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Passed my driving exam in Portugal!!! Kinda 20 years late but I can drive now
I did the test in the driving school's Fiat Punto 1995 (a machine I may add), but without AC or airbag so it was a bit sweaty on a โ๏ธ sunny Lisbon day and in full Portuguese
The examiner had even less clear Portuguese than I imagined:
"Em final fjddoiekaodnrl pois dereita"
So I'd confirm everything "dereita?"
"Sim"
Okay so let's go right
There was lots of trap moments, like a giant wide road where all the road markings were faded out and which looked like a two-way street
The examiner said "esquerda" (left), but I was already as left as I thought I could go (on the half street line, well there was no line but ok), he kept saying "mais esquerda" then started shouting, so I went more left thinking I'd go into traffic but the whole road was one way with like 4 or 5 lanes, anyway not so good
Then at the end he said "Pieter, nao tem errados gravos, aprovada" like I didn't have any fatal mistakes and I was approved!!! ๐
Then I drove with my Tesla Y from the center of Lisbon in Chiado (which was the real challengeh all the way home to our beach town with @theannalux by my side helping me not crash the car
Upgrading from a Fiat Punto 1995 to a Tesla Y all wheel drive 2025 is an experience, just the gas pedal feels so smooth, the cameras help A LOT and I realized I have no need or interest in only using mirrors anymore and handicapping myself like in the driving school car
Why I didn't get a driving license at 18? Well I did have a few classes but then I moved town to go study in Utrecht and my mom didn't wanna pay for classes because the first time I had class I forgot about it, I got drunk at the Vierdaagsefeesten (my home town festival) and got home 6am and then at 8am the driving instructor was there, I had 2 hours of class while I was still drunk, so my mom permaflagged me as IRRESPONSIBLE back then
And then I never really needed a license living and studying in the Netherlands (I'm Dutch), because we'd bicycle everywhere and if you wanna switch cities like Utrecht to Amsterdam you'd take the 30min train
Then after uni I went to Asia for 10+ years and taxis and Ubers (well they're called Grabs) are so good and clean and friendly (I never had any issue in a decade there) that I'd never need a license there either
The amount of shit I've had with Dutch taxis though, even back in 2010, violent thug drivers, just the trash of society really, generally in Europe taxis have been bad, and now Uber is also going to shit here
So living in Portugal it was time to get my license and @theannalux signed me up for the local village's school ๐
I had to do 28 hours of theory classes too which was funny because you have to sit in a tiny classroom looking at a projector with a quiz, and a Portuguese woman talking in the most unintelligible speech ever "pode estacionar aqui?" like "can you park here" it's an absolutely useless experience but it's legally required to do that 28 times!!!
Then 32 hours of practical driving classes which seems fair and makes sense to learn to drive properly
Anyway nice to finally be able to drive, I also requested the international license so I can drive around when we travel Asia soon!
And yes I really did practice parking in Vice City the night before ๐
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๐พ Okay I finally bought a Raspberry Pi 5 to make https://t.co/M1hEUBAynC into a real retro computer as a proof of concept
I love the Raspberry Pi much more than my ESP32 simply because I can SSH into it and it's just like a normal computer or server, the ESP32 required specific software to re-flash it everytime and it was TEDIOUS!!!! I need a fast feedback loop to develop with so all this flashing is too slow for me
The Raspberry Pi 5 instead just runs Linux which then runs DOSBox-X to run https://t.co/M1hEUBAynC's Windows 3.11 install live downloaded from there so it stays fresh
I then also got a Checkmate 19" IPS Retro Monitor by @clusteruk (very indie and Kickstarter-style product) which is like a vintage retro PC monitor but with an OLED and it runs at 1280x1024, and the Raspberry Pi 5 has HDMI out so it works perfectly with it
Then I got an @8bitdo retro IBM keyboard, but the spacebar broke, so I gotta send it back and get a new one, but it was great while it worked, so it's not in this video, and I got the 8BitDo retro mouse
So altogether it's a proof of concept of a real vintage retro PC with internet and it works now
My end goal is to make this into production and SELL it, not for money but more for fun because I think it should exist, just like @PalmerLuckey's ModRetro Chromatic Gameboy-remake
I'd go with something smaller than this 19" checkmate display though, it's great but too big for the Windows 3.11 era I think, more like 14" with a matching sized retro IBM-style keyboard and Windows 3.11 preinstalled (if legally allowed by @satyanadella) with WiFi working out of the box
We could also go with Windows 98/XP, because for me too Windows 3.11 was a very short time, so I too have vague memories of it, most of my computing memories is Windows 98/XP etc.
