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@DrLeonJ @Aznorth @stux This is based on:
* Obviously, colour (#jasper is just "any red #chalcedony", chalcedony being semiprecious #flint/#chert - that is, cryptocrystaline #quartz)
* Availability in large sizes
* #Conchoidal fracture
* Brittle
Obviously I can't do any more tests than that from here!
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@DrLeonJ @Aznorth @stux This is based on:
* Obviously, colour (#jasper is just "any red #chalcedony", chalcedony being semiprecious #flint/#chert - that is, cryptocrystaline #quartz)
* Availability in large sizes
* #Conchoidal fracture
* Brittle
Obviously I can't do any more tests than that from here!
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@kopptisch Calling #OTAUpdates "recalls" is more than a stretch; that's like saying that every time you update an app on your smartphone it was "recalled". And most major automakers have several recalls - *actual* recalls, where you have to drive the vehicle in to a dealership - every single month.
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@jeffmarkel These things take time. Right now there's a shareholder suit underway over #Musk's compensation award from several years ago (they'll lose). The #SolarCity trial (they lost) finished earlier this year, and that was over an even older issue.
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@[email protected] @dominicvfx Also always left out of this story: #Eberhard was independently wealthy. He had just sold off his company NuvoMedia to Gemstar for $187M. Yet he put very little of his own money into the company; it was #Musk who risked everything he owned to save it, having to clean up Eberhard's mess.
Literally, Eberhard was telling the board that the cars were going to cost a little over half what his actual numbers said they were going to cost.
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@terihannigan @dominicvfx Also always left out of this story: #Eberhard was independently wealthy. He had just sold off his company NuvoMedia to Gemstar for $187M. Yet he put very little of his own money into the company; it was #Musk who risked everything he owned to save it, having to clean up Eberhard's mess.
Literally, Eberhard was telling the board that the cars were going to cost a little over half what his actual numbers said they were going to cost.
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@terihannigan @dominicvfx Also always left out of this story: #Eberhard was independently wealthy. He had just sold off his company NuvoMedia to Gemstar for $187M. Yet he put very little of his own money into the company; it was #Musk who risked everything he owned to save it, having to clean up Eberhard's mess.
Literally, Eberhard was telling the board that the cars were going to cost a little over half what his actual numbers said they were going to cost.
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@terihannigan @dominicvfx Also always left out of this story: #Eberhard was independently wealthy. He had just sold off his company NuvoMedia to Gemstar for $187M. Yet he put very little of his own money into the company; it was #Musk who risked everything he owned to save it, having to clean up Eberhard's mess.
Literally, Eberhard was telling the board that the cars were going to cost a little over half what his actual numbers said they were going to cost.
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@terihannigan @dominicvfx Also always left out of this story: #Eberhard was independently wealthy. He had just sold off his company NuvoMedia to Gemstar for $187M. Yet he put very little of his own money into the company; it was #Musk who risked everything he owned to save it, having to clean up Eberhard's mess.
Literally, Eberhard was telling the board that the cars were going to cost a little over half what his actual numbers said they were going to cost.
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@[email protected] @dominicvfx Tesla did not "come from the work of #Eberhard and #Tarpenning". When #Musk and Eberhard/Tarpenning joined forces, (A) Musk was already working on exactly the same project, even with the same ACP powertrain (only on a Noble chassis), and (B) Tesla was a shell company with no tech of its own and not even the legal rights to its own name. And they did not "step down"; Eberhard was fired by the board (even his own appointee) for stringing them along on a pack of lies.
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@terihannigan @dominicvfx Tesla did not "come from the work of #Eberhard and #Tarpenning". When #Musk and Eberhard/Tarpenning joined forces, (A) Musk was already working on exactly the same project, even with the same ACP powertrain (only on a Noble chassis), and (B) Tesla was a shell company with no tech of its own and not even the legal rights to its own name. And they did not "step down"; Eberhard was fired by the board (even his own appointee) for stringing them along on a pack of lies.
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@terihannigan @dominicvfx Tesla did not "come from the work of #Eberhard and #Tarpenning". When #Musk and Eberhard/Tarpenning joined forces, (A) Musk was already working on exactly the same project, even with the same ACP powertrain (only on a Noble chassis), and (B) Tesla was a shell company with no tech of its own and not even the legal rights to its own name. And they did not "step down"; Eberhard was fired by the board (even his own appointee) for stringing them along on a pack of lies.
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@terihannigan @dominicvfx Tesla did not "come from the work of #Eberhard and #Tarpenning". When #Musk and Eberhard/Tarpenning joined forces, (A) Musk was already working on exactly the same project, even with the same ACP powertrain (only on a Noble chassis), and (B) Tesla was a shell company with no tech of its own and not even the legal rights to its own name. And they did not "step down"; Eberhard was fired by the board (even his own appointee) for stringing them along on a pack of lies.
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@terihannigan @dominicvfx Tesla did not "come from the work of #Eberhard and #Tarpenning". When #Musk and Eberhard/Tarpenning joined forces, (A) Musk was already working on exactly the same project, even with the same ACP powertrain (only on a Noble chassis), and (B) Tesla was a shell company with no tech of its own and not even the legal rights to its own name. And they did not "step down"; Eberhard was fired by the board (even his own appointee) for stringing them along on a pack of lies.
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@MarkMifsud @AnthonyFStevens @EyalL @Nullen @alwirtes @[email protected] FYI: As soon as you use "#Thunderf00t estimated..." as a source, a lot of people will discount everything else you have to say.
It's like writing "#JordanPeterson says..."
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@Smootasaurus How about starting with the fact that it's an #OTAUpdate, aka shouldn't even be called a recall.
Then move onto the fact that there's 1,5M #Teslas in the US.
