Jesse Riley

entre-manure : hand wavey bullshit from people running a company with no clue.

so what if @elonmusk takes over nvidia as CEO and ...makes @JensenHuang CEO of spacex or tesla or whatever?

Automotive type people -- I'm up to 3 engines I've stripped in various levels this year... (ford 5.4, 5.0, jeep 4.0) what engine should I dig into next? A 1960s (65?) Jag 4.2 I6 that's going into a 62 Jag Mk2 (fight me). It's on a pallet, needs married up to a manual and put in the car along with everything else. Oh and of course, I have upgrades to go with it (oil pump, intake trumpets, I have no idea what I'm doing) A 2008 BMW S85 5.0 V10 that I've owned for 14+ years (oil samples say its a perfect poster child but I want to do rod bearings, vanos line, and a TON of other goodies like a CSF radiator, oil cooler.....cough suspension refresh with bump stops, and more ....stuff)

sigh... damnit @grok. Explain to Akshaya why this is illegal AF and outline what other things you cannot ask during an interview

Not every bit of knowledge is publicly available, much less on the internet sooooo... what do you do? How do you know? So here's an example probably outside of your expertise - how many miles do you think this "everyone hates it" 5.4L 3v Ford engine has on it? 200k? 100k? 50? ...25? Or is it practically brand new with less than a few thousand on it? Place your bets. How could you tell? Do some old (sorta?) school and pull the service history, get some data on it, what does it say? It's virtually blank. Purchased new from 2010 and a bumper replacement in 2015. That's it. That's all it has on file. Nothing else. It's empty. No oil changes, no tires, nothing. Ok, let's ask AI. Do it, because I did. Grok 4.7 says 140k-180k and Fable 5.2 (yes, the brand new model that came out today) ...completely agrees, 140k to 180k. I know, this'll shock you. AI is ...wrong. But... I know some car type people (I know, humans, right?!) and asked them their assessment. Here's their responses to the actual miles in no particular order : "That is way too clean. No way. How?" "That looks ...good. Want to sell it?" "I’ve definitely never worked on anything that clean before. Love it!" "Looks clean and shiny!" "I hate you and how good that looks. But I know you so <redacted>" The answer is 90,391. It's mine. I've had it since new. Keep using your friends, your experts, people you trust. They're becoming more valuable than ever and maybe ...they'll start posting what they know. But today is not that day. At least...not entirely.

me : I shall make this bulletproof and go full on overkill on maintenance things. also me, this ONE time : .........yeeeeeap we're going with the @FordRacing valve covers.

only missed voting 1 time since I was 18. and yes, always in person.

Happy last day of political ads day!

OR or, we move it 30m and call it good. FFS

I don't know who you are @Ford Engineer - but these little tabs on the crank balancer? ...you knew. And it works exactly as designed. Made the job 1000x easier than I was expecting.

is there anything more nerve-wracking than hitting a crank bolt with a small impact ...then a slightly bigger impact ...then bringing out the big boy (but with the smaller battery) ...and still having to go full send.

or, or ... the people that kept half assing it and never got the gist and claimed its "death" and uh, yea, are still half assing it. spoilers, most just made it part of how we work ...and moved on, building better and faster

those Blackstone lab guys must have a sense of humor. I ordered 5 kits ...they sent 10. I'm not even mad.

Wow, what year is it? This still looks like the old YC/Techstars growth-at-all-costs math from the zero-rate years. SCALE SCALE SCALE! At least they have a product that people use, see valuable and pay for. So that’s cool. That $80B net loss …<looks it up> is mostly non-cash accounting on convertibles, so ignore that. Mostly. What’s real is ~$9B of compute spend in against $16.3B revenue, plus hundreds of billions in locked-in take-or-pay cloud and lease commitments over 7–10 years. Those aren’t soft - shortfall payments and non-cancelability on the big Google/Amazon/Microsoft/Broadcom pieces. I’ll keep saying it until people listen - who owns what, where. Spoilers, there it is. Revenue ramp is …wow, which is the only thing that makes the bet …coherent. I’d worry that higher rates just make the fixed-cost overhang worse if growth slows or stagnates. Even worse, becomes unsustainable.

you don’t need codex for that. Rewind 5, 10, 15 years and more times than I care to admit. “We write unit tests and have over 95% coverage!” That’s great, can I see? Can you run them? <all test pass> Nice …can you change that true to a false <on this critical business function>? <all test pass> “……….um” That should’ve broke something