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I wonder why you got downvoted as you're basically spot on. Can someone check my calculations, because I'm getting ridiculous numbers, not "marginally behind"

He remembers 1-2 times of 1-2 months of crunch of "not being expected to work _more_ than 60 hours". My bet is that this means people usually stayed _at least_ 60 hours during the crunch time due to social pressures created by the employees themselves. Sort of like "unlimited vacation" usually means that on average everyone takes less vacation, because they don't want to be the one with the most vacation taken. So to me this means the _lower_ bound is 60 hours, not the 50 you put as the average.

1-2 in this context tells me: it's definitely 2, if not more, but let's take the lower bound, i.e. 2. The following uses some generous rounding:

That's 4 months, so the 1/3 of the year you mentioned of 60 hour weeks. 4.33 weeks per month on average times 4 months is 17.3 weeks of at least 60 hour weeks =~ 1040 hours of work over a period of time that they should've worked ~690 hours. That's an extra of about 345 hours of work they did, which is a whopping 43 8-hour days. Even if after each of the crunches they got 2 weeks off, that's 20 days of vacation to compensate for 43 days of unpaid crunch time that also wreaked havoc with their actual lives.

Is my math off somewhere? Because otherwise as this was the lower bound from an idealized remembering of "the good old times" I'd call that exploitative.
Doors that dont open on a power failure sound super fucking unsafe. Looks like on the Model s they do open manually in front if you pull the handle back enough and in the back via a hidden release cable under the seat which sounds less than ideal. I'm not sure if this is the case with the other models.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01lXcD_Uz74
https://www.manualslib.com/manual/1234782/Tesla-S.html?page=...
The article is about being happy with your car, not being a happy person in general. And specifically it measures the answer to the question "would you buy this car again?". It's unfortunate that the word "happy" is used in the title.

Wealthy people tend to demand much from their luxury purchases and have many options, so customer satisfaction is often lower for luxury brands, which is why Dodge outscored BMW, Volvo, Mercedes-Benz, and Lexus.

If you look at the list, you see Hyundai outscoring Porsche as Hyundai exceeded expectations more than Porsche.

But Tesla scored highest in terms of Tesla customers wanting to buy another Tesla as their next car. They do have good product people at Tesla and are doing a great job there. But I think part of it is that Tesla doesn't have many good rivals yet, so if you are wealthy and are determined to drive an electric car, you are much more likely to want to buy another Tesla whereas if you don't care about that then you have many more options.

The list:

Tesla

Lincoln

Ram

Chrysler

Subaru

Hyundai

Porsche

Dodge

Mazda

Toyota

Kia

Mini

BMW

Ford

Audi

Honda

Volvo

Volkswagen

Lexus

Jeep

GMC

Chevrolet

Mercedes-Benz

Buick

Cadillac

Nissan

Infiniti
I expected to hate the lack of tactile controls, and the lack thereof was one of the biggest things that kept me from buying one for a long time. I didn't realize that it had voice commands that worked well enough (for me) that touching the screen while driving is generally unnecessary, so that it was a moot point.
Agree with most of this, but to rebut points 5 and 6:

5) I don't trust the cruise control at all. It will frequently disengage for no good reason (e.g. a car parked on the side of the road). If you don't have your foot on the accelerator (which you typically won't when in CC), the cark decelerates HARD suddenly with little time to respond.

Obvious fix: Option to disable "adaptive" part of cruise control, so it doesn't automatically disengage.

6) The app is kinda quirky. For example, if you open the "Charging" screen, the start/stop charging buttons jump up the screen slightly after it's done loading the list of superchargers. This frequently causes me to tap "Stop Charging" instead of "Start Charging".

Obvious fix: Offer Siri Shortcuts to all the car control functions in the app. That would be a killer use of shortcuts.
I got an old Z31 for fun and ironically it has the same mileage as my daily driver Grand Cherokee (~14mpg). And I feel like all in all it's a cheaper and easier car to work on, smaller tires less electronics etc.

