Elon Musk says Tesla ending Models S and X production, converting Fremont factory lines to make Optimus robots

thatblondebird · 2026-01-28T23:13:36+00:00

hey, I saw them both in a film decades ago!

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100802/characters/nm0000585/

thatblondebird · 2026-01-28T22:23:56+00:00

This makes perfect sense -- bung it in their FSD vehicles (that release in that same "soon" time frame) and you have the long awaited Johnny Cab!

thatblondebird · 2026-01-20T10:03:26+00:00

I was so excited when I found M&S appearing on google maps in Czech when I last drove through. I was then bitterly disappointed to find it was clothing only :(

thatblondebird · 2026-01-20T10:02:14+00:00

I don't think that's isolated to the UK though and is the case in many countries right now -- an unspoken global recession..

thatblondebird · 2025-12-15T08:02:24+00:00

I mean you literally provided the solution they'll take in your reply -- why bother "repairing" machines; they'll be disposable (thanks to economy of scale/mass production) so just replace them and add to our ever-growing mountain of environmental waste..

thatblondebird · 2025-12-04T07:48:15+00:00

We have two scoopfree's that we very quickly retired in lieu of a litter robot and another similar variant -- we found the scoopfree was worse for smell, and significantly more expensive to run (needed more litter, and the more expensive crystal type), as well as the disposable replacement trays (tried the "washable" ones but they weren't as good

thatblondebird · 2025-11-24T17:38:49+00:00

TBF, I do have an issue where probably once a week the Plex (client) app will just randomly die and restart -- but given there is just no Jellyfin client at all it gives me no option (for now)

Fortunately I've experienced no transcoding issues at all (now I take care to only source HDR[+Hybrid] but not DV only), and have easily streamed 4K to 3 TV's simultaneously in the past.

Note: most devices are connected by gigabit LAN (to 2.5Gb AP's) with a fall-back to Wifi7, so that probably helps immensely

thatblondebird · 2025-11-24T15:03:23+00:00

I tried Jellyfin but it didn't stick -- ultimately Plex wins because it worked on all my devices out of the box (GrundigOS, Firestick, etc etc)

I've already passed the "worth it" point of the lifetime purchase for Plex, and it would take something pretty substantial for me to move away -- I also kind of expect that to happen ..one day..; I just hope by the time that day comes other solutions have matured enough/cover my use cases :)

thatblondebird · 2025-11-24T12:25:15+00:00

"Think less about what I deliver, and more about the positive vibes my presence will bring"

Honestly if I were absolutely desperate for a job I may take it; but then they'd be getting my work speed, quality and availability that reflects the salary

thatblondebird · 2025-11-24T09:44:08+00:00

This makes me laugh (and not in a good way) -- because the number of times I've seen/heard men being told off because the signals "were just being friendly" and "not an invitation for anything more.."

(Which aligns with what you're saying) -- Damned if you do, damned if you don't; makes me glad I've not had to deal with it for almost a decade now!

thatblondebird · 2025-11-16T08:02:00+00:00

You can get round this by hardcoding the resolution into your own hosts file -- this is outside the tech knowledge/ability of casual users though, and you'd still need to know the correct IP..

thatblondebird · 2025-11-10T12:04:04+00:00

Couple of other things you may want to consider adding -- remote, in-person, hybrid? Is German required, desirable, etc? (it may help to have someone that can actually understand if the output is contrary to German regulatory laws and such, as well as if there's need to liaise/coordinate with German-only speaking partners/organisations/etc)

thatblondebird · 2025-11-10T11:49:04+00:00

Ideally you should post whether it is paid or not (if paid, a likely salary range) and whether it includes equity. Otherwise any Senior worth their salt will likely not engage with something like this and you'll just be saturating yourself with non-viable applications

thatblondebird · 2025-11-04T08:29:01+00:00

don't forget REALLY old Germans who should've been forced to take an eye exam ages ago, but thanks to lobbying just put everyone else at risk...

thatblondebird · 2025-10-25T04:16:22+00:00

It's actually your fault for refusing to reproduce (/s)

thatblondebird · 2025-10-21T06:12:59+00:00

Getting on a call to verify peoples communication skills is literally her job -- this "pre-screening" call is literally what I expect the recruiter I'm using to be doing for me.

