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Just watched Jamie Chadwick make history at Road America. The first woman to win on a road course in the series history. Fantastic stuff, and a long way from her difficulties last year. She did the work over the winter.

Happy Friday everyone. Hope your weekends are good and you all get the rest you deserve.

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"Stop using the same goddamn password everywhere!"

Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address, 1972

Campus is at it's quietest in June. Although this ostensibly suits my grumpy introverted nature, I much prefer it when all the kids are about.

By this mentality, the entire shorts market would not exist. Investments go down as well as up. They even say that in the ads.

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There is actually a movie about how the banks got cleaned out (along with the rest of the world). Internet investors are such fools.

It's only about 80F here but it's that horrific sort of humid where it feels like stepping into a sauna when the front door is opened.

So you could actually - if a home user - save yourself a pretty penny by ordering with Windows and doing what you want with it once you get it.

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Looking at the Dell configurator for the XPS 13; they're being sneaky with the OS loadout. Time was Linux was free (for obvious reasons) now they are offering a ~$100-$150 dollar incentive to ship it with windows. dell.com/en-us/shop/dell-lapto

My dog is just sitting staring at me, which usually means "There is food somewhere in this house, and you are not giving me it"

The TT is completely unique. Also completely bonkers It's like a throwback to older, much more dangerous times.
youtu.be/3CVAVAU5Tpg

Looking forward to reading this early (one of the very first) motorsport chassis design bibles

I am trying to stop myself going on a rant of the consequences of managers getting excited about buzzwords. I have been through this, in the course of 15yrs, with CRM, Cloud, and Containerization. It comes up every few years.

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My boss has asked me to 'investigate Kubernetes'. Here we go again.

It's on Reddit so I have already eaten my own fingers this morning, but this is an interesting find about the dangers of automotive telemetry. Of course they're fucking selling it. One ithat made me think of @onepict
reddit.com/r/Hyundai/comments/

Frank Dernie (of Williams fame) talks to Tom Clarkson, mentioning how his ASD was a key part of his approach to work. youtu.be/O3FnvISSNsE

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ive said this before but i dislike the term "hallucination" for AI because that implies that there's some malfunction going on when it says glue is delicious on pizza, when in reality it's doing the exact same thing as it was before. it's only doing symbol manipulation and is running into the exact same hurdles that computer scientists ran up against in the 1960s: it only knows about the signifiers and not the things they signify

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