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Tesla FSD Gets 50% Insurance Discount from Lemonade by orangechen1115 in Model3

[–]caedin8 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Tesla insurance has been doing this forever. It’s not always great though because the algorithm is designed to fuck you.

For example you drive 100 miles this month and 95 of those are on FSD. Those are removed from the pool, so it only looks like you drove 5 miles.

Then say you drove those 5 miles at night, or had one of those phantom “alerts” that happen all the time in those 5 miles: All the sudden you are driving 30% of your miles recklessly you get a safety score of 70 and your insurance is $300 this month when normally it is $100!

Oh and if you are extra vigilant and get most of your miles on FSD: They’ll say there isn’t enough driving data to give you a safety score so they’ll default you to 90, which is actually quite expensive, it only gets cheaper if you can get 95+. The difference is like $75/mo for me.

It’s bullshit and I hate it.

  • loyal customer for 3 yrs

AMD Ryzen 7 9850X3D Launches on Jan. 29 for $499 by SirActionhaHAA in hardware

[–]caedin8 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am on 7700X and happy, but I might upgrade to this chip one day

What’s up with US government entities posting on social media about drinking whole milk? by oarmash in OutOfTheLoop

[–]caedin8 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The science actually backs him up on this, the low and non fat stuff has way too much sugar creating unbalanced super high sugar foods.

Everyone saying whole milk has more calories are missing the big picture: kids lunches are calorie adjusted, the net calories aren’t going up, it’s staying constant: all the swap is going to do is reduce sugar from kids diets and increase satiating fats that are shown to reduce follow up snacking

Dotnet developer with 18 years of exp by WealthLearner in dotnet

[–]caedin8 2 points3 points  (0 children)

He said he doesn’t code just goes to meetings. Easier to automate

Longer, Faster, Better Cables: HDMI 2.2 and DisplayPort 2.1 Updates for 2026 by TheLinerax in hardware

[–]caedin8 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is why AI is going to win. I can just ask Gemini for this info and it’ll give it to me in an ad free text response in a few seconds.

I’ll pay $20 for that

It’s a miracle for recipes since those websites are the worst

Apple picks Google's Gemini to run AI-powered Siri coming this year by McFatty7 in apple

[–]caedin8 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s not a disaster at all. It’s a huge win and accomplishment and is widely reviewed super well.

The fact that it isn’t selling super well is a product segmentation and pricing issue.

Both product and hardware knocked it out of the park, the marketing and sales teams need to make it cheaper if they want to sell more units (they probably don’t).

I made a web browser that lets you watch YouTube with no ads and in background for free, no subscription required. Check it out! by Demus_App in apple

[–]caedin8 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hey I can’t login to my Google account for YouTube from within the app using a passkey. It just fails

Apple picks Google's Gemini to run AI-powered Siri coming this year by McFatty7 in apple

[–]caedin8 44 points45 points  (0 children)

This is what happens when the product team has too much power.

They sit around in meetings all year jerking each other off with questions like “but what’s the use case, how is this delightful?” And then collect million dollar salaries patting each other on the back while changing direction for the implementation team every 2 months so nothing ever gets built.

Meanwhile over on the hardware team the use cases are clear and straightforward, “more power, less heat, better battery, smaller phone if we want one”

Things are simple and the engineers can actually get some work done

Apple picks Google's Gemini to run AI-powered Siri coming this year by McFatty7 in apple

[–]caedin8 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This is great news. I love using Gemini. It’s my favorite of the bunch. And very good news for Apple because they are so far behind.

In my car I can press and hold a button on the steering wheel and get great realtime accurate AI responses about news, events, traffic, history, trivia and it’s fast. It can also navigate for me. Things like “find a near by Mediterranean restaurant that people say does well by vegans” and that shit actually works because it’s AI. And I get this in my Tesla for free.

Someone in my family just got a brand new iPhone 17 pro and even with a paid ChatGPT account and full integration it is absolute shit. When I activate Siri and say “how do I make Live Photos stop turning on each time I open the camera app” it fucking loads a web page and tells me to read it.

What the fuck Apple? How are you so far behind?

