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> 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…
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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…
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:D this is like giving someone a smartphone and watching them trying to crack open nuts with it. Sad but also hilarious.
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Assuming you’re sincerely asking this to learn, I suggest you ask Google, and read some Wikipedia to boot.
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> Elon is a fake person created by VCs to fulfill their goals. I'm gonna give you a bucket full of benefit of doubt and assume you mean nothing negative by this. I'm all for fake people f…
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uh - you just specify the location of your initramfs in the kernel boot params and that's it, no need for all the above
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My humble boot installer, no explicit bootloader, straight to the kernel: #!/bin/bash set -ueo pipefail # Remount EFI partition read/write and restore to readonly when do…
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> But! You go with low setting, tires don’t last 10k miles. It's well known that EVs in general due to their weight, and especially those with high torque cause the tyres to wear out much fast…
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Well, the car has 360 degree camera view, with far wider coverage than a turning head in a driver seat. And more importantly, it sees in all directions at all times.
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> Tesla has nothing to throw against some serious cars like Mercedes EQS or EQS SUV. Besides sensationalist comments, do you actually have a list of what areas the Mercedes excel that Tesla doesn&#…
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> It is simply (physically) not possible for the existing cameras to see the area directly in front of the car. Think about how a human driver does it, given his/her even worse vantage point. …
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Well watch it again and again and again. He talks about the determental effect of lo-fi sensors in conjunction with vision among other things.
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I don't know if you're addressing what makes a good "EV" or just listing some features you personally care about. If the former, then 360 degree camera and build quality has little…
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> Now, if you want the best EV, it's usually not going to be a Tesla. Would love to hear what you consider "good" and what specific EV ticks the most good features that a Tesla Model…
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Here's the summary (mixed with observations from Munro and past Tesla presentations): - Costs money: the physical sensors (a dozen of them), wiring it up, assembling it, maintain inventory, code …
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> the hero cave diver a pedo out of spite ... he is a flawed as fuck human Wow! You went from a 10 word tweet to "a flawed as fuck human"! I guess you've never said or written anythi…
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> a functional company and added his brand of PR on top Which company would that be?
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Correct me if wrong, but Apple ID still asks for security questions. Pisses me off.
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> Social media is not just an engineering problem. What you makes you think Tesla is just an engineering problem? You have regulation, laws protecting dealers, government negotiations, lobbying (an…
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> The odds are that Twitter will probably be dead in a year. And that's based on what exactly? > He'll bring on a few yes-men executives that'll applaud him Again, based on what? …
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> This is absolutely ridiculous. Asking people whose work you trust to evaluate something you can't evaluate yourself is ridiculous now? EDIT: however, it does leave a bit of a bad taste in Tw…
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> I'm opposed to this. I want to be able to actually compile my software if I wish so. So what you're saying is that you're opposed to millions of people having more secure software,…
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I don't know if you've ever noticed that when you're tired, like really tired, doing the most simple tasks feel like moving mountains. They may make you angry, frustrated and annoyed. B…
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For those with better understanding of where zig is at, why not zig for kernel development? Is it merely because it's still in heavy dev?
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Didn't you hear "Twitter" develops on production too, with no staging env.
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Yes, as much as practically possible. For instance, in an online forum, days long delays would be impractical, but maybe 10-20 minutes.
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Delaying the effect of human actions seems like a great idea in general. Humans tend to get angry and do/write something they would either regret later or something that hurts others. Even if the…
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