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by bhauer 4y ago
That is twelve years from now. Even assuming they stick to that plan, which I feel is a naive assumption considering how often they've failed to meet EV plans previously, they can easily continue poisoning the EV waters today and for
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by bhauer 4y ago
It is very much against the prevailing HN narrative to have an optimistic view on autonomy in general, and Tesla's efforts in that space in particular. The approved HN narrative is that autonomous driving is far too complex for compute
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by bhauer 4y ago
> Want to get data from inside a device onto your computer? Nope, it’s not a mass storage device. You need to install another app, that will be used just for this one device, to sync things. The app inconspicuously asks for location acc
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by bhauer 4y ago
> Not really, because I saw too many software companies go out of business because not enough people wound up upgrading to the next major version -- the ownership model of software can be awfully feast-or-famine for developers' inc
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by bhauer 4y ago
Which is consistent with what they had said at the time when they removed the low-resolution radar they had been using. Specifically, they had said that radar would be useful if it were sufficiently high resolution. The radar in the works a
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by bhauer 4y ago
I wish HN would be better than that, but your summary is perfect.
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by bhauer 4y ago
They had been doing that, and called it "shadow mode" [1]. I suspect it's no longer being done, perhaps they reached the limit of what they can learn from that sort of training. [1] https://www.theverge.com/20
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by bhauer 4y ago
It truly is fascinating to what degree news coverage is politically biased. Partisanship rules everything. As you point out, the stark flip-flop of roles between left and right-leaning coverage of Tesla is almost hilarious when observed fro
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by bhauer 4y ago
Tesla never used lidar. They did use a low-resolution radar and dropped it because they felt it was holding back their vision-based development. At the time, Musk commented that radar was not useful unless it were higher resolution. There h
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by bhauer 4y ago
It's really as bad as Reddit in here. I would expect better from a technical audience.
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by bhauer 4y ago
Same here. All the time with the iOS keyboard. It's infuriatingly slow with suggestions. They always refresh well after my finger has already started moving to select one.
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by bhauer 4y ago
Same thing happens all the time to me on the iOS virtual keyboard. The root problem, in my opinion, is that word suggestions lag far too much. They are refreshed at least a few hundred milliseconds after your last keystroke. I know Windows
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by bhauer 4y ago
The iOS keyboard's suggestions are the worst offender here. They always lag more than other virtual keyboards I've used, and I routinely end up selecting a different suggested word than I intended because they change from beneath
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by bhauer 4y ago
TLDR: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/firefox-trans...
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by bhauer 4y ago
The phrase "Tesla killers" needs to be killed. Every EV maker sells every EV they make. EVs are supply constrained. When a legacy manufacturer or EV startup adds to the EV supply, it takes from ICE vehicle market share, not Tesla
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by bhauer 4y ago
For me: - Email - Web (external and internal) and blog - Matrix for chat (federated with friends) - Media server - File server - Backups - Password management - Property surveillance
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by bhauer 4y ago
Still too much telemetry in my opinion. Is it possible to opt out, perhaps for a price?
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by bhauer 4y ago
That sounds similar to the Windows 10 Mobile docking experience. Interesting, and a novelty, but not quite the execution we seek.
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by bhauer 4y ago
For a decade now, or perhaps longer, I've been wanting a first-class general purpose computer in the form factor of a cell phone. Microsoft has danced ever-so-close to providing us this, through several iterations of rumored "Surf
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by bhauer 4y ago
This should not be a surprise to anyone who has been reading the New York Times' technology journalism for the past several years. In fact, I'd argue that even before any such "directive" was made, the bias in high-profi
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by bhauer 4y ago
Musk-hatred as a pop ideology is certainly one of the weirder ones. It's a baffling hybrid of conspiracy theorist, self-serving gatekeeping of engineering licensure, not-invented here extremism, technology "realism," billiona
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by bhauer 4y ago
It's awesome to see an article from Dr. Ray Toal on HN this morning! In my biased opinion, the excellent tenured professors at LMU's CS program make it a stand out for its size.
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by bhauer 4y ago
But here it was brought up to provide context for why Tesla had to go it alone in creating a charging network and connector. And to provide some useful context when digesting what amounts to a GM press release from The Verge. If you're
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by bhauer 4y ago
Using a third-party cloud only ensures that all work scenarios enjoy the same lowest-common denominator. My preference is to select one of the work contexts (e.g., the office) as primary and to put a workstation there, then remote to that w
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by bhauer 4y ago
Ranking the voting systems: STAR Voting > Approval Voting > Ranked Choice Voting > Plurality ("pick only one") voting. Ranked Choice Voting is marginally better than plurality voting, but it has problems. The chief defect
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by bhauer 4y ago
My Acura had some slightly misaligned panels and they never contributed any perceptible issue to the road worthiness of that car during my ~15 years of ownership. There were some interior rattles over time, but I've never had a car tha
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by bhauer 4y ago
There is some validity to that argument. Ironically, Tesla receives a significant amount of criticism/hate for the small size of their product line up (four models, where each pair of two is very similar: X & S, and Y & 3). Man
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by bhauer 4y ago
I have roughly the same experience with my Model 3. Fit and finish is acceptable, matching the entry-level luxury vehicles I have owned in the past (vehicles from Acura, BMW, Infiniti, etc.) The quality of materials is debatable since, for
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by bhauer 4y ago
This is utterly unsurprising. By the same token, consider the vehicle market which has seen prices balloon in 2022 due to high demand. Consumers are less tolerant of dealer markups (which enrich a low value-add dealership) versus OEM markup
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by bhauer 4y ago
> A handful of grumpy old gits know that if you pick the right languages, and the right tools, you can build something to replace this 2nd level system in the same types of tools as the first level system, and that you don’t need all th

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