I believe most modern sports cars get even better gas mileage than this so maybe my tolerance for gas cost is just outdated.

What kind of sports cars did the people you know get? A Mustang shouldn't be that bad but some of the other brands can be ridiculous.
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While web based single page applications (SPA) are hardly a "sweet solution ", any kid can view source and take one apart.

I believe that devices are at least as accessible today as they were in 1981. Today's systems are phenomenally complicated, but you can start making them do stuff with virtually no extra parts. The web browsers are free. Tutorials online are free. Way better resources these days.
On the other hand wouldn’t Tesla be irresponsible if it didn’t manually review sections of road involved in a crash and perhaps override the settings if automated systems had made bad calls?

Can you imagine a second wreck on that same stretch of road and the accusations against Tesla for not doing the manual review envisioned above?

Have Tesla said definitively that they cannot override capabilities without updating the version number?
The importance of resumes has been overstated for many years now, and I look forward to the day they are phased out entirely. Minor grammar changes are not what is making the difference between getting an interview or not. Years' worth of work cannot be distilled down to 2 lines on a piece of paper, and recruiters/hiring managers already know this.

Employers are looking at your education, companies you worked at, years of experience, and maybe a vague idea of what your work area was before this. Just this info is enough to make a decision for whether to call you for an interview, and after that the resume is useless.
The problems related to eating are likely because culture around eating is very "neurotypical."
What’s lame is when there is no plaintext alternative. A clear sign of someone who does not wish to communicate with me.
Naïveté mostly. I didn’t understand how relatively rigid culture is and how change happens largely through displacement. E.g., farmers largely out-bred hunter-gatherers to produce a largely agrarian world, rather than cultural exchange.
> It sucks, because I want to support businesses other than Amazon and the like, ones that pay corporation tax and don't abuse their market position, but the other stores really have to raise their game.

Amazon uses that money it saves from not paying tax to improve its website and service. That's why others aren't able to compete.
This should be the first step every company does as it scales out. If you can no longer run analytics against your production database for whatever reason, fire up a secondary replica with a 12/24 hour delay and you're golden.
I've had the ECU in my corolla get into a weird state where a bunch of systems in the car stopped working. I had to pull over and restart it.
Agreed. I have a Model 3, love it, it's more fun than the BMW m235i that I got several years ago because of the insane "fun" reviews, and the Model 3 lets me put infant car seats in the back, has longer range than the m235i, the model 3 is good for bringing up the entire family to ski at Tahoe, and hasn't needed serious electrical repairs like the BMW.

Nonetheless, I hate Tesla for it's ridiculous marketing. I knew that the "Full self driving" was a lie, I hate all that there middle aged white dudes that seems to worship this car back when I first got it becuase I just want to drive a car not have awkward fawning conversations, and I hate that people believe all of Musk's other obvious BS about cars in tunnels, etc.

But, this car is nice, I have to admit that.
Nice as that animation is, I bet it would be 1000 times more effective if a parent/teacher worked through it with the kid with paper, pencil, scissors, ruler, and compass.
I'm not sure general happiness => high customer satisfaction ratings on consumer reports.

Also, while I believe that money leads to happier people, I'd imagine people with who spend more money on a car are likely to be more demanding/particular about they want out of that car (e.g. I was very forgiving with issues with my used mini cooper but I get pretty annoyed at most issues with my Model S).
>learning what subset of HTML and CSS email clients render

You can use Table and all its related fields, span, h_, and p. Anything else is risky.

For CSS you can set the font color and size. Setting a font itself is risky. Avoid using anything else including margins and padding as these largely don't work properly. multi layered tables are your margin and padding system. You also can only use inline styles. No classes, style tags or linked styles.

Thats about it for email. Have fun.
Take the top email clients and you'll sure as hell find a common subset. I don't want something slightly advanced. Emails are text and images. That it's. There's nothing advanced about that, and I'm not looking for it, either.

