Kevin Horn 🦉

@CalebChamberla6 Subtractive CAD. Create a new part by selecting the appropriate mill shape

Idea - CAD that only supports operations you can perform with a tool. Want to do an extrude cut? Pick an end mill first.

@mcuban Dogs are already suffering from chronic underemployment. We don’t need AI to take their jobs

I’ll ask this another way. When will AI, in any manner, be able to replace “seeing eye dogs” for the visually impaired ?

@usgraphics way too much visual information that obfuscates the core function of "Turn Now"

My contrarian view is that the symbolic version of a map is better than 3D version for navigation. Not everything needs to be a literal and accurate representation of the thing. At some point, the details become irrelevant for the task at hand (navigation). An arrow is IMO indisputably more effective that a literal 3D model of the car for fast cognition. For exploration of a city and looking at landmarks, may be cool to fly over a 3D map on your couch; but for navigational purposes (the usage as shown in the quoted tweet), so much of this is nuissance when you have a second to glance at the navigation screen. Literal representation is appealing on the first order. But if you think about what the vision system has to do to distill relevant information, it's a red herring. Even things like exits and ramps, we can symbolically show them and it'd be superior than having to cognate 3D renderings of it from a totally different perspective than what you're seeing out the window. I am not saying it is impossible, I am saying that it takes longer for the vision system to process. I also think 3D version and a symbolic UI are not different in degree, but in type. One cannot replace the other, at best they're useful for different goals. For 3D maps, navigation isn't one of them. Navigation is a task that demands high performance UI.

@justinryanio how did you get the 3rd person view of yourself in the cockpit wearing AVP?

Here’s a first look at X-Plane 12 on Apple Vision Pro! With visionOS 26.4 and NVIDIA CloudXR 6.0, the simulator streams wirelessly at up to 4K/120fps to your headset. And if you have a physical yoke or throttle, ARKit uses image detection to recognize them and place them inside your virtual cockpit. 🤯 It’ll be available later this spring.

@Zafir88538734 @greentheonly @RacingFourJesus No, only S and X had dGPU for a period of time. Removed last year

@KPHorn @greentheonly @RacingFourJesus So the Model 3/Y have it but not Cybertruck???

Interesting that for the 2025 model S/X cars, Tesla cut costs on the car computer considerably. The dedicated GPU is gone (good thing all the crazy gaming stuff is gone from the website too). The RAM still remains at 16G though unlike the current crop of 3/y/ct, the NVMe is dropped to 128G (from 256)

@greentheonly do you have insight on how the 16G is used for the 3 screens? is that the dependency? it's not like it's running a more complex application stack. Is steam on these new 16G/iGPU builds (the actual requirement is 16GB Ram from what I understand, not a dGPU)

@greentheonly @RacingFourJesus I rescind my comment; I'm now recalling this thread you posted but I forgot the context and said you havent seen them so I was wrong x.com/greentheonly/s…

@KPHorn @RacingFourJesus I have never seen any. Have you? is there a photo proof? I think they were supposed to come later according to the support manual wording or some such.

@greentheonly @RacingFourJesus Some early cyber trucks had the dGPU but they quickly removed it. Probably within first 1000 units

@RacingFourJesus no. The documentation promised that in the future they might have it, but I guess that never materialized. you can see some of those screenshots in my old feed

@itskyleconner Carolina Squat mode enabled for R1S and R1T with air suspension

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It’s impossible to stress how important it is to maintain product quality in a service like Siri - “when is Daylight Savings Time?” In the US and you get dates for UK - “play the latest news” and it plays the same WaPo podcast from December 2022 “Introducing ‘The 7’” - “play the news” and it replies “now playing the latest news” I think I’ll start documenting a little dashboard with repeatable UX bugs across versions and track over time

@scottbuscemi I bought a Used HW4 model Y from Tesla and boost was included on inventory vehicles as a sales incentive. I’m a fan

Gotta be honest: I had no idea the AWD Model Y has an acceleration boost option. $2000 for 4.6->4.1 second 0-60. I sure miss the 2.6 seconds from my Cyberbeast. But using FSD 99% of the time means this is only 10% tempting me right now...

@OnodaCapital @bradrcarson Many people will take this at face value and note that it includes 0/4 talking to humans

“Claude, rot my brain. Make no mistakes”

@chairmanwon Solidworks maker edition is $48 and frequently on sale for $24

there is 0 reason to dick around with pirating solidworks when solid edge is now free for personal use it isnt a knockoff, dassult (the sinister french) license the most important part of SW, the parisolid kernal, from siemans switch today! it also teaches you how to use NX! resources.sw.siemens.com/en-US/download…

@JK_Lundblad An MH-53K is $95M. I think the F-35 is a relatively good deal

Many of us owe an apology to this beast, myself included. This is currently the best fighter you can buy for $80 million. Fun fact, I saw an old news clip on Youtube from the late 1970s where a journalist was investigating the new F-18. Same story there. The plane was a "disaster." Behind schedule. Over budget. Pilots hate it. Bugs, etc. Yet the F-18 turned out to be quite the success. Sometimes, we need to just give progress a chance.

@eevblog Follow @MKBHD’s advice - if you’re watching his videos (or reading this website) the neo is not for you I realize this is solved problem for you - M2 used was a good choice.

Been thinking about getting a Macbook so I can test apps and software and stuff. Which is better value now? The new M5 Air is $1799, but the Neo is only $899, about the same price as an old M2 Air.

Yes! Uber has zero vehicle capex and takes advantage of millions of casual drivers below the true cost (time + depreciation + operating cost + maintenance + cleaning + insurance). Thats why the only vehicles that work on Uber X are a 10 year old Prius. Tesla takes out most of the labor but has all of the expensive capex. Can’t price rides at 4.20

I had suspected once the big initial CapEx was priced in autonomous taxis won’t be any cheaper than human based ones for a while. They will eventually.

@bscholl Very cool, and area rule plays a big part in the cigar profile. What are some of the ideas for the extra floor area and width in mid-cabin? Wider seats? Wider aisle?

Overture cabin: - Entry door is 6’ 3”, 1” taller than 737, 10” taller than Concorde - Forward aisle height peaks at over eight feet, with a minimum of 6’ 8” - Last row aisle is 6’2”, about the same as a G650 No bad rows and no middle seats. Only middle finger to bad design.

@SnazzyLabs I just tested my Windows CAD machine with the 9955HX3D 16c32t mobile version of threadripper and it scored 19536, weighs 7 lbs and battery lasts an hour

Imagine seeing this—a laptop chip beating out a Threadripper—and still convincing yourself Macs aren’t good.

I think both. Ram is constrained. There will be a new ULTRA soon and they’ve probably made a choice to get ready for historically crazy launch demand (relative to max spec Macs historically) by shifting orders to the new chip to build inventory. Nobody wants to see M5 ULTRA shift to 4 month lead time on launch day

@mweinbach Is this a casualty of the RAM debacle, or because they are drawing down M3 Ultra in general for a pending M5 Ultra?

Woah the 512GB RAM version is gone I’m not shocked in the slightest, but interesting to see it go. Glad I’ve got 2 with 512GB

@mweinbach I think because imminent ULTRA product release (1-2 months). I’d guess they are stockpiling RAM and shifted orders to meet what will be explosive demand (relative to historicals) for new high spec machines.