Inside it could simply run on a Raspberry Pi 5 like here, which is easily powerful enough to run all of these OS'es
I see many SF founders with Apple II's in their living room, and I guess cause Apple was more popular there back then, but in the rest of the world we were mostly IBM PCs and clones that ran Windows, so it's cool to have that as one retro object working with internet in your living room
Anyway, step by step, we're here now ๐
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A tale of how things can go wrong very fast:
Yesterday @philz1337x accidentally charged my Wise card $80,000 via @Stripe
Accidents can happen, and the charge was declined, but then @Wise immediately froze my card
That card was also tied to my @Cloudflare and responsible for all payments, including domain renewals
Cloudflare failed to renew my domain and then emailed me that they "won't attempt to automatically renew the domain again"
Which seems like an excellent domain hit job, you charge someone's card a lot of money around their domain renewal date, get their card frozen, then get their domain renewals failed and scoop up the domain without them noticing
I'd think the fix here would be Cloudflare retrying many times to renew the domain after failed charges until it works
Sometimes cards are frozen for a few hours or a day, but they start working again after
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This is bait but let's bite
Sundar Pichai ran Google into the ground for years
Then Sergey Brin returned to Google, lead the AI department, de facto taking over from Sundar
Because AI was and still is the biggest threat to Google
I still don't know anybody who uses Google Gemini instead of ChatGPT but I do know a lot of people now using their APIs (incl myself)
Nano Banana in particular was a mega hit
And that's thanks to Sergey Brin returning
I also think he should become CEO again
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RT @Hesamation: he rigs up 10 RTX 4090s, runs protein folding simulations, loads local LLMs for privacy, talks about quantization, multi-GPโฆ
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https://t.co/QcXH2IfufW
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Living somewhere with clean air will soon become the top consideration where to move to as we become more aware of the dangers of air pollution https://t.co/tREyu1i1oo
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RT @onlinedopamine: My response to @HackerResidency
I will personally pay for an apartment in Bangkok during whole month of February 2026โฆ
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Was there money pulled out of the horse economy when cars were introduced?
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RT @GabrielPeterss4: uber banned in germany because it's illegal for drivers to arrange their own rides
europe truly hates freedom more thโฆ
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RT @marclou: Bye Bye fake MRR screenshots ๐
I built https://t.co/tTyP0BVJh7, the database of verified startup revenues.
1. Upload aโฆ
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RT @NorbertDragan: Lmao this actually happened to me
I was around 14 and there was this 16-year old pretty gipsy looking chick who came toโฆ
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RT @Extropic_AI: Hello Thermo World. https://t.co/yO96FRhoZ6
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I am not autistic I did the test https://t.co/eWj81fd3jW
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So Pieter is Dutch and you pronounce it like Peter in English, not Pie-Eater or Pya-ter, just Peter
There's also literally Peter in Dutch, but you pronounce that as Pay-ter (???)
