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  1. Owen Lucas

    Photo Thread for Unusual Vehicles

    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.
  2. Owen Lucas

    Home Depot HVAC parts

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

    Photo Thread for Unusual Vehicles

    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:
  4. Owen Lucas

    Are you for or against Data Centers?

    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...
  5. Owen Lucas

    Oil change in parking lot

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

    Photo Thread for Unusual Vehicles

    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!
  7. Owen Lucas

    2021 Honda Pilot - Aftermarket Lug Nut Recommendations M14 x 1.5

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

    Are you for or against Data Centers?

    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...
  9. Owen Lucas

    Are you for or against Data Centers?

    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...
  10. Owen Lucas

    2021 Honda Pilot - Aftermarket Lug Nut Recommendations M14 x 1.5

    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...
  11. Owen Lucas

    Missing Major General

    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...
  12. Owen Lucas

    Are you for or against Data Centers?

    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...
  13. Owen Lucas

    Are you for or against Data Centers?

    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...
  14. Owen Lucas

    Plastic bumper dent repair using heat gun

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

    Are you for or against Data Centers?

    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...
  16. Owen Lucas

    Are you for or against Data Centers?

    100% it will, and already is. If you're not in the loop, then you just aren't aware of the implications. AI is not a bubble, it is fundamentally changing the future. Do you think there is no benefit of a manufacturing plant sized building with mega-watts of compute tackling our hardest...
  17. Owen Lucas

    Thread for photos that 100% do not violate any Terms Of Service, not political, not lewd, no gas price pics etc.

    Fill me in on these tiny trailers. So these are basically if you want to go hiking but don't want to spend the bucks on something with a built in toilet and shower? IMHO the plumbed units depreciate so quickly and have so many issues, it's best just to have a mobile bed changing room...
  18. Owen Lucas

    Are you for or against Data Centers?

    Who knows. Anthropics Mythos model is supposedly so powerful that they are only releasing it to enterprise clients specifically to try to hack and harden their own systems. This new model was able to find exploits in software no one has come across yet supposedly. SOmethign an adversary will...
  19. Owen Lucas

    Are you for or against Data Centers?

    The model and programming is the most important part of AI IMHO. Most of the physical stuff can be copied, same as software, but having the most advanced model and it's capabilities are the secret part. Sure, it can be stolen, but I bet this information is protected as much as other nation...
  20. Owen Lucas

    retirement party; 35 years at the same job

    At the end of the day, you're just a number to some transient bean counter. I'd see this when someone would be let go at my company. Low performer, quit, transfer to a different region. Life goes on, maybe a party, next please.
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