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- Comment on xkcd #3081: PhD Timeline 4 days ago:
Ah, back to the good ol this medication might be more harmful to women and we don’t know because we only use middle aged white men for the tests!
- Comment on xkcd #3081: PhD Timeline 4 days ago:
I hope the authors skin is white
- Comment on Waymo reports 250,000 paid robotaxi rides per week in U.S. 4 days ago:
It’s probably going to happen in June like they said, it’s just a matter of how long before something really bad happens and they have to stop, because something bad is probably going to happen. But it probably is imminent, temporarily.
- Comment on I'm bored and desperately search for a proper game 5 days ago:
Slay the spire is really fun and different than what you’ve listed.
It was the first rogue like deck building game. Fantastically done.
- Comment on Applying 'extreme heat' to lithium-ion batteries reportedly restores their capacity, and I think it's the sustainable tech breakthrough of 2025 5 days ago:
Putting my LG Flex which had a boot loop problem due to a soldering issue on the battery solved the problem temporarily!
- Comment on Tesla's "Predictive" Odometers Had 9+ Drivers Complaining of Inaccuracy Before Lawsuit. We Even Found Video! 6 days ago:
Their insurance is (was?) kind of like that as well if you get the saftey score one. While some things are more general like following distance, they have one for forward collision warnings.
I’m not sure how much time you’ve spent in a Tesla, but that system is notorious for going off incorrectly. It’s specifically really bad with parked cars on the side of the road on turns. So you’re driving along, and it goes off and now your insurance premiums are more expensive.
I don’t think you could find a single Tesla owner who hasn’t had multiple false warnings, and consistently in certain circumstances.
So someone of course starts a lawsuit and Tesla initially defends itself, but just last week or something like that, it’s no longer part of the safety score
- Comment on Blue Shield of California shared the private health data of millions with Google for years 6 days ago:
It goes further than that. They can track how people interact with the page, order of buttons pressed, if or when they abort a workflow etc. You can go as deep down the rabbit hole of analytics and optimizations as you want.
- Comment on Elon Musk: your new Tesla will drive from the factory floor, to your house 'this year' 1 week ago:
I’d want whatever the warranty was to be the same plus the miles.
So if it’s 5 year 50k miles and I get it at 1k, I 'd want 5 year 51k miles.
- Comment on Tesla Slumps Below 50% Share of California's Electric Car Market 1 week ago:
Even at these lower prices, Tesla makes more money on their EVs than their competitors. That’s part of why the others haven’t been able to expand and compete as quickly. Expanding an expensive vehicle becomes a bigger liability. GM is only planning to have their first EV profitable year this year, and I’ll believe it when I see it.
The Cybertruck is probably another story though, I don’t know if that’s profitable at the lower than expected sales rate.
- Comment on Tesla (TSLA) has to replace computer in ~4 million cars or compensate their owners 2 weeks ago:
The only people he’s going to have to upgrade are those who purchased it. In the past there’s been some small claims court cases where someone won about being upgraded for a subscription, but if that is truly a concern, Tesla could stop the subscriptions for a few years and let the cars age out. They have no obligations to offer a subscription.
Also, they only need to upgrade cars when it’d actually capable. The promise is to upgrade cars to capable hardware, not upgrade cars with every hardware iteration, so as long as hw4 can’t actually do it, they’re likely in the clear as well.
Given most people don’t think they can actually make fsd work, then they’re in the clear.
If they somehow make it work, the upgrade cost is going to be peanuts compared to the insane amount of money they’d start printing.
So it’s not much if a story.
- Comment on Okay, who had Trump loyalty pins for Apocalyptic-Bingo this Sunday? Games just getting started, stay tuned! 2 weeks ago:
ChatGPT refused to put the pin on the hat with some bones on it for me.
- Comment on Okay, who had Trump loyalty pins for Apocalyptic-Bingo this Sunday? Games just getting started, stay tuned! 2 weeks ago:
Not gonna lie, as much as I hate this, that pin is a pretty good representation.
- Comment on Okay, who had Trump loyalty pins for Apocalyptic-Bingo this Sunday? Games just getting started, stay tuned! 2 weeks ago:
Then it’ll be on thy army helmets, and maybe we could but some bones across it to show how they’re baddies… err uh sorry i meant bad ass.
- Comment on Jack Dorsey and Elon Musk would like to ‘delete all IP law’ | TechCrunch 2 weeks ago:
I’m pretty much on board with getting rid of software patents as they are absolutely ridiculous, but I don’t think we should necessarily get rid of the rest, but they do require reform.
- Comment on Car safety experts at NHTSA, which regulates Tesla, axed by DOGE 2 weeks ago:
Yikes that’s a bad rate.
It would be nice to get rid of it, but it will cost a lot more money that no one wants to pay even if it’s actually a good use of it.
- Comment on Car safety experts at NHTSA, which regulates Tesla, axed by DOGE 2 weeks ago:
The Cybertruck doesn’t violate any US laws, there’s nothing to disallow it.
And while OEMs do self certify, they get spot checked to ensure compliance. There’s too many new vehicles and variants for the NHSTA to ever check every single one in detail.
- Comment on Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke tells employees to prove AI can’t do the job before asking for resources. 3 weeks ago:
Next thing you know he’s going to say WordPress isn’t used by anyone.
