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  On 12/21/2022 at 4:08 AM, Neonmoon said:

Also never a good idea to show how little you understand about business publicly 

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I'm looking for the quote where Elron said, "One year ago bitcoin was at over 46k and today it's below 17k. Tesla has performed much better than bitcoin over the past year proving once again that I'm the very bestest CEO firing all my neural links and creating massive investor value relative to the market." But I can't find it. Must've been deleted.

 

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If you watched the Aussie mechanic discussing how the Tesla semi would be a big fail, this article provides some confirmation to what he's saying. 

If you wanted to buy the vehicle, you had to sign an NDA. Also the 500 mile range tesla's propaganda promised falls to 100 miles when filled with anything heavier than air. And they've still failed to release any specs about the vehicle even though, supposedly, deliveries have begun. 

Tesla Semis' Range May Fall Drastically When Hauling Things Heavier Than Potato Chips (futurism.com)

/TESLA SEMIS' RANGE MAY FALL DRASTICALLY WHEN HAULING THINGS HEAVIER THAN POTATO CHIPS

"DRAGGING A TRAILER FULL OF CHIPS AROUND IS NOT THE MOST INTENSE, TOUGH ASK."

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Five years after showing off its Semi truck to the public, Tesla finally started delivering trucks to its customers this month.

But the company has been noticeably quiet about the vehicle since, having yet to reveal the truck's weight capacity when fully loaded, its price, or when the rest of Tesla's customers will actually be able to start using them.

 

And given the latest news, Tesla may have reasons to be avoiding those questions. After all, the stakes couldn't be higher — a successful rollout of a 500-mile electric semi truck could be a huge win for a company that desperately needs one right now.

Frito Delivery

PepsiCo, which is Tesla's first Semi buyer and plans to roll out 100 Semis next year, is already noticing that the truck's range takes a massive hit when loaded with heavy cargo, something Tesla's critics have long suspected.

 

A Semi can carry a load of Frito-Lay chips for an impressive 425 miles with battery to spare, for instance. But potato chips in air-filled bags are one of the lightest loads imaginable; for heavier fare such as sodas, PepsiCo is limiting trips to 100 miles with the truck, PepsiCo VP Mike O'Connell told Reuters.

The remarks were somewhat ambiguous, and O'Connell did elaborate that the company is planning to eventually haul beverages in the "400 to 500 mile range as well."

"Dragging a trailer full of chips around is not the most intense, tough ask," Oliver Dixon, senior analyst at consultancy Guidehouse, told the news agency. "I still believe that Tesla has an awful lot to prove to the broader commercial vehicle marketplace."

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To be clear, we still don't know how much weight a Semi can actually carry and what the resulting drop-off in range will actually be — something that Tesla has yet to publicly address.

 

Tesla maintains its trucks have "can travel up to 500 miles on a single charge," according to its website, a vague statement that leaves us with plenty of questions.

PepsiCo and other customers such as Gatorade have remained tightlipped about the details, likely a result of non disclosure agreements they signed with the EV maker.

But PepsiCo's decision to only complete short trips with heavy loads could be a sign that Tesla may have oversold its 500-mile semi truck.

When it comes to the laws of physics, after all, there's only so much the company can do to electrify the trucking industry.

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  On 12/21/2022 at 4:39 AM, Chopper said:

I'm looking for the quote where Elron said, "One year ago bitcoin was at over 46k and today it's below 17k. Tesla has performed much better than bitcoin over the past year proving once again that I'm the very bestest CEO firing all my neural links and creating massive investor value relative to the market." But I can't find it. Must've been deleted.

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Fire them all at once for maximum efficiency!

 

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I guess Ian Brown (now at Netflix, formerly ran Twitter’s JVM and performance efforts) dropped into George Hotz’ and Musk’s Twitter Space last night and dropped a hammer on Musk’s claim that, essentially, Twitter’s current codebase/architecture was beyond saving.