The idea we need compilers for everything is idiot engineering.
Anecdotal, but my take with my cars:

2006 Toyota Caldina GT-Four - 0 software issues

1993 Mazda mx5 running a Haltech Elite 750 ECU - 1 software issue after a firmware update

My conclusion from that: 100% increase in problems with a car that has software updates. Which is about on par with any other device with a computer :)
The problem is by then most of the damage is done. HN algorithms clearly work off some amount of time based decay. It basically suggests getting a stable of people to vouch when whenever you post something.
Do you actually hate those things? Or do you just hate the idea of it and think you won’t like it? Unless you’ve opened a Tesla, or rented one for an extended period like a week or two, I’m not sure how you could decide you “hate” something.

A lot of people think they will hate things that Tesla has done because it’s just so different from what they’re used to. But most have never actually experienced it before they form their opinions.
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> Of course for the average person, a lot of those things are pros not cons.

That's a really good point. I often see people on /r/cars shit on Tesla for a bunch of reasons why I love mine.

I assume that happens with other cars, but Teslas are a pretty different in a lot of was so it makes sense that it doesn't jive with some people.
I actually appreciate them. Both are high-quality signals for "this is something I don't care about", so they're great for filters.
https://github.com/hteumeuleu/caniemail

This is specifically focused at HTML specs/features, and a fork of
https://github.com/Fyrd/caniuse

Targeting HTML rendering engines which are email clients.

Fortunately (at least for some of the newer features to be included)
Links to MDN are available, and caniuse both link to we spec). CSS min for example is working draft.
https://www.w3.org/TR/css-values-4/#math-function

With 90% desktop/mobile browser general usage support, 50% email usage support.
I think it’s like the difference between the iPhone and an Android. Lots of people will say there’s basically no difference, some will say the Android is better, some will say the iPhone is better. It depends what qualities you care about.

Teslas go fast, feature aggressive and opinionated design choices, and run bleeding edge software. If those are very important to you it will be an amazing and peerless experience. If you don’t care about them or prefer something more conservative, it may be an awful choice.
I am in favor of the current title as it makes it extremely obvious how few HN users actually read an article before commenting.
The same people who pay their salary now.
If you can't afford to pay people a living wage, you should not be in business.
That's sounds horrible !

If I had to sync tickets I would also wish for a Jira only workplace as I mostly do projects that require development and planning but I am almost sure that the peoples who mostly do customers and employees support would have the opposite opinion.
Or we could not police people's language. "So" is a way to start sentences; like anything else, it can be overused. Just like "like", etc.

There's a good podcast episode from John Mcwhorter on this "So" phenomenon. [0] TL;DL It has some interesting applications (including functioning as a discourse marker), and isn't going away anytime soon.

[0]: https://slate.com/human-interest/2018/10/john-mcwhorter-on-s...
What's the median sale price of a new car... because I suspect $39k is pulled up quite a lot from the high end of the market? I make a decent salary and $39k is like... twice the amount I'd pay for any car, ever.
I’ve had my model 3 since Jan and like most, it’s had it’s share of issues. It is also, certainly, the least well built car I’ve ever owned.

But gosh I love driving it. It’s a pleasure.

I have driven a lot of the current crop of competing BEVs and they just aren’t as fun.
A comparable Porsche to any of the Tesla models is a lot more though. Probably 2x as much, if you compare the Taycan to the Model S.
I just rented a similar Model X (P100D) last week. They are remarkably fast for the size of the vehicle, but I found the accelerator pedal to be the closest thing to an ideal throttle control that I've experienced. It's extremely gentle and forgiving in slow/close situations (e.g. parallel parking), has instantaneous response and backing off of it brings an aggressive regen braking effect that is very featherable (?) and useful.

