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Is Tesla Chasing Short-Term Profits Ahead of Long-Term Loyalty?

wscott — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 00:44:09 +0000

Article URL: https://www.notateslaapp.com/news/3759/opinion-tesla-is-chasing-short-term-profits-ahead-of-long-term-loyalty

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47393752

Points: 5

# Comments: 6

New comment by wscott in "Why I Joined OpenAI"

wscott — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 12:29:18 +0000

That is normal on his blog. He is a brand that he has developed over many years, and he is constantly promoting that brand.

Yes, he has done a lot of good work in the past, but he has put as much effort into self-promotion and landed a series of interesting and well-paying gigs.

I can't blame him for that. It just makes me tired to watch.

New comment by wscott in "Tesla kills Autopilot, locks lane-keeping behind $99/month fee"

wscott — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 20:56:25 +0000

The funny part is that the Tesla doesn't have a basic dumb cruise control. It only has "traffic-aware" cruise control which uses the cameras and doesn't use the new FSD code so it has lots of glitches and phantom braking and decides for itself what speed to use. My wife just wants to set the speed and have the car go that speed.

New comment by wscott in "A data model for Git (and other docs updates)"

wscott — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 11:45:03 +0000

This kind of work is really valuable and much needed. There is also often a surprising amount of friction to making contributions to open source projects. This article did a good job and highlighting some of those difficulties and friction. But improvements to the official documentation is so much better than standalone blog posts to explain confusing concepts.

So, thank you Julia & Marie for persevering and making a solid contribution.

New comment by wscott in "Betty Crocker broke recipes by shrinking boxes"

wscott — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 14:24:37 +0000

Indeed. When I entered "grandma's cookies" into the shared family instance is 'mealie' I was sure to include a copy of the "original" index card. (surely a copy) https://imgur.com/KMSuUhz

That card was has several fun comments and lots of history to my siblings who added to the crustiness of this card.

The original card I remember said to use lard or you can use margarine if you "haven't slaughtered a hog recently".

The recipe in mealie was modernized and tested more.

New comment by wscott in "Show HN: C++ Compiler Support Page"

wscott — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 12:06:37 +0000

For reference here is the cppreference page the OP is trying to improve: https://cppreference.com/w/cpp/compiler_support.html

Personally I am not not sure the live search on this new page saves me time, but perhaps if you added the ability to only show missing features it could be useful. For example if I could pick that I am interested in c++23 and earlier and that I use gcc-14 and clang-16 it should list the features that won't work for me. That would be useful compared to trying to scan the full list.

New comment by wscott in "Obsidian Bases"

wscott — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 10:21:36 +0000

Dataview can generate all of the data from Bases (and a whole lot more), but Bases is a lot easier to use as you can build queries in the GUI and the data comes out in nicely formatted table where you can edit the fields directly in the table rather than needing to load each data item one by one to make changes.

And still after using and making changes in the GUI the query is stored in a nicely formatted and editable YAML file.

New comment by wscott in "The Church FAQ"

wscott — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 18:00:26 +0000

Very small town in the midwest. The US is a big place and this is just one possible look.

New comment by wscott in "Does the Internet Route Around Damage? – Baltic Sea Cable Cuts"

wscott — Thu, 21 Nov 2024 19:41:06 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandolini%27s_law

New comment by wscott in "A 94x speed improvement demonstrated using handwritten assembly"

wscott — Mon, 11 Nov 2024 10:50:02 +0000

The important thing to understand about why AVX512 is a big deal is not the width. AVX512 adds new instructions and new instruction encodings. They doubled the number of registers (16->32), and added mask registers that allow you to remove special cases at the end of loops when the array is not a multiple of the vector width. And there is piles for new permutation operations and integer operations that allow it to be useful in more cases.

The part Intel struggles with is that in many places if they had the 256-bit max width but all the new operations then they could build a machine that is faster than the 512-bit version. (assuming the same code was written for both vector widths) The reason is the ALUs could be faster and you could have more of them.

New comment by wscott in "Crossing the USA by Train"

wscott — Sun, 27 Oct 2024 10:51:37 +0000

I was pleased to read such positive contagious excitement and someone who can still see the wonder of the American west. And excitement of trying new experiences.

New comment by wscott in "Low Cost Mini PCs"

wscott — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 14:12:52 +0000

On the website itself, "OS" "Included" and "Not Included" is strange. I don't see that I need "Not Included", unchecking "Included" should show you everything but instead it shows you nothing. I don't see the value of "no os included" verses a copy of Windows that I will overwrite.

So I would just have an "OS Included?" checkbox.

New comment by wscott in "Import and Export Markdown in Google Docs"

wscott — Wed, 17 Jul 2024 16:23:28 +0000

So, can we now write a plugin for Obsidian that syncs changes to Google Drive?

New comment by wscott in "Lowercase – A simple way to take and share notes"

wscott — Sat, 04 May 2024 10:32:05 +0000

Reading the rest of the pricing page gives me the clear impression that it wasn't free initially and then changed it to free recently and the rest of the text on that page wasn't updated. If I am making donations why do I need to be reassured that I can have a refund if I don't like it?

New comment by wscott in "Just 137 crypto miners use 2.3% of total U.S. power"

wscott — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 17:35:12 +0000

https://www.globalenergyinstitute.org/average-electricity-re... us average: $0.18 Wyoming: < $0.09

yeah, cheap. But cold so a heat pump would still totally pay for itself.

New comment by wscott in "Doorway effect"

wscott — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 17:00:04 +0000

I was immediately reminded of this Cosby standup: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qH_mHMgjcFY

Yeah, I know, I am not allowed to like anything Cosby anymore...

New comment by wscott in "Surf the web like it's 1999"

wscott — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 19:56:45 +0000

SPA?

New comment by wscott in "The case for single-stair multifamily"

wscott — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 16:05:09 +0000

That article gave an example of a "typical European floorplan". It did have multiple stairs they were just not normally accessible from all apartments. If you had some emergency-only provision to enter your neighbor's apartment and then bust their wall to access the apartment behind it, more than one egress would be possible. Some emergency doors where an alarm would sound perhaps? I come up with all kinds of problems with this, but that was my thoughts looking at that floorplan.

New comment by wscott in "Willow Protocol"

wscott — Thu, 18 Jan 2024 18:27:18 +0000

Design flaw. In IPFS every piece of data (even every chuck of large files) is globally indexable on the same namespace. You need namespaces and/or a path to restrict yourself to just the subset of peers that might actually have the data.

It would be possible to add a layer on top of IPFS to include some context with every hash lookup so the search can be more focused, but the original design just assumed it was ok to do a log2 search for every chunk.

New comment by wscott in "Ask HN: Should I try to manufacture toasters?"

wscott — Tue, 16 Jan 2024 16:07:23 +0000

I was confused by the comments here. Surely someone is going to post the Technology Connections video on the toaster. I see you did it indirectly. That video is great.