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by ggreer 4y ago
I lived in SF from 2010-2016 and worked there (while living in the east bay) until 2020. In that time I had a bicycle stolen, two motorcycles stolen, and a half—dozen occasions where insane homeless people tried to bludgeon or stab me. The
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by ggreer 4y ago
Tons of teens would happily lie about their age if it meant they never had to work again. Heck, many parents would encourage that behavior.
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I just tried this and could not tell the difference. It seems like how one packed the grounds would matter more. If it’s slightly uneven, one side will get more water pushed through it.
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Neither of those companies have software that reads those signs and use them to choose cornering speeds. They both use high resolution 3D maps from previous lidar scans of the road.
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Can you name any car manufacturer that has software to read those signs?
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I'm talking about standard speed limit signs. You're talking about the signs that warn about sharp turns and advise maximum speeds. Yes it would be good if the software understood those signs, but that's a different issue. Te
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Lidar has advantages over cameras but it also has some downsides. Sunlight, rain, and snow can interfere with the sensors, as can other nearby lidar devices (though de-noising algorithms are always improving). There are also issues with obj
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by ggreer 4y ago
Yeah, people don't understand how dangerous motorcycles are. The fatality rate for motorcycles in the US is 23 per 100 million miles traveled. For cars that number is 0.7. Assuming you ride 4,000 miles per year for 40 years, that gives
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by ggreer 4y ago
Teslas have understood speed limit signs since 2020.[1] 1. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/upcoming-tesla-software-2020-...
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by ggreer 4y ago
To engage traffic aware cruise control, pull the right stalk down once.
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South Korea has 5.3 car thefts per 100k people per year. Japan has 28.1. The US has 268.2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_vehicle_theft#Motor_vehi...
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by ggreer 4y ago
For my 2020 Model 3, all but one of them. There was a recall to replace a cable in the trunk that could break, disabling the backup camera.[1] I still haven’t taken mine in to get the free replacement, but my backup camera has been fine. 1.
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by ggreer 4y ago
I mean… the FDA could drastically reduce the price of drugs and prevent shortages by allowing imports of medicines approved in the EU or Canada.
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Insulin is expensive for the same reasons that epi pens are expensive[1] and why Martin Shkreli could increase the price of Daraprim by 50x without worrying about losing market share[2]. The FDA restricts the manufacture and importation of
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by ggreer 4y ago
If that were true then all ToS violations would result in permanent bans, but that’s not what Twitch or other major platforms do.
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by ggreer 4y ago
Oops, you're correct. Looking through my shell history, it seems I manually downloaded and installed the firmware update in March of 2022. Here are the commands I ran: curl -O https://semiconductor.samsung.com/reso
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by ggreer 4y ago
If you're on linux, you probably want to use fwupd[1]. You can check the existing version of your drive's firmware by running `fwupdmgr get-devices`. The version with the fix is 5B2QGXA7. I'm on Arch and apparently I installe
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by ggreer 4y ago
EVs can do this without significantly depleting the battery. Every Tesla keeps the cabin temperature below 105°F as long as the battery is above 20% charge.[1] You can also turn on the climate control from your phone, making the car a comfo
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by ggreer 4y ago
Last year 37 people were killed in traffic collisions in San Francisco[1], the highest number in a decade. Zero of them involved autonomous vehicles. The double standard could not be more obvious. 1. https://sfgov.org/scorec
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Theranos’s faulty blood tests were used by a couple major insurance companies and at least one state-run medical provider. Over 1.5 million tests were run. I’m sure quite a few people died because they weren’t correctly diagnosed in time fo
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by ggreer 4y ago
Except for remote positions, how does that work? Does everyone move when they change jobs in a city?
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You must live in a very nice part of Montana if houses are that expensive. I live in a suburb of Portland and paid $350k for a home with a garage. Stealing a charging cable is extremely high risk. A thief would be dealing with lethal curren
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by ggreer 4y ago
As others have mentioned, most charging is done at home. EVs can plug into many types of outlets. You can even charge off a standard 120V 15A plug (albeit slowly). For fast charging on road trips, Teslas can get CCS adapters and charge at c
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by ggreer 4y ago
If you can't afford a house but you can afford an EV, but you also live in a high crime area where extension cords are severed for their copper, then I am very confused about your finances and living situation. In most states with hi
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by ggreer 4y ago
I'm saying that almost nobody uses Bluecruise because it's a gimmick. It only works in a few places. In the places where it is supported, it refuses to turn the wheel too sharply, forcing you to turn in areas where there is a sign
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Ford’s Bluecruise is far more limited than autopilot. It’s geo-fenced to some freeways.[1] Autopilot works on any road with lane markers. My guess is that few Ford drivers use the feature. 1. See the map on this page: https://www
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by ggreer 4y ago
And I miss the form factor of the iPhone 5. Does that mean Apple should be forced to make devices of that size indefinitely? I don’t think so. You’re demanding that the government force people to make things that they no longer want to mak
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How are manufacturers forcing anything? They are all competing with each other for customers. The problem is that making a modern phone is ridiculously expensive, and not enough customers want removable batteries to make the investment wort
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I’m talking about EVs, not combustion vehicles. Also there’s no law forcing everyone to use removable batteries in any of those devices. My point is that users freely choose different types of batteries for different applications. It makes
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There are many advantages to integrated batteries: - Waterproofing. Fewer seals means more resistance to water ingress. - Compact size. Standard battery sizes rarely fit thin or irregular designs. - Better battery life. An integrated batter

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