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> without the consideration for long term safety and secondary effects that Tesla has probably put in. This seems like an incredibly wild assumption. The Germ
by gopher_space 5y ago
> without the consideration for long term safety and secondary effects that Tesla has probably put in.
This seems like an incredibly wild assumption. The German concept of 'keine ehrfurcht fur deine maschine' will keep you from seeing every problem as a chance for your box to shine.
- lmm 5y agoSearching for that phrase mainly brings up this thread, so, uh, what are you talking about?
- kwhitefoot 5y agoGoogle Translate says: 'no respect for your machine'. Still not quite sure what the poster meant.
- Sebb767 5y agoA possibly more accurate translation, depending on how "Erfurcht" is read, might be "don't deify the machine", as in "don't hesitate because you fear you can not understand it" (I'm German myself). This interpretation would somewhat make sense in the context.
- kwhitefoot 5y agoThank you, that makes much more sense.
- gopher_space 5y agoIt was a callback to KMFDM's point of view combined with a little "every problem looks like a nail" thinking that wildly missed its mark as a joke, unfortunately for me.
- Sebb767 5y agoWell, it depends a bit on the possible failure scenarios. If we would be talking about a 10$ toy, hacking something together would totally be fine with me. But we're talking about a 40k$ car and a system which is critical for cooling a part that is very eager to start a fire. I can easily imagine that the higher pressure or temperature tolerance would be needed if you're using the car in extremely hot weather (which can be a bit unexpected [0]) or when the battery experiences a critical failure. When working with systems that can have very bad failures, a bit of Ehrfurcht might be appropriate. [0] https://www.theguardian.com/weather/2021/jul/08/weatherwatch-canada-records-its-highest-temperature https://www.theguardian.com/weather/2021/jul/08/weatherwatch...