Sid Nguyen

cars, computers, kids, motorcycles, saints

[Sid Nguyen @sid_win]

@osazenoo This is ai. There isn’t a bridge over the Nile that close to the pyramids cool video though

[Grey @jgreyfriend]

• be Soichiro Honda
• born a blacksmith's son, despises school, loves the smell of oil
• 1936: spends his life savings developing a piston ring concept
• pitches it to Toyota; their engineers laugh at him
• out of 50 rings submitted, only 3 pass quality control
• Rejected.
• pawns his wife’s jewelry just to buy food and materials
• goes back to school at age 30 to learn metallurgy, gets bullied by younger students
• sits in the back, refuses to take exams, tells the professor: "A diploma won't feed me."
• finally perfects the manufacturing process, builds a factory
• 1944: US B-29 bombers destroy the factory.
• rebuilds it from the rubble
• 1945: Mikawa earthquake flattens it again.
• realizes the universe is telling him to stop
• sells the wreckage to Toyota, buys a giant tank of alcohol, and does nothing but drink for a year
• wakes up broke, sees his wife struggling to pedal her bicycle to the market
• has a spark of madness: finds a surplus radio generator engine and straps it to her bike
• it makes a "bata-bata" sound; neighbors beg him to make one for them
• founds Honda Motor Co. in a wooden shack
• 1954: company is near bankruptcy, but he announces he will enter the Isle of Man TT (the deadliest race on earth)
• "I pledge my entire heart and soul to win this race."
• goes to Europe, sees German engines are 3x more powerful, returns to Japan to work 18-hour days
• returns to the Isle of Man and dominates the 125cc and 250cc classes
• decides to build cars; Japanese Government (MITI) bans him
• "Japan doesn't need another car company. Stick to motorcycles."
• sends the government a furious letter: "I will do it anyway."
• enters Formula 1 in 1964 just to spite the bureaucrats
• 1973: US passes the Clean Air Act; GM and Ford say the standards are "impossible" to meet
• Honda buys a Chevy Impala, flies it to Japan, installs his CVCC engine heads on it
• flies it back to the US, passes the EPA test with flying colors
• humiliates the biggest car companies on earth with a fraction of their budget
• dies as the "Henry Ford of Japan"

Success represents the 1% of your work which results from the 99% that is called failure.

[Sid Nguyen @sid_win]

@Char_ElisabethK @LexitMovement1 Agreed

[Sid Nguyen @sid_win]

@garrytan @grok confirm this story

[Sid Nguyen @sid_win]

@MatthewLovesUSA @grok is that true?

[Sid Nguyen @sid_win]

@alsetcenter Would have been cool if u just drove it normal and see if it would have stopped with both cars. Most people don’t have fsd on or cruise. Thanks for the hard work.

[Sid Nguyen @sid_win]

@PapiTrumpo @grok what is it

[Sid Nguyen @sid_win]

Thanks @camjordan94 when we saw your family in the plane to Fort Lauderdale my son was so impressed with you. You never disappoint.

[Cam Jordan @camjordan94]

I am joining @GNOFoundation and the @CityOfNOLA by donating $25,000 to the New Year’s Day Tragedy Fund to support victims of the attack. Please consider donating to assist the families of those who lost their lives and those who were severely injured.

Donate to help those impacted: https://t.co/AbZY3rzUuM

[Sid Nguyen @sid_win]

Went to New Jersey. #notaplane. Maybe a #dronesoverNJ #dronesightings Used @NightSky to confirmed #notastar. It was stationary for over 15min.

[Sid Nguyen @sid_win]

@elonmusk @VivekGRamaswamy y’all should definitely give Brian https://t.co/kPoL4c2H3A a spot #doge he’s awesome and a wealth of knowledge

[Sid Nguyen @sid_win]

I just had the best breakfast sandwich ever @ElementHotel @Marriott I thought that was butter but instead it was grilled cheese on the outside of the bread with grilled ham and eggs. The fluffy pancake and latte hit the spot.

[Sid Nguyen @sid_win]

One thing to add @JohnStossel is fema only covers $250k. Living in New Orleans most people carry flood insurance but there isn’t enough to rebuild our homes. Then u have the opposite like in Fallon Nevada when the damn failed plenty of homes were destroyed and they never had flood insurance since they live in the desert.

[Sid Nguyen @sid_win]

Over 2 days no service from @ATT went o @BestBuy this morning and grabbed a @Starlink got it up and running in 15min. @elonmusk would be nice if we could get the $50 plan without having to activate under the unlimited roaming first. Nice to be back online.

[Sid Nguyen @sid_win]

@ATT been down two days due to fiber issues. Went to @BestBuy got myself @Starlink got up in 30min. Hardest part was trying to get a 50gb roam plan. @elonmusk would be nice if that was an option during activate. I had to get the unlimited plan first then change.

[Sid Nguyen @sid_win]

@elonmusk I asked #grok who will win and it answered trump. I asked #llamas and it said trump too. #chatgpt stilly thought Biden was running and #claude refuse to answer lol.

[Sid Nguyen @sid_win]

By far one of the best features of iOS 18 with #iphone 15 or 16 pro is call recording. This single feature I use whenever I get a call that I suspect is #phishing attack. 99% of the time they hang up when they hear the message. Good job @Apple attackers can change their called-id

[Sid Nguyen @sid_win]

Great work. Unreal.

[Sid Nguyen @sid_win]

This is why you need to make sure you have water in your water pan in your bullet #smoker when you smoking fatty meats like a #brisket

[Sid Nguyen @sid_win]

@elonmusk I just signed up for #GROK and I noticed something very unique about @grok. I asked it a question and the answer starts off wrong but about 2/3 of the way through the answer, grok begins to correct itself and answers the question correctly @xai I have never seen any other #gpt do that. I asked a follow up and the explanation was acknowledged its own shortcoming. #goodjob

[Sid Nguyen @sid_win]

By far most decked out house I’ve ever seen for Halloween. They also have a fund raiser for a non profit for @StJude They have expanded their collection every year #Halloween2024