darganon
@darganon@lemmy.world
- Comment on For here am I sitting in my tin can 2 months ago:
They have a squat machine up there.
- Comment on Elon Musk says Tesla is an AI company now. Here’s how plausible that is. 2 months ago:
See, you are incapable of nuance.
Also, you said he “literally” said something twice that is plain wrong. Enjoy your alternate reality.
- Comment on Elon Musk says Tesla is an AI company now. Here’s how plausible that is. 2 months ago:
This is what I’m talking about, that was from the investor call, which you didn’t read the transcript to, and have a cherry picked paraphrase.
I can’t do the fancy formatting, but here’s the quote:
I mean, I don’t know what our competitors can do, except we’ve done relatively better than they have because if you look at the drop in our competitors in China sales versus our drop in sales, our drop was less than theirs. So, we’re doing well. But I think Cathie Wood said it best. Like really, we should be thought of as an AI or robotics company.
If you value Tesla as just like an auto company, you just have to – fundamentally, it’s just the wrong framework and if you ask the wrong question, then the right answer is impossible. So, I mean, if somebody doesn’t believe Tesla is going to solve autonomy, I think they should not be an investor in the company. Like that is, but we will and we are and then you have a car that goes from 10 hours of use a week, like an hour and a half a day to probably 50%, but it costs the same.
Here’s the question he was answering:
OK. My follow-up, Elon, on future products. If you had nailed execution, assuming that you nail execution on your next-gen cheaper vehicles, more aggressive giga castings, I don’t want to say one piece, but getting closer to, say, one-piece structural pack, unboxed, 300-mile range, $25,000 price point, putting aside robotaxi, those features unique to you. How long would it take your best Chinese competitors to copy a cheaper and better vehicle that you could offer a couple of years from now? How long would it take your best Chinese competitors to copy that? Thanks.
So for your nuance, I see something along the lines of “Our value isn’t in simply the vehicles, it’s in the FSD/robotaxi concept, so speculating on someone copying our car it won’t eat into our business because autonomous driving will be the best of everything.”
Now, I don’t agree with all of that, but get some nuance in your life.
- Comment on Elon Musk says Tesla is an AI company now. Here’s how plausible that is. 2 months ago:
Yeah, their powerwall, and the Mega pack. Also yes, they brand themselves as an energy company. They make really, really big batteries. They also operate superchargers, which if you have experience with electric vehicles are streets ahead of any other charging networks.
www.tesla.com/support/…/virtual-power-plant
And no, they don’t sell FSD for other cars, but it’s still an AI product they are selling to people for money, right now. Maybe in the future they’ll license it out to other people, but that’s pure speculation on my part.
I’m not sure if you can buy their car batteries individually, haven’t looked into it, although I have looked into buying a used one and using that as a power wall, as it would be cheaper for shitloads of storage.
I don’t like Musk either, but you’re willfully ignoring quite a lot of what Tesla does and has accomplished because of their mouthpiece. Talking about it requires nuance because they have done a tremendous amount of good, while making some suboptimal changes.
- Comment on Elon Musk says Tesla is an AI company now. Here’s how plausible that is. 2 months ago:
Tesla sells a shitload of batteries outside of their cars, so yeah I’d say they’re a battery company.
They also sell the FSD software, which is “AI” so they do have an AI offering, for some definition of AI.
Also, they sell solar panels, so they’re a solar panel company.
- Comment on How does car insurance on multiple vehicles work (USA) 3 months ago:
Liability only is dramatically cheaper, and older vehicles cost less. My motorcycle is $90 a year, whereas my Model 3 and my wife’s CX-5 is $3600 a year combined.
- Comment on Samsung delivers 600-mile solid-state EV battery as it teases 9-minute charging and 20-year lifespan tech 3 months ago:
The answer is always no. I just want to know who these people are that wake up, get in their truck, tow their boat 800 miles every single day are.
They don’t exist, they would just rather inconvenience themselves 364 days a year to shave an hour off a long trip one day a year.
It’s absurd.
- Comment on All the ways streaming services are aggravating their subscribers this week 6 months ago:
Netflix is a public company, you can just go look at how wrong you are about this.
They took in $9.3 billion in Q1 2024, and spent $702 million on “technology” and $3.7 billion on adding “content assets”
Their net profit was $2.3 billion, for one quarter. They could afford to just charge less money, but the line must go up.
- Comment on Why people are boycotting Asus all of a sudden? Asus outrage explained 6 months ago:
I saw this headline and immediately thought “ArmouryCrate is the reason”
I certainly avoid ASUS stuff after discovering that piece of nonsense on my new install.
- Comment on YSK: it's not just Tesla, 1/3 of cars in built in the last ten years have passenger/rear windows that are almost impossible to break in an emergency. 7 months ago:
There is a separate 12v that gets recharged by the HV.
- Comment on YSK: it's not just Tesla, 1/3 of cars in built in the last ten years have passenger/rear windows that are almost impossible to break in an emergency. 8 months ago:
Keep ranting, but the door locks run off of the 12v.
- Comment on What does your current setup look like? 8 months ago:
I have a Lenovo TS140 in the laundry room, i3-4330, 16GB, 2TB of SSD running arch.
