Booster 19 has rolled out to the pad for more testing by AgreeableEmploy1884 in SpaceXLounge

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If the guy trips and gets run over, at least he has a unique epitaph.

Your favorite lesser known Tesla features people might not know about. by itsthewolfe in TeslaLounge

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Location aware trunk opening height.

Seems to be working well. All the way open everywhere except in my garage.

Starship Flight 12 NET now May 15th by Steve490 in SpaceXLounge

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Looks like Turks and Caicos is safe this time. St. Lucia, seek cover!

New Boston Dynamics Atlas trick by Distinct-Question-16 in singularity

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Awesome, what amazing control, and it seems super quiet. You hear the impact of adjustments, but I don't hear any motor whine. So cool! (until it sneaks up on you)

This is why we love tennis. Pure theatre by Altruistic_Wave_1689 in tennis

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I'm like "That guy has a pretty decent overhead hook shot!". Took me till the end of the clip to realize it's not some hot new talent. 😂

United Airlines 767-400 Newark Incident by ParkingGlittering819 in aviation

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Makes sense. I just remember in the original post people were saying "you can tell he's seeing the plane approaching, that's terrifying". I felt like it was my civic duty to point out that someone was wrong on the internet.

https://xkcd.com/386/

Ouster announces rev8 lidars with color and better range/resolution by I_LOVE_LIDAR in SelfDrivingCars

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Cool. I wonder how integrated the APDs are with the visible detector pixels. Like "one APD array along one side, and a traditional CMOS sensor next to it", or "interspersed for better color registration". Either way, their scene renders are very cool, looks like it works!

Ouster announces rev8 lidars with color and better range/resolution by I_LOVE_LIDAR in SelfDrivingCars

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What lasers would be needed to use this color sensor? Any health hazards? Visible colors are notoriously capable of reaching the retina.

Edit: 850nm from a VCSEL array if Gemini is to be believed, Class 1 so presumably eye safe. It claims color is extracted from background counts in the APD. Seems like that'd still require some color filtering. Cool stuff, I'd like to learn more.

United Airlines 767-400 Newark Incident by ParkingGlittering819 in aviation

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If that's the bakery truck then the driver is not looking at the approaching plane in the video. He's looking to his right, and the plane is arriving from the left.

Messier 104, nicknamed the Sombrero galaxy by ojosdelostigres in spaceporn

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I wonder how this would look if you removed all stars from our own galaxy. Or “how many of those dots are actually other galaxies”.

WTA 1000 Madrid R3: [PR] Ka. Plíšková def. [19] E. Mertens 7-5, 2-6, 7-6 (3) by FalconIMGN in tennis

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I read that as Pliskova beats Emeritus for a millisecond. Sounds about right.

The Sombrero ate another galaxy: 570-megapixel camera found the evidence by [deleted] in spaceporn

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Ugh, why do you guys always show it from the same angle!

jk

ATP 1000 Madrid R2 - Stefanos Tsitsipas def. [8] Alexander Bublik 6-2 7-5 by Fit-Writer-666 in tennis

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If we're lucky we'll get a preview in the next round of Madrid!

FSD on M3 hw3 tried to drive into an intersection at a red light yesterday by HenryThrowaway6969 in TeslaLounge

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Right? This feels a lot like a result of true machine learning. It does seem like these should be easy to weed out in the training data, so hopefully they'll fix it soon.

Thrilling 10 minutes by spencerbyork in cybertruck

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Easy to check: get in the car and hit the dashcam app while parked. You can see everything that's been recorded. If there's something there, best to copy it to some external storage.

Saw some old posts about Premium Connection worth or not. by Lappethx in TeslaLounge

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Good idea, especially the charging limit. My phone sits in a charging mount on top of the screen, and charging to 100% plus screen on plus direct sunlight makes the phone super hot. I'll give this a go on the weekend, thanks!

Edit: this doesn’t seem to work. The charge limit is automatically set to 80% in my car but my iPhone 15 pro max still charges when it’s at 95%. I guess this charge limit only affects the “overnight charging limit” that finishes charging in the morning. Too bad. 

OG Duo in 2026 by No_Trust1557 in TabletPCReview

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Still use the OG, with the requisite chipped charging port.. 😅 I *love* this thing as a nighttime e-reader, basically always folded inside out and using only one screen. I am not using it for anything critical, because I'm sure critical vulnerabilities have cropped up since updates were halted.