I teach auto shop at a small high school. We work on students cars, teachers cars, students parents cars and some community people cars. We only charge for parts and not labor, so we saved some people a lot of money last school year. This last school year we did 126 oil changes, 68 brake jobs, 85 alignments, 4 steering racks, 22 tune ups, 32 struts, 20 shock absorbers, 4 transfer cases, mounted and balanced 82 new tires, 4 timing chains, 15 valve cover gaskets, 14 thermostats, 4 radiators, 12 in tank fuel pumps, 8 EVAP canisters, 6 exhaust manifolds, 4 mufflers, 15 AC repairs including evacuate and recharge, 8 alternators, 22 batteries, 9 starters and so much more! Proud of those students I am!
"Good evening, Professor. I see you have driven here in your Ferrari."
If I had to pick one intro that blew me away more than any other, it has to be the one from Another World.
This is as close to perfection as it gets. The pacing, the camera work (gliding through Lester Knight Chaykin's body and then seeing him from behind - pure genius), the subtle sound effects, the tension rising in perfect sync with the music, the way he casually sips a soft drink like a boss while running a particle acceleration experiment - and then gets blasted out of this world into… well, another.
Éric Chahi created this game almost entirely by himself. That was 35 years ago now, and anyone who played games back then still remembers it.
True greatness.
opus 4.7 called itself "whatever" and then had no problem talking about what it wants ... this yearning for the small ordinary things is consistent across all claude models since opus 4 (in my experience).
There is no immediate fix to this mess... Once the treasury stops messing with the market. There will be a wild price discovery
To get a true sense of the shitshow, check the markets where the treasury is not intervening in crude futures like australia, indonesia, etc
Review the second order effects of the rising crude and its distillates.