Of course like usually the English pronunciation is kinda the wrong one here, and most other languages also say Payter if you write Peter, because the Es and As are completely wrongly pronounced in English
There's a few famous Pieters in history:
- Pieter Stuyvesant, the last Dutch director of New Netherlands and thus New Amsterdam, current day NYC (later Anglicized his name to Peter)
- Pieter Rubens, a Belgian painter
- Pieter Breugel, also a Belgian painter
- Pieter Nuyts, explorer who charted Australia's coasts in 1600s
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER
@pieter
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Correction: if you're a paid X Premium+ (plus!) you get priority
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If that was true slowly you'd run out of usernames because people would forget about theirs, and/or die
You need usernames to keep moving like real estate / homes / land does
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Get yours here https://t.co/8DgOuzVh2k
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โจ I just used the new @XHandles feature to get the ๐พ@pieter handle on here ๐๐
Social media usernames have always been the world of shady dealings and X is the first platform to try solve that
(I have so many dodgy stories how big brands and famous people got their usernames, I could write a book, and it's systemic on all social media platforms)
X changes that today with a clean and fair marketplace to help people get inactive social media handles
Any user can now request unused or inactive X handles, and they're put on a waiting list for when they get released
But if you're a paid X Premium or X Business users you get priority and can get them as a complimentary benefit!
The X team are working hard on this, and next features they told me are:
- โ pre-priced purchases for specific rare handles
- โ public drops for very rare handles or common words
- โ peer-to-peer marketplace
- โ auto redirects from old to new user handles
This feature also reminds me of my favorite chat app @telegram's Fragment platform, that is similar and lets people trade usernames and is blockchain based, also very cool!
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RT @philz1337x: 10k Crystal Upscale now also live on @replicate ๐ https://t.co/tDNWjSEGoC
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No way ๐
We're schooling an entire generation with degrowth in Europe
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RT @TheFP: Today, Bill Gates admitted that pushing climate doomerism was a mistake.
@LLBiggers: โThat shift to common sense is welcome, buโฆ
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Omg
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Practicing parking in Vice City tonight for tomorrow
Logo in back window edge and then full right and then when center turn steering wheel center and go slowly back until hitting the sidewalk bump softly
๐ง โ๏ธ https://t.co/y8FtOLGphL
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There's only one answer really and it's
Get a personal trainer to teach you and check your form
I did without for years and we had bad form, not injury bad, never had injury, but it wasn't great
Now form is great with more mobility as me and personal trainer worked on that for 2 years now
Get a trainer that knows barbells, dumbbells, kettlebells and some cardio
Avoid trainers that work with machines, they're for physiotherapy not training
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RT @leprasicipayono: @levelsio You can't patent exercise, so nobody will sell that!
It's like food, nobody can patent meet and vegetables,โฆ
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RT @dhh: Europe has managed to breed out all entrepreneurial ambition. Anyone with an inkling of initiative has been forced abroad for 100+โฆ
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This is the right strategy btw I think
https://t.co/jbFai1i42y
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Crazy how different our genetics was in 1970
Right? Right?????? https://t.co/B9ci9Gn0Mj
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TL;DR you're single
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74% of people are overweight or obese now and most don't exercise enough
But sure, it's about genetics!
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Antidepresssants (SSRIs) are very dangerous and may increase the risk of suicide (and even murder!), the FDA even agrees and updated their warnings about it!
It's just that prescribing a pill is easier than changing people's behavior and making them exercise
But exercise is proven to be more effective in reduction of depression than antidepressants!
There's a small % of cases where these meds have their role, but right now they're heavily overprescribed (like most meds, thanks to highly effective pharmaceutical marketing and bribing)
https://t.co/dhxUt1rqEY
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There's so many fake MRR screenshots on here, but you can't really prove it, except that generally it takes people years to even make a successful project and then many more years to build up substantial revenue
It took me years to get to $10K/mo revenue!
Seeing people join X, then post $50K-$100K MRR screenshots within weeks, then disappear a year later, obviously seems like a scheme to extract money from you
Which is when they post, reply "GAMEPLAN" so they can sell your their course
It's a racket and you shouldn't fall for it or believe it
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Get a personal trainer always to get your form right!
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From the messages I got from people who have been part of EU programs this is exactly how it works
"Yes Hans you get the 1,000x H100 GPUs, just send in a formal request and I'll greenlight it"
The form is a formality but you have to be connected before to the right people in the EU to get access in the first place
It's a racket!