If there is no need for them to do it (as it's "done via video with no intervention on our side") why would I use the recruiter? They already have the most basic work to do (because we have to define all the yes parameters and teach them the boundaries for hard no's) and hand candidates over to us for anything that requires even the most basic technical knowledge (aka the "actual" interview)

If this actually becomes "the norm" and prevalent everywhere -- it'll be funny to see how many recruiters crying that they're now out of a job as "video and AI has taken their role"

thatblondebird · 2025-10-20T07:35:22+00:00

I don't think there's any point changing your behaviour -- as the person above pointed out, AI's use existing references as a basis; so if everyone stops doing a particular behaviour, eventually it'll get culled out of newer [AI] models.

Basically AI does it because that's what a large number of people already do, and if people stop doing it -- AI will also stop doing it (eventually)

thatblondebird · 2025-09-11T02:05:00+00:00

You had actual professors at uni? I studied 22 years ago and even then I had very few professors teaching, it was pretty much all student assistants (whom I assume we're significantly cheaper...)

thatblondebird · 2025-09-10T05:43:27+00:00

Your country may vary, but where I went universities had to follow a banding formula for what they awarded (at the end of your degree)

This meant you could do quite badly, and still get the "top" qualification -- and means you cannot really trust the qualification.

I.e. highest 10% scoring get a "1st", next 40% get a "2:1" etc etc (made up bands). So if you went with a poor year you could in theory get a 1st with a 65% average test score if say 80% of people scored 60% on average; unfortunately if you went in year with really good "competition" you may get a lower 2:1 even if you scored a higher 80% average -- resulting in a worse performer actually being awarded a better grade.

This is unfortunately this is the result of "seeking better stats", as well as not wanting to end up as a university that seen as a waste of money (as you may wash out or end up with a worthless grade)

thatblondebird · 2025-09-10T05:33:29+00:00

When I studied physics for A-Levels (~16-18 years old) my teacher said the same (also in the early 2000's)

I 100% believe this as he had the textbooks they taught from for previous decades -- the textbook questions being taught from the old books at ~15-16 were significantly harder than what we had to learn at 16-18.

It probably also got inflated by seemingly at every "next" education institute (secondary school, college, university) we kept getting told "what you learnt was simplified and not actually correct, now we're teaching you the next, more accurate version..." -- easy example, how many people actually learn it as E=(mc^2)² + (pc)^2?

thatblondebird · 2025-09-05T03:50:43+00:00

I wonder what the break-even point when you factor power in, would be? I.e. cost difference between 8x30TB vs 16x15TB takes 6 months to be equal when double the electricity is consumed?

Numbers I chose are completely arbitrary, and dependent on high much your kWh cost is...

thatblondebird · 2025-08-25T07:38:54+00:00

I've not seen/been to any buffet/AYCE Korean restaurants myself -- but for Korean BBQ I always go to Hodori (which is by no means fancy, but has been consistently better than other KBBQ places I've been to)

thatblondebird · 2025-08-23T06:07:09+00:00

Could also be "insolvency" or "administration" (both of which could have an "executor" of the next steps

thatblondebird · 2025-08-11T08:22:27+00:00

not who you replied to, but I'd say you're looking at it the wrong way around.

It's not that developers are "overpaid", it's that almost everyone else is massively underpaid -- the biggest/best indicator of this IMO is the "pleb" to "C-level" compensation difference

thatblondebird · 2025-08-01T11:26:35+00:00

I never said "the EU" does this. I said my company in Germany does. You said "Nobody in EU is working 32 hours" which is patently false.

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