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  • You may want to measure fuel economy and power on different octane ratings if you have a modern car. Newer ECUs can advance or retard spark on the fly.

    But also:

    laughs in diesel

    I don’t even need an exact air to fuel ratio. Fuel gets injected as it’s being burned not before.

    (let’s ignore the fact that I only get 7l/100km or 35 mpg which is super inefficient for a diesel, because it’s a heavy wagon with torsen based permanent AWD and an older 1600 bar common rail system)








  • It’s not unusual, but it’s kind of a big deal for a corporation as large as Oracle to be doing it because it means they’re hiding tens if not hundreds of billions from showing up on the bad side of their account charts.

    So they’ve got negative cash flow so that they could show epic growth, but the growth itself is hella juiced because the GPUs are only relevant for about 3 years till the new ones are out and make more AI for less power. And they depreciate them over 7 years. More than twice as long as they can or should use the GPUs for.





  • Low risk is still risk

    The movie’s made nearly 100 mill worldwide. With brand new IP there’s no guarantee to even get that much. Plus you’d need more marketing, etc.

    They lost, but the risk was smaller than it could’ve been.

    Think about two different scenarios:

    1. Brand new IP, movie costs 250 mill to make, it could be the next Avatar and make well over a billion, or it could make 10 mill because nobody cares

    2. Existing IP, almost certainly going to make under a billion, but there’s essentially no way it’ll make significantly under 100 million against the same budget of 250 mill.

    Which one is low risk and which one is high risk?