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Brown pushed back on Elon needing a "total rewrite" of code. Elon is not a good speaker, period. Let me tell you, if I had $Billions I would be getting public speaking lessons until I was an incredible speaker.

Elon: "Who are you?"

Brown: "What do you mean, who am I?"

he has literally no answers - he may have some knowledge but this is absolutely not his area of expertise.

Brown: "What is the (new) stack Elon? take it from top to bottom - what is the stack? ... What is so abnormal about this stack vs every other stack on the planet right now?'

Elon: "..............Amazing, you are a jackass"

the host then said he wanted to keep it civil and he removed Brown from speakers.

 

this thread is about that space. The Elon thinks they will be breakeven next year blows my mind, literally.

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Listening to this Twitter Spaces where Elon is talking about the tech stack and it's clear that no one has been in a position to actually ask him a follow up question in years. He thinks he knows everything and simply will not abide someone contradicting that notion.
Right after I sent this he demanded someone be cut off because he was pointing out correctly how ads work on the internet. Literally just said "cut him off"
 
“You are our philosopher king and Plato would be proud of you.” Amazing shit man.
 
The other fun tension is that George just wants the full stack refactor at all costs and is like “every new line of code is a sin.” Elon thinks they’ll be breakeven next year bc of cost cuts and subscriber revenue. Otherwise would be -$3B. What if both don’t know anything?
 
Acknowledges straight up that banning Paul Graham was a mistake. It's so funny because it's clear that he was fine with the policy until it hit a friendly and then the whole thing fell apart. He regrets that PG got banned. The way the policy came up isn't the error to him
 
Lollll Elon saying that $60M/yr was being spent in intl sms. This is truly hilarious because this actually got us back in the day too. Elon's solution was just to cut off all the telcos with "high fraud" and that of course fucked everyone using SMS 2FA.
 
I regret to inform you that Infinite Jest made an appearance just before Elon signed off.
 
More from Jason Goldman:
 
 
a full rewrite to add a bunch of stuff users don't want? what is this - digg v4?
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Can't wait for the numbers of renewals in month 2. For the regular poor hey I can see maybe why it would be fun for a month or two to have the blue check but after you see no returns from it, or you've played out all the gags and pwning you had only dreamt about, why bother renewing?

Posted
  On 12/21/2022 at 10:23 PM, Celery Man said:

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fuckin kubernetes

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K8s so grossly overused and abused when a more simple direct container management solution is usually more than adequate. Hell my whole home tech stack is just orchestrated docker containers, because that's all my Plex server and supporting library containers need. 

I've seen so many businesses and teams get mired in K8s just because that's the fun thing that gets talked about at conferences 

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Someone paid thousands just to make this happen:

https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/21/business/tesla-fsd-8-car-crash

 

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A driver told authorities that their Tesla’s “full-self-driving” software braked unexpectedly and triggered an eight-car pileup in the San Francisco Bay Area last month that led to nine people being treated for minor injuries including one juvenile who was hospitalized, according to a California Highway Patrol traffic crash report.

CNN Business obtained the report detailing the crash through a public records request Wednesday. California Highway Patrol reviewed videos that show the Tesla vehicle changing lanes and slowing to a stop.

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California Highway Patrol said in the Dec. 7 report that it could not confirm if “full self-driving” was active at the time of the crash. A highway patrol spokesperson told CNN Business on Wednesday that it would not determine if “full self-driving” was active, and Tesla would have that information.

The crash occurred about lunchtime on Thanksgiving, snarling traffic on Interstate 80 east of the Bay Bridge as two lanes of traffic were closed for about 90 minutes as many people traveled to holiday events. Four ambulances were called to the scene.

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The pileup took place just hours after Tesla CEO Elon Musk had announced that Tesla’s driver-assist software “full self-driving” was available to anyone in North America who requested it. Tesla had previously restricted access to drivers with high safety scores on its rating system.
“Full self-driving” is designed to keep up with traffic, steer in the lane and abide by traffic signals. It requires an attentive human driver prepared to take full control of the car at any moment. It’s delighted some drivers but also alarmed others with its limitations. Drivers are warned by Tesla when they install “full self-driving” that it “may do the wrong thing at the worst time.”

