Just starting to record food in an app made a huge difference for me, I was working out pretty aggressively and making progress on lifting/biking but my weight wasn't moving until I started recording calories. I still have days where I go over by a lot, but grazing was the number one behavior that improved out of just laziness. Recording 8 Oreos, one at a time across a day, is annoying. I've lost 27 pounds across the past two years, pretty consistently/slowly (with a few backslides).
My average calorie deficit on a daily basis is probably 100-150 calories max which is barely noticeable (I'm never hungry) but the app does prevent erasing that by eating 2 cookies at 1 am when I'm not actually hungry.
I like that we're arguing over the word "recall" being an issue when the system it applies to is called "full self driving". I think calling a level 2 driver assistance system "full self driving" is a much bigger inaccuracy.
Not really. If someone says "Full self driving beta" I'm thinking "The goal is full self driving, the current approach should deliver full self driving, beta means that it requires some tweaks and testing".
Nobody outside of tech understands it this way. "Full Self-Driving Beta" is a marketing stunt that borders on fraud. These cars can't drive themselves for shit, they're not even in beta.
You own/owned a Tesla with FSD Beta, right? You have driven it extensively to see and understand its capabilities and how it's improved, right? I've driven FSD Beta now for more than a year. Based on my experience you have no clue about which are speaking.
> I'm thinking "The goal is full self driving, the current approach should deliver full self driving, beta means that it requires some tweaks and testing".
Reminds me of an old joke about Ford vs Microsoft. We seem to have come full circle. Abridged version:
> At a computer expo, Bill Gates compared the computer industry with the auto industry and stated, 'If Ford had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1,000 miles to the gallon.'
> In response to Bill's comments, Ford issued a press release stating:
> “Sure, but would you want to drive a car that for no reason whatsoever would crash twice a day?”
Tesla is only far ahead in their willingness to take on risk and make at least partially untrue claims. There are multiple companies running actual robo-taxis in other cities but not a single city Tesla is running actual driverless vehicles. If Tesla was actually capable of running robo-taxis in one of the cities with the regulatory atmosphere they would, but they can't.
"People who believe the system they paid 10-12k for called 'full self driving' should be able to drive itself are idiots" is a pretty special class of Elon bootlicking.
People who understand the system don't buy it because they realize it's a scam, everyone who bought it was duped. The most valuable thing at Tesla is the list of rubes they have.
That's not true and Karpathy has confirmed it multiple times. They can create a fingerprint for data they want the system to feed back to the mothership and they may manually label datasets fed back through the report button on the MCU, but disengagements are not a signal they use at all.
> these are support agents and they need access to customer data to do their job.
In these cases, the support agents should not have the ability to open support tickets or modify the companies on them - and then you can give them superuser access to companies with currently open support tickets (preferably those they are assigned only).
It would have been, Musk didn't think so and felt the need to embellish/exaggerate - his habit of exaggerating/lying I think is more on trial than the actual Tesla vehicles here.
Trump literally still calls it the "Trump Vaccine". Also I think people forget how much airtime went into "the vaccine isn't the answer" once Trump started talking about warp speed and the second the election was over it was "the vaccine is the only answer".
I think you can blame a lot on Trump and repubs with regards to protocols, level of concern, being actively anti-mask, etc but it takes a very selective memory to act like Trump wasn't 1000% on board with the vaccine.
Examples:
- Past vaccine disasters show why rushing a coronavirus vaccine now would be 'colossally stupid'
By Jen Christensen, CNN
Updated 11:34 AM EDT, Tue September 01, 2020
- CNN: The timetable for a coronavirus vaccine is 18 months. Experts say that's risky
By Robert Kuznia
Updated 2:14 PM EDT, Wed April 01, 2020
- Here's where we stand on getting a coronavirus vaccine
By Holly Yan, CNN
Updated 1:45 PM EDT, Mon June 08, 2020
- With big talk and hurled insults, the gloves come off in the race for the coronavirus vaccine
By Elizabeth Cohen, CNN Senior Medical Correspondent
Updated 7:00 AM EDT, Wed May 27, 2020
> (CNN)Ethicists and physicians are concerned that, amid a desire to put an end to the Covid-19 pandemic, developers of drugs and vaccines have become overly enthusiastic about the chances their products will work.
Correct. This is one of the few areas where trump seemingly disagrees with his own base. Sites like patriots.win (remnants of thedonald) criticize trump for his vax support.