Then the fact that car recalls are common to begin with.
Maybe then conclude with the fact that this one was merely about changing the algorithm for when brakelights light up to make it less sensitive.
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@ross Play #KerbalSpaceProgram for a while, you'll get a much better understanding of the (very counterintuitive) nature of #OrbitalDynamics :)
Oh, and how did they calculate things in the #1960s? While final trajectories were analyzed with (compute-intensive) #NBodySimulations, rough trajectories were created with "#PatchedConics", which basically sort of converts a trajectory into a #geometry problem.
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@ross Play #KerbalSpaceProgram for a while, you'll get a much better understanding of the (very counterintuitive) nature of #OrbitalDynamics :)
Oh, and how did they calculate things in the #1960s? While final trajectories were analyzed with (compute-intensive) #NBodySimulations, rough trajectories were created with "#PatchedConics", which basically sort of converts a trajectory into a #geometry problem.
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@ross Play #KerbalSpaceProgram for a while, you'll get a much better understanding of the (very counterintuitive) nature of #OrbitalDynamics :)
Oh, and how did they calculate things in the #1960s? While final trajectories were analyzed with (compute-intensive) #NBodySimulations, rough trajectories were created with "#PatchedConics", which basically sort of converts a trajectory into a #geometry problem.
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@ross Play #KerbalSpaceProgram for a while, you'll get a much better understanding of the (very counterintuitive) nature of #OrbitalDynamics :)
Oh, and how did they calculate things in the #1960s? While final trajectories were analyzed with (compute-intensive) #NBodySimulations, rough trajectories were created with "#PatchedConics", which basically sort of converts a trajectory into a #geometry problem.
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@ross Play #KerbalSpaceProgram for a while, you'll get a much better understanding of the (very counterintuitive) nature of #OrbitalDynamics :)
Oh, and how did they calculate things in the #1960s? While final trajectories were analyzed with (compute-intensive) #NBodySimulations, rough trajectories were created with "#PatchedConics", which basically sort of converts a trajectory into a #geometry problem.
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approach is better than the old one. Or you're needing something extra in your lines (#antialiasing, different widths, #gradients, etc). There's just no "get-out-of-ridiculously-low-level-optimization free" card. You do it or you underperform.
Today in #graphics you still need to optimize, but at far higher levels; the vast majority of people are totally divorced from the #hardware and the drawing of low-level primitives. But "Back In My Day...", that just wasn't an option!
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But this of course means *further* special casing your lines to deal with lines whose length is not divisible by four.
Now maybe you're joining us at a time when someone else has already published such an #algorithm freely in a way that you're allowed to copy (which isn't always guaranteed). Well, you're constantly looking for an edge over others, so you're still going to be poring over the #code looking for #LeftBrain tricks to speed it up. Or the hardware will change and now a different...
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Now, rise-over-run, that's a #FloatingPoint operation.
But *of course* you can't do that. You're running on a single-threaded #CPU (no #GPU) with no lookahead; everything blocks, and floating point ops block for a LONG time. So instead you're going to have integers mimick floating point (#FixedPoint)Okay, so you check to see when they're going over a certain remainder value and you should move up or down one row of #pixels? OF COURSE you don't have time for that.
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A "Back In My Day" for all you #programming whipper-snappers ;)
In the days of yore before #OpenGL, even performing the most trivial tasks at any decent pace involved herculean feats. I give you:
-=Drawing A Line=-
First of all, OF COURSE you needed to write your own routine (with some exceptions, see later). We'll ignore everything about getting the #VGA card into #ModeX, a series of graphics modes which ***aren't even supposed to exist***, and just focus on blitting the line.
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A "Back In My Day" for all you #programming whipper-snappers ;)
In the days of yore before #OpenGL, even performing the most trivial tasks at any decent pace involved herculean feats. I give you:
-=Drawing A Line=-
First of all, OF COURSE you needed to write your own routine (with some exceptions, see later). We'll ignore everything about getting the #VGA card into #ModeX, a series of graphics modes which ***aren't even supposed to exist***, and just focus on blitting the line.
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A "Back In My Day" for all you #programming whipper-snappers ;)
In the days of yore before #OpenGL, even performing the most trivial tasks at any decent pace involved herculean feats. I give you:
-=Drawing A Line=-
First of all, OF COURSE you needed to write your own routine (with some exceptions, see later). We'll ignore everything about getting the #VGA card into #ModeX, a series of graphics modes which ***aren't even supposed to exist***, and just focus on blitting the line.
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A "Back In My Day" for all you #programming whipper-snappers ;)
In the days of yore before #OpenGL, even performing the most trivial tasks at any decent pace involved herculean feats. I give you:
-=Drawing A Line=-
First of all, OF COURSE you needed to write your own routine (with some exceptions, see later). We'll ignore everything about getting the #VGA card into #ModeX, a series of graphics modes which ***aren't even supposed to exist***, and just focus on blitting the line.
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A "Back In My Day" for all you #programming whipper-snappers ;)
In the days of yore before #OpenGL, even performing the most trivial tasks at any decent pace involved herculean feats. I give you:
-=Drawing A Line=-
First of all, OF COURSE you needed to write your own routine (with some exceptions, see later). We'll ignore everything about getting the #VGA card into #ModeX, a series of graphics modes which ***aren't even supposed to exist***, and just focus on blitting the line.
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@Tob_Sch I look forward to (and actually am working to bring about, via #ShareholderActivism) #Musk getting kicked off the board and out of the CEO role.
But this has nothing whatsoever to do with *the car*. Which remains *by far* the best vehicle I have ever purchased or even driven. Wonderful ownership experience, and my next car will definitely be a #Tesla as well.