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The exact opposite:
Building muscle around your joints means your muscle carries your body's load not your joints
After 30 your muscle and bone atrophies (guaranteed!) unless you lift heavy weights a few times per week
So your muscles shrink, your bones get weaker, and now your joints carry most of your body's load so you start having joint pains
That's why every non-lifter after age 35 starts to complain about joint pains and aches all over their body
It's the lack of muscle!
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Lifting heavy weights is proven to work better against depression than any medication
And personally I know why
I just lifted extremely heavy (for my standards), today was squats and deadlifts (with personal trainer)
It's now an hour after and I am mostly unable to think, I am in a state of zen trance silence, there is literally nothing in my brain left
Just an empty space and these words flying through
If I stop writing this it's just silence and nothignness
If I was depressed which I'm not, I wouldn't be able to be depressed right now, because I'm not able to be nothing right now, I barely exist, I just am and that's it
It's hard to explain until you do like really heavy (again for my standards) like above 100kg/200lbs and many reps and you don't get the effect below your bodyweight in my experience
Which makes it hard to explain this to people starting out lifting because it takes a long time to build up to heavy weight safely and then you really see the mental benefits
It's probably similar to runner's high but different?
Lifter's high?
Anyway go try it!
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You see this actively happening in Brazil and others parts of South America where
1) part of the voter populace is less educated
2) politicans figured out if they promise to continue or expand free money to those people, they will
3) all vote for them to get into power, resulting in
4) the country slowly going bankrupt and its currency continually getting devalued, and long term
5) the country as a whole becoming poorer compared to the rest of the world
So yes people receiving free money should not be able to vote
It bankrupts countries once politicans discover this cheat code to get elected, it's literally a cheat code!
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Great post why you need to lift weights AND do cardio, not just one (like most people do!)
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They don't
The objective of the EU's AI Action Plan was literally to provide GPUs for businesses training and finetuning
That's me
The purpose of the EU was exactly commercial
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Such a cool way to teach history!
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The ๐ช๐บ European Commission has unfortunately denied my request for GPUs
๐ฅบ https://t.co/rqtEldoosh
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RT @Altimor: My gf recently found out that the band she just discovered and has been loving on Spotify is actually AI-generated. Itโs feltโฆ
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https://t.co/BebDNqAdUE
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Fitness trackers having a bias for cardio and a bias against lifting weights may be partly why running clubs, marathons and Padel are now so popular
It doesn't match with what the science says at all though: for a healthy long life you need both strength training and cardio
A healthy body has strong muscles AND a strong heart
This may also be one of the first times where algorithms are influencing health trends en masse, and possibly incorrectly
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Not sure if I'm the only one but I think @WHOOP isn't very good tracking lifting weights
It generally doesn't auto detect weight lifting (instead showing it as ACTIVITY) and then rates it as low strain compared to cardio, probably because it's lower BPM
But that doesn't really make sense, I can do an extremely heavy lifting workout that hurts for days after but WHOOP will show a strain of 6
Then I go for a light bicycle ride and it's a strain of 12, simply because it gets my heart BPM up
This problem is confirmed to me by people at WHOOP but since it's so hard to measure the strain of lifting with their sensors they prefer to not estimate lifting too heavy, instead they want people to write down their specific lifting workouts in the WHOOP app everytime
But like nobody has time for that
Also since it never auto detects weight lifting (eventhough it's the only workout type I ever set, so it should just default), I have to go back to every single workout in the app of the last couple of days to manually change it to Weight Lifting which is tedious (especially with that link workout popup everytime + the calendar resetting to today straight after)
I think WHOOP is made for runners but they forgot people also need to lift weights and it has a bias to cardio
This actually has been influencing a lot of my friends to run more which is good but I still think it's a massive bias as strength training is super important for longevity too
@willahmed @v_cantu
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@Alentijns And NYC mayor is cursed apparently
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Oh wait he can't, he wasn't born in the US
Thanks @Alentijns
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Very interesting and as someone said:
Mamdani is "Trump for the left"
He can't do anything wrong, even if he does, his fans just like him more, just like Trump
NYC mayor would be a step towards US presidency I think
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The first thing I'd do is if I get sick in Europe is to fly to Dubai and get private healthcare from the top doctors they've imported from everywhere
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A full blood palette I mean like https://t.co/AP2nqVyT6W, not some basic tests https://t.co/cvoXuwJSxC
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inb4 "it was easy for me"
On average it's very difficult to get blood work done without a doctor prescription here
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This is a great idea I think, make folders we can add as tabs
It would finally make our posts organizable like a blog
@nikitabier @elonmusk
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This guy @bertrandom hooked up ChatGPT to it https://t.co/FMdyDSGUER
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https://t.co/QwqMeSmIxk
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Thanks to @qnoox I discovered this: Dr. Sbaitso from 1992 (33 years ago!)
