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New comment by tibbydudeza in "My midlife crisis Corolla is fast, furious, and modded"

tibbydudeza — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 15:53:13 +0000

A few burned out - a high compression turbo charged 1.3L 3 cylinder engine is not a good idea.

VW has one on their Polo GTI but it is the iconic 2.0-liter turbocharged four-cylinder TSI engine (EA888) - the normal Polo has 1L turbo charged 3 cylinder but even they did not try high boost.

New comment by tibbydudeza in "Syria's solar boom is redefining Middle East's energy model"

tibbydudeza — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 18:48:42 +0000

We had to do the same here in South Africa - 2 hourly blackouts and innovative financing packages and cheap panels and inverters from China - you pay a monthly rent to own fee and they cover the maintenance.

Nearly every third house has panels, but we don't feed back to the grid - the idiotic local authority lost the plot here and wanted to charge an enormous fee for a feedback meter.

New comment by tibbydudeza in "Resetting Xbox"

tibbydudeza — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 18:19:13 +0000

That is retailer margins.

New comment by tibbydudeza in "Microsoft fire idTech team at Id software"

tibbydudeza — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 16:38:02 +0000

Unreal Engine has become a commodity, and it is easier to recruit people with experience - even CD Projekt Red gave up.

The only major studios doing their own thing is Rockstar and Bethesda.

I would not include Cloud Imperium here because they are forever in a beta state with no clear ship date in the future for their two games.

New comment by tibbydudeza in "Claude has the worst pricing – but people want it"

tibbydudeza — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 20:59:43 +0000

DeepSeek - way cheaper and performant- still waiting for the awesome apps Fable enabled.

I doubt it.

New comment by tibbydudeza in "I used Claude Code to get a second opinion on my MRI"

tibbydudeza — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 19:22:20 +0000

I would trust a doctor with decades of experience and his diagnosis and treatment plan than some LLM.

It like using WebMD for any ache and pain and it is saying it might either be Lupus or cancer.

New comment by tibbydudeza in "Do Babies Dream of Baby Sheep?"

tibbydudeza — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 19:15:23 +0000

Your memory encoder/decoder manager the hippocampus must be working otherwise you would not be able to be learn.

I reckon that these memories are pruned by not being recalled strengthening the neurons making it up because they are not as important and take up bandwidth for the more important stuff like surviving as an infant in a physical world filled with your care takers.

New comment by tibbydudeza in "The White House is asking OpenAI to slow roll the release of its new model"

tibbydudeza — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 11:57:17 +0000

Installation is blocked - if it was pure JS install and not try and install an binary exe as well.

New comment by tibbydudeza in "The White House is asking OpenAI to slow roll the release of its new model"

tibbydudeza — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 16:43:39 +0000

I am not worried - for my personal research projects I switched to Deepseek. I cannot use it for my daily work (Copilot tokens was exhausted by the 20th because NDA's and security and I am remote for a US corp).

New comment by tibbydudeza in "Om Malik has died"

tibbydudeza — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 12:18:53 +0000

Techcrunch - GigaOm and Gawker. Good times - good guy - RIP and my condolences to his friends and family.

New comment by tibbydudeza in "Oracle shed about 20k roles globally in the last year"

tibbydudeza — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 15:49:01 +0000

CA will buy the scraps.

New comment by tibbydudeza in "CT scans of BYD car parts"

tibbydudeza — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 21:41:34 +0000

That would be the case for the new China only Audi E5/E7X - they are just using the word AUDI on the car and not the iconic 4 rings.

It is made by SAIC using their factory and EV platform - it was just cheaper to outsource it and meet the deadlines and pricing.

New comment by tibbydudeza in "Iran stops negotiations with U.S., vows to 'completely' block Strait of Hormuz"

tibbydudeza — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 15:52:17 +0000

No worries AI spend and Klarna will make it all go away ;).

New comment by tibbydudeza in "Mumbai's famed dabbawalas fed millions for over 100 years"

tibbydudeza — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 19:30:18 +0000

A VC will conclude it has too many people involved in it and optimize it using AI.

New comment by tibbydudeza in "Iran president ends Internet blackout, orders access to be restored"

tibbydudeza — Tue, 26 May 2026 21:41:58 +0000

A sign the regime is confident in its survival.

New comment by tibbydudeza in "Dropbox CEO Drew Houston to step down"

tibbydudeza — Tue, 26 May 2026 20:31:10 +0000

This must be one hell of an edge case - glad to see you are "free" :).

New comment by tibbydudeza in "Dropbox CEO Drew Houston to step down"

tibbydudeza — Tue, 26 May 2026 20:30:07 +0000

TM was a hack - iCloud is pretty good I reckon - for the millions of devices they have in the market there has been the only odd complaint from somebody on twitter making headlines with a Technorati type of following about user accounts mysterious being deleted or blocked (poor customer support) or some weird syncing issues when moving to a new device and the old device is still in use.

New comment by tibbydudeza in "Ferrari Luce"

tibbydudeza — Tue, 26 May 2026 17:08:29 +0000

Some UK soccer players

New comment by tibbydudeza in "Ferrari Luce"

tibbydudeza — Tue, 26 May 2026 17:07:23 +0000

Reminds me Chris Bangle and his flame surfacing at BMW.

New comment by tibbydudeza in "Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says"

tibbydudeza — Sun, 24 May 2026 14:12:45 +0000

They don't want legal immigration except in cases where it is in the national interest i.e a Deepseek AI researcher wanting to move to the US - bet your bottom that person ain't waiting for a green card.