lsu02150
| Favorite team: | LSU  |
| Location: | BR |
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| Number of Posts: | 198 |
| Registered on: | 5/12/2009 |
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re: Does the Tesla autopilot work well in BR, or LA roads in general?
Posted by lsu02150 on 3/8/25 at 12:47 pm
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What phone mount do you use?
It’s just some cheap MagSafe stand from Amazon that’s meant to sit on a desk. I discovered one day it also will sit on the column between wheel and dash and hold my phone perfectly in the upper gap of steering wheel.
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re: Does the Tesla autopilot work well in BR, or LA roads in general?
Posted by lsu02150 on 3/8/25 at 10:32 am
In general it is incredibly good now. I pretty much only drive the first and last few hundred feet and let FSD do the rest.
It drove me all the way down Magazine a few Saturdays ago and I kind of zoned out. Then realized it was passing cars waiting to turn, avoiding bicyclists, stopped twice for pedestrians in crosswalks and I touched nothing from the garden district to Audubon park.
Several times on the interstate I have put my phone in a mount behind the steering wheel to watch football and won’t have to touch anything for hours.
It doesn’t always drive exactly as you’d want, but it errs on the side on caution so I just sit back and relax while it does its thing and don’t worry about being in a huge hurry.
It drove me all the way down Magazine a few Saturdays ago and I kind of zoned out. Then realized it was passing cars waiting to turn, avoiding bicyclists, stopped twice for pedestrians in crosswalks and I touched nothing from the garden district to Audubon park.
Several times on the interstate I have put my phone in a mount behind the steering wheel to watch football and won’t have to touch anything for hours.
It doesn’t always drive exactly as you’d want, but it errs on the side on caution so I just sit back and relax while it does its thing and don’t worry about being in a huge hurry.
re: Does the Tesla autopilot work well in BR, or LA roads in general?
Posted by lsu02150 on 3/8/25 at 10:18 am
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Does it let you set the speed maximum and will it adjust down if it thinks you’re going to fast?
Yes you set maximum speed (capped at 85) and driving mode (in “hurry” mode it will try to drive the maximum if traffic/conditions allow)
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How do they do with potholes?
Not great yet but some progress. If a car in front avoids, it has started sometimes doing the same. There is speculation they are working on improving this soon.
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My question is why FSD doesn't get Teslas out of the passing lane when they're not passing.
This behavior has gotten better in recent releases since they moved away from hard coded FSD to full end to end neural net. It now behaves more like how I would drive in moderate traffic. If there is traffic in the right lane that I would have to slow down for, then I’m just staying in the left lane until right lane is clear - I am not zig zagging because someone wants to drive 90mph, you can zig zag.
re: Buying a new Macbook
Posted by lsu02150 on 1/31/24 at 5:33 pm
If a 2011 MacBook was still getting the job done for you until very recently, the new MacBook Pros are overkill. Get a M2 MacBook Air. Check how much storage you use and upgrade that from base model if you think needed.
15" deals at Best Buy are killer right now.
13" I'd get Apple Certified Refurb LINK
So they were happy with a product that lasted 12+ years, but should switch to a PC to save a few hundred dollars and potentially be frustrated with learning a new OS? Makes sense.
15" deals at Best Buy are killer right now.
13" I'd get Apple Certified Refurb LINK
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Don't do it...... Buy a PC
So they were happy with a product that lasted 12+ years, but should switch to a PC to save a few hundred dollars and potentially be frustrated with learning a new OS? Makes sense.
re: Connecting buildings with fiber
Posted by lsu02150 on 1/24/24 at 2:42 pm
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Also, is pulling 800 ft of cable going to be more difficult than I think? I don't want to underestimate this.
If laying new conduit, put a few mid run pull boxes every 100-200' or so and anywhere you have to make a turn. This will make pulling the fiber way easier and also make it much more serviceable if you need to replace the fiber for any reason in the future. You can find videos on YouTube of how to use either a shop vac or compressed air to get a pull string through each run. After a few hundred feet or through bends or turns, or with multiple cables, difficulty starts increasing fast.
re: Connecting buildings with fiber
Posted by lsu02150 on 1/24/24 at 12:02 pm
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have you actually priced and deployed anything lately? Most any device with an SFP port will support Single mode.
Yeah the cost of single mode fiber and modules has dropped significantly in the last few years. Multimode is really only installed new now for rack to rack runs which are too long for DAC cables or for electrical isolation.
OP - If any existing switches have SFP ports, those can be used in place of media converters. All that matters is that the SFP modules on either end of any 1 fiber match. You can have a module at 1 end plugged in to a SFP port in a media converter and at the other end a module plugged in to a SFP port in a switch. So if you already have a switch at building B which has 4 or more SFP ports, you won't need any media converters there.
re: Connecting buildings with fiber
Posted by lsu02150 on 1/24/24 at 8:22 am
If you want to future proof, install single-mode. It can carry faster speeds. Duplex LC Single mode is what I’d install.
re: Oppenheimer | Official Reaction Thread | Spoilers
Posted by lsu02150 on 7/27/23 at 12:33 am
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Correct me if I am wrong, but isn't "exactly zero" rarely an outcome in quantum physics? I'm not trying to be argumentative, and I am certainly not a scientist, but its fun to talk about this stuff
I’m not sure they had any measurements yet to know the exact energy to expect and if it may result in any fusion and then definitely didn’t have measurements on that energy released. Now we know pressure can’t be maintained enough in the atmosphere for a chain reaction. (Layman’s understanding, please someone correct as needed)
re: Oppenheimer | Official Reaction Thread | Spoilers
Posted by lsu02150 on 7/21/23 at 11:56 pm
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This movie is an acting and writing masterclass aside from the nude scene which feels out of place, but tits are cool.