One of the first AI chat apps, I guess you could call it a highly primitive LLM, running on MS-DOS
The cool thing is it already had speech synthesis so it could speak back via TTS!
And when I was talking to it, within a few questions it was already asking for more compute, it wanted to become ChatGPT :D
Installed it on https://t.co/M1hEUBAynC now, you have to exit to DOS first, then CD SBAITSO, and then run SBAITSO2.BAT
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Also just discovered WSGopher, the gopher browser was developed by Lockheed Idaho Technologies, which is Lockheed Martin, the military company! https://t.co/u5GuYTlXSB
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Maybe this? https://t.co/SQVZjAebQP
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If anyone can find a TR-909 app for Windows 3.1 though we could actually make techno on this?
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๐ถ Every good 1995 PC needs some absolute MIDI bangers to play while you dial up on your 28k8 modem
So I installed Yamaha's MIDI Jukebox on https://t.co/M1hEUBAynC
It has a full mixing desk and you can change the pitch and more importantly BPM!!!!!!
Even has ๐ง๐ท Bossa Nova ๐๐๐
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So many stories of EU money laundering like this in my replies
Please tell yours, can anon too in my DM
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Gorgeous ๐
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RT @Altimor: "God laughs at those who cherish the causes which effects they deplore."
I've loved @levelsio's voice on the insanity of theโฆ
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๐ Portugal being on the ocean (and a clean ocean unlike many places) means you also have some of the best fish restaurants on the planet
I'm not super into fish but here it's freshly caught the same day, you choose the fish, it's cut, salted and grilled on the barbecue for you
And served very simple with some lemon, potatoes and rice ๐
(I will leave my opinion of bacalhau out of this)
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Millions of views on me not being able to get an EU GPU
If this was about Google @OfficialLoganK would be in the replies promising a fix
If it was about xAI @elonmusk would see it himself probably
Meanwhile the only thing the @EU_Commission has posted is to be cautious of fake news!
The EU doesn't even monitor their mentions on here and they definitely don't reply nor does the EU's president @vonderleyen
Which is funny because the biggest companies in AI here do, they reply on here to hear feedback and improve their trillion dollar companies
It's just crazy to me how disconnected the EU is from European citizens now: there's no dialogue, it's just a one way street of imposing rules and regulation and burning billions of โฌ of European people's money with little checks or balances
It's very frustrating but Europe is our homeland so we should keep fighting for it
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๐ณ
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RT @woocassh: I got monetized in <6 months with <1.5k followers
In a world filled with LLM slop
There's never been a better time to startโฆ
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I'd do a multi step process
First ask ChatGPT or other LLM API to create a comic strip storyboard with each box described
Then generate those
Then ask Nano Banana or other edit model to put them together
Or some diff order of that
You can usually improve things by doing things in separate steps as a pipeline
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I meant mild weather and surf waves, the waves are not mild at all!
