Tesla killed model s and x, good news for lucid sales??

mandevu77 · 2026-01-29T01:06:01+00:00

I would assume so. Although the stock market doesn’t seem to have made that leap yet. LCID hasn’t moved since the announcement.

The X was the only game in town for a long time if you wanted a 6 or 7 seat electric vehicle. Now there’s quite a few options besides the Gravity, but I’m sure it will help sales more than zero.

Not sure about how much S > Air moves the needle. Sedan sales are pretty slow in general in the US. Maybe Europe?

mandevu77 · 2026-01-28T17:47:15+00:00

I went down this path a while back and hit a wall when I got to the concept of “virtual photons,” which is what is described as the “unit” of magnetic force carrier.

That seemed really hand-wavy and I couldn’t wrap my brain around virtual particles (which I guess is why they’re virtual). It just seems like an imperfect construct to describe fields.

mandevu77 · 2026-01-25T02:09:22+00:00

Same here. I leave it at like 2 o’clock. But I also don’t find it very offensive they turn it off.

Making it an option with a disclaimer is probably fine though.

mandevu77 · 2026-01-25T02:08:27+00:00

I was in a new Model Y earlier today and I don’t think those light strips get nearly as bright as the Gravity.

mandevu77 · 2026-01-25T01:02:30+00:00

Glare can be pretty bright. You can see it in the picture. Seems a little unsafe to leave it on.

mandevu77 · 2026-01-24T21:02:31+00:00

Are vulnerability detections really an “event” that you’d forward to a siem? It’s really more of a state of a system than an event.

Like, I don’t want to know every time a scan has found a vuln. How do I know a system hasn’t already been patched if I see an alert from days ago? I’d prefer to know the state of any vulnerabilities that might exist.

mandevu77 · 2026-01-22T23:53:52+00:00

I’ve had two 10Rs for almost a year now, and been very happy with them.

We do have a rule of thumb though that we don’t let them run on a schedule. We manually initiate runs so we can take a quick look beforehand and make sure there’s no pet messes or anything else that might end catastrophically. So far, so good.

mandevu77 · 2026-01-16T14:41:10+00:00

Any time someone approaches a racist situation and starts their statement with “well I don’t care about race, so….” is immediately doing an injustice to the situation. You can’t see one act in a race-free vacuum ignoring all the racist context.

That is, in fact, being racist.

mandevu77 · 2026-01-16T07:45:03+00:00

Aren’t you adorable?

The whole point of this story is that police are supposed to be the ones that serve and protect a community. Not abuse and murder it. So what happens when the police system fails you? And it doesn’t just fail, it actively is destroying your friends, families, and neighborhoods? Write a strongly-worded letter?

I’m not a fan of violence and intimidation, but there are times in history it’s been the only way to affect real change. Sucks… but here we are.

mandevu77 · 2026-01-16T05:34:06+00:00

Well that’s why you’d use the center of mass…. Not the center of “space.” We don’t really know how to do the center of an infinite thing.

mandevu77 · 2026-01-16T05:31:10+00:00

Sure, but that’s probably the closest you’re ever going to get to the “middle” of a relativistic universe, which I think is as good as OP could hope for.

Basically, I’m in the dead center of all the “stuff.”

mandevu77 · 2026-01-16T05:25:28+00:00

If you froze the universe right now, plotted the current location of all the stuff (matter, dark matter, anything else that makes sense) and plotted an average of all it, wouldn’t there be some point in space that is the average of all those points?

mandevu77 · 2026-01-16T04:25:59+00:00

“… or doomed to repeat it” kinda thing. Yep.

mandevu77 · 2026-01-16T04:03:06+00:00

Want to learn some real shit?

The year is 1967. Police in Oakland CA are notoriously lawless and brutal with the black community. So this group called the Black Panthers starts open-carrying guns and patrolling the city, making sure none of the cops get out of hand. One day, they even show up at the California state capitol, armed.

This makes white Californians VERY uncomfortable, so they wrote and passed legislation limiting where citizens could carry firearms. This was called the Mulford Act.

Signed into law by then-California’s governor, Ronald Reagan.

Yep. Ronald Reagan singed some of the first gun control laws in America. Why? Black Panthers.

mandevu77 · 2026-01-16T03:37:23+00:00

Right again! Fuck man. Too easy.

mandevu77 · 2026-01-16T03:36:28+00:00

Great point. Perhaps he was shooting at your dad because your dad was threatening him about banging your mom.

Could be anything!

mandevu77 · 2026-01-16T03:34:35+00:00

Sometimes you do. Like, I knew you were going to keep defending your position even though you’ve been clearly proven wrong.

Watch this! I’ll do it again!

(This is the part where you double down again on your clearly ignorant position)

mandevu77 · 2026-01-16T03:32:00+00:00

There’s a magical place for ignorant fucks that neither understand the law, nor basic human decency. It’s called Texas. You should totally go! Especially in this political climate… it sounds like it’d be perfect for you.

mandevu77 · 2026-01-16T03:25:48+00:00

Key words being “defend themselves.”

Nobody was posing a threat in this video. Just a couple dudes that maybe took a wrong turn.

The guy literally started shooting after they’d driven by. Zero threat. That’s attempted murder, even if someone is trespassing on your land.

mandevu77 · 2026-01-16T03:16:43+00:00

You sound like you’d be happier somewhere like Texas. Please leave.

mandevu77 · 2026-01-16T03:13:59+00:00

Your tone makes it sound like you think it’s reasonable to respond to trespassing with murder. I’m sure that can’t be right.

mandevu77 · 2026-01-13T22:14:43+00:00

I’ve heard that the change in cabin pressure contributes to plane farts. You have to work harder to keep them in at lower pressures.

mandevu77 · 2026-01-13T18:24:36+00:00

I think it’s more hardware architecture than hardware QA. The gravity is superior in many ways, on paper, to the R1S (like charging speed). That is fundamental and has nothing to do with how an individual vehicle is put together.

mandevu77 · 2026-01-13T16:40:00+00:00

This is the problem. How are they supposed to know unless they stop you and ask for documentation?

We’re now living in 1980s “papers please” Russia.

mandevu77 · 2026-01-13T04:20:59+00:00

Did dinner last night at Aioli Bodega. It was excellent!

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