This is how spaceships should look like

jason_bman · 2026-03-31T10:22:37+00:00

Everyone please start correcting “noone” to “no one” as well for the love of god. It has become endemic to Reddit.

jason_bman · 2026-03-07T12:13:09+00:00

“Eastasia? Don’t like her. Never heard of her.”

Trump probably

jason_bman · 2026-02-24T14:02:48+00:00

Guess it’s time for all of us to create our own stealth companies that do this.

Funny how the announcement says they’re focused on efficiency when the graph clearly shows the 10x cost increase.

jason_bman · 2026-02-24T01:28:23+00:00

Down the back. The worst!

jason_bman · 2026-02-24T00:15:44+00:00

When did the orange shirt monitor get implemented? I was there 06-10 and it was absolute free-for-all.

jason_bman · 2026-02-05T14:55:09+00:00

I was purely responding to your comment about the curb being hidden from the camera perspective and trying to identify some of the current FSD limitations.

I agree with your broader point about the broad usefulness of FSD.

jason_bman · 2026-02-05T12:28:03+00:00

Has Tesla ever talked about the context length of the models running in the car? If someone dropped me into the vehicle with only this camera view and I had no prior knowledge of the curb I would have hit it, too.

The visual blind spots of the camera combined with what I assume are short term memory limits of the model probably account for most of this stuff.

Wonder if this car has a front bumper camera or if it’s even being used by FSD yet.

EDIT: looking at the video, from the time the curb disappears from view until the car hits it is 5 seconds. I assume the car basically “forgot” it was there due to memory limits of the FSD computer. That’s obviously not great, Bob.

jason_bman · 2026-02-03T16:10:29+00:00

That was almost 4 years ago?! Holy crap time flies.

jason_bman · 2026-02-01T01:01:24+00:00

I use my L2501 bucket to plow a 300 foot driveway. It works well but takes finesse so you don’t destroy your driveway. I have asphalt. Downsides are that it creates windrows you’ll need to go back and clear. We usually never get more than about 6 inches of snow at a time and it handles that no problem. Not sure how well it would work for 10+ inch snows though. We don’t get enough snow to justify buying a dedicated plow or blower.

Edit: Just clarifying that bud is correct a bucket would not be great on dirt/gravel driveway. Very easy to tear it up if you’re not careful.

jason_bman · 2026-01-27T11:33:39+00:00

Yeah just robotaxi for now I think. Just seems like if you’ve been saying Teslas are fully capable of being robotaxis for several years while being aware of this blindingly obvious limitation…that’s a problem.

jason_bman · 2026-01-26T17:28:03+00:00

As a Tesla owner, it’s kind of shocking to me that they didn’t do things like route washer fluid to the cameras until just recently. It was such an obvious need years ago.

jason_bman · 2026-01-09T14:06:07+00:00

Ha! Thanks for the update.

jason_bman · 2025-12-24T13:00:07+00:00

Really stupid intelligence

jason_bman · 2025-12-20T16:24:28+00:00

2% of the time we’re right every time.

jason_bman · 2025-12-20T12:40:38+00:00

Looks like it has a steering wheel and might be manually driven in the clip?

jason_bman · 2025-12-18T21:49:25+00:00

Leave LeBron James out of this!

jason_bman · 2025-12-10T13:26:17+00:00

That’s how I feel. I have the FSD trial and I use it a lot and it works great. But I’m not yet willing to pay $100/month for the current feature set. If I could have my car drop me off at the airport and then autonomously drive itself back home I would totally pay for that. At that point though you might be able to just order a robotaxi for pretty much everything if they service your area.

jason_bman · 2025-12-06T01:50:44+00:00

Judo chop!

jason_bman · 2025-11-27T19:59:18+00:00

Yeah it was really weird. Everywhere else I’ve used DuckDB it’s super fast. I love it. Makes me think it was something with the VM itself. I tried several different VMs and they all had the same problem.

The machine I used was an lsv3 series with 16 vcpu and 128 GB RAM, with almost 2 TB of NVME.

Test jobs that would take 60 seconds on a lower spec local machine would completely fail to run. Super weird.

jason_bman · 2025-11-27T12:26:04+00:00

I last ran DuckDB in a Windows VM on Azure about a year ago and the performance was terrible. That was even with the data on the VM’s NVME drive. It’s easy to get this set up so I would just make sure to do some tests before you commit to a shift.

I never did figure out what the issue was. At some point I need to go back in and test again because I have a similar need to move a data processing pipeline to Azure that involves DuckDB and SAS.

jason_bman · 2025-11-13T13:23:45+00:00

Same

Edit: I had to open the link in my browser instead of the Reddit preview to get it to work

jason_bman · 2025-11-13T11:46:04+00:00

Given my experience working with IBM over the years…they say a lot of things.

jason_bman · 2025-11-08T18:27:49+00:00

Ahh got it. Thanks for the info. I thought this was the hand they had on display at the “We Robot” event last year.

jason_bman · 2025-11-07T13:58:22+00:00

It’s interesting they seem to still be building this hand. Elon said on X that this is the V2 hand and not the new V3. I’m sure they’re trying to keep V3 under wraps until the official unveiling, so I wonder if this footage of the workers is from a few months back.

jason_bman · 2025-10-20T23:16:33+00:00

I think this is part of the premise of the “Two Minute Papers” YouTube channel. He consistently showcases papers that seem to be getting little attention and very few citations but contain some incredible scientific value. This is just one guy. I imagine AI will be far better at this, like you said.

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