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It's parsimonious of me, but "hacker" includes the idea of "pushing hardware into uses not intended by the manufacturer." This is an API that's being straight
by akira2501 5y ago
It's parsimonious of me, but "hacker" includes the idea of "pushing hardware into uses not intended by the manufacturer."
This is an API that's being straight-up handed to you by the manufacturer, a manufacturer that historically has had a challenged relationship with the various hacker communities that have formed around their products.
- potatochup 5y agoDo you really think this was originally a planned feature by Tesla? That some cynical marketing manager sat down ans though "if we do this we'll get X impressions leading to Y new sales, lets allocate 0.7FTE engineers to the task"? I very much doubt the design requirement for the Model X include a specification for "muat be able to produce Christmas shows". This sure looks like some engineer had a spurt of creativity, which qualifies to "hacking" to me.