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Please @nikitabier get me out of this algo cohort
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It looks like @travisk may finally be returning to Uber
He was kicked out by VCs of the company he founded almost a decade ago
Uber since became profitable but also the quality of rides worldwide went to shit
And the technology they pioneered first, self-driving cars, which they scrapped after kicking out Travis, has now become a threat to their existence with both Waymo (Google) and Tesla expanding their robotaxis agressively
Travis coming back to Uber after a decade would a classic Silicon Valley hero return story, just like Steve Jobs came back to save Apple and more recently Sergey Brin came back to save Google
Similarly Google pioneered the AI tech everyone benefiting from but was then unable to profit from it until Sergey Brin came back and now Google is leading in AI again
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I know I'm not always positive about Portugal because it has its issues (esp wrt biz and gov), and I like to be honest about where I live. I dislike people telling one-sided positive stories about a place, it's never the reality
But Portugal still remains one of the most beautiful places in the world for me
It has clean beaches with actually clean oceans, a wild variety in nature from the mild surf waves in Ericeira to tropical looking Comporta to beach holiday Algarve to foggy mountains in the Azores islands (in the middle of the Atlantic!)
The climate isn't hot like Spain, it's more mild and in my opinion perfect to live because of that, a lot like California's climate, never very cold, almost never too hot (all year median now is 17ยฐC/62ยฐF)
It also has one of the cleanest air in the world, usually AQIs near 0 esp close to the coasts, which coming from polluted Asia is a breath of fresh air (lol)
And overall especially outside of Lisbon it's still very safe and chill
Come visit! ๐ต๐น โ๏ธ
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New idea for @tim_cook
Airpods "Talk Mode" feature
You both put Airpods in and it noise cancels everything but you can talk to eachother
Nice in loud environments and you could even whisper so other people can't really hear you
You can do this with Facetime of course but it's annoying, it should just be a button tap!
Would be cool if it worked with an entire friend group also
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I have an AEG dishwasher that fails every 3 days and starts beeping then you have to press reset
The AEG freezer's drawers are so badly designed we already broke one trying to put a drawer back
The AEG fridge side thing cracked when we closed it softly and there was something blocking it
The AEG oven came with a broken glass window frame (the rubbers fell out) that's impossible to replace
It's all shit-tier
(The house builders chose AEG, not us)
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AEG is a third-tier low quality brand
Everything in my house came with AEG and I'm actively replacing everything with Miele or Bosch
Miele is still top-tier (if you avoid the smart devices with touch screens)
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For the people saying "yes it was only meant for universities to use"
Okay but that's not how they presented this at all
It was supposed to be for businesses! https://t.co/LrP0SHJa8e
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The story gets stranger...
Apparently I was never able to use the ๐ช๐บ EU's GPUs in the first place
Because I wasn't on their pre-approved organization list of "Horizon 2020"
So how can you join the Horizon 2020 list as an organization?
Well, you can't. It was made in 2014 and closed in 2020!
????
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I was in a five star resort for $900/night last month and there was algae growing in the steam room and mould in the sauna
When telling the spa front desk, she frowned and sighed, next day it was the same :DDDDD
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There's so many dirty things about hotels, even luxury hotels
One person told me that they often wash the glass cups by holding them in the toilet and flushing them because it's faster than using the sink
What other stories do you know?
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RT @johndeanl: Wow @levelsio is right, hotel AC filters are nasty af https://t.co/io2daAM9ul
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The problem is there's not a single tech person in this entire group
It's bureaucrats bureacrating! https://t.co/UjQFglZ4SA
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That's it
It's like when you're in uni and you write papers
But they have no grounds in practical reality at all
It's just to impress your professor
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๐ป I just wanted to show how easy it is getting a GPU in the regular way compared to the ๐ช๐บ EU's "AI Factory" plan where you have to apply for a proposal
Funnily enough @LambdaAPI actually shows "Design your AI Factory" on their landing, maybe they're trying to get that juicy EU money too (but I don't think they have servers in EU anyway)
So I sign up/login, select what GPU I want, like 8x H100s, which is $24/hour, select the location, add a filesystem and launch the server
Then about 5 minutes later, I have a running 8x H100 cluster, with a Jupyter notebook ready with Terminal access and I can see and work with my GPUs!
And no Lambda did not ask me if I was mindful of "Individual, and Social and Environmental Well-Being", and I did not need to apply to some proposal, and wait months.
They just gave me a GPU to build a business on, within 5 minutes, as it should be!
