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by oxplot 4y ago
First off, it's almost 2023. He didn't "just" call that person a pedophile. Also, the dude went to court - court found he wasted everyone's time, didn't pay him a cent. Turns out you can't just charge peop
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by oxplot 4y ago
> I would want the '1 million miles' warranty to mean 'if the truck stops working and can't be repaired by Tesla within a week I want this for everything I buy that if out of order, would cost me time or money. My hom
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by oxplot 4y ago
> Why is Elon held to such an impossibly high standard when he makes obviously-speculative projections about what he thinks will happen in the future? It's because he actually makes these projections while all the other CEOs are tig
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by oxplot 4y ago
The only thing that matters is the percentage of those failures before the 1mil miles. And that'll be a while. If Teslas had nearly any concerningly significant number of drivetrain failures, nobody would buy them and they've been
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by oxplot 4y ago
Outcomes speak for themselves. Tesla has had their timelines set back years and they're still ahead of everyone else in every category and their products sell like hot cakes. People who actually care about innovation and progress aren&
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by oxplot 4y ago
> Basically none of them are operationally able to go from 15 minute diesel fill ups on any corner to the infrastructure and load planning EVs require. Like they literally don’t have the software or expertise to plan the loads around ele
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by oxplot 4y ago
> These trucks are more expensive, require infrastructure that doesn’t exist, charge slower, and don’t go anywhere near as far as diesel trucks. And no fleets in North America are ready to figure out converting a 2000 mile long haul over
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by oxplot 4y ago
Those whose opinion actually matter have done the math and put orders in to save them cost in the long run. Of course, if right now, the load capacity or the range isn't applicable to one's business requirements, then Tesla Semi d
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by oxplot 4y ago
While it is theoretically possible to use overhead electric lines to power vehicles on highways, there are a few challenges that would need to be overcome in order to make this a practical solution. For one, the infrastructure required to s
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by oxplot 4y ago
To add to this, for AC, there is a conversion stage (ie inverter) that needs to convert it to DC to charge the batteries. This unit, at the currents that the Semi requires to be charged in a reasonable amount of time will be wasting too muc
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by oxplot 4y ago
> Tesla is dead as a company. Oh one of you. Would be great if you spread this as far as you can and get the Tesla share prices to drop so I can buy them cheap. Cheerio ;)
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by oxplot 4y ago
> I wonder if they did some studies to convince themselves that it's a good idea. They explicitly call out the research they did in collaboration with the industry and the drivers that informed this decision. All in the presentation
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by oxplot 4y ago
> You’re assuming that range is actually useful. I'm not assuming that. The entire trucking industry keeps talking about how they won't buy low range stuff. Also, while batteries are still slow to charge, any extra minute spent
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by oxplot 4y ago
The best metric I can think of is expected lifetime miles driven over total cost of ownership. But I don't get why you think it's backwards! You want kwh/mile to be low. Basically, you want to use as little amount of energy s
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by oxplot 4y ago
> Elon's word is worth very little these days His words are worth fine. Articles and second hand mangled version of what he actually says is worth nothing - I agree. As far as this topic is concerned, demand for Tesla Semi is enough
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by oxplot 4y ago
Those "contenders" are referenced in the article: - Escadia has less than half the range of Tesla Semi and ~6 times slower charging rate per mile. - Peterbilt has 3.5x less range that Tesla Semi and ~10 times slower charging rate
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by oxplot 4y ago
Watch the delivery event. They address that.
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by oxplot 4y ago
In the presentation, Musk stated that the drivetrain is guaranteed for 1 million miles. I have no data on what sort of guarantees Diesel Semi manufacturers offer. Would be good to work that out. There is battery life and degradation as well
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Tesla Semi, a Deep Dive(evuniverse.io)
181 points by oxplot 4y ago|497 comments
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by oxplot 4y ago
We need Elon to drop by HN next and clean up these mess of BS submissions that continue to amass 100+ points and not flagged to oblivion despite them being non-news. EDIT: and maybe we should penalize users on HN who post these stuff too
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by oxplot 4y ago
BTW, thanks for your relentless work here — much appreciated.
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by oxplot 4y ago
I'm amazed by how HN just takes every piece of data at face value and starts reacting to it like it's gospel. News story after news story. This place is no different than Twitter, Youtube comments, etc. It's very sad to watch
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by oxplot 4y ago
> The easiest way is to start by putting everything into one file. You can start simple, defer some decisions, and evolve your project with time. This is something that most even senior developers don’t grok. Default so called project st
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by oxplot 4y ago
Little confused - I’ve been using fractional scaling on Wayland for 6 months now!
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by oxplot 4y ago
Meanwhile my personal installation is 8 years old. It was initially installed on a desktop on btrfs and has since moved between three laptops and across to ext4 and now xfs. 150K lines in pacman log file. I love it.
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On-demand Postgres instances via transparent proxy(blog.mathspace.co)
2 points by oxplot 4y ago|0 comments
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by oxplot 4y ago
GDPR applies to any company that offers services to EU residents. It doesn’t matter if the company has any presence in the EU. Now, that means EU may not necessarily be able to force the company operating in a different country to pay up bu
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by oxplot 4y ago
One wheel scooter are generally more dangerous than their two or more wheeled counterparts because upon software bug or power loss, all control is lost. At higher speeds, serious injury is very likely.
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by oxplot 4y ago
> Under an agreement with the tribal government, Tesla will train tribal members to serve as service technicians. > But with 574 federally recognized tribal governments in 35 states, Tesla’s new strategy could do a lot to close that a
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by oxplot 4y ago
Implementation of EVERY service on AWS is unnecessarily complicated. Not an exaggeration. Making things simple takes considerable consideration and effort, and that costs money. AWS is a nano-margin business. As long as something works an

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