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New comment by EFreethought in "Tesla owner won $10k in court for Tesla's FSD lies. Tesla is still fighting him"

EFreethought — Sun, 03 May 2026 04:45:25 +0000

So why is the headquarters in Charlotte, genius?

A lot of things can happen between 1928 and 1999.

NationsBank also "took the Bank of America name".

New comment by EFreethought in "Tesla owner won $10k in court for Tesla's FSD lies. Tesla is still fighting him"

EFreethought — Sun, 03 May 2026 01:16:01 +0000

Actually it does not have roots in Bank of Italy.

In 2000, NationsBank in Charlotte bought Bank of America. They used the BofA name, but the NB people ran things. Hugh McColl had been the CEO of NB for years, and he was CEO of BofA for a year. The next CEO, Ken Lewis, was also from NB. I worked for BofA in Chicago from 2001 to 2009. I talked to people in Charlotte all the time. I almost never talked to people in California.

Now that I think about it, I dealt with people in a lot of regions of the US, but almost nobody on the West Coast.

New comment by EFreethought in "“Why not just use Lean?”"

EFreethought — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 06:59:07 +0000

Yes.

I am tired of my time in tech being just using MS products that all depend on each other.

New comment by EFreethought in "Hyperscalers have already outspent most famous US megaprojects"

EFreethought — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 01:19:25 +0000

> AI companies are panicking and gaslighting us about what their newest models can actually do

I think they have been gaslighting us from the beginning.

New comment by EFreethought in "Slop is not necessarily the future"

EFreethought — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 19:24:02 +0000

>> No one has ever made a purchasing decision based on how good your code is.

> absolutely false.

Actually, you are both correct.

Nobody makes a purchasing decision based on code quality.

But they may later regret a purchasing decision based on code quality.

New comment by EFreethought in "Allow me to get to know you, mistakes and all"

EFreethought — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 09:20:43 +0000

> Ugh, you are not entitled to get to know me.

If your comment is at all indicative of how you are in real life, I really don't think you have to worry about people wanting to get to know you.

New comment by EFreethought in "AI Error May Have Contributed to Girl's School Bombing in Iran"

EFreethought — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 07:28:01 +0000

Companies are spending billions so they can say the dog ate their homework.

New comment by EFreethought in "I built a demo of what AI chat will look like when it's “free” and ad-supported"

EFreethought — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 19:20:00 +0000

Maybe there will be models-as-a-service, MaaS as well. Pay extra for no ads. Like Proton Mail vs Gmail.

New comment by EFreethought in "Statement on the comments from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth"

EFreethought — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 02:34:39 +0000

It has been in use for at least a decade, since the Obama administration if not earlier.

We have soldiers, sailors, airman/women, Marines (who really do not like being called soldiers), Coast Guardsman/women, and now the Space Force. Granted, I do not know why "service member" did not catch on. Perhaps because "warfighter" is a bit shorter.

New comment by EFreethought in "Babylon 5 is now free to watch on YouTube"

EFreethought — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 19:16:12 +0000

One issue w/sci fi is that sci fi takes place in the future and/or has advanced technology then it is more likely to look dated than a typical sitcom where the sets are offices and living rooms.

New comment by EFreethought in "The time I didn't meet Jeffrey Epstein"

EFreethought — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 20:23:47 +0000

When he was alive a lot of people said Epstein was really smart.

But I have read some of his emails, and all of the ones I have seen are full of spelling, punctuation, grammar and capitalization errors. I would not gotten out of sixth grade if I wrote like that.

New comment by EFreethought in "[dead]"

EFreethought — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 20:31:20 +0000

Their companies are all doing well (although I think the jury is out on OpenAI). So did they fail? Graham seems to measure a person's success by the success of their company.

New comment by EFreethought in "Data centers in space makes no sense"

EFreethought — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 17:12:10 +0000

From the classic sci-fi novel "Do Not Create The Torment Nexus".

New comment by EFreethought in "Gas Town's agent patterns, design bottlenecks, and vibecoding at scale"

EFreethought — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 21:57:28 +0000

> 10. 10th prompt: Ugh, everytime I fix one thing, something else breaks

Maybe that is the time to start making changes by hand. I think this dream of humans never ever writing any more code might be too far and unnecessary.

New comment by EFreethought in "What OpenAI did when ChatGPT users lost touch with reality"

EFreethought — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 17:44:49 +0000

OT, but thank you for linking to old.reddit.com.

The new Reddit web interface is an abomination.

New comment by EFreethought in "Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash"

EFreethought — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 00:02:52 +0000

Why do you think it's like Eliza?

New comment by EFreethought in "Short Little Difficult Books"

EFreethought — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 10:25:37 +0000

I think Finnegan's Wake is meant to be listened to, not read.

New comment by EFreethought in "SoftBank sells its entire stake in Nvidia"

EFreethought — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 04:12:35 +0000

Lottery winners do not tell the world they are smarter than the rest of us, or go on podcasts, write op-eds or start websites telling the rest of us how the world should be run.

New comment by EFreethought in "Four strange places to see London's Roman Wall"

EFreethought — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 02:42:46 +0000

I had a hard time remembering that distinction when I first read about the "City of London".

Here is the US, the "city of Chicago" is the same as "Chicago".

New comment by EFreethought in "SoftBank sells its entire stake in Nvidia"

EFreethought — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 02:40:01 +0000

At some point, a good VC would have a second winner.

And if that is the VC model, then are the VCs smarter than everybody else?