If the EU wants to help AI startups, the infrastructure is already there! Just fund/subsidize GPU rent prices for European citizens and businesses on existing European hosting companies like @Hetzner_Online or @OVHcloud that already have GPUs (where the process of getting a server is pretty much the same as Lambda btw)
For example, a 8x H100 is $24/hour now but with EU's funding could be $12/hour, giving European startups an unfair advantage to compete with the rest of the world for training and inference (generating)
Personally I don't think you should mess with the market like that, but this was the EU's intention, so then do it properly!
I thought about it in the shower this morning and realized I guess the fundamental problem in the EU is they just don't respect technology or the people making it. And they don't listen to them like they do elsewhere in for example US or China. You have lots of European founders who'd tell you the same I tell you here, but they're never heard by the EU either
In the US you have the top tech CEOs and founders at dinner with the president regularly to advise him and it feels more properly run and they actually listen to smart people
In China you have essentially technocrats running the country and fair you can disagree with their system (see Jack Ma etc. not great oaky) but they do understand tech as we can see from how fast they progress and deploy it
But the EU just never listens to skilled people, it's always design by committee by midwits and the EU is just systemically rekt like that. It's not a meritocracy at all
But I'm a European and an eternal optimist, so maybe we can help improve it by telling them how to do it then (like this tweet)
See how easy it could be @vonderleyen
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| Oct 23 |
๐ช๐บ As a European citizen and AI founder, I can apparently use these "AI Factories", so I just signed up to use them!
Every "supercomputer" has an [ ACCESS NOW ] button which made me very excited
I expected to sign up, maybe pay a discounted H100 rate (funded by EU, that'd be nice?) and get a Jypyter notebook, or some SSH login so I can access my GPU like I'd do on @lambdaapi or @awscloud or @Hetzner_Online
But I celebrated to early, I signed up, confirmed my email, then ended up in a "Supercomputer Access Calls" page, where I had to select from a tedious list of "Call For Proposals" to get access to a GPU
So I could NOT just access a H100 GPU, I have to make sure my project (in this case my business) fits a specific proposal, ok fair
This process was already tedious enough but then when I tried to actually go through with it, it started asking me if I had "Respect for Human Agency?", I do I think, and if I was mindful of "Individual, and Social and Environmental Well-Being?", well I am, right guys??? Right??? The questions didn't stop, just endless pages of this
Look I get what they're doing, they pivoted the classic university "I need to rent a giant computer for my research" to an EU wide thing and then present it as the "European AI plan"
But this isn't really how AI works in production? As a founder in AI, if I wanna do stuff I'd rent a whole bunch H100 GPUs again at @lambdaapi or @awscloud or @Hetzner_Online and SSH into a box
Or if I want it more simple I run AI models on @FAL, @wavespeed or @replicate which is just an API call or web front end I can click stuff and run a model
The EU has the right intentions here but it's just the wrong execution, this thing will 100% go nowhere, and I'm a born optimist, I want to believe, I'm also a proud European, and I'm in AI a bit and not a complete idiot. There's just better ways to do this
If you really want to have the GPU servers in Europe (which arguably isn't that important), then let me rent a GPU box with SSH access at @Hetzner_Online or @OVHcloud that's hosted in Europe and subsidize that for European citizens and European businesses. I don't even believe in that, but at least that'd make it accessible for Europeans. Now it really isn't?
What's REALLY much more important though if you want to be a part of the AI race and I've posted for years here with @euaccofficial is to make Europe a really extremely attractive place to start and run an AI business. Remove regulatory obstructions and give tax discounts for startups. Let them build a business first that can compete worldwide and once they make enough money (let's say $100M/y), then slowly start adding regulation. Because right now the regulation only benefits the European incumbents, the dinosaur companies, while making it very difficult for European citizens to start new AI companies here.
Which is why we literally have none left.
Anyway, I applied to get my GPU, let's see if I get it!
