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yakz commented on Tesla is heading into multi-billion-dollar iceberg of its own making   electrek.co/2025/10/20/te... · Posted by u/ndsipa_pomu
LeifCarrotson · 2 months ago
Check out Slate:

https://www.slate.auto/en

https://images.ctfassets.net/20dhmw20vttc/3FXvexNHHbtaijk1Ur...

Worried about infotainment and AI processors? It doesn't even have a radio. See those things on the door cards by your knees? They interface with an advanced window regulator and associated torque-sensing motion control system that uses evaporative liquid cooling to prevent failure due to overheating.

You could buy three for the price of a Tesla.

yakz · 2 months ago
You can't buy it at all, yet.

Also, with the way these kinds of things have gone in the past:

- It's not certain that you'll ever be able to buy it. - If you can buy it, it'll probably be closer to $40k than $25k with no add-ons. - It's not certain that you'll ever actually be able to buy it with no add-ons. - Orders that include all of the most expensive add-ons will be heavily prioritized, so even if you can order it without add-ons, the queue could be months or years long. - The ones that you can actually get in a reasonable amount of time will be closer to $50k than $25k.

yakz commented on RFK Jr. Must Go   quillette.com/2025/09/17/... · Posted by u/kamaraju
notmyjob · 3 months ago
Even if they don’t act on that view? Sounds a lot like “thoughtcrime” to me and antagonistic to freedom of religion and therefore also antagonistic to our constitution. While I support your constitutional right to free speech, calling for violence against people because of their religion is imo a shameful and self destructive stance.
yakz · 3 months ago
I don't think it's a huge stretch to consider supporting circumcision of children as being a call to violence against children, though. Just because it's being done for religious reasons and it has been done by a large population for a long time really doesn't change what it is: involuntary body modification of children.
yakz commented on ChatGPT Pulse   openai.com/index/introduc... · Posted by u/meetpateltech
glouwbug · 3 months ago
It is in many fields. They're Professional Engineers, and they build nearly everything that's important to a society. Software is overrun by literally anyone and everyone because it's not a protected field of engineering
yakz · 3 months ago
Hang on, my understanding of the situation is that only PEs are allowed to sign off on the design of a thing. They don't have to design it, and they almost certainly don't build it. Am I wrong?
yakz commented on Bosch Unveils New Brake Technology   thebrakereport.com/bosch-... · Posted by u/effnorwood
kbos87 · 3 months ago
Non-blinding headlights already exist. Modern projection headlights can map where the light ends up on the road to illuminate your path while avoiding oncoming traffic. It just isn't widely adopted (in the US at least) as of yet.
yakz · 3 months ago
Adaptive headlights have only been approved for use in the US for ~3 years. They were sold in cars in the US before that, but the adaptive function was disabled.
yakz commented on Meta Ray-Ban Display   meta.com/blog/meta-ray-ba... · Posted by u/martpie
jrowen · 3 months ago
I think continuing to go for the classic Ray-Ban look is a mistake. I don't think this product is enticing to the Ray-Ban crowd at this point. Ray-Bans are for looking effortlessly cool, not maybe secretly filming people, it's a wolf in sheep's (bulging) clothing. I would go for more steampunk goggles. Get nerds and hobbyists really excited about it. Create a new lane.
yakz · 3 months ago
A version that is just plainly nerdy (and more comfortable) might not be a bad idea; maybe call it the developer version or something to avoid any association with fashion or luxury.
yakz commented on Meta Ray-Ban Display   meta.com/blog/meta-ray-ba... · Posted by u/martpie
paxys · 3 months ago
I saw the keynote, and while everything about the glasses was more or less as expected, seeing Zuck easily navigate the interface and type 30 words per minute while barely moving his fingers was a true WTF moment. If they can actually make the neural interface work that well then Meta has won this round.
yakz · 3 months ago
Doesn’t that make the wrist accessory the important part? The chunky glasses look like they’re still too early, not enough tech.
yakz commented on Waymo has received our pilot permit allowing for commercial operations at SFO   waymo.com/blog/#short-all... · Posted by u/ChrisArchitect
perfmode · 3 months ago
Is Waymo L5?
yakz · 3 months ago
No, L5 is a car that can drive itself anywhere in any conditions.
yakz commented on The Washington Post Fired Me – But My Voice Will Not Be Silenced   karenattiah.substack.com/... · Posted by u/frob
alpha_squared · 3 months ago
From what I'm gathering, the quote she attributes to Kirk appears to not be a statement he made. I'm not able to find a source for that quote anywhere, but I'm also not about to go watch/listen to everything Kirk ever said in case it was never transcribed anywhere. If it is true that Kirk never said that, I would say that definitely compromises the trust in her as a journalist.

And I'm saying this as someone who is on the "political left" by US standards, though more centrist by broader western standards.

yakz · 3 months ago
It's not an exact quote, but it was on The Charlie Kirk Show, on July 13th 2023. The video is still available, it's around 53:45 in.
yakz commented on Charlie Kirk killed at event in Utah   nbcnews.com/news/us-news/... · Posted by u/david927
ethbr1 · 4 months ago
>> Like anybody, I would like to live a long life. Longevity has its place. But I'm not concerned about that now. I just want to do God's will. And He's allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I've looked over. And I've seen the Promised Land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the promised land! [April 3, 1968 in Memphis, Tennessee]

Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968.

So perhaps a better excerpt in light of recent events would be

>> And another reason that I'm happy to live in [the second half of the 20th century] is that we have been forced to a point where we are going to have to grapple with the problems that men have been trying to grapple with through history, but the demands didn't force them to do it. Survival demands that we grapple with them. Men, for years now, have been talking about war and peace. But now, no longer can they just talk about it. It is no longer a choice between violence and nonviolence in this world; it's nonviolence or nonexistence. That is where we are today.

yakz · 4 months ago
It turns out, at least so far, we can still choose violence.
yakz commented on MSNBC: Whistleblower accuses DOGE team of endangering Social Security data   whistleblower.org/in-the-... · Posted by u/toomanyrichies
outside1234 · 4 months ago
We are all going to have get new Social Security IDs before this is all over with...

... and probably thousands of government systems will probably have to built from the ground up again because we can't guarantee that they are secure.

But thank goodness we saved $0 because of DOGE

yakz · 4 months ago
The objective was clearly dismantling institutions, not saving money.

u/yakz

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