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Re: Tesla Semi

#31

WTF? It's just a countdown and a place to enter an email. Why would I want to give my email to Tesla without having any idea what this is about?

The form is not checked, you can enter any arbitrary nonsense and it will let you through. I recommend using an @example.com address which won't be routed.

I prefer to put elon@tesla.com. Hopefully it'll incentivize them to stop this crap

Re: Tesla Semi

#32
Since I can't see anything except a spinning wheel on the button and "Event in progress" here are my questions for others: What is the payload (tongue) capacity? What is the tow (pull) capacity? Is there any mention of being able to pull a fifth wheel?

Re: Tesla Semi

#33
Yikes. NGINX throwing 502 errors. No bueno from a company with a market cap of 52 billion. Plus they seem to be running over 10 minutes late.

Re: Tesla Semi

#34

Getting a 502 response. Also Tesla should probably update nginx since v1.10.2 is at EOL with an outstanding CVE.

Really happy not to be the Tesla DevOps group right now.

Re: Tesla Semi

#35
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Earlier quoted context omitted.

"formattedDeposit" : "$1,000", "hamsterDeposit" : "$5,000", "hamsterFullDeposit": "$50,000", "hamsterTotal1" : "$200,000", "hamsterTotal2" : "$250,000", Is the listed US prices

Curious what "hamster" means in this context.

Might be an internal name for the Semi, found another snippet in their javascript

product: "HAMSTER",

Re: Tesla Semi

#36
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The poor guys are self-DDoS'ing themselves. They keep requesting https://livestream.tesla.com/haveReservationsStarted every 30 seconds. Most of the requests are failing with 502 HTTP errors.

Why are they hosting their own streaming service instead of using YouTube?

Re: Tesla Semi

#38
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Unlike their cars, if they want to be successful they will need to release factory service manuals and sell parts to repair them. It's not going to be acceptable to send it to some far away service center to be repaired, at least for small outfits that heavily use all their equipment. When a critical piece of equipment is down, the mechanic is going to be working through the night hacking it together, possibly waitin…

I mean, with Semi's isn't a big thing going to be about self driving, therefore not needing such experienced drivers? I'm not saying have a kid on there, but what angle do they have if not for self-driving? Poor range, unrepairability?

The comment you are replying to is about repair, not about the drivers. Did you maybe mean to reply to a different comment?

Re: Tesla Semi

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post #25

The poor guys are self-DDoS'ing themselves. They keep requesting https://livestream.tesla.com/haveReservationsStarted every 30 seconds. Most of the requests are failing with 502 HTTP errors.

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