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    Tesla Solar in Houston & Surrounding Area’s

    I had a trim piece fall off after a couple of years and a tech came out and put it back on, no trouble. He also did a quick system inspection while he was here.
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    FSD V12 (end to end AI)

    A shame we can’t do that to the human brain. My doofus weighting is too high; would like to crank that back a bit.
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    Russia/Ukraine conflict

    If the standard is someone invoking Article 4 assistance in response to an "attack", I'm assuming he (she?) is referring to Türkiye and Syria in 2012?
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    Russia/Ukraine conflict

    It can be a little confusing to the general public how gas pipelines work in this regard, but it's not quite as black and white as your are portraying. At the point the gas is in Ukraine, it may not be Russian from a title standpoint. Title to gas inside a pipeline can trade hands at various...
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    Russia/Ukraine conflict

    Because they collect $2B per year in tolls from downstream customers to do so.
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    FSD V12 (end to end AI)

    I thought you said you were done with Tesla and FSD?
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    FSD V12 (end to end AI)

    If it was trained from actual humans driving, maybe the phantom slowing is an actual “feature” of the neural net, end-to-end? How many people out there can drive by hand at an exact speed while also paying attention to other driving tasks at the same time? Perhaps one case where heuristics has...
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    Tesla Solar in Houston & Surrounding Area’s

    Is ERCOT non profit? Can I claim my grid donations as charitable giving? 😁
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    Tesla Solar in Houston & Surrounding Area’s

    Those are amateur numbers my friends. Gotta keep that neighborhood transformer nice and warm.
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    Tesla Solar in Houston & Surrounding Area’s

    Direct Energy is going to lose their shirts on my free night hours tonight.
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    SpaceX Starship - Integrated Flight Test #2 - Starbase TX - Including Post Launch Dissection

    Clever in retrospect. Carry 100 extra tons of oxygen and vent to simulate payload delivery.
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    FSD Beta v11.x

    Yearly options expire on Jan 19th with a fairly significant inflection point at 225 creating an incentive for market makers to push below that level. I think most downward pressure right now is somewhat artificial.
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    Tesla BEV Competition Developments

    Uh, yeah, I get that you are emotional about the subject but I can’t see how you are qualified to claim FSD doesn’t have any scenario in any context or any region where it functions well. In fact you even say in your own reply that “influencers” are able to tease out good performance in some...
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    Tesla Solar in Houston & Surrounding Area’s

    Power has been down for an hour now in our part of town due to all this wind. The cacophony of generators on our street is hilarious. Under appreciated benefit of Powerwalls.
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    What is PW's KW draw when charging from the grid? I have 2 PW's and they are charging at 2.4kw.

    Mine charge above 5kW each for some reason. Kind of a problem given that I have 200A service and also have 20+kw of Tesla charging. Have to aggressively do time management on everything.
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    Wiki Super Heavy/Starship - General Development Discussion

    Not enough towels.
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    Calibrating door handles using new tool

    My 2017 was late enough into the production cycle to have V3 actually. So much simpler maintenance and the calibration tool works on it, seemingly as long as it starts from zero.
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    Calibrating door handles using new tool

    It will move by itself through an automated routine. I recently had a similar issue with my 2017. Just hitting calibrate didn't solve it and I had to manually push the handle to be all the way in and then rerun the calibration and all normal operation was restored. Initially I thought the...
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    Tesla will NOT allow accounts w Cybertruck reservations to change E-mail addresses

    My industry had to deal with this (rate regulated, gas utility infrastructure). Specifically we didn't want to allow entities who held capacity on our pipelines to be able to resell that capacity to 3rd parties. In essence creating a competitive market with our own product. USA Feds stepped...
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    New here. Can a 2016 Model 2 90D be upgraded to a P90D?

    My gut says it would be way cheaper and easier to sell your 90D and roll the equity into a P90D. Using autotrader.com as a proxy, 2016 90D vehicles around Nashville seem to be asking around $25k. P90D in the same area are asking around $30k. So your price differential to "upgrade" is $5k...
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    Tesla Solar in Houston & Surrounding Area’s

    I feel like they need to change their Facts Label in that case. It seems to state the free nights does offer distributed buy back.
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    Tesla Solar in Houston & Surrounding Area’s

    Following up here. Green Mointain has a free nights that I didn’t notice and it looks like it has some kind of netting option: AllNighter 24 EFL
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    Tesla Solar in Houston & Surrounding Area’s

    Options: 1) Bootleg distillery 2) Growing “greenery” 3) Extension cord to the neighbors and let them sell it back to Just Energy 4) One word: Plastics
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    Tesla Solar in Houston & Surrounding Area’s

    These and their other subsidiary, Tara Energy, are the only ones with a buy back component and free nights. You'll have to find another way to monetize your excess gen if you do one of the other companies.
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    Wiki Super Heavy/Starship - General Development Discussion

    A tremendous amount of civil engineering would go into a final answer, I'm sure. But for the purposes of your thought exercise, I think you can assume the pressure that the Starship hull has to resist to be just the mass of the soil prism over the pipe, times Martian gravity. This study...
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    Park assist looks like crap!

