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Re: Tesla Semi

#71

Er. So is this actually on? I'm getting hold music that feels straight out of Knight Rider.

I'm liking the music. Can anyone identify it? Would love to use this during work.

Shazam/Soundhound aren't giving me anything.

Given it's short loop I'd guess it's either a royalty-free piece they purchased or it was commissioned.

That said, if you like the style, give Ronald Jenkees a try:

https://ronaldjenkees.bandcamp.com/

Re: Tesla Semi

#73
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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.

It's actually every 10 seconds.

Re: Tesla Semi

#74

It seems like it will require a $5000 deposit (with a $50,000 "full deposit") and the truck will cost between $200,000 and $250,000, according to the page source.

wow.. why would that be in the JS? synchronized onscreen graphics?

Re: Tesla Semi

#75

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I'm liking the music. Can anyone identify it? Would love to use this during work.

Shazam giving me zip, sadly.

I wonder if it'll come round on SpaceX FM? http://www.spacexfm.com/

They have a lot of custom audio for bits and pieces like this. It's a neat little loop though, and I want it.

Re: Tesla Semi

#76
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Why are they hosting their own streaming service instead of using YouTube?

Looks like they using Akamai. a23-56-119-116.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com Fail, using an old version of NGINX 1.10.2 and no HTTP/2 support enabled.

It's probably Tesla running nginx, not akamai.

Re: Tesla Semi

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What it's about isn't exactly secret. Tesla has built an electric semi (truck). This is them unveiling it... in 15 minutes. Presumably the email is to get a notification... Edit: Turns out you actually have to enter a email... thankfully it doesn't verify anything.

Supposedly with a 300 mile range versus ~1400 miles for a typical semi truck. I'm sure there are niche uses, but it isn't any sort of enormous breakthrough. Edit: Product page says 300/500 range, so some option I guess: https://www.tesla.com/semi/?new

Shouldn't be an issue - not all trucks are long haul, lots of trucks do pickup & delivery and never leave the city they're in.
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