Recent content by Owen Lucas

PT Cruiser vibes from this one. 2011–2015 Lancia Ypsilon (an Italian brand under the Stellantis umbrella) Rebadged and sold as the Chrysler Ypsilon in the UK, Ireland, and Japan between 2011 and 2015.

Capacitors must be a new addition, I haven't seen them before. Good on HD, it's an easy DIY.

Somehow this Dodge Caravan made it to Greece. It appeared to have been parked on the street with 2 flat rear tires for a long time. On the outskirts of Athens:

I think it's to create a roadblock in deployment. Not that it seems to be working very well, but planting the seed in the general publics mind that data center = bad is still something. I know someone who said they don't use AI because it uses up water, I told them taking a shower too long...

I would pay for that. IDK how they allow it for so cheap, the business insurance exposure must be pretty expensive.

Photo taken in Greece a few years ago. Likely a 1st gen Honda City or Honda Jazz according to Google. 1982-1986. Convenient for the city but doesn't look very safe. Roof rack for extra storage!

Thank you! Found a set for under $40 with shipping.

I'm fine with a DC in my backyard, as long as its quiet, doesn't pollute, increase my electric or water bills, and deplete the water table. Many cities have massive auto manufacturing plants and I don't recall any issues with those, in fact when there is news of one reopening or being built...

I think this will look like web hosting. You can have your own infra to do this but it will be cheaper to pay AWS who has low cost highly reliable service due to scale. AI will become more efficient and the AI providers will likely help with optimization eventually to keep costs low in order...

Changing back and forth from winter to all season tires for the past 5 years has taken a toll on the lug nuts. The casing is getting rounded and rusting a little. It feels like there is a little too much resistance when spinning the nuts on as well. I'll take a wire brush to the lugs before I...

Pretty sure most of these missing people got lost and died of exposure or attacked/eaten by some animal. I'm still staying out of deep trails in national parks: A park ranger I dated for a bit told me about a burial ground in one of them and how the horses would get spooked by supposed ghosts...

That's one of the concerns with OpenAI. Many do not trust Sam Altman and are afraid of him copying their IP, but thats for the consumer level products. There are supposedly air-gapped models that can run locally or on AWS like Bedrock. These services allow you to use the AI model but it does...

Yep, there is an NYT article where a hidden layer of circuitry, sandwiched inside a PCB, not visible without X-ray imaging, was discovered by researchers. Apparently one of the people at a fab in China was compromised to change the board design. This likely happens in all tech but is harder...

Buddy fixed a dent in his Cobalt once with a toilet plunger. DIY to the rescue!

Business will immediately get rid of employees as soon as possible. It's the bottom line and quarterly profits at stake. Maybe a tax can be initiated eventually to reflect lost employment capacity due to AI that will feed into the general welfare fund. Possibly an attempt to incentivise human...