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by _ea1k 3y ago
Yeah, and tbh, I'm hearing that their return fees are actually pretty reasonable. If you can return at less than 75% for only $25, just do that. Supercharging isn't particularly cheap anyway, so you can't save that much money
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by _ea1k 3y ago
Yeah, it really varies. If you have a hotel with good ev charging, an EV can be a convenience. I've had the experience of renting a gas vehicle, and then realizing my hotel had EV charging and would have actually been more convenient.
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by _ea1k 3y ago
> On top of that I was visiting and parking at my parents house, and they don’t have a charger installed. Yeah, and hertz doesn't tend to give you a mobile charger. I can't blame them, they are a separate cost and they tend to
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by _ea1k 3y ago
With the updated Model 3 on the market and these starting to get sold en masse, there will be some great bargains on used Model 3 soon. Interestingly, they seem to be selling off more of the 3 than the Y too.
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by _ea1k 3y ago
Yeah, I remember being really excited about this at announcement. It made perfect sense too, as Tesla does really well on Turo! But the rental companies overshot a bit. They didn't keep their processes and infrastructure up to pace wit
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by _ea1k 3y ago
That still wouldn't be true for a used Tesla. Most used sales are Model 3 or Y. Both charge really well. Even older used Model S or X are more like 30 minutes than 2 hours, especially if the location is bad and you'd rather get to
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by _ea1k 3y ago
True, and this is why sales for EVs basically automatically increase as infrastructure is built out in a particular area. Once consumers understand the capability and what is their, their buying patterns are fairly rational. In my experienc
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by _ea1k 3y ago
An hour or two? Noone is hanging out around superchargers for that long if they don't already want to be there.
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by _ea1k 3y ago
Yes, but there's a difference between exact results and reproducible results. I should get similar performance, otherwise there is an issue.
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by _ea1k 3y ago
I guess I'm saying that if there are reproducibility problems without the weights, then there's still a reproducibility problem with them. A paper with weights that magically work, when training on the same data and algorithm does
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by _ea1k 3y ago
> I don’t doubt that the system has produced some academic success stories but it must be the exceptional case. I'd guess the opposite. IMO, too much attention gets put on the top tier of athletes in the most popular sports. I'
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by _ea1k 3y ago
The weights aren't needed to make it reproducable. The code and training data are needed. Hopefully if you used those, you'd ultimately reach the same result.
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by _ea1k 3y ago
I worked at a place where we'd sometimes give take homes, but only for roles where we were hiring outside of their experience. Oh, you think you can learn tech XYZ even though it isn't on your resume? Ok, take a test that a novice
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by _ea1k 3y ago
It is definitely useful, but not as a direct proxy for demand.
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by _ea1k 3y ago
Graal Python exists too: https://www.graalvm.org/python/ It beats Python on performance, supposedly, but compatibility has never been great.
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by _ea1k 3y ago
Neural networks for quality assessment aren't necessarily unheard of. I'm not sure how they'd be using them in this case, though? Maybe something like a camera monitoring that they are using the correct tool at various parts
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by _ea1k 3y ago
I've noticed the same with electrical work. How many use torque screwdrivers, even when dealing with high load appliances (eg, a 50 amp EVSE)?
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by _ea1k 3y ago
Yes, exactly. BYD can go below that, to vehicles that wouldn't really be marketable outside of China.
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by _ea1k 3y ago
Yeah, their system is really foreign to us in the US (no pun intended :)). The idea that people not employed by Tesla will actively block Tesla is weird and really tilts the balance of power. I'm not aware enough of the details of how
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by _ea1k 3y ago
As much as I'd love to believe that a better leader would make an American company fully keep pace with BYD, I don't see any evidence that this is the case. I really doubt BYD would be doing any better on worker treatment and unio
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by _ea1k 3y ago
In the extreme, yes. But it looks like it is actually a continuum, with a shockingly blurry line forming the threshold.
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by _ea1k 3y ago
The flip side to this is that every system involving software seems to inevitably devolve into a situation where the human is expected to no longer be responsible. Oh, you floored it while the car was pointed at the wall? It has cameras, wh
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by _ea1k 3y ago
That's all fine and dandy, but if you can use the source to approximate a location, you can hit it with himars. Alternatively, send gps guided drones with optical targeting. If the jamming system has inadequate air defenses, it might n
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by _ea1k 3y ago
I think we are already there. "Optical targeting" and "edge computing" are terms getting tossed around in weird ways at times.
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by _ea1k 3y ago
If the stuff being spread was "road tripping EVs without the supercharger network is bad", I'd agree with you. After all, that was the takeaway of the article and it is true. CCS networks are terrible. I rarely see one that
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by _ea1k 3y ago
True, but there's something weird about this one in general. I've never seen an EV article get this much activity here. And a lot of it is highly charged (no pun intended).
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by _ea1k 3y ago
Well, yeah, and people use gas generators in remote places occasionally. But I meant at utility scale. :)
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by _ea1k 3y ago
I wonder if there is brigading occuring here? It is odd that your comment is downvoted, when so many negative comments are getting upvotes. Hmm...
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by _ea1k 3y ago
No, in an emergency, we all run out to the gas station to fill the containers that we just bought. Then we find out they are out, because that is what happens in an emergency.
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by _ea1k 3y ago
Yeah, it is shockingly common to see stories about AP failure that turn out to be purely human driving. The press elevates some weird anti-Tesla narratives. Of course, they are just quoting so it isn't lying, but sometimes it seems lik

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