Darcy

👍🏼💩 Founder of RFID Solutions for Inventory, Linen & Unmanned Retail Automation. Building better—products, systems, myself, and the future

[Darcy @DarcyDs]

Today’s comfort is yesterday’s hard work.

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@TimdeKraker @wholemars @teslaeurope And this is what our future should look like. Imagine growing up with this

[Darcy @DarcyDs]

@FredLambert @28delayslater The card is layered, for those who don’t see it. It’s a separate module on the mainboard if you will.

Also grok has great image recognition:
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[Darcy @DarcyDs]

🇳🇱 Tesla FSD just got its first European approval — and the Dutch regulator’s careful wording tells you everything.

AI-assisted driving is the next chapter — and this approval is a serious, carefully verified step in that direction.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

The RDW (Netherlands Vehicle Authority) approved Tesla’s Full Self-Driving Supervised after **18 months of rigorous testing — both on closed test tracks and live public roads. 1.6 million kilometres driven. 4,500+ test scenarios on track. 13,000 ride-alongs.** @LTAsg

This is one of Europe’s most technically credible vehicle authorities doing the work, and putting their name on it.

What’s actually approved here is in a different league to existing systems.
RDW mentions BMW and Ford BlueCruise as comparable examples. But read carefully: those approvals cover hands-free motorway driving only — lane-keeping.

Tesla’s approval covers the full range of driving tasks across all road types, under driver supervision. It’s not an incremental upgrade. It’s a fundamentally different capability.

The “driver is responsible” statement is crucial. This sets the tone for policy making and liability. The driver remains responsible and must always participate in traffic—eyes on the road, hands ready to take over immediately if needed.

What RDW actually says is that FSD’s continuous driver monitoring makes it safer than other driver assistance systems. They stress-tested it for 18 months across real European roads and signed off. That conclusion carries weight.

The EU version is not the US version.
Europe required Tesla to build and validate a separately approved software version against European roads, regulations and safety standards. The EU approval process is fundamentally stricter than the US model, where manufacturers self-certify and regulators check afterwards. Here, every detail was verified in advance. The result is a system that has earned its approval rather than assumed it.

Why this matters beyond Tesla.
18 months of European road data — roundabouts, narrow streets, complex intersections — fed back into one of the world’s most advanced AI training pipelines.

Every kilometre driven under RDW supervision wasn’t just a compliance exercise. It was the system learning. That data makes the next version safer. And the version after that safer still. The feedback loop between real-world deployment and AI improvement is exactly how this technology gets better for everyone on the road — in any car.

What comes next:
RDW now submits to the European Commission. All member states vote. A majority unlocks EU-wide deployment — potentially by summer 2026.

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@GovTechSG @LawrenceWongST @tesla_singapore

[Darcy @DarcyDs]

Allow private owners to bid for their own COEs.

The current COE prices are inflated because:
1. Car prices are sold with COE bundled
2. EV rebates have made cheap EVs extremely profitable.

Cost of a car is easily tracked via its import value (OMV).

@LTAsg

[The Straits Times @straits_times]

COE prices up across all categories; Cat A premium rises 5.5% to $118,000 https://t.co/9ctCTLfufh

[Darcy @DarcyDs]

It's April 7th today, ollama 0.20.3. Still can't get the dates right or search properly

[Darcy @DarcyDs]

Been testing Gemma4 (32b) locally for a day. It’s broken.

Things you need to know:
• Tool calling was broken until Ollama 0.20.2 — and even now the model defaults to *answering from training data instead of calling its tools*
• It thinks the date is May 2024. Confidently.
• When it finally searched and got the correct date (April 2026), it was challenged to re-verify and it did not call web search. Instead, it decided that April 2026 was a simulation and the user (me) was trying to trick it.
• It then wrote an audit report praising itself for “recovering from a hallucination” — the hallucination was that the “search results” were a simulated reality.

The model is smart. The benchmarks are real. But it fundamentally doesn’t treat tool results as more trustworthy than its own weights.

If you’re building agents with Gemma4: you need an aggressive harness. Forced tool calls, date injection, output validation. Don’t let the model decide when to search.

Raw reasoning? Great.
Agentic reliability? Not there yet.

[Darcy @DarcyDs]

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[Darcy @DarcyDs]

Risk management isn't about eliminating risk—it's about choosing the right ones. The ones that create leaps! Assess, mitigate, then commit. No risk, no progress. 🚀

Singapore's transformation from nothing into a global powerhouse was built on calculated risks: FDI, trade, investing in people. We should never rest of our laurels, safety is the enemy of progress. Forge our own path and walk in fearlessly.

[Darcy @DarcyDs]

Live in the future and we’ll build great products

[Darcy @DarcyDs]

"You cannot show me a task that is beneath me" ~ Jensen Huang

As the leader or member, roll up your sleeves for every job—cleaning the office, fixing bugs, or answering support tickets. A core principle that our team is built on.

[Darcy @DarcyDs]

“10% of your work hours should be spent freeing your mind to wander, research, learn and plan.” - Hong (a network installer)

Chats with business owners.

[Darcy @DarcyDs]

Yet another price increase. @Xero used to be our go to choice for accounting software, now they’re only sticking around because we’ve integrated and have no time to explore alternatives. Pricing has been increasing without any improvements to their product. In fact they’ve been removing features that are used by users. Till date:

1. No automated generation of monthly client outstanding statements.
2. Removed payroll features August 2025.
3. Multi-currency syncs with Singapore banks don’t work.
4. Unnecessary changes to invoice and billing UI. While subjective, new UI made no improvement to core product functionality
5. Sales tax calculation strictly follows Xero’s method of adding taxes per line item which often results in an over estimation of tax.

If anyone has alternatives throw them my way.

[Darcy @DarcyDs]

@comma_ai Received a wrong harness been trying to reach the team for help, anyone? Really excited to try these but it’s been more than a week of trying to reach out

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@elonmusk Great way to penetrate the market 🤷🏻‍♂️

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@robmaurer At 7:00 was it ok to go straight through on the left turn learn? Looked like it past the first junction on a left turn only lane.

[Darcy @DarcyDs]

@jamesdouma Does it perform differently on CT?

[Guillaume Huin @HuinGuillaume]

Volvo posted a 3 min and 46 second ad on Instagram, shot by Hoyte Van Hoytema, the cinematographer of Interstellar and Oppenheimer.

It goes against every single rule you can think about as a social lead. Length. Format. Over-produced.

Every comment under the ad said it immediately put Volvo in their consideration set. It's fucking fantastic.