It would be interesting to break down exactly why they have higher rates. It could be:

• over reliance on it’s automated systems (but FSD is only enabled on a small percentage of cars)
• safety design flaws (but it has a high safety rating by third parties)
• Unconventional UX decisions (steering yoke, giant displays with no physical buttons etc)
• novel behaviour of electric vehicles such as the fact users less familar with it’s acceleration behaviour and lack of gear shifts, the increased weight or one pedal driving. (but why aren’t other EVs up there)
• The politicized nature of Tesla attracting more risky customers. (but is that really worse than the type of people buying ferraris and other performance cars?)

The article points to the first point, and that certainly seems plausible, but they don’t really provide any evidence to support that.

the truth is often boring, but thanks

I find it funny that apparently conspiracy theorist directly translated from german is “very wrong theorist”

Funnily enough, Sinclair is a common name that came from Saint Clair.

Barring any global events probably. I am quite fortunate.

To start with me and my wife are both sw engineers.

I earn some nice big company stock, from when I started to 5 years later it’s 10x’d. I was a few years late to really hit jackpot but I still made a lot and will hopefully continue to gain. My company also matches the first 6% of my rrsp (a 401k for canadains) and I contribute 8%. I also have a maxed tfsa.

I am a pretty aggressive budgeter so I make sure we spend below our means and build uo other savings as well.

There’s a bit of a “problem” at my company where many of the senior staff basically have blank cheques because only they understand the overall architecture. I hope to also end up in this position. I knew a guy that worked 2 half days a week for at least 2x my salary with vacation time to boot. All he did was answer questions for a few hours then go home.

I bought a house during a panic price drop in 2020 got a really cheap price and then sold it for a huge profit and bought a run down duplex that is a bad investment property but a good place to live for my polycule (in a super walkable neighborhood to boot!). I plan to die in This house. I got what will probably be an all time low interest rate of 1.7% and have been paying it off faster than necessary. When it renews next year at 4-5% I will hopefully keep the same monthly. If my monthly doesn’t grow above that then I’ll be pretty on track to have it paid off before I turn 45, giving me more money to save and also lowering the amount I need a month.

If interest rates go down or me/wife gets some nice promotions or my company stock does another big climb then kids might even be on the table.

Yeah that thread did seem fishy thanks ill give em a shot!

couple things:

• generally the rules prevent torrents from becoming incomplete
• usually theres a request system, which can be very useful for old or obscure stuff.
• usually much faster for all but the most popular stuff
• way more timely and consistent. Less problems where it takes a few days after a release for it to show up or for a series to stop being uploaded half way through a season.
• less chance of honeypots or other malicious behaviour (you should still use a VPN though obviously)
• more consistent quality and naming enforcement (which means it usually works better with *arr)

I can’t vouch for this particular tracker but in general (free) private trackers are very nice.

I looked up some reviews for the tracker and reddit was shitting all over it, claiming it’s pretty pay to use and the admins are tyrants. Can anyone share their experience?

I find if I trace a figure 8 in the screen with my mouse the captcha passes much more often. I think it probably reads the small variations in your mouse movement to sus out bots, so the figure 8 gives it more data to work with.

I think if it’s going on every windows computer

It’s not, its just popular. Its not windows job to police what software you choose to run on it.

However Windows does actually have an optional certification program called WHQL for kernal level drivers. Getting this certification lets updates get posted via windows’ internal updater. It checks the driver calls apis correctly and doesn’t misbehave with interrupt handling among other tests. Crowdstrike driver did pass this, and in fact there was no bug with the driver, the bug was with the configuration file. The configuration file updates about once an hour (and it really needs to do that), and does so outside the windows update process, making windows powerless to control its rollout. whql certification takes a few days to run and configuration files aren’t really in scope.

These days most sites that do direct sales use a service like Shopify that let’s you 1 click enter your info. I’m quite wary of them consolidating power, but they are definitely still better than Amazon today and very convenient.

I try my best to avoid it, Although I still end up getting stuff once a month or so. There isn’t just 1 alternative, the fact amazon is a 1 stop shop is kind of the big problem with them. my priorities are: Shop local > shop direct from manufacturer > shop from a specialty store > google the amazon product name > buy amazon.

I actively use audible, there isn’t really any alternatives (spotify’s model for audiobooks is awful, I’m open to other suggestions), it hasn’t enshittified yet, it’s pretty cheap and I don’t feel right pirating something as niche and valuable to me as audible.

I don’t use prime video, even when I have access from getting prime (sometimes it’s cheaper to buy a month of prime than pay for shipping once). The ads on launch are simply unacceptable and I largely would prefer if their studios close so I surf the high seas.

Solid state batteries are just starting to hit the market but are still fairly comparable to lithium. In theory the mature tech is more energy dense, more thermally stable, charges faster and may be less environmentally damaging.

Idk I think there are probably a lot of journalists who qt least go truth social, to study and report on what the most right wing groups are doing.

I had a classmate who had the identity matrix tattooed on his wrist. Proctors made him wear a bandage over it. There was also a t-shirt made by the math facility with a bunch of equations that was banned from exams.

I don’t think either would actually be of real help (these were for second year math courses) but the profs considered it a matter of principal.

A long full shoe horn marketed for old people so you don’t have to bend down just makes things so much more pleasent

I mean maybe, it’s just a back of napkin calculation i didnt spend more than a 5s search, think of it as a lower bound I guess. I don’t think my conclusion really changes if it’s 40% vs 20%, point is that it’s more than enough to power peak usage. I tried digging a bit more but couldn’t find anything that contradicted or confirmed it. Here in Canada 1MWh per month is typical for an electrified house (ie electric heating, cooling and stovetop), but our houses are big, our electricity generally cheap and our climate different.

Wikipedia lists avg consumption per capita for China as 5MWh/person/yr, half that of the US, Canada and Australia but that doesn’t take into account household size which imagine is higher in china. Also worth noting China has been adopting evs relatively quick and they generally take a huge amount of power.

I got it from here

So an average Chinese home takes ~1MWh/mo of electricity, they have 100Mwh and they say 300 discharges a year and support 12000 people. So they expect this to cover about a fifth of the energy usage, which seems pretty great.

IIRC the canon reason they are above the clouds is because of smog.