> 2) do not give you a chance to explain your point of view.
You can't eliminate the department meant to answer media queries and then cry that they don't tell your side. He chose to remove the PR department.
> 1) purposely mischarachterize you and your work
That seems to have gone in Musk's favor more than not. Most people think Tesla makes their own batteries (they don't), their cars drive themselves (they don't), they have advanced manufacturing (by every metric they are terribly inefficient and after all the talk of air friction and alien dreadnoughts their model 3 ramp was pure incompetence compared to how other car companies just turn their lines on once validation is done). Musk's lies have been uncritically reported for years.
Honestly, even look at HN articles:
The 2nd highest Tesla article is "All Tesla Cars Being Produced Now Have Full Self-Driving Hardware" from FIVE YEARS AGO...
The top one is "Tesla Cybertruck" - from two years ago.
Third highest - Tesla Roadster - 4 years ago
6th - Tesla Semi - 4 years ago
None of those exist for public sale, all of them got reported and mass upvoted by an uncritical audience. If you fall for Musk's victim complex you're a sucker IMO.
4) FSD. Have you seen the videos of the FSD beta? And you’re not impressed, right? Thing is: This is technology that did not exist a few years ago (just like electric cars with the performance and safety at the level of a Model S, X or 3). “BUT”, I hear you saying, “they are behind schedule”. Well, who cares? Some things take longer than a human expected. Not exactly news. Give me a log of your previous five projects along with the estimates you had how long it would take. Then we can compare it to Musk. Also, when was the last time you built something that nobody has ever built before? Are you going to see all obstacles in advance? You fault Musk for being too optimistic. But how would he have started Tesla and SpaceX if he wasn't? There's a large crowd of people who feel inspired by that optimism. That's why they forgive Musk and Tesla when things take longer. Because they can see how hard the team is working to achieve what they have said they would do.
Really, if the things Musk promises would never happen, I'd be right there with you snickering about this "marketing genius". Yet, so far, pretty much everything he said he would do he did. Based on that track record, I have zero doubt that FSD, the Cybertruck, the Semi, and all of those things that are "late" will eventually be there. And when they are, they will be best in class. Again.
It really, really puzzles me. Here we have a man who works like crazy. Who revolutionized not just one, but several industries. Who has created billions of value. Whom you never see on a yacht or at the Taj Mahal or at a beach with a trophy wife. And yet you compulsively have to bet against him, and explain away anything he does by saying that he's just doing it for the attention.
Musk has a surplus of attention. And he has a surplus of money. These things, by definition, cannot be his motivation. If you think they are, be careful that you're not just applying your own mode of valuation - seeing the world not as it is... but as you are.
It seems to me that Elon has pulled the pin in the grenade and is now standing there daring the regulators to do something. I think he has realized FSD is a lot further off than they are still saying - and it's an out for him to be able to say "we were sooooo close you'd totally have FSD if it weren't for the NHSTA!". Him prodding the director of the NTSB by posting her wikipedia page while ignoring their calls/requests seems supportive of this. If you were trying to avoid negative findings you'd be responsive to the investigation and recommendations. They've been setting up the "regulator" excuse for years even though no one has ever stood between them and releasing anything they talked about "regulatory approval".
Also - this seems right from the cult handbook - it's not legitimate criticism, it's the enemies who want the company to fail.
Tesla from top to fan has the most insane victim complex. They got years of completely un-critical press coverage about future promises Musk made. They are valued multiple times higher than companies that make more cars in 2 weeks than they make in a year. Their customer base is the most tolerant group of people in the entire world, people have returned leases with "full self driving" that was never delivered, then turned around and bought new cars. This is a company that has been completely coddled from the start.
I think it's spot on that they want the regulators to block them now. Without that there's two options at this point, either they tell all the drivers they're not good enough, i.e. only 100-score ones get FSD for now, or the PR disaster of FSD accidents, extremely likely from the videos on YouTube.
Government stepping in would give all the customer angst an outlet that's not Tesla. Their marketing materials have always blamed the government (see "driver is just there for legal purposes" on tesla.com/autopilot) so this wider release may just be a way of forcing the government to make it true.
My average calorie deficit on a daily basis is probably 100-150 calories max which is barely noticeable (I'm never hungry) but the app does prevent erasing that by eating 2 cookies at 1 am when I'm not actually hungry.