I would guess they just panicked in a strange an extremely expensive car and weren't able to lift their foot off the pedal once doom was imminent. It happened to me when I was a kid, I ran over a fence while turning my dad's girlfriends car around in a tight parking lot. I accidentally goosed the throttle while backing up, panicked, then stomped it to the floor while backing over that poor fence. Very strange experience, almost like my leg was being shocked and I couldn't control it.
That would drive me up the wall. I mean, until recently I have driven 16-year old car with no cameras at all, but once you have something and it stops working, that is extremely annoying. Especially in the car, that makes you think - if that small thing does not work, what else should I expect to malfunction? Uncomfortable thought.

Also - not sure if it true - I heard that most Tesla controls are touch screen, and as a person who does not want to take eyes off the road, that probably would not work well for me. I could do almost everything during driving in fractions of a second without looking, purely with muscle memory.
I've started learning Elixir over the week and I can't see myself using Python for scripting again. They're very different languages but th experience feels similar, except I vastly prefer Elixir
350z, 370z, RX8, people who put too much money into modifying a Miata, stuff like that. The RX8 owners were particularly unhappy after the engines all failed.

If you really want to see some poor choices in automotive purchasing, talk to military officers who've seen their direct report E2/E3 go out and buy top specification Dodge Chargers at 25% interest on 72-84 month terms. It's a whole trope.
Obligatory "If Microsoft Made Cars" joke:

http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/pnw/microsoftjoke.htm

For all of us who feel only the deepest love and affection for the way computers have enhanced our lives, read on. At a recent computer expo (COMDEX), Bill Gates reportedly compared the computer industry with the auto industry and stated, "If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25.00 cars that got 1,000 miles to the gallon."
In response to Bill's comments, General Motors issued a press release stating: If GM had developed technology like Microsoft, we would all be driving cars with the following characteristics:

1. For no reason whatsoever, your car would crash twice a day.

2. Every time they repainted the lines in the road, you would have to buy a new car.

3. Occasionally your car would die on the freeway for no reason. You would have to pull to the side of the road, close all of the windows, shut off the car, restart it, and reopen the windows before you could continue.

For some reason you would simply accept this.

4. Occasionally, executing a maneuver such as a left turn would cause your car to shut down and refuse to restart, in which case you would have to reinstall the engine.

5. Macintosh would make a car that was powered by the sun, was reliable, five times as fast and twice as easy to drive - but would run on only five percent of the roads.

6. The oil, water temperature, and alternator warning lights would all be replaced by a single "This Car Has Performed An Illegal Operation" warning light.

7. The airbag system would ask "Are you sure?" before deploying.

8. Occasionally, for no reason whatsoever, your car would lock you out and refuse to let you in until you simultaneously lifted the door handle, turned the key and grabbed hold of the radio antenna.

9. Every time a new car was introduced car buyers would have to learn how to drive all over again because none of the controls would operate in the same manner as the old car.

10. You'd have to press the "Start" button to turn the engine off."
I wouldn't call my Model 3 noisier than other cars, but at highway speeds it certainly isn't quieter.

They need to invest in some ANC that other brands are brining on.
> if I do a group by over all rows in a table that they may not perform better

Computing aggregates against contiguous values in memory or disk for a single column will always be faster than reading records with differing value offsets/alignments. These operations can benefit from SIMD and other hardware optimizations you don't get with row-aligned data.
I've got friends at Roblox. 250k sounds really low for a senior engineer that started pre-IPO.
> why should I fund public firefighting?

I think quite a lot of people would choose to divert their military tax dollars to firefighting.

> remove their funds from the public school coffers.

I think that many more people would choose to put their tax dollars into public schools, than they would other things, such as the military.
The way it’s used in that video is not uncommon in at least Australian English. It’s largely just a filler when used in this sense.
So you want UNIX utilities in the web? Really?