The report states that the Tesla Model S was traveling at about 55 mph and shifted into the far left-hand lane, but then braked abruptly, slowing the car to about 20 mph. That led to a chain reaction that ultimately involved eight vehicles to crash, all of which had been traveling at typical highway speeds.

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I'm done posting on twitter.  I'm going to make a few pinned posts for my accounts pointing to my websites, and as soon as I set it up properly, my post.news account.  Today, Elon was out there retweeting Russian talking points, pretending that if we give Ukraine, $40 billion, that's $40 billion in cash flowing into the pockets of a corrupt Ukraine and not things like fucking HIMARS and Javelins and M777s that we know are actually being used.

I get it - maybe he's autistic and can't easily discern when somebody is pulling something over on him, he clearly doesn't know how to read a room, he doesn't understand the Constitution and the 1st Amendment, he still doesn't understand that twitter users are the product and advertisers the customer, but he's also retweeting out Russian propaganda to tens of millions of people.

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  On 12/22/2022 at 4:16 AM, Chopper said:

Just when you thought the complete madness and stupidity might slow down.

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On the one hand, he's publicly declaring there is a bot problem on twitter and that his poll couldn't be trusted. 

On the other hand, he's claiming that this poll, also by him, also on his platform, should mean something.

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  On 12/22/2022 at 5:16 AM, atomheartbevo said:

I'm done posting on twitter.  I'm going to make a few pinned posts for my accounts pointing to my websites, and as soon as I set it up properly, my post.news account.  Today, Elon was out there retweeting Russian talking points, pretending that if we give Ukraine, $40 billion, that's $40 billion in cash flowing into the pockets of a corrupt Ukraine and not things like fucking HIMARS and Javelins and M777s that we know are actually being used.

I get it - maybe he's autistic and can't easily discern when somebody is pulling something over on him, he clearly doesn't know how to read a room, he doesn't understand the Constitution and the 1st Amendment, he still doesn't understand that twitter users are the product and advertisers the customer, but he's also retweeting out Russian propaganda to tens of millions of people.

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the app/Elon/suggested accounts are all ass cancer at this point. 

It’s way easier than you think to delete and move on. 
 

 

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  On 12/21/2022 at 10:15 PM, hayden_horn said:

so i'm a tech analyst who has made a decent career out of pretending to understand tech. in reality, i just count things. you can name em what you want. 

but in short, the stack is the software. that's it. it's jargon. if this, then that. blah blah. whatever.

people make a lot of money on that and i wish i understood the nuts and bolts, but i could answer that question better than elon who was more angry at being questioned over his bullshit jargon than anything else. "achieving velocity?" go fuck yourself, nerd. twitter was in fucking orbit as an existing company. the problem isn't the fucking stack itself. it's trying to make the existing stack behave as though it was a wholly new and different fucking stack. 

you colossal fucking egotistical cancer. i used to kind of think this guy was cool when he was launching his roadster into space blasting bowie. that shit was cool in a childish but still kind of cool way. like how they actually fucking shot hunter thompson's ashes out of a fucking cannon. practical? nope. childish? yep. kind of cool? absofuckinglutely. pretending to understand what the stack is? fucking stupid. you're the boss. you don't have to know that shit. stop trying to be everything to everyone. idiot. 

and stop taking the drugs.

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i think we found the new title for this thread @OnAComputer

Elon Musk: "achieving velocity?" go fuck yourself, nerd"

that's an amazing line @hayden_horn, seriously.

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Not in the business forum but wow this stock (TSLA) has tanked.  At around 130 per share now and probably headed to the mid 80s based on a fair value model.  What does that do to Elmo’s cash flow servicing debt on his toy?

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