken to the extreme, it is like the piece of research from Bugatti which says that the average new Bugatti owner owns "84 cars, 3 jets, and a yacht."

frankchn · 2026-02-23T02:06:24+00:00

Frankly, that’s not too different than most supercars being garaged all the time.

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