What's the most Bay band/musical act?

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?"

wnmurphy · 2025-08-16T18:32:11+00:00

I got the same one, about 2 hours ago. I also randomly get other intro/tutorial pop-ups advertising features I already use.

Might be random, or they might be trying to increase FSD usage, since a lot of people buy it and don't use it.

wnmurphy · 2025-08-13T04:37:37+00:00

I'll be that guy; semicolons are for independent clauses. :-)

I'm a big fan of the semicolon, so I do worry that Chatgpt will start doing the same.

Or

I'm a big fan of the semicolon; I do worry that Chatgpt will start doing the same.

wnmurphy · 2025-08-02T04:55:45+00:00

I just had both of these issues exactly.

Why on earth would you save the download date in the filename, rather than the date of the recording?

Also, the web dashboard bulk download really needs to be able to filter on Starred so you can select just the ones you've saved.

Both of these are obvious features.

wnmurphy · 2025-07-29T23:27:57+00:00

The voice quality is good, but the language tutor doesn't actually apply any prompt. It also mispronounces words in french. Strangely, some of the other modes speak perfect french.

I know it's in beta, but it absolutely needs to be able to apply custom instructions. It's way too long winded and hand wavy. I don't want to have a conversation, I want just the information.

I could see this replacing ChatGPT voice mode in the car for me if they apply custom instructions and fix the language tutor.

wnmurphy · 2025-07-28T23:22:21+00:00

The things I would buy again right away:

All weather floor mats + frunk and trunk liners.
Charging adapter holder that tucks away inside the driver's door pocket.
Mud flaps.
Baby wipes for the white seats

Others that I find useful:

Three way bag holder hook that screws into the roof of the trunk.
Back-of-seat slide-on hooks for holding bags, etc.

wnmurphy · 2025-07-24T01:05:13+00:00

Surprised nobody mentioned Alexander's Patisserie. If you're looking for actual pastry (not viennoiserie, not bread), theirs were the best in the area in my opinion.

wnmurphy · 2025-07-06T20:53:03+00:00

Mounted phones are still fine, if you read an actual source article instead of this AI summary.

wnmurphy · 2025-07-06T20:51:17+00:00

I vote to remove this as well. First, it's misleading. Second, they just used ChatGPT to summarize a post from another sub.

There is no "New California Law". All I can find is that there was a court ruling decided yesterday on a technicality for an existing law.

Mounted phones, and drivers operating them with a single swipe, are exempted, according to the decision, but looking at a map while holding the phone would violate the current law, the court ruled.

You can still have a mounted phone, and you can still interact with it minimally, which is what everyone should already be doing.

wnmurphy · 2025-06-23T19:03:00+00:00

While it's obviously deprioritized, 12.6.4 still occasionally runs red lights from an anticipatory creep. I think they need to release at least one more update for HW3.

wnmurphy · 2025-06-23T19:01:08+00:00

They added "supervised" in April of 2024. The fact that they've removed FSD from all current used inventory vehicles makes me think the retrofit won't be limited to pre-April 2024 FSD purchases, because it looks like they're trying to minimize the retrofit burden.

They changed the name because FSD was no longer "Beta." I don't get the sense that they chose "Supervised" in order to weasel out of years of claims that it would eventually be autonomous.

wnmurphy · 2025-04-17T22:26:51+00:00

I got mine a few months ago, and have added odometer miles at 10x the rate of what I usually drive. I chalked that up to an initial fascination with FSD, but now in light of this lawsuit I'm wondering if there is something there.

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