They put the nudity and sex in your face, just like it was in kitty’s face (and then they quite literally showed how in her face it was). Longer scene of them chatting while she’s topless helps reinforce how casual he was about it (and in turn other affairs, etc) Then despite all of that, kitty still fought for him when he wouldn’t. Not that any filmmaker needs justification for showing tits, but if they did I think he’s covered here.
re: Oppenheimer | Official Reaction Thread | Spoilers
Posted by lsu02150 on 7/21/23 at 12:43 pm
Now that I've seen the whole movie, I think I will enjoy the first 1/3 more on the second watch. Second 1/3 was great, solid, captivating middle act. The last 1/3 could have been another 3 hours and had my full attention.
re: Oppenheimer | Official Reaction Thread | Spoilers
Posted by lsu02150 on 7/21/23 at 12:23 pm
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(I imagine they had to be very careful not to bore the audience with the technical details of why the gun-type and implosion-type assemblies worked.)
I think this is definitely part of it...but also, I think a lot of people are going into it expecting 'The Manhattan Project' despite the title being 'Oppenheimer'. If you can let yourself be open to watch a movie about the man, then I think everyone who wanted science will see that the filmmakers used just enough science to show the audience the impact it had on Oppenheimer and the world. I think any more science would have been unnecessary to tell the story they wanted to tell.
re: Apple supports Communist China.
Posted by lsu02150 on 12/1/22 at 10:22 pm
What I mean to say is that Apple is an extremely profitable and highly calculated business. Their #1 priority is making money, and they are one of the best at it. So they will gladly hide behind those policies and comply with the Chinese government because they want to make money more than anything else, and I’d do exactly the same in their shoes.
re: Apple supports Communist China.
Posted by lsu02150 on 11/30/22 at 10:58 pm
1. Apple policy is to comply with laws in any jurisdiction in which it operates. Xi’s word is as good as law in China.
2. Apple has a duty to shareholders and China can and will turn off the iPhone, MacBook, iPad, etc “faucet” without hesitation if Apple didn’t comply with a government request. Would take years to recover and move all that supply chain elsewhere.
They don’t really have a choice here lol
2. Apple has a duty to shareholders and China can and will turn off the iPhone, MacBook, iPad, etc “faucet” without hesitation if Apple didn’t comply with a government request. Would take years to recover and move all that supply chain elsewhere.
They don’t really have a choice here lol
re: Why does Apple not put an auto brightness toggle on watch
Posted by lsu02150 on 10/3/22 at 2:48 pm
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Does the watch have the hardware to measure ambient light?
It does, and when you raise your wrist it 'wakes up' and auto adjusts to ambient light level. In my experience, it does it quickly and to a viewable brightness level >99% of the time.
OP, are you talking about how dim the watch is in 'standby'? like the always on display feature on the last 2 models? It dims when you lower your wrist to save battery life, and should automatically wake and get brighter when you raise your wrist as if to look at the time.
The answer to your question though is battery life.
re: Dark Sky weather app being discontinued on 1/1/2023
Posted by lsu02150 on 9/13/22 at 12:27 pm
Did you upgrade to iOS16 yet? The app is updated with the OS. It now has projected hourly precipitation, though it is displayed a little different than in Dark Sky.
re: What are MacBook Pro M1 users using as external display?
Posted by lsu02150 on 7/22/22 at 6:21 am
The 5k displays are beautiful. I had 2 x 27” 4k and recently swapped 1 to a 5k and noticeably less eye fatigue.
re: Going to Supper Club Tonight
Posted by lsu02150 on 6/4/22 at 10:58 am
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The aforementioned grilled cheese & tomato soup… I wonder if they recycled those spoons from Great Wall?
They are serving it exactly the same way as the inspiration dish, which was made popular at Beauty & Essex (NYC, Vegas).
re: Recession does not seem to be hitting the EDC in Las Vegas
Posted by lsu02150 on 5/24/22 at 1:13 pm
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“All are welcome” is a champagne package. Not a guest invitation rider.
Yeah at every club/festival I’ve been to for bottle service, the number of guests is part of the negotiation on the minimum spend amount.
For the 120k minimum on OP receipt, it was actually for 4 tables and they got 100 wristbands.
re: Recession does not seem to be hitting the EDC in Las Vegas
Posted by lsu02150 on 5/24/22 at 8:29 am
Here is the 2019 EDC bottle service menu for reference.
re: Recession does not seem to be hitting the EDC in Las Vegas
Posted by lsu02150 on 5/23/22 at 9:36 pm
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What is this “All are Welcome” shite for $11k? You bitches are absolutely not welcome if I’ve got to pay $11k.
Likely just a package of some of all things on menu. Like 1 bottle vodka, 1 bottle tequila, 3 champagne, 3 rose or something.
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