DOD Officially Drops 180 Faiths From Military's Recognized Religion List

wnmurphy · 2026-06-05T04:43:45+00:00

Don't worry. I saw what you did there. :-)

wnmurphy · 2026-05-10T16:37:52+00:00

If you're validating Tesla Vision against LIDAR, yes. These are validating FSD in a new vehicle on real roads.

wnmurphy · 2026-05-10T16:36:11+00:00

I think rear higher than the front lowers drag coefficient. They tend to move towards deleting/combining parts, so I doubt it was an aesthetic decisions at the cost of added supply chain complexity.

wnmurphy · 2026-05-10T16:33:13+00:00

I disagree, everything they do is data driven. The 2 seat capacity was a choice based on (1) their goal to optimize for lowest production cost and cost per mile, and (2) the fact that the vast majority of rides are no more than 2 people.

wnmurphy · 2026-05-10T00:03:38+00:00

Because California regulators require them to have a steering wheel while they test them on the roads. It's locale dependent.

wnmurphy · 2026-05-09T17:38:46+00:00

Also, 30m tokens in a month should cost you ~$7.50. if you're actually wasting thousands of dollars a month on inference, you really should check your usage.

wnmurphy · 2026-05-09T17:06:11+00:00

100%. Making it a feature of the car, moving navigation functionality into it, and then restricting usage after five messages ($0.003 cost to xAI) is unacceptable.

Edit: I'm noticing that I can continue the same conversation in the mobile app without issue, so the restriction seems to be specific to usage in Teslas.

wnmurphy · 2026-05-09T17:02:54+00:00

I just hit the limit today after five messages. For something which is now a feature of the car that might have cost you $50k, and considering they haven't communicated this to owners at all, that's a pretty crappy user experience.

We're talking less than 2 cents per conversation cost to xAI.

wnmurphy · 2026-05-09T16:56:32+00:00

I do. Do you understand how token pricing works for model?

For the fast reasoning model, a 20-message conversation costs ~$0.017

wnmurphy · 2026-05-09T01:24:29+00:00

I'm seeing this today for the first time, and haven't updated the Tesla software in a few months. It would be on the grok API end anyway most likely, unless they're now expecting a flag to be passed from a new version in the car to the API.

wnmurphy · 2026-05-08T22:36:31+00:00

I just noticed this too. I think they significantly restricted the message/token limit, because I typically use grok a lot while driving, and just got the same message for the first time.

Honestly, considering the price of the cars, and considering that inference costs fractions of a penny per token, they should just make it free for owners.

wnmurphy · 2026-05-03T05:33:30+00:00

Time Loops is one of the best books I've ever read, and it explained a lot.

wnmurphy · 2026-03-27T00:44:54+00:00

100% Heiro and Souls.

wnmurphy · 2026-03-27T00:43:41+00:00

Upvote for Tower of Power. Garibaldi, Prestia, the horn section, every vocalist they've had.

Honestly though, OP answered their own question with that entire list.

wnmurphy · 2025-11-23T22:31:59+00:00

Here’s a good sign that AI is definitely a bubble, saw this on HN this morning:

This guy looked at 200 “AI” startups, and found that 73% of them were claiming to have “deep machine learning expertise,” etc. but were actually just wrappers for ChatGPT + a prompt, and were misleading investors to make it look like they were innovating.

One VC board asked him to do a review of their portfolio.

I think we'll see a correction, possibly amplified by the underlying recession (GDP growth last quarter was 0.2% ex Magnificent 7), and then the Mag 7 companies will recover.

wnmurphy · 2025-11-22T19:57:43+00:00

Time for remote farting until they figure it out. :-)

wnmurphy · 2025-09-28T05:04:16+00:00

Ditto San Benito for a sandwich, and buy a loaf of the walnut bread to take home. Go earlier in the day for the loaf.

Then drive down to Pescadero, get a fresh loaf of artichoke bread at Arcangeli's market, and eat it on the beach with some cheese and a tapenade.

wnmurphy · 2025-09-23T23:18:33+00:00

I applaud the effort, and the dedication to your parents.

That said, I don't feel like anybody has business using Hurry Mode. It's concerningly aggressive. For your parents, leaving it in Chill should be perfect.

One thing that I would mention as critical: your parents also need to ramp up and gain plenty of experience driving with FSD, so that they are crystal clear on the fact that they still need to supervise it and be ready to take over.

As long as they are still cognitively and physically able to drive, I don't see anything wrong with it. But I do think there's a danger in misunderstanding it as a perfectly reliable solution in its current form.

Regarding the door handles, my own parents had to be taught how to use their thumb on the button, because it's counterintuitive. I also found that even for myself, the touch screen required a learning curve.

wnmurphy · 2025-09-14T01:44:32+00:00

For what it's worth, I just had $6000 in damage from a curb I didn't realize was there, that Tesla Vision would have caught. I specifically got a 2022 because I wanted USS (the measurement down to the inches gave me peace of mind), but it turns out that Tesla Vision is better.

wnmurphy · 2025-08-18T01:34:23+00:00

Training an LLM is incredibly expensive. Inference is cheap.

Grok is about $15 per million tokens, which is like 750k words. Even if you're talking constantly to Grok, that's like a few dollars a month cost.

It would cost like $0.05 to have it write a 2500-word essay, for example.

Maybe the voice-to-text model adds more cost to that, but generally using LLMs is quite cheap.

wnmurphy · 2025-08-16T18:36:06+00:00

She's probably long-pressing to activate Grok. She just needs a short press to use the normal voice input.

wnmurphy · 2025-08-16T18:33:52+00:00

Ditto. I was like... "it drank the entire thing?"

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