Tristan Gauci

Software Engineer, ENTP. Working on @NeuraLabAI. Twitter bios are a bastion of pretentiousness. This one is no exception.

[Tristan Gauci @ParadoxEpoch]

@TheBertieTheBee @steusmotus @techdroider Yes it is, there's more to an emulator than just emulating an ISA. Kernel modules, any custom PS5-specific GPU API calls etc all have to be emulated.

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@LSF4Life1981 @GameGPU_com Sadly not possible. The highest read speed for the fastest blu-ray drives is 16x at 72MB/s.

Modern games stream gigabytes of texture data and other assets in near real time. Moving that back to optical would make modern open worlds impossible and cause extreme loading times.

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@HenriAppeldoorn @GregorEisenh @teslaxander Samsung Messages? As in SMS/RCS? That integrates natively over Bluetooth with the car's messages app. All of this is irrelevant anyway though because you're claiming that BMW has better software, but everything you're describing are features of Apple CarPlay.

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@GregorEisenh @teslaxander Can't wait for your next hot take about how BlackBerry's software is so far ahead of Apple's..

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@Scobleizer @BlakeC Then you shouldn't be driving. FSD is supervised, Tesla makes that extremely clear.

If you're watching a video you're not ready to take over immediately. The car might be capable of 99.999% of driving scenarios, but that last 0.001% is where you can die or kill innocent people.

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@DogeFather7wrp @Zelakto Pre-Highland/Pre-Juniper AMD cars have the same MCU so it's not older hardware as far as the visualisations are concerned. My guess is Tesla haven't put effort into building the new 3D models and animations for older AMD cars yet.

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@NeverplayF3 @ryanjaycowan @Christo_t_D Sales figures and net profit are two different figures. If BMW are selling fewer cars and still bringing in higher profits that's one potential indicator that their margins are high and you're actually being ripped off.

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@BenPope95161471 @GreenTyler27

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@happydays00769 @elviragregorich @EVCurveFuturist My car is completely off grid. Solar charges home battery storage during the day, car tops up off that generated power when it needs to day or night with excess sold back to the grid. So yes, intermittent sun properly harnessed can more than cover car *and* home.

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That's a common misconception around battery longevity. For example Tesla's battery packs are designed to last 500,000-800,000km depending on how they're used.

Most high mileage owners lose around 10-15% of their overall capacity at 350,000km on the odo which for the average driver would represent 26 years of ownership.

I personally know of someone with a Model 3 that's still got 89% of its capacity after 400,000km and my own Model 3 is 96% with nearly 100,000km on the clock even though I drive it like I stole it.

The battery lifespan issue was solved years ago with active thermal control and modern BMS tech.

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@CVincente19 @techAU This is exactly the case. The FSD subscription on HW3 is essentially just EAP at the moment

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@SawyerMerritt Appreciate it!
I'm going on a road trip next month and even one referral would completely cover my supercharging

https://t.co/lUPs6ADNEc

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@finalformlab Hopefully there was no disc in the drive...

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The biggest giveaway that someone doesn't actually own or drive an EV is when they call them boring to drive.

The Model 3 is by far the most fun car I've ever driven and just about everybody else who's driven it would agree. The instant power and torque, the responsiveness.. simply can't be beat.

If you want to make a point at least try to make an honest one or you're just coping.

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@interesting_aIl https://t.co/4F7iapxiH4

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@rocket_ @MorbidKnowledge

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@teslaflexx It's even worse here in Australia. HW3 currently has no FSD, no ability to outright purchase FSD or even EAP anymore and the subscription is actually just EAP despite still being named "Full Self-Driving (Supervised)" and costing the same price as real FSD-S on HW4.

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@chesscom chess

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I mean the difference is that a Blink doorbell sends footage to the cloud for object detection whereas your Tesla uses the onboard FSD computer for locally inferencing several cameras simultaneously, encoding and then saving that footage in real time...

With that said, 0.4% in 35 mins doesn't necessarily correlate to 16% in 24hrs. An actual sentry event in that 35 min window causes a much bigger power draw than the several hours overnight where there are likely little to no events to process.

Personally, my car loses around 2% a night (evening, night and the following morning) with sentry mode on when parked curbside.

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@bzamayo Followed by the first executive meeting of 2026