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- Comment on Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke tells employees to prove AI can’t do the job before asking for resources. 1 day 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. 1 day 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 days 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 5 days 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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.
- Comment on Teachers warn AI is impacting students' critical thinking 1 week ago:
Me: ask a question
Ai: wrong answer A
Me: it’s wrong because of X
Ai oh my bad, it’s C
Me: C is also wrong because of X
Ai: my bad, the final absolutely correct answer is A!
Repeat.
- Comment on Tesla is banned from Canada EV rebate program, gov freezes suspicous $43 million in rebates 2 weeks ago:
That would be interesting ya. I don’t think there would be any way to recoup the cost for the person calling is sick on Friday semi frequently or similar things, but for the people who are gaming the system and didn’t work for a year it’d probably make sense if you truly were that suspicious.
- Comment on Tesla is banned from Canada EV rebate program, gov freezes suspicous $43 million in rebates 2 weeks ago:
I imagine they probably don’t want to release the information that would prove it if they could, and if they did it’d be redacted enough that no one would believe it anyway.
Ultimately, if the government comes back and says its legit, then people will believe it.
That whole 1.5 billion fraud story last week, I don’t think Tesla said anything official about it, but the FT has now retracted the story saying they made a mistake.
- Comment on Tesla is banned from Canada EV rebate program, gov freezes suspicous $43 million in rebates 2 weeks ago:
Option 1: Tesla fraudulently filed rebates
Option 2: Tesla filed a backlog of rebates when they realized they had to
Both are possible, but everyone is jumping to conclusion that it’s option 1, while option 2 is the easier answer.
- Comment on Tesla is banned from Canada EV rebate program, gov freezes suspicous $43 million in rebates 2 weeks ago:
I don’t know if it was all the workers, but a lot of those workers hadn’t been to work all year (around September at the time).
Apparently it’s not abnormal for people to abuse the system there and do things like this.
There was some stuff about patterns of a subset of workers taking Fridays off sick as well.
- Comment on Civilization 7 Outlines Crucial 1.1.1 Update as It Struggles to Compete on Steam Against Civ 6 and Even the 15-Year-Old Civ 5 2 weeks ago:
Has there ever been a finished civ game on launch since DLC existed?
- Comment on Plex is locking remote streaming behind a subscription in April 3 weeks ago:
With Plex every time I try to sync new content I put in the folders it says I’m unauthorized and have to close the server and reopen it.
Haven’t bothered to trouble shoot it yet as it’s annoying but not annoying enough.
- Comment on Tesla Autopilot drives into Wile E Coyote fake road wall in camera vs lidar test 3 weeks ago:
It’s already going to cost them what I imagine is billions in upgrades.
On the last earnings call Elon finally admitted that HW3 will probably need to be upgraded for people who bought/buy FSD.
That’s millions of cars, and there’s been some rulings that the upgrade includes people who decided to subscribe to fsd instead of purchase.
Lawsuits aside from it never being complete, the moment whatever their latest tech is that can, even if it is somehow all cameras, is goi ng to lead to millions of cars needing upgrades.
However, if they truly solve it, that’s probably a drop in the bucket compared to the profits itd generate even if they have to add lidar.
- Comment on Customer is mistakenly accused of text spamming for repeatedly replying STOP to political texts 3 weeks ago:
There might be laws against it like there is for mail?
For instance, you can’t opt of mail from your member of parliament here, nor political ads that happen around election.
- Comment on DOGE Plan to Push AI Across the US Federal Government is Wildly Dangerous 4 weeks ago:
It’s something to do with the word being 2 tokens and it not knowing the tokens before the current one.
It’s a simple example of It’s inability to actually think and reason.
- Comment on DOGE Plan to Push AI Across the US Federal Government is Wildly Dangerous 4 weeks ago:
This is a better start Image
- Comment on Gaming chat platform Discord in early talks with banks about public listing 4 weeks ago:
Discord probably not, but there are many that could.
- Comment on Nobody Wants a Nazi Electric Car 4 weeks ago:
Oh it’s more than just someone, that post has -3 and the other one is -6.
Talking about Tesla against the narritive/hivemind always results in this.
- Comment on Gaming chat platform Discord in early talks with banks about public listing 4 weeks ago:
Too many startups go for VC money when they shouldn’t. It’s a cancer.
If you’ve managed to bootstrap it, or get some non-vc money, things are growing and doing well, maybe just try to keep growing that way. You’re company is fucked the moment you take that VC money.
- Comment on Nobody Wants a Nazi Electric Car 5 weeks ago:
Sure, but a little rust because they weren’t used isn’t a problem, comes off when you use them, but is an instant fail.
All brakes rust when not used. If you drove around in the rain today, then didn’t drive for a few days, you’ll probably have a little rust on your brakes. You go for a drive and then it’s gone.
If you take your car in for a pre-inspection report, and they see some rust on the brakes, they will tell you to drive it around a bit using the brakes a lot before taking it in to be inspected.
it’s not an actual problem.
- Comment on Nobody Wants a Nazi Electric Car 5 weeks ago:
Tesla doesn’t do a lot of the body work or glass type of things, but if you need a new computer, heat pump or anything like that, it’s going to be with Tesla, and especially anything around the battery/power train.
They could open up a lot of that to 3rd parties, but they keep it in house.
