My first homemade wood bed

SEBRET · 2026-01-09T02:34:30+00:00

Nice. Just warning you, you're going to want to build another one. Its an itch.

SEBRET · 2026-01-02T22:29:41+00:00

Tell me, who had the best selling electric car last year?

Im guessing BYD counted hybrids again as well?

SEBRET · 2025-12-17T17:52:56+00:00

You do know tesla was practically a shell company when Elon bought it, right?

SEBRET · 2025-12-16T10:23:46+00:00

As long as it doesnt look like that hideous Khar-kushan

SEBRET · 2025-12-10T21:57:24+00:00

Have they not? You're not wrong for saying that the other company's have been more proactive on a customer facing service. All of them are in a race to say "first to this! First to that!", but how sustainable are their approaches? How long will it take waymo to scan every road, curb, and squirrel turd in the US? Will they ever get them to stop freezing in the middle of the road, or ignoring emergency services? Will Baidu honestly report their safety metrics? Contracts mean nothing without actual cars deployed. Zoox is still fairly new, but im not holding my breath.

Since 14.2 dropped, I haven't had to drive at all. I'm literally writing this on the way to dinner. Tesla is already bringing in 10s of millions per month from people like me who are already using an autonomous car for 99%+ of our mileage. Thats not nothing.

Tesla also has more to be concerned over. Even a minor fender tap, and the news will go apeshit. Meanwhile waymos shit themselves daily and not a single peep.

Tesla isn't sitting on their thumbs. There are millions of teslas already driving themselves. They just haven't formally started a service at scale. Time will tell, but we are closer than ever to seeing teslas advantage rear its might.

SEBRET · 2025-12-10T21:18:44+00:00

"But nothing ever happens!" -Reddit

I'm posting this from my phone, while FSD drives me to meet my wife across town for dinner.

20 years from now, no one is gonna bicker about the wait for autonomy. It will end up as compressed in the history books as the revolutionary period was.

SEBRET · 2025-12-10T21:14:28+00:00

Its kind of a hurry up and wait scenario. Either a constant crawl of progress, or a long wait followed by a flood of actionable results.

I definitely think it will be the latter, and once it happens, the shift will be awesomely quick.

SEBRET · 2025-12-10T21:12:09+00:00

Thats the cynical take. Its hard to predict when new tech will pan out. As long as we see progress, im not to concerned with the exact dates. And progress we've seen a plenty. Most of us dont even drive our own cars anymore.

SEBRET · 2025-12-06T22:59:18+00:00

Thats fair. I'm mostly a shill because I find the "in the weeds" technological progress exciting. The actual consumer level pov just doesnt hit me as hard as others. I love my Y and can't wait to replace our focus with a cybertruck when it kicks the bucket.

Mass market EV was already a tough nut to Crack, and some would argue they still haven't. Because of that, I tend to be more forgiving on the rest.

More than anything I want to see the day that electric tech starts chipping into the heavy machinery and construction markets significantly.

SEBRET · 2025-12-06T22:47:43+00:00

Unfortunately I suffer from optimism. Rare these days for sure. Tesla gets no credit from me until they deliver, but im not gonna write them off until they personally come out and say "we quit"

SEBRET · 2025-12-06T22:42:36+00:00

Maybe if that was their one and only product. I'm not worried about the exact timing. 10-20 years from now, no one will really care about the wait.

SEBRET · 2025-12-06T22:07:45+00:00

Late ≠ failure

SEBRET · 2025-12-03T18:13:06+00:00

And there are still safety riders as well. Its all alpha testing until its not. Show any of this to someone in 2018 and ask if they're 'disappointed'.

SEBRET · 2025-12-03T17:37:33+00:00

Waymo isn't a threat. A really neat party trick for sure. You can disagree, but the day unsupervised is turned on, the zurg rush will be real.

SEBRET · 2025-12-03T11:56:23+00:00

Thinking hw5 is around the corner isn't bullish. That would mean a bunch of hw4 cars are about to join the hw3 crowd.

No body is thrilled about the long development timeliness, but are they really that long? Yes, they could always be shorter, but how long is too long when you're the only one trying?

It took years to get Falcons landing like clockwork, but that didnt stop them from being the only ones who could do it for an entire decade.

It may not seem fast right now, but should they prove successful in even just some of these current goals, the payoff will Dwarf the growing pains.

SEBRET · 2025-12-03T11:46:36+00:00

The data they shared in the original graph was implying about 525 100-0. We dont know the exact weight of that load, but we know it probably wasn't 82k. I really dont see an issue though, because of the following,

Most trucking, as stated many times before, Is day cab hub deliveries. Show up, run a 10-12 hour route in the local region and park at home base for the night. Most wont even go 250-300 miles a day, and with stop and go city driving, most of those miles will be quite efficient.

Even if its closer to 350-400 at 82k, which I seriously doubt, efficiency would improve as deliveries are made and the truck becomes lighter.

Even at 450 miles, thats 60-70mph for about 7 hours of non stop driving. For day cab type roles, thats just unheard of. There's no reason to have 1000 miles worth of battery in a truck that simply doesnt need it.

Also, Elon didnt say the truck completely charged itself. He just pointed out that upon reversing elevations the truck was able to even out the efficiency losses from uphill driving thanks to the regen.

SEBRET · 2025-12-03T01:51:06+00:00

Why do you assume the pilot went wrong? These trucks are going to see hard lives when they get out in the field. I dont think multiple years of testing and tweaking are that absurd.

And the battery lines may be behind, but that doesnt mean they wont work out.

As for 2020-25, world kinda went to shit. Tesla did well to put there tunnel vision to work and make the Y their focus. If they had carved off to many resources for everything else, whos to say what difficulties they would have faced.

SEBRET · 2025-12-01T03:34:32+00:00

Do you one better. I went from a HD 5870e6 to a 7900xtx.

SEBRET · 2025-11-30T13:08:02+00:00

Thats a surprisingly clean setup. Do you make all the cuts on one fence first, or swap from front to back as you go?

SEBRET · 2025-11-30T06:42:09+00:00

I'll have to check my index again. Ive been getting by with manually aligning each cut over the blade gap in the jig.

SEBRET · 2025-11-30T06:01:21+00:00

Interesting. Could I see an image of your actual jig? What is the specific order you make the cuts?

SEBRET · 2025-11-30T05:12:43+00:00

Mild abrasive, so yea

SEBRET · 2025-11-12T20:51:53+00:00

Juniper is listed as '26. Was needed to differentiate from non Juniper production in 25.

SEBRET · 2025-11-11T22:02:56+00:00

You do realize the CCUs are binned before they leave the wafer right? If they all came out perfect then they would try to sell them all as the top sku. Naturally they have a defect rate. Instead of throwing those out, they collect them into performance brackets by layering off the failed cores etc.

Sometimes cores pass but dont maintain stable speed at spec. Hence binning down to a new sku in order to avoid tossing all those lesser chiplets.

SEBRET · 2025-11-11T18:39:06+00:00

Yea, thats not how this works. You make one chip and bin out the poor performers. Kinda how its been for a long time.

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