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This is one of the things I hate most about modern luxury car interiors. Putting several separate display modules behind one giant black glass panel and pretending it is one seamless screen is not modern. It is the opposite. It is a workaround dressed up as innovation. Audi calls this kind of setup a panoramic display, but visually it still reads like multiple smaller screens packaged together. In a car priced like a flagship luxury SUV, that is not good enough. The digital interface should look expensive, integrated, and intentional. This looks like a cost-saving solution hidden under glossy black trim. Compare that with Cadillac’s newer interiors — the Vistiq and Escalade IQ — or Lucid Gravity. You can argue about the brands, but the screen architecture looks far more convincing: wide, clean, integrated, and actually designed as a central part of the cabin. That is what a modern luxury interior is supposed to feel like. German luxury brands need to stop assuming that old prestige will carry them forever. For decades, their interiors were the benchmark because the materials, ergonomics, engineering, and restraint all worked together. But the industry has moved into a digital era, and in that world, screens, software, UI, and visual integration matter as much as leather stitching and soft-touch plastics. Right now, some of these German interiors look caught between two worlds: too screen-heavy to feel classic, but not integrated enough to feel truly futuristic. And I am not even getting into the exterior design. The new Q7’s front end has the same nervous energy we are seeing across a lot of legacy brands: split headlights, overworked surfaces, and styling tricks that look less like confidence and more like panic. Some Japanese brands are conservative on purpose. They use older, proven technology because reliability is the selling point. You can criticize that, but at least it is a coherent strategy. What is harder to defend is charging luxury money while giving buyers digital design that already looks behind American, Korean, and Chinese competitors.

@slackerchef @TaraBull I don’t know, but it was an airbag explosion that caused that.

@TaraBull Since when is a Joker mouth attractive?

The line between rejuvenation and disfigurement is razor-thin. True beauty preserves identity not erases time through excess.

@VaibhavSisinty Without conduction or convection, getting rid of heat isn’t easier.

Okay this is genuinely insane. SpaceX just unveiled a satellite whose only job is to run AI. Not internet. Not GPS. Just compute, floating in orbit. It's called AI1, and the reason behind it breaks your brain. AI data centers on Earth are hitting a wall, not a chip wall, a physics wall. They need staggering amounts of power and water just to stay cool, and we're running out of grid and land to build them. So Musk's answer is: stop building them on Earth. In orbit, the sun never sets. Free power, 24/7. No water for cooling, you just radiate heat into the vacuum of space. The two things choking AI on the ground barely exist up there. And here's the wild part: Musk says it's easier to build than a Starlink satellite. Strip out the complex antennas and it's "a lot of solar cells, a radiator, and some laser links." One AI1 carries the compute of an Nvidia GB300 rack, the same hardware data centers fight over down here. AI1 is just the first one. The plan is a constellation of up to a million of them. And the timing isn't an accident, SpaceX goes public this week at a ~$1.75 trillion target. This isn't a rocket company anymore. It's positioning itself as the power grid for AI, in space. The race for AI compute just left the planet. Literally. @SpaceX

Solid observation. If the AI was as good as claimed, being twice the cost of a human would be a bargain. A tractor is more expensive than unskilled labor. You don’t see farmers backing away from their tractors.

@LittleKnownPL If the rain doesn’t ruin them tonight, I’ll post a picture later of the field behind my house. It looks like that too: yellow from the rapeseed, then red from the poppies.

I think the cool kids call this #polandmaxxing

@salestaxceo To be clear, by "I run it" I mean the agent, my code, runs the task and processes the result during the loop.

@salestaxceo I run Codex through the CLI with a strict prompt contract. The prompt requires the agent to implement the slice, run the tests and repo validation command, and return a structured completion payload with the commands it ran and their pass/fail results.

Tech culture gets too opinionated about simple things like the definition of a “loop”. Call a spade a spade. Isn’t it just a cron job of skills?

@salestaxceo The orchestration code then reads that payload and only advances the workflow if the required validation evidence is present and passing.

@mrtomimixes @popsicles88__ I've apparently been using it wrong all along according to that video, but I think it makes sense. The paper interferes too much with airflow underneath.

@popsicles88__ Paper goes on top to exactly not clean the metal grid plate all the time lmfao.

At what age did you realise air fryer paper is meant to line the basket, not wrap the food?

The interesting part is that, without naming the company, they almost seem to be encouraging consumption. The concept of full automation is even presented as a goal.

@zeeg Both. Depending on the project, I'm paid for them in some projects (and I'll admit they're often underutilized by the organization itself), and I pay for them myself in others because they're much cheaper than hiring people to do the same work manually.

But if it's "expensive" and people are using it for throwaway, silly projects, then maybe it isn't that expensive after all. At least not compared to having humans type it all out.

@zeeg I agree. Paradoxically, I wouldn't mind much if I had to go back to doing it by hand in that scenario.

@adrianpkstream If you’re an organization you pay per token and at some point folks will stop giving away 2k in compute for 100 bucks. It’s not sustainable.

@Frozen_Feel @PoofXyzzy @emerywells Makes sense.

@adrianpkstream @PoofXyzzy @emerywells It's a recurring topic on that all-in podcast which is Elon's clique. And recently Kevin O'Leary learned his lesson when he had to massively downsize his DC plans due to green's outcry about ecosystem destruction. Maybe.. study isn't out yet, but you start thinking about space.

Maybe I’m missing something but the hardest part of orbital data centers doesn’t seem like power or cooling. It seems like networking? How do a million GPUs spread across satellites become one training cluster? What’s the orbital equivalent of NVLink?

@zeeg In that case I see your point, and it's true that this kind of usage is more expensive. I try to reserve it for adding intelligence to services rather than for coding. But It would be idiotic not to use subscriptions over some ethical objection. I don't see why I'd use API calls

@adrianpkstream When I say pay for tokens I mean pay per token. Not use a subscription subsidy.