Honestly it sounds like a fun project idea: make a page that can do random little manipulations on text for you in JavaScript. But really you'd probably be better off just bringing up a terminal and running some imagemagick commands or echo "turn this into caps" | dd conv=ucase
The fleet of EVs is very different from the fleet of light duty ICE vehicle. You can't do a 1:1 comparison and have anything useful come out of it. There is no EV equivalent of a rusted out 1995 S10 with a gas tank held in with a ratchet strap for anyone to crash because EVs haven't been around that long.

I suspect once you control for vehicle age the difference is marginal. Statistically nobody is burning to death in late model luxury sedans (Tesla included) because they're well enough designed that practically nobody is getting trapped in the vehicle in the first place.
Can I ask how you went about self-publishing and selling via a website? I'm considering this with a couple of short guidebooks I've written for learning a specific language, among other things, and am very curious how you got started and set it up with Stripe checkout and manage delivery, etc.
Great! Now document it, create a getting started template, some component snippets, and examples, and you basically have a project that I want in my toolkit.
This is cool!

I've had a lot of success with http://redash.io, which is a similar (though much more complex) project. SQL backend +visualizations can be really powerful and surprisingly flexible for building dashboards that aren't quite ad-hoc, but don't deserve their own standalone app and you just need to tie some input fields into SQL parameters.
So what you're saying is I should turn off noprocrast and drown my ego in hackernews karma while I get fired from my job? :p
I wish sentry mode didn't exist; the flashing headlights are a nuisance feature.
Not at the moment, but the design elements are similar enough to the ones I'd see on my satellite receiver OSD menus from back in the early 2000s. I could tell that those were 3D as well at the time, and my TV at the time was a fuzzy 36" CRT from the 1990s.

And I'm glad for it! 3D design elements make a lot of sense on those kinds of displays, because they work well to stand out despite the relatively low resolution and color contrast.
History tells otherwise. Times of large inflation have also been times off decreasing wealth inequality.

https://www.lynalden.com/inflation/#benefit
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For 5 (Autopilot) it is definitely more useful in certain situations.

Long distance road trips? It's a god-send. We often drive to Montana (~600 miles each way) and autopilot does 99% of the driving.

That said, tons of cars come with "lane keeping" now days so that specific feature isn't unique to Tesla.
Your post reads like the old "if Microsoft made cars" joke --- I never thought "reboot the car" would become a reality. Maybe you just got a lemon, but looking at the general state of the software industry, I'm also not surprised. I could understand bugs in more "advanced" features like autopilot and such, but what you're describing mostly sounds like simple functionality that should've been perfected long ago. One would hope that automotive software is held to a higher standard.
I hope you had as much fun reading this article as I had writing it. These five useless commands will now forever be associated with me. I'm also sure the hate mail will come pouring in to tell me how absolutely essential these commands are to all the inhabitants of Clipperton Island. I'm good with that.

This article is good bait if I ever seen one.

We'll continue with our RH decoupling in the meantime.
(2016)

The warning banner mentioned in the first paragraph doesn't appear to be on the Thermoworks website anymore. However, it looks like you still can't buy a Thermapen on Amazon.
It seems to me it's not too different from other media; optimize for controversial and encourage polarization, which leads to more engagement.

Ezra Klein extends this thesis to describe group identification, but at its basis it just seems to be about heightening tension.

Of course if it's a black box algorithm, we may not know its parameters, but are only able to guess what they may be.
Interestingly, the mRNA vaccines produce superior immunity compared to getting infected, due mainly to the two dose regimen. For similarly long-lasting natural immunity you'd probably need to get infected with covid twice.
what a sales pitch
The new Taycan base model is about 80k$ which is roughly 10k more than an S model.
I wonder about the same thing in the context of the defects; it's perfectly possible to like (or, as some people put it: 'love') a car, while at the same time having issues with it.

Things don't need to be perfect to be likable, but I suppose if they get irritating or too inconsistent then that's where the common "unlikable" border starts.

If I were to buy one of the very-software-controlled cars right now, I'd expect that it would be imperfect, do some weird things, but at the same time be much better than my previous experiences.