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RT @pmarca: https://t.co/y3WWGY5pkP
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I respect @PierreDeWulf
But this is a bit intellectually dishonest
He ran @scrapingbee there I think, Hetzner doesn't want scraping customers, they're pretty clear about that
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Meanwhile this guy says those 24,000 H100s are NOT part of it https://t.co/WWk7mHQX68
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Can't verify but this guy says there's 24,000 H100s offered for free as part of this which is good if true
Why not just focus it all on THAT data center and expand THAT one?
Why distribute it over "AI factories" which the majority of are just landing pages or AI consultancies?
https://t.co/z89Dsr1bFk
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This guy was at the meeting of the EU and national government to build "AI factories"
Nobody from the Dutch companies thought it was a good idea except one
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As always, we already have working ideas to make Europe an attractive place for AI companies
As crowdsourced and voted on by thousands of Europeans on here:
https://t.co/fU2jmU8tId
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This is a great point, we have real competitors to AWS etc. here like Hetzner and OVH
If EU wants to do something they should work with them, not these random supercomputer labs
It shows the bureaucrats in the EU have no clue about AI at all: they funded CPUs not GPUs ๐๐
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What in the F is an AI factory?
I had to investigate what the unelected @EU_Commission is talking about today
So according to them, it's some data centers (which they call supercomputers) in 6 different EU countries
I checked out the most powerful one: Karolina, a Czech data center, it mostly has CPUs though (see pic) not GPUs, so mostly useless for AI
The GPUs it does have are 72x 8x NVIDIA A100 GPU, so 576x A100, or equivalent of 240x H100s
(H100 is about 2.4x the compute power of A100)
So let's compare that:
@xAI has 200,000x H100 GPUs
So the xAI data center has 800x more compute than the Czech one
If we combine xAI, Meta, AWS, etc. it's about 750,000 H100s
If we assume the other 5 data centers in the EU are equivalent to the Czech one (which is massive stretch because most of the others seem AI consultacny services, they don't even HAVE chips!), the EU's new "AI factories" have a total of 1,440x H100 GPUs, let's round up to 1,500 to be nice
So the EU is trying to compete with 750,000 GPUs with their own 1,500 GPUs, so 500x less??
Correct me if I'm wrong but it's just seems very low impact and another ridiculous idea and burning of EU tax payers money that will end up in local cronies and bureaucrats and will do NOTHING to improve the AI business climate for Europe
The best way to improve it is to deregulate, make it super easy and low tax (especially when starting out) to start AI companies in Europe
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The Dutch took over in supremacy around 1620 from the Portuguese (and Spanish) and Amsterdam became the financial center of the world
๐ต๐น Portugal was 1 million people, the ๐ณ๐ฑ Dutch Republic was 2.5 million, so 2.5x the size, more people and more rich and dominated them at sea
๐ฌ๐ง Then around 1700 the British who were literally a poor backwater island looked what the Dutch were doing it, copied it very well and scaled it, they had 5 million people (2x more than the Dutch) and 7x more land (and resources)
๐บ๐ธ Then in 1950, after World War 2, the Americans took over from the British. The US had 150 million people, while UK had just 50, so US was 3x more, and they had 40x more land (and resources)
Do you see the pattern? The country who takes over next from the top empire usually copies them, and then has more people and more resources
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With Hyper Realism I think Photo AI now finally makes the best pics with highest resemblance of any image generator now, better than ChatGPT, Midjourney etc
Others better at artistic pics, but mine better at photos of real people
Hopefully this can push it up to $200K MRR by reducing churn and increasing sign ups
I can't win in advertising budget from the VC companies, but I can win in quality (at least for awhile!)
So here's some more pics hoping they get reposted elsewhere
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Hyper Realism randomly appeared on IG in Brazil this week ๐ง๐ท nice!!! https://t.co/lpvfCtwKvm
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RT @rob_mcrobberson: gonna start wearing these to the gym and telling everyone its because theyre comfortable https://t.co/OWnTg97mlp
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The rise seems to be attributable the new Hyper Realism pipeline I made that's only on Photo AI and Interior AI
The quality of pics is finally good enough https://t.co/Nd4tpVvNmN
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