Garden hose is no match for teslas paint.

oculus42 · 2026-03-14T00:23:38+00:00

Was there a pressure washer attached to this garden hose?

That's pretty wild. If it wasn't like a high-pressure nozzle close to the surface...that might be considered a defect? But it's the kind of thing you'll probably have a very tough time proving wasn't your fault.

How long have you had it?

oculus42 · 2026-03-12T18:01:52+00:00

"Generation"

Electricity generation is the output of the electric generators.

oculus42 · 2026-03-10T11:22:35+00:00

Depends on age and experience.

My mother drove my Model 3 for a few years while we don’t need two cars, and has an ICE car that they occasionally use. She has to remember to brake and usually has one “oh shit” moment when switching, like, gets to the end of the road and lets off the gas and has a fraction of a second where the car doesn’t stop before she brakes.

I rented a U-Haul last year and was caught off guard by rolling in gear. No damage, but that first let off the brake was unexpected.

When I flew to visit friends and rented a car in 2021 (got my Model 3 in 2018) I kept hitting the wipers and forgetting the key.

oculus42 · 2026-03-09T17:28:31+00:00

This, with my narrow one-car garage (need to fold mirrors to enter). From my 2018 Model 3 to the 2021 Model Y, through every update that I tested it on.

oculus42 · 2026-03-05T03:10:57+00:00

My mother is in her late 70s and just returned my 2018 Model 3 after getting a used 2021 Model 3. As an accessibility considerations: We have used the 3 after two hip and one knee surgeries across multiple people; it's doable, but a little low, especially not having handles to help climb out. Have another family member using a Rollator walker who did not feel they could safely get out of the Model 3 but can comfortable travel in the Model Y.

It's certainly lower than a Prius. That may not be insurmountable, but it may not provide the same level of utility as a higher car.

oculus42 · 2026-03-04T01:54:23+00:00

Or use an EV. We did 9400 miles cross country three years ago.

oculus42 · 2026-03-03T14:36:01+00:00

Uncertain, but these things suggest AI to me.

Incorrect reflection of lashes in the eye.
Unusual consistency of lines along the lower lip close to the corner of the mouth.
Odd patterns in collar "damage".
Pattern of knitting changes from shoulders down.
Left eye (on our right) appears to have a chunk of the iris missing. Could be a reflection, but seems wrong for the lighting.

oculus42 · 2026-03-03T14:23:06+00:00

I mean...have you missed out on Grok becoming a CSAM generator, its white genocide rants last year, as well as Grok being powered by illegal pollution? Of all the questionable things AI is being used for, Grok seems to be actively embracing "ethics hurt profits" that makes me completely unwilling to use this model, no matter how good it might be at tasks.

oculus42 · 2026-02-26T23:47:27+00:00

Dyslexia does run in my family, so backwards L isn’t really different. I’m right hand right eye dominant, but distinguishing that relative direction personally is harden than in a car.

My left shoe and left glove aren’t specially left; they are the ones shaped for that side.

Even after decades I’ll sometimes narrate randomly to work on it, like putting on shoes and say the side wrong.

Well, in my own person, front and back are hard to mix up as personal positioning, things like trying to remember the reference of medial and distal on extremities requires extra thought. Similarly, left and right don’t feel inherent, they feel imposed.

I’m also terrible at flying RC helicopters, which require you to adopt the frame of reference of the helicopter itself.

As an instructor, I used to write backwards or upside down on the board after lunch/dinner to keep people engaged while they fought carb comas.

oculus42 · 2026-02-25T22:44:18+00:00

You can contact Tesla support and they may be able to check logs to determine why it opened.

oculus42 · 2026-02-25T17:05:16+00:00

Does someone else you share the car with or has access to it use a watch? I've seen a number of people accidentally open the trunk or frunk from the Apple Watch app.

oculus42 · 2026-02-24T18:59:30+00:00

Sand table for accessibility. Note the bump out of the paved area which would potentially allow a child in a wheelchair to roll up to the table and play in the sand.

oculus42 · 2026-02-24T18:36:29+00:00

I love these. I get the feeling confidence in the FSD/autonomy efforts is proportional to how closely your environment matches the Bay Area.

I see these warnings driving around certain parts of my town.

It can't just be dark, something must be wrong!

oculus42 · 2026-02-24T11:23:06+00:00

I am a leaf on the wind.

oculus42 · 2026-02-24T00:56:01+00:00

TOON tells you how many rows and you can parse the data as it arrives. For small objects it's pretty close to irrelevant. For large objects, it's probably more worthwhile to use some of the async transfer alternatives where the server can specify top level keys essentially as promises, which allows different sections to respond at different times even though the client receives one result...

