wstrange (u/wstrange)

wstrange commented on Tesla 'Robotaxi' adds 5 more crashes in Austin in a month – 4x worse than humans electrek.co/2026/02/17/te... · Posted by u/Bender

xiphias2 · 24 days ago

Using only cameras is a business decision, not tech decision: will camera + NN be good enough before LIDAR+Radar+RGB+NN can scale up.

For me it looks like they will reach parity at about the same time, so camera only is not totally stupid. What's stupid is forcing robotaxi on the road before the technology is ready.

wstrange · 24 days ago

Clearly they have not reached parity, as evidenced by the crash rate of Tesla.

It's far from clear that the current HW4 + sensor suite will ever be sufficient for L4.

wstrange commented on Waymo robotaxis are now giving rides on freeways in LA, SF and Phoenix techcrunch.com/2025/11/12... · Posted by u/nharada

lumens · 4 months ago

Truly curious - have you tried it recently?

wstrange · 4 months ago

I have HW4, and have tried FSD with every major release.

It works brilliantly, 99.5% of the time. The issue is that the failure mode is catastrophic. Like getting confused with the lane marking and driving off the shoulder. And the complete inability to read construction zone signs (blasting through a 50 KM zone at 100 KM).

I'm deeply skeptical that the current sensor suite and hardware is going to have enough compute power to safely drive without supervision.

It will no doubt improve, but until Tesla steps up and assumes liability for any accident, it's just not "full self driving".

wstrange commented on Tesla Recalls Almost 13,000 EVs over Risk of Battery Power Loss bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/zerosizedweasle

CaptainOfCoit · 5 months ago

Curious how it worked, I found https://www.tesla.com/ownersmanual/model3/en_us/GUID-A7A60DC...

> At the bottom of the rear door pocket, there is a slot in front of the release cover. Slide your finger into the slot and lift to remove the cover. Pull the mechanical release cable forward.

I wonder how people are supposed to be able to find that when in an emergency sitting in the backseat of someone else's car.

wstrange · 5 months ago

For the back seats you can order webbing strips from Temu for five bucks. They are easy to spot (bright yellow).

I point them out to any passengers in the back seat.

If you have kids that are likely to pull them ... different story.

wstrange commented on Apple takes down ICE tracking apps after pressure from DOJ foxbusiness.com/politics/... · Posted by u/aspenmayer

wstrange · 5 months ago

Reading the comments on that Fox site is depressing. A lot of hate for Apple, but for the wrong reasons (as in, completely missing the danger of centralized app stores..).

wstrange commented on ABC yanks Jimmy Kimmel’s show ‘indefinitely’ after threat from FCC chair cnn.com/2025/09/17/media/... · Posted by u/VikingCoder

vFunct · 6 months ago

What's the end game of these right-wing legacy media? The median age of TV viewers is like 65. How do they expect to maintain any viewership once all the elderly people die off? The only thing people watch anymore are live sports and local news, and even those are showing signs of declining.

wstrange · 6 months ago

Well, you have Larry Ellison and Elon doing their best to corner social media - so I think the right wing has it's bases covered.

wstrange commented on Delayed Security Patches for AOSP (Android Open Source Project) twitter.com/grapheneos/st... · Posted by u/transpute

ACCount37 · 6 months ago

Either the new company takes over maintaining Android, or it fumbles the bag and the development becomes less centralized for a while - until some leader emerges and takes over.

Either way, the new control center of Android wouldn't be Google. A decade ago, I would have seen that as a very bad thing. Now, I'm almost certain that this would be a change for the better. Google is not what it once was.

wstrange · 6 months ago

Or a more likely scenario is that Apple picks up even more market share, and we go from a duopoly to a monopoly.

wstrange commented on Telo MT1 telotrucks.com/... · Posted by u/turtleyacht

wstrange · 7 months ago

This is what Tesla should have built instead of the Cybertruck.

With their distribution and service centers, this would sell like hot cakes.

wstrange commented on Most RESTful APIs aren't really RESTful florian-kraemer.net//soft... · Posted by u/BerislavLopac

nchmy · 8 months ago

How are web browsers hypothetical? We're using one with rest/hateoas/hypermedia right now...

You don't seem to have even the slightest idea of what you're talking about here. Again, I suggest checking out the htmx essays and their hypermedia.systems book

wstrange · 8 months ago

It should be obvious that the thing doing the interpretation and navigation is a human, not an automated system.

wstrange commented on Most RESTful APIs aren't really RESTful florian-kraemer.net//soft... · Posted by u/BerislavLopac

smaudet · 8 months ago

It was buried towards the bottom of the article, but the reason, to me:

Clients can be almost automatic with a HATEOS implementation, because it is a self describing protocol.

Of course, Open API (and perhaps to some extent now AI) also mean that clients don't need to be written they are just generated.

However it is important perhaps to remember the context here: SOAP is and was terrible, but for enterprise that needed a complex and robust RPC system, it was beginning to gain traction. HATEOS is a much more general yet simple and comprehensive system in comparison.

Of course, you don't need any of this. So people built APIs they did need that were not restfull but had an acronym that their bosses thought sounded better than SOAP, and the rest is History.

wstrange · 8 months ago

> Clients can be almost automatic with a HATEOS implementation, because it is a self describing protocol.

That was the theory, but it was never true in practice.

The oft comparisons to the browser really missed the mark. The browser was driven by advanced AI wetware.

Given the advancements in LLMs, it's not even clear that RESTish interfaces would be easier for them to consume (say vs. gRPC, etc.)

wstrange commented on MCP is eating the world stainless.com/blog/mcp-is... · Posted by u/emschwartz

faxmeyourcode · 9 months ago

https://github.com/sooperset/mcp-atlassian

wstrange · 9 months ago

Looking at the demo I can see project managers going wild with this. And not in a good way.