Captain Foo posted:

bumping this thread because Elon musk sucks

Spatial posted:

you might say elon's head has gotten stuck up his own cave system!

Suspicious Dish posted:

im just confused how they can commit such massive scale fraud with so many people involved and nobody gives a poo poo lmao

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Therefore, it’s normal that Tesla has new parking lots for vehicles in transit.

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parking lots

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in transit

graph posted:

if you regged in 2015 you prolly didnt play tecmo bowl

Suspicious Dish posted:

crosspostin' from tech bugle

elmer chud posted:

Remember when elon tweeted about the saboteur he discovered? Well:

Plank Walker posted:

defender of truth, justice ? and no, the american way !

elmer chud posted:

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1024726529304027137

President Beep posted:

lol. what’s the half-a press in this scenario?

HAIL eSATA-n posted:

100% of your posts are bad

flakeloaf posted:

securities fuckup megathread

elmer chud posted:

I thought this may be a joke but of course it's not.

some model S owners are being asked to pony up cash for the latest update, which unlocks extra capacity that was secretly built into their batteries. Yes, Tesla has invended car DLC.

The affected consumers are those who bought a Model S 70 in the last month or so. The 70kWh batteries in their cars are actually 75kWh batteries. They’ve just been software limited to only charge to 70kWh. For the low, low price of $3,000, Tesla will send an OTA update to your vehicle that unlocks the extra 5kWh of capacity. That’s equivalent to about 19 miles of additional driving. Future purchases of the car will be able to pay $3,250 for the same upgrade. 

Xealous posted:

i powered my old car with farts too

Xealous posted:

tesla basically runs their entire business like a just in time compiler only they don't treat warnings or errors as failures. most groups in the company don't cross-communicate so there's a lot of duplication of effort.

i once got pulled into a meeting because a car burned down when it was attached to a supercharger and we didn't get a log out of the car. normally under some emergency circumstances the car will try to upload a log when it thinks poo poo has gone really badly, but in this particular case it was far enough away from a tower it had half 3G connection and had to upload a 30MB log via HTTPS POST. the car burned down before it even got to 10MB and the system was only designed for exponential backoff retries, not resumption of in-progress. elon was calm about it, but we had to justify why we never had time to address it - maybe it was because we were all busy making unsafe features work?

iospace posted:

No my friend, it started elons ago.

Triglav posted:

someone posted it on reddit too if you wanna burn your eyes out https://www.reddit.com/r/EnoughMuskSpam/comments/99sbwa/former_tesla_programmers_anecdotes_about_problems/

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I am skeptical as well. The whole post sounds like some bored engineer wanting to stir up the "normies". Way too many tech and engineering lingo compressed together in sentences.

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upload a 30MB log via HTTPS POST

Um, ok. But that just reminds me of some quote in some funny movie: "You made me bleed...my own blood!". Mentioning "HTTPS POST" is redundant, unless you are trying to impress some non-technical people

Ciaphas posted:

that's kind of the point that reddit etc. seem to be missing in replying to this, when they say "this isn't abnormal for a software dev shop in a hurry"

these are cars

cars kill people on the reg

SO DEMANDING posted:

this is great and everyone should read it

musk is such a goddamn shyster

Ciaphas posted:

iirc the Prius ICE is on at all times right? the volt only comes on when the battery is out or fuel needs burning (I’ve been on the same tank for almost a year and it’s going stale lol)

iospace posted:

In short,

Death to capitalism.

creationist believer posted:

no wonder the model 3 seems less than half baked

pseudorandom name posted:

Jonny 290 posted:

its the only 420 he can actually hit

Discendo Vox posted:

pseudoscience thread

Bulgakov posted:

fun stuff

The_Franz posted:

just picked up my brother from the airport and we passed a tesla on the way home. something seemed off so we slowed down and took a closer look only for it to become clear that the guy behind the wheel was loving sleeping

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so here's the thing about the tesla cooling solution, it's a lasagna ribbon the runs between the cells.