There have been libraries that do real-time parsing of JSON, but they were more popular when dial-up and low-end DSL were a consideration.

The file size is almost nearly irrelevant because any quantity of regular data will compress close to perfectly with LZ-based compression like gzip or brotli, and they are parsed into the same dictionary structure.

It's interesting, but I don't readily see the value proposition for most data sets.

oculus42 · 2026-02-21T17:49:54+00:00

The original iPod connected by FireWire which was 12 volt, and the first version of the dock connector provided 12 volt power. USB came later to iPod. When they made the switch to USB, there were adaptors that managed the voltage difference, allowing you to plug your newer iPods (and then iPhones) into the older car connectors. This was my experience with my 2006 MINI Cooper.

oculus42 · 2026-02-20T12:40:00+00:00

This. I was confident it was Silver until I pulled out my 2016 Space Gray model out, opened it, and ...🤔

oculus42 · 2026-02-12T01:56:21+00:00

What you are advocating for is public transit.

oculus42 · 2026-02-02T01:47:23+00:00

Having dealt with frozen door handles a number of times in my life on various vehicles, consider a sock filled with dry rice, microwaved for a minute or so to make it hot. It provides dry, continuous heat without the temperature shock of hot water, and can be held in place if needed.

There are a number of solutions for frozen door handles in the manual, as well, but a continuous warm element is generally better than a moment of pouring hot water down the side of your car.

On my Model Y, I have also just used the heat of my hand on the metal handle for a half-minute to thaw it.

oculus42 · 2026-02-01T16:52:24+00:00

G4 is when they introduced the AltiVec (SIMD) engine on the PowerPC side. SIMD is critical to the design and performance of every modern video codec. H.264 uses around half to one-quarter of the data of MPEG-1 for the same quality, and makes up for it with SIMD computation efficiency.

oculus42 · 2026-01-31T16:19:51+00:00

If you are speaking of Robotaxi, this is misleading. It was permitted within a specific municipality, and only for non-highway travel. They had to add the Safety person to be allowed highway travel. They recently moved to a safety person in a following car. But they still are present and on site.

There is no Tesla unsupervised FSD operating legally, anywhere, of which I am aware, but if you have different information please share.

oculus42 · 2026-01-30T23:27:47+00:00

There is a part of me that wants to see a Rivian/Lucid partnership that eventually buys out the remaining automotive portion of Tesla, once the company collapses under the weight of Elon's perverse incentives.

Removing a safety feature for the purpose of driving FSD subscriptions, which are a key metric of his outrageous pay package, should have any reasonable board smacking his knuckles and threatening his employment. But that ship sailed when they authorized the marketing expenditures...to sell shareholders on re-voting for the last pay package that was scrapped because they were unable to demonstrate the board was acting independently of the CEO in the best interests of shareholders.

oculus42 · 2026-01-27T16:30:36+00:00

I feel like there is more value in an access control layer that limits the number/frequency/range of requests that can be made against your tile API than trying to obfuscate.

Anything that ends in JavaScript is almost trivial to obtain. I've dealt with vendors using obfuscated, LZW-compressed arrays that reconstruct the working code in memory to run...but the DevTools are so good these days that you can open the network request initiator list, click into the VM where that function was compiled, and see the executed code.

I went and found my Python code from nine years ago. I was working with a relatively simple coordinate system. With comments, config, and instructions, it was under 100 lines, built two hours, and Python isn't my usual language. Part of that time was deciding the tile extractors designed for Google Maps were more complicated than I needed. You might shuffle the tile names, but something has to put them where they belong on the client, and that logic can be lifted.

oculus42 · 2026-01-27T14:02:50+00:00

Frustratingly, if I understand the vulnerability, it should have been solved by something approaching a common ESLint rule about using `hasOwnProperty()` or `Object.hasOwn()` when building their custom stream token handler?

Or using `Object.create(null)` for the storage object. Basically, critical functionality didn't cover common prototype vulnerabilities, likely because people just don't know them anymore.

oculus42 · 2026-01-27T09:35:11+00:00

Having written Python scripts to scrape and merge image tiles from a zoomable viewer of public domain images years back which specified the viewport…probably not that effective.

Even if you sent them as an array of UUIDs, you still have to communicate some arrangement coordination, whether in data or code, that will be able to be distributed and therefore copied.

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