They’re a cross between BMW drivers and incapable Prius drivers from the oast when they were the first hybrids.

Aka, you have the douches driving like entitled dicks because of the speed and prestige of the brand, and then you have the eco focused clueless drivers putting around.

I tend to keep a wary eye on all teslas because either way, they’re unpredictable.

Yeah, but I don’t think EVs have spark plugs to smash and use to break the windows. Checkmate.

Most expensive early access beta with pre-order ever. Tesla is the EA of cars.

Yeah, I used to borrow my parents van on occasion, but they got a newer model of the same van (Odyssey) that could no longer fit sheet goods.

Also was pretty awkward tying the trunk door on the occasions where I needed longer material, which I would be doing more of nowadays. And TBH, despite my best efforts to pad things and load materials gently, I did scrap up the interior a bit, which wouldn’t be a factor with a truck.

A work van might do, though. Those seem pretty huge.

I’d honestly love one of these, depending in if it’s powerful enough to haul a decently heavy load up a hill.

I woodwork as a hobby, and have been wanting an old truck for a while, but the used truck market is pretty insane right now. All I want is an old beater with a reliable engine and a standard sized bed that’s capable of hauling sheet goods (4ft wide) without hassle.

This would check those marks. If the price was right, I’d happily drive this little guy around.

Instead, the market is full of ridiculously sized pickups with tiny truck beds because either the cab is huge, or they waste so much space making the truck look “tough” that the beds shrink narrower than 4ft.

As long as I can get a small truck in a V6 so that I don’t stall out hauling something heavy like cement bags, I’m in.

That sounds a lot like what I understood how etrade platforms like Robinhood work when I was reading up on the GME shorts fiasco.

I definitely only have a surface level understanding of it, but it sounded like the stock brokers have a buffer in-between the transaction request to buy/sell, and they first try to handle that locally within their portfolio, before expanding to external trades. And if there’s a favorable internal trade, brokers like Robinhood siphon out a little something something for themselves.

Sounds like people are getting busted for doing essentially the same thing Wallstreet has been doing for decades. Again.

How exactly would it be any different without Google / SEO. Parsing of website content to determine topics would be a shit show historically, or ridiculously computation heavy now that LLMs could conceivably do a decent job at classifying content. So Google created a way for sites to tag the kind of content they have. Pretty much any search engine would need the same kind of mechanism.

And content providers are always going to be incentivized to be the top search result, which means targeting search algorithms. That’s just the nature of the beast.

If there were multiple SEO implementations, that just means more work to target multiple algorithms. And the content owners with more resources, hundreds of developers, would ultimately win because they can target every algorithm.

I really don’t see how Google as a “monopoly” changes these basic fundamentals.

For Tesla and SpaceX, they attracted the top engineers because they were cool bleeding edge problems to solve that actually aligned with idealist goals in the industries.

Musk used that genuine motivation and overworked people into burnout, and took credit for others hard work.

We’re not paying for the updates, though. I don’t recall paying Microsoft for anything in ages, and I have a legit copy of windows 10 installed.

To most people, now that windows is mostly stable, there’s no draw to upgrade when a new major version comes out. Why volunteer for new os growing pains when the last Gen works great? Even more so if you have to buy another license.

I thought the special was hand written and performed, the only “AI” was the deep faked voice and face.

Every article seems to be intentionally misrepresenting it as AI written, at least in the title and synopsis.

Still a shitty thing to do without his estate’s prior approval, but very very different than its being represented. All because “AI” is the new boogeyman

Uhh, it’s not hypocrisy.

The US government demanded access to the US based social media companies to pull whatever sensitive information they wanted. They just don’t want China to have the same access.

Also, TikTok has been caught abusing exploits to get additional information outside of the permissions granted by users. IIRC, TikTok was caught stealing the MAC address from phones a few years back.

It’s odd the Steve Wozniak is pretending to be ignorant of the distinction. US government wants Intel, and doesn’t want a rival nation to possess similar Intel. That’s basic intelligence 101.

Rofl, how did they miss Dune 2? It was so revolutionary! I wonder what was before it, 32 years ago.

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FUCK

My inner dialog reading that title.

Edit - lol never mind, read the title wrong. Thought some new Dune game was coming out “32 years since the last one”

That’s… very very different.

You’re not paying for a ridiculously expensive novelty vehicle and then getting practical on after market accessories.

Maybe closer to cars not having limiters to prevent speeding.

They could. The tech exists. Even to lock it to specific speed limits (not just an upwards cap) using GPS.

But most would say that’s overreaching. Until an insurance company sues/lobbies for it because it would improve their bottom line to force drivers to drive more responsibly by legally pushing the manufacturers to add limiters.

Same argument every time. I don’t give a shit, nor will I ever give a shit, if the only micro transactions are skins. It does not affect gameplay, it only adds a little way to customize for the enthusiasts. That’s fine, and has been a regular Tekken feature since PS3. Why people care so much is beyond me.

I would love to walk around with a video playing in a fixed hud while I go around doing chores. I’m constantly finding places to put my phone down every time I move to another station.

I’m not paying $3500 for that, though.

Car companies out source to 3rd parties for their car apps. And these 3rd parties just pump things out on aggressive deadlines. A couple former coworkers work(ed?) at one.

Edit - although, given the amount of in house tech at tesla, I’d expect them to mostly do their own software

Maybe because the real world conditions is being reported by owners at roughly 50% of Teslas advertised range. When for ICE, real vs advertised is typically around 80%.

Also, there has been reasonable skepticism on the range of heavier EVs, like trucks. And Tesla being the self made premium brand, and the Tesla truck being such a weird style, is in a spotlight of its own making.

Have you not noticed the same exact comments being made about ICE vehicles, particularly when their mileage estimates are highly advertised?

You all seem to act like this is particularly unfair to Tesla, when it’s literally the same exact discussion we’ve had for decades.