In docker I am running:
Plex, Wire guard, Qbittorrent, Pihole, my discord bot, nginx, and Teslamate.
Works great, I’m probably going to swap my gaming rig in (5800x + 3080 12GB) with more RAM to host some AI stuff and the same services.
- Comment on Microsoft in their infinite wisdom has replaced the Hide Desktop icon with Copilot. 8 months ago:
It’s windows security center, Everything search, locales, sound settings, time, copilot, surely not that bad.
Everything is installed by the user, not sure why the locales are there, but maybe he swaps keyboard layouts?
- Comment on ‘Boycott Tesla’ ads to air during Super Bowl — “Tesla dances away from liability in Autopilot crashes by pointing to a note buried deep in the owner’s manual, that says Autopilot is only safe on fr... 8 months ago:
I have a Tesla, they make it extremely clear that you are never supposed to touch autopilot under any circumstances, and you have to go way out of your way to prevent it from disengaging while you’re not paying attention.
- Comment on A New Chapter For Mozilla 8 months ago:
They’re going to screw their business customers to claw back value for themselves?
- Comment on Anti-aging pill for senior dogs is now in clinical trials 9 months ago:
Artificial insemination is common with the breeders I am familiar with. Though I’m not sure breeding racks are necessarily animal abuse, dogs in heat are fucking horny.
- Comment on Can I get some Bachelor Chow already? 9 months ago:
Yeah, there’s a long history but it sort of spawned from people wanted Bachelor Chow irl
- Comment on Anti-aging pill for senior dogs is now in clinical trials 9 months ago:
If people stop paying for dogs, they will stop breeding them to sell.
Also, I accept death as part of life, but I still look both ways before crossing the street. I’m not getting off this ride any sooner than I have to.
- Comment on Anti-aging pill for senior dogs is now in clinical trials 9 months ago:
Not all breeders are puppy mills, or producing brachycephalic breeds, but they are out there, and there’s other breeders putting longer noses on pugs and Frenchies.
- Comment on Can I get some Bachelor Chow already? 9 months ago:
I do, but breakfast and lunch five days a week is more planning and effort than I’m willing to do, so Soylent just gives me back time and energy. Now if I had private chef money, id be rocking French toast every morning before work
- Comment on Anti-aging pill for senior dogs is now in clinical trials 9 months ago:
Why, though?
I’m pretty cynical, but this is a new level.
Greedy breeders already “produce” more dogs than there are loving families for and as a result dog shelters are constantly full with sad dogs who don´t have a home. This drug will result in shelters getting even more overcrowded.
My dog lives longer and shelters get more crowded? That’s a complete non-sequitor. Much like my choice of lunch doesn’t impact your lunch situation.
Perhaps my reading comprehension is poor, but the article seems to indicate that the pill will give a dog more “active years” and not necessarily more years. I guess we’ll find out in four years when it’s done.
- Comment on Can I get some Bachelor Chow already? 9 months ago:
Works great, it’s about as cheap as you can get for food, and takes like 10 minutes every two days to prepare.
- Comment on Can I get some Bachelor Chow already? 9 months ago:
Wanting bachelor chow is basically how I ended up eating Soylent every day.
- Comment on Supreme Court declines to hear Apple-Epic antitrust case, meaning developers can point customers to the web 9 months ago:
I’m not an antitrust lawyer, but I suspect the fact that Android exists makes iPhone not a monopoly.
AT&T owned the phone lines and the equipment, leading to that problem. So if Apple went and bought all of the cell service providers and said “You’re only allowed to use iPhones” that would be similar, and they would probably cease to exist relatively quickly.
- Comment on Supreme Court declines to hear Apple-Epic antitrust case, meaning developers can point customers to the web 9 months ago:
Is it possible to root for both sides to lose in court?
Apple sucks, but it’s their platform, their rules. Android exists, so saying they have a monopoly doesn’t seem right, because they have a monopoly over people that choose to use their products.
Epic wants access to those people, without paying for it.
Ideally neither company would exist, but they’re both not “right” either.
- Comment on Google lays off hundreds in Assistant, hardware, engineering teams 9 months ago:
The commute to work on smart screens going away is a headscratcher. How complicated could it be?
- Comment on When people say that apps are stealing your data, what exactly does that mean? 10 months ago:
That’s pretty gross, but the fries are tasty!
- Comment on When people say that apps are stealing your data, what exactly does that mean? 10 months ago:
They surely agreed to it, the mixup is that people in general don’t realize how much data and how often Tim Horton’s wants to collect it.
Tim Horton’s should probably just know which Tim Horton’s you’re closest to when you go to place an order, and that’s about it. There’s no reason they should even be allowed to ask to track you all day every day, even if you agree.
That’s sort of the gist of it.
- Comment on What's up with Epic Games? 10 months ago:
I don’t think steam has any anti-competitive behavior that I’m aware of.
Fortnite has roughly 100 million more monthly active users than steam, to say nothing of every piece of software running Unreal Engine, Epic is huge.
- Comment on What's up with Epic Games? 10 months ago:
Who cares about the backing if it has no effect on anything?
It’s more illustrating that Epic isn’t underfunded. I don’t know anything about steam in China.