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They are iterating and optimizing the hardware rapidly treating it just like software. And pushing out versions that work fine to improve stuff later. It’s as i
by cvaidya1986 9y ago
They are iterating and optimizing the hardware rapidly treating it just like software. And pushing out versions that work fine to improve stuff later. It’s as if the car is communicating the Silicon Valley ethos with its seemingly random features that are simply optimized towards something that can be shipped ASAP. Interesting how one can deduce culture just by looking deep inside an artefact. One day aliens will try to decipher how early humans behaved by analyzing excavated iPhones.
- stcredzero 9y agoOne day aliens will try to decipher how early humans behaved by analyzing excavated iPhones. Those aliens will be our descendants. And they won't have to excavate. They'll just look up the right shop in Akihabara, or equivalent of the time. http://kk.org/thetechnium/technologies-do/ http://kk.org/thetechnium/technologies-do/
- cvaidya1986 9y agoThanks for Radium suppositories! What if humans have long left the Milky Way galaxy and aliens visit us then?
- stcredzero 8y agoWhat if humans have long left the Milky Way galaxy If out descendants become intergalactic spacefarers, then we probably won't ever all leave. and aliens visit us then? Those aliens will probably be our descendants. They'll just have to look up the information in their archives. It's not like keeping raw information is going to become so expensive, we have to delete it.
- ModernMech 8y agoImagine a universe so old and so populated that a good portion of the matter/energy available in the universe must be devoted to storing the histories of the various civilizations. Wars would break out over data resources, as factions war over access to storage and compute power. That assumes a future where humans colonize the stars and spread life through the universe. What's more likely for humanity is a future more like the matrix, except instead of being enslaved, we place ourselves there willingly. It seems to me the focus of most of our technology has been to figure out how to poke and prod our pleasure sensors to maximum effect. Forget the stars, we're going to invent our own personal paradises on Earth and just stay here.
- maxerickson 8y agoAt that point the war is for energy.
- Coincoin 8y agoOr maybe present Earth is a single cell in Their giant cellular automaton machine.
- stcredzero 8y agoImagine a universe so old and so populated that a good portion of the matter/energy available in the universe must be devoted to storing the histories of the various civilizations. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Library_of_Babel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Library_of_Babel Perhaps by then, some very clever entity will have figured out a quantum computer implementation of The Library of Babel. It won't actually store all possible books, but it could be used to very quickly search the space by generating all remotely coherent possible books. What's more likely for humanity is a future more like the matrix, except instead of being enslaved, we place ourselves there willingly. Facebook.
- C7H8N4O2 8y ago"Why spend a short life in the real world of sadness and absurdity when you could live forever in paradise?" https://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=3183 https://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=3183
- dsfyu404ed 9y agoThat's great if you just want to fleece the next round of VCs before you fold but cars last a decade or more and you can't just keep on building half baked junk and expect consumers not to catch on. Just because your lease ends at 36mo doesn't mean how the vehicle performs after that doesn't affect the company's reputation.
- cvaidya1986 9y agoTotally agree, however, there is a fine balance between delivering on shipping promises to the stakeholders as a company and trying to perfect the hardware to the point where sales suffer. I believe there is no right answer. Intuitively I feel a bias towards shipping gives Silicon Valley it’s advantage. Also comes with the trade offs like you mentioned and other stuff in the news lately.
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- jsight 8y agoThere is no indication that they are shipping half-baked junk, though? I mean, the early S models had drive unit problems and the X hasn't been perfect, but neither have been plagued with major long-term reliability problems. Some established luxury car makers have made far more unreliable vehicles.
- HeyLaughingBoy 8y agoOne of the problems with that is that hardware is not software and at some point it will have to be repaired. It's bad enough when a part changes design halfway through the model year. I can't imagine trying to repair a Model 3 five years from now and finding out that e.g., the right front wheel bearing has 10 different versions and it's not completely clear which one I need.
- pilom 8y agoDon't worry, you aren't allowed to repair your tesla vehicle anyway.
- davidgould 8y agoAs I understand it, Tesla does not really do model years. They seem to incrementally change minor things as needed and sometimes do a more thorough refresh, but it's not really tied to the calendar in the traditional auto marketing way.
- annerajb 8y agoYou call Tesla give your serial they will tell you the latest version of the bearing that you should upgrade too. They been d9o ing that for 10 years now.
- HeyLaughingBoy 8y agoOh, that will work so well when they have 10 million of these things running around!