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by thomaskcr 3y ago
Just starting to record food in an app made a huge difference for me, I was working out pretty aggressively and making progress on lifting/biking but my weight wasn't moving until I started recording calories. I still have days wh
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by thomaskcr 4y ago
I like that we're arguing over the word "recall" being an issue when the system it applies to is called "full self driving". I think calling a level 2 driver assistance system "full self driving" is a much
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by thomaskcr 4y ago
Tesla is only far ahead in their willingness to take on risk and make at least partially untrue claims. There are multiple companies running actual robo-taxis in other cities but not a single city Tesla is running actual driverless vehicles
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by thomaskcr 4y ago
"People who believe the system they paid 10-12k for called 'full self driving' should be able to drive itself are idiots" is a pretty special class of Elon bootlicking. People who understand the system don't buy it
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by thomaskcr 4y ago
That's not true and Karpathy has confirmed it multiple times. They can create a fingerprint for data they want the system to feed back to the mothership and they may manually label datasets fed back through the report button on the MCU
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by thomaskcr 4y ago
> these are support agents and they need access to customer data to do their job. In these cases, the support agents should not have the ability to open support tickets or modify the companies on them - and then you can give them superus
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by thomaskcr 5y ago
It would have been, Musk didn't think so and felt the need to embellish/exaggerate - his habit of exaggerating/lying I think is more on trial than the actual Tesla vehicles here.
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by thomaskcr 5y ago
Trump literally still calls it the "Trump Vaccine". Also I think people forget how much airtime went into "the vaccine isn't the answer" once Trump started talking about warp speed and the second the election was ov
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by thomaskcr 5y ago
> 2) do not give you a chance to explain your point of view. You can't eliminate the department meant to answer media queries and then cry that they don't tell your side. He chose to remove the PR department. > 1) purposely
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by thomaskcr 5y ago
It seems to me that Elon has pulled the pin in the grenade and is now standing there daring the regulators to do something. I think he has realized FSD is a lot further off than they are still saying - and it's an out for him to be abl
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by thomaskcr 5y ago
I feel like 90% of modern cars would have stopped for the object blocking the lane. Even if the police weren't there, then it would have just smashed into the car stopped on the highway. The fact it didn't recognize the police car
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by thomaskcr 5y ago
> Beta button will request permission to assess driving behavior using Tesla insurance calculator. The CA Insurance Board should have some questions about this. According to the paperwork filed by State National (the actual insurance com
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by thomaskcr 5y ago
Do you mean panasonic battery factory? Because that's who Tesla buys most of their cells from (some LG and in China CATL). Tesla has no scale battery manufacturing right now.
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by thomaskcr 5y ago
There was a point in the pandemic (very early) where saying people should be wearing masks would have been considered misinformation compared to official statements from the CDC. That should be the only argument against this required. Also
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by thomaskcr 5y ago
> And don't forget the power bill. Some old servers idle at hundreds of watts, which will add up over the several years you leave it running. 24/7 server hardware is a good example of where it makes sense to be mindful of power
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by thomaskcr 5y ago
We've been hiring in Panama and its not cheaper really at the end of the day but there's a lot more people to hire. I might do 10 interviews for a position there and find someone vs over 50 in the US and not find anyone. In the pa
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by thomaskcr 5y ago
It's one thing to sell "Full Self Driving" with the idea that you are basically preordering and get access for now to something that is level 2 but more advanced than any other level 2 system. I don't know how you sell a
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by thomaskcr 5y ago
> Tesla is achieving vertical integration to a degree no other mainstream auto OEM has achieved. Tesla has made a lot of claims - volumetric efficiency, worrying about air resistance, when Musk toured the Toyota factory there was talk of
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by thomaskcr 5y ago
Yeah, and then if you under reserve on warranty costs and stuff repairs into "goodwill" under Services/Other, people who don't know better will go on the internet and talk about how it's fine for the company to not
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by thomaskcr 5y ago
Almost no one is buying these systems outright and based on my experience last year buying a house the ones with solar leases were unattractive to buyers since they had been on the market for months compared to the single digit days for hou
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by thomaskcr 5y ago
This is why Musk gets away with what he does, his fans never know better. The Freemont gigafactory isn't even producing close to as many cars as when it was the NUMMI plant run by GM and Toyota. Tesla's competitive advantage was a
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by thomaskcr 6y ago
> Because a large portion of the population in the USA is philosophically opposed to any kind of government regulation or action. My biggest issue is that it seems like regulations are being wielded as weapons against those that aren&#x2
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by thomaskcr 6y ago
He said on an earnings call just a couple years ago that when he did the Toyota factory tour things were moving like granny on a walker slow and you would need a strobe light to see how fast the Tesla machines were moving and they were need
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by thomaskcr 6y ago
I think a lot of people just know once done, this is not the last time a tech company will get letters from senators asking for content to be removed. This time, I happen to agree that the claim the election was stolen is actively harmful b
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by thomaskcr 6y ago
Not only that, they went after the short sellers who were writing about it publicly. > Germany's pursuit of short sellers began when Perring’s previously little-known outfit, called Zatarra Research, published its report about Wirec
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by thomaskcr 6y ago
This is a picture from a Windows 10 Enterprise domain joined machine with a whole set of GPOs we try to keep up with this type of stuff: https://imgur.com/a/M5d9MVt That's a lot of space devoted to just old versio
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by thomaskcr 6y ago
He said "funding secured", the board knew nothing of what was going on and scrambled to make it retroactively true. > because they put too much stock in Elon's twitter feed. That would be a wonderful argument, if the compa
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by thomaskcr 6y ago
Here's the transcript of the briefing today timestamped to what I said: https://www.rev.com/transcript-editor/shared/HPqI45S2jtcETVF... Talking about Buffalo: > Aide: We have been talking to Tesla. They’r
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by thomaskcr 6y ago
Per Cuomo's aide they were asked to make a valve and have made no progress on doing what they were asked by Medtronic. Its stupid to build an entire ventilator from scratch as a company that doesn't even do biomed stuff, everyone
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by thomaskcr 6y ago
Things are significantly more just in time than they were then. Companies hold debt, minimize cash, and minimize inventory, optimizing for efficiency and not robustness and this is an event well outside the likely operating parameters of ev

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