priddysharp.bsky.social
Not a Musk fan, but I am a Tesla/SpaceX fan. I love good engineering.
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Okay? I'm still never going to say that him posting this/pushing back against Trump is a bad thing, sorry.
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Don't look a gift horse in the mouth.
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What you are missing is - if the hours vary because of seasons, holidays, or just are frequently changed, now there is a way to easily communicate that instead of having signs that someone forgets to change out showing the wrong times.
If your menu changes you don't have to reprint, etc.
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I don’t dispute it.
But it’s possible for there to be truths about him as well. We are all complex beings - a bad person can do good things and vice versa.
To say he hasn’t done well with Tesla and SpaceX in the past because he is a shithead now isn’t right. And is a dangerous way to think in life
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And I do NOT love him or even like him.
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He is listed on multiple patents. I’d imagine you found those though.
And no, not footage of him saying great things about himself - footage of him talking about the details of what they are working on or videos of him giving a tour of SpaceX spending way too much time going into details of stuff.
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Your evidence? I have hours and hours of footage of him talking about details of projects and employees talking about that he does the above.
Maybe no longer today, but to blindly say he never did any good work isn’t going to pass muster, sorry.
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He started SpaceX from scratch and he bought into Tesla when it had like 4 employees. Considering they make billions in profit I’m not sure that counts as sinking. You can be mad at him and still recognize that he has done some impressive things in the past.
I hate who he has become, myself.
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I know very well. They had to redesign nearly every single aspect of it and regretted using the shells.
I don’t think all he does is amazing, or even a good idea. But to say he isn’t a deep thinker or contributed in meaningful ways undercuts him too much. And hiring good people is a talent too.
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Don’t forget that SpaceX doesn’t really patent much because those who would steal the designs don’t care about patent law and would use them to copy them more easily(e.g. China).
But okay, so him having these patents you listed makes him NOT an inventor? How many must one have to qualify?
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I’ve followed him closely for over a decade. For the most part he does the work and gets into the weeds. My understanding is he is a clever engineer who thinks because he is good at that he is good at everything now. He lost being humble and got a big head. I’m not happy about this outcome.
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Unfortunately this is not true - he is deeply involved with engineering/design/production of most things at his companies. At least, used to be.
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Not always just looking at the road/snow to know. I also know when I slip a little earlier in the drive. I don't think FSD has that kind of context window, so can't imagine it will know ice unless it sees it.
But still! Very impressed with snow!!
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I DO think it was a little fast IF there was ice, but there wasn't and I could tell... but either it can too, or it just got lucky!
See, I have the context of knowing the snow is fresh and generally understanding the weather in the area.
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Did about as good as we do at guessing where the lanes are when you can't see them, went below the speed limit, seemed to slow early for upcoming stops, gave plenty of room to other cars.
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Let it speed - it judges the road/vehicles better than I do and reacts faster.
Let it roll stop signs.
Let it treat red lights like stop signs in low traffic situations! Why not? If it can see all directions, why not?
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There may be some applications of hydrogen vehicles, but short-range in-town garbage trucks were never going to be it.
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…not b/c of restrictive measures, but b/c these companies will find it cheaper to clean the space up than to avoid items.
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…you’ll be okay.
But my real point is this:
Extremely cheap and capable launch vehicles(both launching this week) will make cleanup of this stuff trivial. We are at peak “uncontrolled mess” today…
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We can track all of these objects and simply avoid them. Space is HUGE, and yes they are moving fast… but so is anything we send to space next to it, and mostly in the same direction so relative to each other it’s like trying to dodge a car coming at you at 70 miles per hour… 5000 miles away…
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Forgot to mention that they also actively burn themselves up asap if they are functioning still at end of life/failure.
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Starlinks are designed that even once they spend months getting to full height they will burn up after only a few years, but if they fail on launch will be weeks. Plus unlike the requirement to burn up 90% of the way - they are 100%. Nothing from the biggest mega constellation is the threat here.
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Literally in your link: “Therefore, he added, their elevated accident rates likely reflect a combination of driver behavior and driving conditions.”
This report has been out for months and we’ve talked about it here endlessly - the car is safe, but it attracts people who drive extra recklessly.
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Ain't that the truth!
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I’ve read that both of them have spoken on Lives together before and that the account just uses a filter to talk Ike Elon to confuse people/get attention. That not true? Where was that shown?
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You mean moot?
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'Tesla's SpaceX'?
What does that mean?
they are two different companies.
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My first 3 was #5469! It was actually great for the couple months I had it. Got crashed into :/
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Finished the next leg - Trinidad Colorado to Clayton New Mexico. Perfect drive on V13! Only interesting thing was it changed lanes without blinker “suddenly”(was perfectly smooth about it) seemingly because it thought this road patch was a puddle maybe?
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This is not true. Not sure what your source is but this image isn’t even teslas.
And Tesla will often fill a shipyard with cars preparing for loading… which could be seen from space.
They report number of cars produced and delivered monthly.
Hate him for the facts, no need to make any up!
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Teslas catch fire over 60x less often than gas cars.
Gas car fires happen over 5000 times per day in the US.
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Well, but wasn’t his point with the stories based on these that even the most perfect set of three laws won’t work? That’s why you end up with the Zeroth law and so forth.
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*stealing
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I'll bet it can't even do pre-programmed parkour yet either!
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Tesla did this forever ago and so few people used it they never opened more than one, and redesigned the Model 3 and others to not be able to do it anymore. Imagine buying a new $50k car and having a 200k mile battery with no warranty swapped into it... yuck.
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500 miles is silly. It takes a few min to top off. MOST ppl who buy with the range like that will use that what 1-2 times a year? Drive around with hundreds of pounds of extra battery that could have helped build a second car for that trip? Give em extender trailers to rent or something.
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I felt the same way in Gravity haha. Entertaining, sure. But always loved Apollo 13. That and October Sky had strong impacts on me as a kid.
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Wow! Very cool! And I appreciate and respect NASA and am a huge fan. Musk would be nowhere without what NASA did. I just think NASA is held back by congressional oversight/budget and all of those politics. My favorite show is For All Mankind which show an alt reality where NASA wasn't held back!
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Eh, they get cheaper every year and amortized over even 5 years makes them a couple percent extra over the monthly cost. And the DoD keeps tabs on what he is or isn't doing with them. I don't think his politics plays in as much as everyone is worried(specifically meaning the sats here only! 😬)
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... there SHOULD be someone to oversee him but now anything is possible. But of all of our problems with this new government his sats are the least of my worries. But you aren't wrong and it's something to keep an eye on.
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There is more room up there by far than on the surface of the Earth, and yet think of how many billions of cars we have on 30% of the surface(land versus ocean). We won't see any issues that couldn't be resolved with reusable rockets cleaning things up if need be. And... with the gov the way it is..
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THAT will save lives. No way around it - the ability to send an emergency text and eventually call from anywhere on Earth with a view of the sky will save lives. And likely already did in testing during the hurricanes this year(27,000 texts sent).
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And I also have family in Texas who were paying $250 a month before with no other options for like 10Mbps and a 60Gb a month download cap. They think it's a blessing. And that's Texas! Not the middle of Africa.
And none of this to mention the 5G direct to phone capability coming online now.