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I've been thinking about this more and more, and it just makes so much sense. No one cares what shape a beer bottle is, the label is enough to tell them apart. Marketing people wil…

It's not just ram that we care about, its all the other CPU caches that are significantly smaller that a larger binary will take up more space in

Another side of the organizational improvements that batteries have: redeployable. Underprovision? Pour some more concrete, truck a couple more batteries in. Overprovision? Load em…

The article claims: "In the cities of New Zealand and Australia, the convenience store is known as a milk bar" As a native kiwi, I've never ever heard it called a "milk bar". Dairy…

Not that this makes the Bombardier problem trivial, but that seems fairly simple compared to most cars on the road today, which have over 100 micros. Software can be done well in c…

Tesla Inc, USA | INTERNS (Fall 2019) | Vehicle Integration, Simulation or Automation Infrastructure | Palo Alto, CA | ONSITE Chassis Controls Software (the smarts behind track mode…

Er, doesn't hashmap do pretty much the same thing? https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/collections/struct.HashMap.htm...

Think about it from a supply/configuration/logistics point of view. It might be cheaper to make 500k cars with 100% heated seats rather than 250k w/ heated and 250k w/o heated. Eve…

Eye colour has a lot to do with how much light your retinas let in, iirc. Would this explain your sensitivity?

My info may be a little dated, but yes, most of these companies (Huawei, Ericsson, Alcatel-Lucent, etc) also provide network services and ops to run the network.

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Tesla | Interns | ONSITE | Palo Alto, CA, USA| VISA? We're always hiring for pretty much any SW related roles (see the main website), but I'm after a bunch of self-starter interns …

Electronically assisted, but still mechanically coupled for 99% of consumer cars. I've completely lost 12V on a car before and still managed to bring it safely to the side of the r…

They are manual in the sense that there is a physical connection: the steering wheel is usually mechanically coupled with the steering rack, brakes usually through through hydrauli…

> dictates how to start a note (lacking the English term here) Intonation perhaps? I often used the word "attack" to indicate the style of start of the note when I used to play flu…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agent-based_model This is already in common use as far as I'm aware. Its used in the Netherlands to predict electrical grid load based on the number o…

Maybe. The battery chemistry for a car vs stationary storage differs greatly. Stationary storage they optimised for ability to hold charge for long periods of time, and not loose c…

They have a graph in the article that showed foreign ownership (not necessary as investment) that showed it at around 3% for NZ over all, with between 5-10% in popular places (Quee…

The Renault Zoe does something like this. You buy the car, but you lease the battery from Renault (at least, thats how it used to work) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renault_Zoe

Multiplexing different camera feeds perhaps? Could could do 200/fps split over 10 different camera feeds.

What attracts you about the S more than the 3?

While I agree the lack of repair documentation and available spare parts is a concern, Isn't the whole point of integration (at least on a chip/board level) to increase reliability…

What parts would require more fancy equipment? Induction motors are pretty dead simple and probably built to lower tolerances than the average ICE. An EV has more reliance on fancy…

From an engineering standpoint, Apples devices became hard to repair because they optimized for weight and size over maintainability. Would Tesla do the same? Size isn't going to b…

Is it just me, or are a lot of people here conflating source control management and dependency management? The two don't have to be combined. For example, if you have Python Projec…