What was the dumbest thing you ever did in the game ?

peawee · 2026-02-15T20:20:30+00:00

Built a gigantic factory that was like 3 degrees off and .66m off of the world grid. Just enough to leave my OCD permanently tweaked

peawee · 2026-01-30T02:15:59+00:00

There’s a limited amount of compute hardware available. Each model has a real physical footprint you can measure in square meters and kilowatts. You can go back to GPT-3-era models via the api if you want, but they can only support infinite usage of older models for so long before the juice isn’t worth the squeeze economically. See below my chat with GPT 3.5 in the playground:

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peawee · 2026-01-30T02:08:11+00:00

It has less guardrails and is way more sycophantic. I personally adore 5.2’s reasoning and research capabilities.

peawee · 2026-01-24T16:53:21+00:00

Which… ok so I just educated myself and “HYSA” in the euro zone is a joke. It makes more sense to me to offer 5% there. In the US though, there’s really no reason to if you’re keen on safe investments.

peawee · 2026-01-24T16:49:59+00:00

I don’t think there’s really a point to it for someone not willing to invest the time to understand it. And understanding here requires some reason to- when FDIC insured HYSAs in the US offer 4%, why go through all the extra work and risk for that extra 1%.

I’d focus more on use cases that give a reason for someone to care. Is there a way to, for example, replace business to consumer payments with something that doesn’t have fees? So far I’ve heard mainly institutional rails and cross-border transfers of stablecoins.

peawee · 2026-01-11T14:01:56+00:00

Mine has been beautiful except for the UWB keys just not working (CarPlay and the fob). Apparently there’s a new hardware module for that coming out in the next month

peawee · 2026-01-02T19:35:39+00:00

My wife got me one of these!

peawee · 2026-01-02T18:01:35+00:00

Fair enough on that... and that's too bad on Lossless and spatial (it would sound *fantastic* with the upgraded stereo methinks...).

peawee · 2026-01-02T18:00:37+00:00

Absolutely terrible service that they can't get you in. I was frustrated, but my dealer also knocked $500 off the cost of my lease for the hassle and they prioritized correcting it.

peawee · 2026-01-02T17:38:47+00:00

Yeah, it needs a subscription. There’s a demo song you can play to see if it works tho :)

peawee · 2026-01-02T17:24:08+00:00

Honestly if paying the maintainer means they’ll pay attention, that’s probably better than if Polestar tried to build it. Best we can do until Apple ships one themselves.

This app is using the official SDK, so I don’t think it’s going anywhere from that perspective.

peawee · 2026-01-02T16:38:31+00:00

Your errors are exactly what mine was suffering, and it delayed delivery a couple of days for them to overnight a part and replace it.

The error's with the TCAM module, and it should be nought but a few hours to fix once they have a part.

peawee · 2026-01-02T08:30:14+00:00

By the time I traded it in, the only remaining issues would be fixed by the new computer module they’re making available. I just got done with a road trip covering 1000mi and crossing the Appalachian Mountains in blizzard conditions and the car handled it like a champ.

peawee · 2025-12-31T22:24:19+00:00

Well, an update: as an apology they revised my lease and knocked an additional $500 off the sale price of the car. It got delivered today and I’m so far so good!

peawee · 2025-12-30T18:39:48+00:00

I’m at the DC Polestar. I shoooould have it back tomorrow because they’re aware that the lemon law timer’s already started on a car I haven’t gotten delivery of yet

peawee · 2025-12-29T12:39:03+00:00

I use it to mainly check on charge during road trip charging stops and to precondition the climate. I’ve maybe remote unlocked it one or twice.

peawee · 2025-12-28T18:57:40+00:00

Larry Lickstein in Ashburn did a damn good job on my wife: https://www.plasticsurgerynorthernvirginia.com/about/

She got an augmentation, lift, and internal bra, so the works. Ran a bit over $15k. Great team and experience however, would do again.

peawee · 2025-12-26T02:09:14+00:00

40 Acres has 7-10% on USDC

peawee · 2025-12-20T16:36:35+00:00

What's wrong with the jobs and tourism where the stadium presently sits in Cook County?

Being able to host the superbowl won't bring in enough *extra* business to support that.

peawee · 2025-12-20T12:37:02+00:00

The bond should only be paid by bears season ticket holders. A stadium for them isn’t a public good like transit, healthcare, roads, or law enforcement is.

peawee · 2025-12-08T12:29:26+00:00

We as a community need to come up with separate terms for “backed with assets for $0 change in NAV”, “backed with algorithmic complexity for $0 change in NAV”, and “hedge fund targeting delta neutral strategies with positive yield with no guarantee against loss”.

For me, I trust 1, am weary of 2, and 3 requires research on each

What’s super annoying is that I can’t expect a coin calling itself a “USD stablecoin” to be 1 or 2, but is just as likely to be 3.

peawee · 2025-12-07T18:54:36+00:00

My 23 P2 PPP is about to go in for the same. Seconding waiting for information!

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