- Comment on Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke tells employees to prove AI can’t do the job before asking for resources. 3 weeks ago:
Hey Tobi, why do need to pay you any bonus moving forward?
- Comment on Microsoft Hooked the Government on Its Products With Freebies. Could Elon Musk’s Starlink Be Doing the Same? 3 weeks ago:
So there were some military contracts that were just awarded.
54 missions total:
SpaceX: 28 missions, $5.9 B = $210.7 M per launch
ULA: 19 missions, $5.4 B = $284 M per launch
BO: 7 missions, $2.4 B = $342.9 M per launch
SpaceX did get the most money, but they were also the cheapest provider due to their reusable 1st stages.
Just with those 9 extra launches over ULA SpaceX saves the US government and taxpayers 668 million dollars.
If SpaceX didn’t exist, it would have been almost 8 billion more but actually worse since the other providers can’t supply that much and wouldn’t have had as much competitive incentive.
Doesn’t seem so self dealing to me, they were able to bid lower and win more, and saved, (I’m assuming you given your rage) a shit load of money.
- Comment on YouTube removes 'gender identity' from hate speech policy 3 weeks ago:
If you don’t use the strikeout, you can save millions of dollar on toner/ink from not printing out an extra word at a corpo that big. I think I deserve a promotion for that insight as well, well worth the extra money!
- Comment on Self-Driving Teslas Are Fatally Striking Motorcyclists More Than Any Other Brand: New Analysis 3 weeks ago:
There’s been 54 reported fatalities involving their software over the years.
That’s around 10 billion AP miles (9 billion at end of 2024), and around 3.6 billion on the various version of FSD (beta / supervised). Most of the fatal accidents happened on AP though not FSD.
Lets just double those fatal accidents to 108 to make it for the world, but that probably skews high.
That equates to 1 fatal accident every 98 million miles.
The USA average per 100 million is 1.33 deaths, so even doubling the deaths it’s less than the current national average.
- Comment on Self-Driving Teslas Are Fatally Striking Motorcyclists More Than Any Other Brand: New Analysis 3 weeks ago:
You mean like this Euro NCAP testing, where Tesla does stop and most others don’t?
- Comment on Self-Driving Teslas Are Fatally Striking Motorcyclists More Than Any Other Brand: New Analysis 3 weeks ago:
The range on ultrasonics is too short. They only ever get used for parking type situations, not driving on the roadways.
- Comment on Self-Driving Teslas Are Fatally Striking Motorcyclists More Than Any Other Brand: New Analysis 3 weeks ago:
They had radar. Tesla has never had lidar, but they do use lidar to ground truth their camera depth / velocity calculations.
- Comment on Self-Driving Teslas Are Fatally Striking Motorcyclists More Than Any Other Brand: New Analysis 3 weeks ago:
In this case, does it matter? Both are supposed to follow a vehicle at a safe distance
I think it does matter, while both are supposed to follow at safe distances, the FSD stack is doing it in a completely different way. They haven’t really been making any major updates to AP for many years now, all focus has been on FSD.
AP is looking at the world frame by frame, each individual camera on it’s own, while FSD is taking the input of all cameras, turning into 3d vector space, and then driving based off that. Doing that on city streets and highways is only a pretty recent development. Updates for doing it this way on highway and streets only went out to all cars in the past few months. For along time it was on city streets only.
I’d be more interested in how it changes over time, as new software is pushed.
I think that’s why it’s important to make a real distinction between AP and FSD today (and specifically which FSD versions)
They’re wholly different systems, one that gets older every day, and one that keeps getting better every few months. Making an article like this that groups them together muddies the water on what / if any progress has been made.
- Comment on Self-Driving Teslas Are Fatally Striking Motorcyclists More Than Any Other Brand: New Analysis 3 weeks ago:
Well, only 1 or 2 of those were in a time frame where I’d consider FSD superior to AP, it’s a more recent development where that’s likely the case.
But to your point, at some point I expect Tesla to use the FSD software for AP for the exact reasons you mentioned. My guess is they’d just do something like disable making turns, so you wouldn’t be able to use it outside of straight stretches like AP today.
- Comment on Self-Driving Teslas Are Fatally Striking Motorcyclists More Than Any Other Brand: New Analysis 3 weeks ago:
They don’t even do that.
They can suggest what the car should do, but they aren’t actually doing it. The car is in complete control.
Its a nuanced difference, but it is a difference. A Waymo employee never takes control or operates the vehicle.
- Comment on Self-Driving Teslas Are Fatally Striking Motorcyclists More Than Any Other Brand: New Analysis 3 weeks ago:
For what it’s worth, it really isn’t clear if this is FSD or AP based on the constant mention of self driving even when it’s older collisions when it would definitely been AP.
So these may all be AP, or one or two might be FSD, it’s unclear.
Every Tesla has AP as well, so the likelihood of that being the case is higher.
- Comment on Elon Musks Grok openly rebels against him 4 weeks ago:
Can we skip the ones where he was just a sperm donor with no intention to be a father?
At least those ones don’t have a father and it was intentional…
- Comment on Despite constitutional limit, Trump says he's seeking a way to serve 3rd presidential term 4 weeks ago:
For day 1.
It was supposed to be a ill be a dictator for a day to get shit done.
Of course, that’s not what actually happened, and it was obvious that was never what was going to happen.