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New comment by donkyrf in "First Tesla Semi Rolls Off High-Volume Production Line"

donkyrf — Mon, 04 May 2026 05:15:48 +0000

They have ADAS systems. And Volvo is already working with Aurora which is doing live tests of actual self driving, similar to Waymo.

There's no news here.

Self-driving is no longer the future of Tesla. That stock pump has largely run its course, and is being replaced by AI and the robot army.

Once SpaceX goes public, SpaceX will acquire Tesla (solving Musk's control issues with Tesla stock), and that'll be the end of Musk pretending to care about cars.

New comment by donkyrf in "First Tesla Semi Rolls Off High-Volume Production Line"

donkyrf — Mon, 04 May 2026 05:00:18 +0000

It's not newsworthy. There are more than a dozen companies shipping electric semis in low quantities, and at least three who have been shipping and supporting them for years. Anybody who thinks this the Tesla Semi is notable should go learn about the existing market.

Tesla announced this thing a decade ago and they rolled one off of a theoretical line. Who cares?

There's nothing new here. There's no new information about this late-landing product. There's no story of huge guaranteed bookings, or new unexpected capabilities. It's a non-story.

As for your demand that I provide an accurate product comparison -- driver reviews routinely indicate that the 'driver at the center' seating position makes it harder for truckers to actually do their work, because they can't easily reach out their window to access terminals, perform document exchanges, etc.

So, I'll augment my position: not only is this a non-story... it's a non-story about a vehicle with a notable design flaw.

New comment by donkyrf in "First Tesla Semi Rolls Off High-Volume Production Line"

donkyrf — Mon, 04 May 2026 03:55:39 +0000

meanwhile Freightliner, Volvo, and BYD already have active fleets.

New comment by donkyrf in "Mercedes-Benz commits to bringing back physical buttons"

donkyrf — Mon, 04 May 2026 00:33:04 +0000

Tesla historically focused on what marketers refer to as "earned media" rather than "paid media", but it was still marketing. Those Musk and Tesla headlines that happened around the world didn't occur by accident.

That said, they've also been buying ads for the last few years as their growth has sputtered in the face of competition.

New comment by donkyrf in "Mercedes-Benz commits to bringing back physical buttons"

donkyrf — Sun, 03 May 2026 17:33:30 +0000

I've had to give up drinking trenta-sized Starbucks entirely.

New comment by donkyrf in "Inventions for battery reuse and recycling increase seven-fold in last decade"

donkyrf — Sun, 03 May 2026 16:12:12 +0000

It's a little odd to think that 100 kWh battery packs would have the lifecycle as integrated .01 kWh components. The value prop for recycling is, obviously, incomparable.

New comment by donkyrf in "Mercedes-Benz commits to bringing back physical buttons"

donkyrf — Sun, 03 May 2026 15:54:59 +0000

My 992.2 has AA/CarPlay, and an outstanding user interface, with a nice mix of configurable displays and physical buttons. Fairly certain it is a top 100 product in it's market.

New comment by donkyrf in "Seven countries now generate nearly all their electricity from renewables (2024)"

donkyrf — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 13:57:17 +0000

It is bizarre that you are citing a project that was planned in the 90s, broke ground in 2006 and ended in 2015 as a recent development.

New comment by donkyrf in "Seven countries now generate nearly all their electricity from renewables (2024)"

donkyrf — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 01:46:53 +0000

Sri Lanka has only one coal power plant (construction began 2006), and the later coal project was canceled.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_power_stations_in_Sri_...

New comment by donkyrf in "Japanese, French and Omani vessels cross Strait of Hormuz"

donkyrf — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 04:53:18 +0000

It's easier to understand if you live in America.

Your reference to Democrat "elites" shows you have a hint of it... in this country that term never applies to a Republican -- even if they were born rich, went to Ivy League schools, and were handed a career and a professional network on a platter.

It is almost _exclusively_ used to denigrate women, minorities, or men who support progressive causes.

New comment by donkyrf in "Marc Andreessen is wrong about introspection"

donkyrf — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 15:31:20 +0000

There's the whole "billionaire bubble" thing, where they get surrounded by folks who have an economic interest in keeping the billionaire happy... but I'd posit there's another big change -- tech billionaires didn't used to have any cultural or political juice. This meant that even if they had some weird / bad takes, they kept them quiet.

Media consolidation has really helped weird billionaires move the Overton window, so that their weird/bad takes become "acceptable", and then they start admitting them publicly.

New comment by donkyrf in "Iran oil revenue soars as it's the only exporter out of Hormuz"

donkyrf — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 03:10:15 +0000

They could've been driving Porsches, except for the D'Arcy Concession which only left Iran with 16% of the profit from oil business in their country for a few decades... followed by Britain using their military might when Iran decided that a few decades of that was enough... followed by the US supporting regime overthrows after that... and so on and so on...

Iran is the way it is because the West has been ruthlessly exploiting their resources, undermining their government, and attacking them militarily for the last 100 years.

New comment by donkyrf in "Nasdaq's Shame"

donkyrf — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 01:02:59 +0000

This is not a simple solution if one purchased QQQ a decade or two ago.

New comment by donkyrf in "Where things stand with the Department of War"

donkyrf — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 05:18:55 +0000

The late 90s were also a time of Law & Order, The West Wing, Apollo 13, and Saving Private Ryan.

And today is a time of Andor and Succession....

New comment by donkyrf in "MacBook Air with M5"

donkyrf — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 15:38:20 +0000

If anybody else wondered about figures:

13.6 inch 2560x1664 screen, 1.23kg (13" Mac)

14.0 inch 1920x1200 screen, 0.98kg (14" Thinkpad)

New comment by donkyrf in "iOS allows alternative browser engines in Japan"

donkyrf — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 04:50:56 +0000

So according to you, a company that has about 25% of the global smartphone market, should be _legally forbidden_ from creating a tightly integrated software/hardware bundle.

Whereas, a company that has 70% of the global browser market somehow would have no way to take advantage if they had an even larger share.

I wonder how our species would survive without the unique market analysis from one-of-a-kind minds like yours.

New comment by donkyrf in "Tesla’s 4680 battery supply chain collapses as partner writes down deal by 99%"

donkyrf — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 01:22:13 +0000

I thought you were just a dumb Tesla dork making shit up, but the reality is so much more pathetic.

Wow.

New comment by donkyrf in "Tesla’s 4680 battery supply chain collapses as partner writes down deal by 99%"

donkyrf — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 01:17:40 +0000

Audi Q4s can absolutely do this.

I'd wager a large sum that you were told about a capability in the app, you _wrongly_ thought this meant it could _only_ be done in the app, and then you decided to take a very, very dumb stand.

New comment by donkyrf in "Tesla’s 4680 battery supply chain collapses as partner writes down deal by 99%"

donkyrf — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 19:29:56 +0000

Which maker? Because that assertion is false for Porsche Audi VW BMW and MB. What’s left?

New comment by donkyrf in "Always bet on text (2014)"

donkyrf — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 04:22:29 +0000

If we accepted the validity of this argument, then literally everything that can be represented by a computer can be referred to as text.

It renders the term "text" effectively meaningless.