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Understanding Scheduling Behavior with SchedViz(opensource.googleblog.com)
2 points by SEJeff 7y ago|0 comments
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by SEJeff 7y ago
No the driving experience is utterly incredible. It is unlike anything I've ever driven, but the fanciest car I've ever driven on a regular basis was an early 2000s Camaro Z28 (in the early 2000s). Tesla is not remotely unique in
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by SEJeff 7y ago
I answered this a bit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21181145 and: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21181755 TL;DNR: I buy in to self driving vehicles being good for humanity as well as electric
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by SEJeff 7y ago
Which one? Isn't the Hellcat their top-end one? A Dodge Hellcat's 0-60 is 3.6 seconds. A P100D Tesla Model S's 0-60 is 2.28 seconds. Tesla doesn't win max speed against really any of the muscle cars until they actually p
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by SEJeff 7y ago
I lived in Los Angeles for 6.5 years, where people are utter nightmares on the highway. You have to be very aggressive in traffic. Not because I want to be, but because I would put on a blinker and someone would speed up just because I was
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by SEJeff 7y ago
To each their own. That's the beauty of choice! The range is certainly less in the cold, but it is manageable. We drove from Chicago to Kentucky (~385 miles) when it was subzero or so last winter and stopped at the same place we normal
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by SEJeff 7y ago
You fundamentally didn't understand my comment. Like the A10 being a gun with a plane built around it, Tesla vehicles are computers with amazing batteries and a car built around them. My Model 3 didn't have an alarm system or dash
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by SEJeff 7y ago
Yeah that's an entirely fair critique (I mentioned the Audi and Mercedes interiors being way nicer in a followup in this thread). I'm ok with a more spartan interior as driving is just so much more enjoyable. The regenerative brea
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by SEJeff 7y ago
I compared it to my buddy's Mercedes GT sports car and an Audi A5. The Tesla's instant acceleration is like driving a roller coaster. There is simply no comparison. My stepfather asked "So Jeff, how many gears does this have?
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by SEJeff 7y ago
Well of course the Model 3 is amazing, but my point was I would NOT spend this kind of money on a BMW or a Mercedes or any other existing luxury car. I am not a luxury car owner and never planned on being. I saw the idea of what Tesla is
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by SEJeff 7y ago
I'd never in my life have thought I'd have bought a car > $50,000 and here I am with a AWD LR Model 3 and loving it! My other car was a 2011 Ford Fiesta. If you don't want to purchase one, don't do a test drive. Once
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by SEJeff 7y ago
I thought he sublimed with the rest of the Gzilt? What an amazing author.
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by SEJeff 7y ago
I don't think he said they were ablative however, so it isn't going to be like it was in the Space Shuttle where the tiles literally burned up on re-entry.
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by SEJeff 7y ago
Indeed! We did Polymerase Chain Reaction experiments when I was in senior biology in high school almost 20 years ago. $150 for 10 groups: Edvotek 330 Amplification of DNA by PCR, For 10 Lab Groups https://www.amazon.com/dp&#
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Tesla Software Version 10(tesla.com)
1 points by SEJeff 7y ago|0 comments
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by SEJeff 7y ago
Is that not a double edged sword though? When you reveal sources and methods, you tell ISIS what to do differently. These sorts of things tend to be some of the most closely guarded secrets in the US. Disclaimer: I had a security clearance
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Viking berserkers may have used henbane to induce trance-like state(arstechnica.com)
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SpaceX Falcon Heavy Certified for National Security Launches(spacenews.com)
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Facebook’s Oomd(github.com)
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by SEJeff 7y ago
I guess what I was attempting (and admittedly failing!) to say was that Tesla vehicles hold up very well in very bad wrecks. The cars have tons of driver assist / active safety features, but they also have a huge crumple zone due to no
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by SEJeff 7y ago
The Derp State strikes again!
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by SEJeff 7y ago
Of all of the hills to die on, you picked a pretty lousy one. Excuse me for casually browsing HN between doing actual real work. I guess not all of us can do HN fulltime.
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by SEJeff 7y ago
Fun fact, it still does, in 2019, seep out of the ground in downtown Los Angeles. Literally on the miracle mile sits the La brea Tarpits. You can see the pond with oil bubbling out of the water. If you're ever in Los Angeles, it is a v
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by SEJeff 7y ago
Well when I looked at it a bit later, I was unable to edit the original comment. Kind of makes the point moot don't you think?
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by SEJeff 7y ago
Much to most of KSA's oil is full of heavy sulfur content and is considered sour. Virtually all of the Texas oil is considered sweet. WTI (Texas Sweet) is basically the benchmark for the best oil. Some of the best oil (sweet) in the mi
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by SEJeff 7y ago
I'd say that number is a bit suspect as the amount of work to refine Texas Sweet (WTI) vs the more difficult to refine oil you find from Venezuela or the entire Middle East (it is heavier or more "sour") is vastly different.
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by SEJeff 7y ago
upvoting you for this. I thought it would break it into a block, and was wrong.
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by SEJeff 7y ago
Ask literally anyone who's been in a horrific wreck in a tesla and walked away. They're incredibly safe vehicles. There have been some pretty insane examples of this, such as this one: https://www.autoblog.com/2016
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by SEJeff 7y ago
Most people tell me the BMW 330i is very comparable to a Model 3, and its curb weight is 3,582 to 3,764 lbs (per BMW). The Model 3's curb weight is 3,627 to 4,072 lbs (per Tesla). That isn't as big of a difference as I'd have
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by SEJeff 7y ago
But it is safety glass, and the roof is still re-enforced with metal.

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