    Try using your finger to move the image around a bit. That helps accentuate the 3D features that can look a bit wonky at first on a 2D screen.
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    Tesla Solar in Houston & Surrounding Area’s

    Not surprised they don’t know; I’ve encountered this sort of thing frequently. I’ve been just paying everyone’s $100 refundable deposit for the past few years instead of going through the credit unfreeze hassle.
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    Charging cable overheats

    I might be misinterpreting your wording here but this wouldn’t be something to dismiss. If it’s a 14-50 outlet and the outlet temperature is indeed the culprit, this is a fault with the installation or receptacle, and is a fire risk.
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    FSD Beta v11.x

    I think this was introduced in the early 11.4 branches actually. My car has been doing this for a while now. I have found it to be an elegant solution to driving with socially acceptable behavior yet still trying to comply with the NHTSA recall notice about speed limit change responsiveness.
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    FSD Beta v11.x

    They almost certainly do, but they also have an approximately 1 metric buttload of different vehicle configurations in the wild, resultant of their policy to integrate design changes at any time. I would hypothesize that this results in a more challenging QA environment than is typical (unless...
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    Charging cable overheats

    Very strong chance that it’s the outlet. The Mobile Connector doesn’t usually fail in this manner.
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    FSD Beta v11.x

    What constitutes Refreshed? My 2017 With MCU2 got 2023.44.30.4 (11.4.9)
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    Tesla Solar in Houston & Surrounding Area’s

    I’ll give some general, public detail here since it might be helpful to others, and I’ll DM you the details. Caveat on all of this, I’m somewhat skeptical regarding the long term proposition of crypto and am not an expert so take my descriptions with a grain of salt. I was looking for a...
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    Tesla Solar in Houston & Surrounding Area’s

    Yeah only the Just Energy Group Inc. companies offer that in conjunction with a fully free night structure. I got around that inconvenience by mining bitcoin with my excess instead. My effective payback is approx $.25 per kWh instead of $.03 solar buyback.
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    FSD Beta v11.x

    This should be fun. Considering that the Houston populace seemingly litters for sport, I look forward to near constant AEB for the plastic and paper detritus that festoons our highways.
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    Tesla Solar in Houston & Surrounding Area’s

    I have the same general concern, although a reasonably deep dive into my Terms of Service hasn't turned up anything I feel I am at risk for. My hope is that the bigger companies like Direct or Reliant have so much business that I'm just a tiny line item in millions of customers, and that they...
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    Tesla Solar in Houston & Surrounding Area’s

    Not sure who your TDSP is but here's the current providers that I am aware of that have fully free nights: Just Energy* Amigo Energy* Tara Energy* Reliant Direct Energy TXU *Same corp parent
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    FSD Beta v11.x

    My 7yr old Model S has dozens of little tiny nicks and chips in the glass that looks like little water drops under certain lighting conditions. Obviously not something that can be cleaned. With that said…. my wife’s new Model Y also has wiper shennanigans and that glass is pristine so that...
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    Tesla Unionization

    Ok
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    Tesla Unionization

    It’s not that we are ignorant of it; we just don’t care about your opinion.
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    wh/m - P100DL?

    My ‘17 P100D gets around 310 or so in neutral conditions, highway 70mph. A bit higher when it’s cold. My lifetime average wh/mi is 330 or so. I have 21” forged arachnids from the referral program on OEM Michelins.
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    SpaceX Starship - Integrated Flight Test #2 - Starbase TX - Including Post Launch Dissection

    I used one in an electrical engineering design project in ye olden days, getting my degree. I had no idea what I was doing and chalked it up to “things best left to rocket engineers.“
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    SpaceX Starship - Integrated Flight Test #2 - Starbase TX - Including Post Launch Dissection

    Perhaps (some of?) the engines have something akin to a flux switching alternator installed.
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    FSD Beta v11.x

    What does the wide angle show in this situation?
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    FSD V12 (end to end AI)

    Anecdotally, a month or two to general roll out.
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    Tesla Solar in Houston & Surrounding Area’s

    Sure, it happens sometimes. But not enough to affect the economic case of having that type of plan.
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    FSD V12 (end to end AI)

    I think that we may be saying the same thing. Camera sensors are good enough at this point. Perception and planning is the next frontier.
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    FSD V12 (end to end AI)

    The Sony IMX490 image sensor used in HW4 has approximately 110000 pixels per sq*mm. Not that dissimilar to an average foveal cone cell density? But regardless, I am in strong agreement with you that the big hurdle to FSD usefulness in current builds seems to be around planning.
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    SpaceX FH - Psyche - LC-39A

    Launch was a go. Made it to the first coast orbit. I'm always nervous for these kinds of do-or-die payloads.