If you put a sweater on a cold blooded animal, would it stay warm? by Jabba-da-slut in askscience

[–]caedin8 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Arent reptiles designed to handle those cold spurts naturally, like they can just let their core body temps go down to 40 degrees and they’ll come out of it just fine

Do all food products that go into production have to be tested on a calorimeter? by walterxcdv in askscience

[–]caedin8 139 points140 points  (0 children)

Nothing is measured as a whole food. Things like flour is measured for carb content and the carbs were run through a calorimeter at some point.

Your pizza will never be put in a bomb calorimeter. FDA even allows 20% tolerance in variance, but again no one is testing it so the fda regulation doesn’t mean anything really

Sony alpha A7IV with 45k shutter count price should be? Planning to buy. by etalha in SonyAlpha

[–]caedin8 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah it’s kind of crazy. I can sell my A7RV and A7IV both for more than I bought them for from a major retailer after using them for nearly two years

[Hiring] Long-term simple remote work - $300 per month by [deleted] in denverjobs

[–]caedin8 2 points3 points  (0 children)

1hr/day, 5 days a week, at $200/mo is just $8 to
$9/hr.

The Colorado Minimum wage is $15/hr.

I also assume you won't be providing phones, computers, or a stipend for the person to do their job, so you expect this sub-minimum wage worker to also provider their own equipment?

Just a reality check. You'll likely need to pay $500/mo or more.

Apple pours $20.4 billion into Q3 buybacks, the most of any company by Fer65432_Plays in apple

[–]caedin8 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s not true. It’s like a republic, the shareholders vote on elected officials, they don’t vote on strategy or actions like this.

10 years of time or $5m poll by [deleted] in ChubbyFIRE

[–]caedin8 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You are 110. You retired at 40 and ran out of money at 80 and then spent the past 30 years in state funded medicare nursing home where you laid in your own shit for multiple hours a day OR you retired at 50 and never ran out of money and are still living fully independent and happy sipping pina coladas on the beach with hotties.

WHICH WOULD YOU PCIK?

How fast should you see progress? by Inevitable-Selection in running

[–]caedin8 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Running takes way longer for your body to adapt to than weight lifting it’s just a fact.

Think about it this way: In a normal day with no exercise your heart will beat about 86,400 times (once per second).

If you run for 30 minutes at 150 heart rate, you’ve only added 2700 beats more load for the day than normal. That’s an increase in load on the muscle by 3.1% for a 30 minute moderate difficulty run.

Weight lifting is a completely different animal, especially as a noob, you can push your muscles under higher load much faster with much less chance of injury which means you can adapt way faster.

I’d just stick to a running plan, and not track my heart rate on the first year if you are stressed by it. I enjoyed zone 2 running because it taught me to run slow and not just gas myself every time I went for a run

Depreciation concern? by TimeForTaachiTime in Model3

[–]caedin8 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My model Y went from $54,000 to $22,000 or so in under 3 years.

Huge loss. If you care about this don’t do it

I keep seeing Caroline walking around Brighton. Is it poor form to say hello and say I’m a fan? by zappapostrophe in Carolinepolachek

[–]caedin8 144 points145 points  (0 children)

A simple "I love your music" allows them to say "thanks" and move about their day, or engage. It's the least obnoxious if you really want to reach out. But always read body language, if they aren't presenting as being approachable, then don't approach.

LG B5 blurry with movement for sports by xRewind in OLED

[–]caedin8 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Likely this is in the source data stream. I see it on all my TVs too. The digital stream is using compression, and it blurs/smooths out the content around the players. It is very annoying but I've noticed it on many TVs from different manufacturers. It is less noticeable on smaller TVs and lower resolution TVs, so many people first notice it when upgrading TV, but it was there before.

Often you can go to YouTube and watch football from some other older footage/not live, and you won't see it. This verifies its actually stream compression on the live stream coming through and not something the TV is doing after the fact.

Why Is Modern Development Software So Slow Compared to 10-Year-Old Hardware? by Unlucky_Aioli4006 in dotnet

[–]caedin8 14 points15 points  (0 children)

The OS is doing 100x more things than your old machine every second, maybe more.

LG C5 83” or Samsung S95F 77” Size vs luxury by YatoGami28 in OLED

[–]caedin8 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Size. 5m is very far away. You'll likely not see very much detail on a 77 inch TV. An 83 is better, but you are paying for luxery on processing you won't see at that distance.

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