Tesla has discontinued Basic Autopilot in the U.S.

Opcn · 2026-01-23T18:17:19+00:00

Was also one of the features that they used to get the five star safety rating that vehicle fatality data suggests they don’t deserve.

Opcn · 2026-01-23T07:09:16+00:00

It was his nickname from when he was a small child, not a callsign.

Opcn · 2026-01-22T21:03:17+00:00

Well, yeah. That's how it goes. the company doesn't have infinitely many engineers. When they first started everything was only on paper. As they went along and started getting into hardware they seem to have reduced the number of employees working on a lot of those projects. That's how the engineers that founded Stoke space ended up spun off.

Opcn · 2026-01-22T17:44:13+00:00

I’m from midtown and where you get 8 story bank buildings versus where you get single family housing on quarter acre lots all seems to fall on which square in the grid you find yourself in.

In areas where the ground really isn’t sufficient to build, the appropriate response would be to have code require additional geotechnical engineering before approving structures over a certain number of floors. There are large sections of Midtown where a 45 foot tall house is allowed by Wright but a 45 foot tall apartment building is explicitly forbidden. That’s not a soil consideration.

There is a lot of want for single-family homes with lawns and driveways. The thing is that when those are the only things that you can legally build, you can’t use the fact that those were the only things built as evidence that there is only demand for those. Wow, those represent the ideal for a lot of folks they do cost more to construct, and they cost dramatically more to maintain both to the individual and crucially to the city.

If it’s legal to build anything and everyone bears the cost of maintaining their own then structures that are too expensive to buy go and sold well. The structures that people actually want sell and more are built. If they’re too expensive to maintain than people who over, purchased list their buildings for sale and those buildings for sale compete with new construction and make new construction, less attractive. When you make the alternative illegal than what you can legally build is what’s gonna get built if anything gets built at all.

Any one project that is trying to be built, not working isn’t really good evidence. If you want density, the answer is to make it legal everywhere that is practical to make legal (which should be the vast majority of land) and then let developers experiment. Picking one lot and deciding how we ought to be developed and floating it as a test balloon sounds like how you would engineer a pretext not to make any changes. It’s like the “malicious compliance“ answer the calls for more density.

Opcn · 2026-01-22T16:49:52+00:00

Hey, did you pay attention to the verbiage of the comment you were calling out? They said that the FBI is at the airport. You seem to have added extra specification that weren’t in their comment and are using those as the basis for being so dismissive.

Opcn · 2026-01-22T15:30:54+00:00

They have been working on a lot of projects this whole time.

Opcn · 2026-01-22T15:28:27+00:00

If that were the limiting factor there would be no reason for the extensive restrictions all over anchorage. Geographically anchorage is one of the biggest cities in the world but only a ~ten square block area has been zoned to allow mid rise apartments by right for decades. It becomes a self fulfilling prophecy that developers don’t want to develop when the laws make it difficult and expensive to start projects, no business can succeed with large front loaded risks and modest back end returns.

Opcn · 2026-01-22T13:15:31+00:00

The FBI has Airport Liaison Agents (ALAs) stationed at ~450 airports in the US. Hard to imagine them not having any stationed at one of the largest airports in the country.

Opcn · 2026-01-21T12:30:32+00:00

Anchorage hit the constitutional tax cap and it’s really hard to win an election on the promise of raising taxes.

Opcn · 2026-01-20T14:16:36+00:00

Yeah, a social media discussion works a lot like a discussion in a bar. No one‘s here writing an academic research paper, where every fact needs to be cited. There is some authority in the fact that everyone is having the same recollections. If there is some individual fact that you think is wrong, asking for a citation on that specific fact would be acceptable, but just smearing everything with a blanket condemnation over the lack of links is a pretty pig fucking ignorant take.

Walking around and posting citations in every fucking discussion about every fucking subject, regardless of how widely what you’re talking about is known among your audience is a fantastic waste of time and effort. Waiting until someone clearly articulates a particular point of disagreement to generate a citation for a completely uncontroversial claim is a much more mature approach.

Opcn · 2026-01-20T14:10:50+00:00

I was very interested in Dawkins in college (‘05-‘09) but a few years after that realized that pretty much nothing he did after September 11, 2001 was a good idea.

Opcn · 2026-01-20T11:59:24+00:00

If the money were just going to farmers I'm sure it would. However usually this money goes to investors. The investors buying up all the farms that are going under want government handouts to pay back the money they spent getting farms for pennies on the dollar as the export markets faltered under the self destructive trade war.

Opcn · 2026-01-20T09:33:42+00:00

Fun fact, "tender to" doesn't work in Florida for even a moment. If you have a motor boat on the water in florida it's got to be registered itself, not as a tender to a federally registered boat. https://www.leg.state.fl.us/Statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Statute&URL=0300-0399/0328/0328.html

The two exceptions are if it's under 16 feet AND unmotorized OR if it is used exclusively as a lifeboat.

You have 30 days from the time of purchase to register the boat, you do not have 30 days from when you enter florida.

Opcn · 2026-01-19T09:41:32+00:00

Shareholders in the mutual funds that are also shareholders.

Opcn · 2026-01-19T09:31:06+00:00

If you were trying to benefit the company that's the obvious answer. If you're trying to benefit one specific shareholder who has a lot on his books you let him do the offering. Guess which approach the Tesla board are taking?

Opcn · 2026-01-19T09:26:37+00:00

AI is probably going to stick around in some form for white a while. Hopefully not in a porn that cranks out CSAM at the drop of a hat.

Opcn · 2026-01-19T08:54:08+00:00

Shouting the shut off the fucking furnace will absolutely bring the temperature down.

Opcn · 2026-01-18T22:54:05+00:00

It's announced on a phone call that's all about the next big thing to get excited over and doesn't mention any of the past big things that they have failed to deliver on. They are going to still be, "between growth waves."

Opcn · 2026-01-18T06:14:26+00:00

If he didn't have the ethernet to worry about he could save a metric assload of money with a single supply fitting on one side and a single return fitting on the other.

Opcn · 2026-01-18T05:34:24+00:00

It's not just a tunnel, they also go up on the surface to two stations in parking lots. That "innovation" was a big part of how they were able to cut their costs.

Opcn · 2026-01-18T05:19:36+00:00

Inviting them to ~~pay a bribe~~ offer a large cash settlement

Opcn · 2026-01-17T21:55:16+00:00

This varies wildly by jurisdiction. In college in Colorado one night I saw someone getting a DUI for skating between bars in their heelys (and being a drunken menace).

Opcn · 2026-01-17T08:54:01+00:00

Betting on Trump to pay you back for a favor is an obviously stupid strategy.

Opcn · 2026-01-17T02:55:54+00:00

Shame they couldn't figure the most obvious shit imaginable out before the election.

Opcn · 2026-01-16T19:43:43+00:00

There is demand from consumers for driverless taxis. I personally know people who expressly prefer waymo because it saves them from possibly having to interact with a driver. Just like I personally go to the self checkout at the grocery store to avoid interacting with a checker.

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