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This started as a solo side project: a real-time satellite tracker (satradar.com) that shows every active spacecraft orbiting Earth — Starlink trains rising over your horizon, the …

I feel like I’m missing a step here. So his tatoos showed and someone who happened to know about this guy happened to notice? Does he have a particularly distinctive tattoo? I’m no…

This is specifically about the GM build which is necessary for final builds, validation, and submission. Often developers have at least a week to do final checks and submissions wi…

This is David. I made Nikola. Glad you like the app! Happy to answer any questions you or anyone else has on the data / research here.

Yeah I'm not sure what the discrepancy is. This afternoon I'm going to dig a bit more into my records. In my data right now I see a few examples of an $80 purchase match to $56 in …

This does not match my experience with my App, Nikola. I've been able to match up the transactions and refunds as 1 to 1, price-wise.

Agree with the app store being better than anything that preceded it. That said, it's not 2008 anymore and Apple should adapt. What happens in reality is developers either capitula…

I make an app called Nikola that's seen data from a few thousand Teslas. The short answer is there are some identifiers, but they're basically impossible for outsiders to track. Te…

I wonder that too. My guess is there's an outlier datapoint or two there messing with the average. I didn't pull out outliers. (Since the data is smoothed, an outlier datapoint cou…

This would seem totally reasonable to me. It'll take more time, but I can also dig in and see the extent of the battery heater use. My guess is it's often cold enough for the batte…

Alrighty here's the first graph. Note that this is average speed, so any trips with an average speed near the right by definition have some parts of the trip faster than the averag…

okay I'm on it. I'll find some way to post them

seems like an apt comparison. Something I forgot to mention here is that the temperature also plays a huge role. I've recently started collecting more temp data, but don't have a b…

Another fun fact on practical drain vs. EPA drain: While I love sentry mode and think it's a great feature, it keeps the electronics awake. In some cases this can cause double digi…

I cover this a bit in my post about the data I've seen in the 1000+ Tesla fleet that I track with Nikola. 75-85% is about I right.

I make an app (called Nikola, not the truck company) for Tesla owners that has seen over 5 MM miles driven on it. I did some quick queries to validate actual range vs. EPA range fo…

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I didn't speed up the video. That is the original.

nope. Did not speed it up. Straight from photos app on my phone to Twitter

I took this video. I assure you it is real

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Hey folks. I was the one that took that video. let me know if you have any questions.