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goatface posted:It's not meant to be the complete city, a more normal looking one is meant to grow around it. Hopefully it ends up like a massive Kowloon walled city. Not that I've seen. It's meant to be "self contained". None of their concept art has anything around it.
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It will never be built because it’s a fever dream that’s far too stupid to exist, but if it did exist there would definitely be a bunch of shanties along it’s entire length. You think the slave labor is going to be allowed to live inside the megacity? Eww
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Oct 23, 2022 22:49
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Roblo posted:Not that I've seen. It's meant to be "self contained". None of their concept art has anything around it. It's meant to eventually be part of Neom.
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King Carnivore posted:It will never be built because it’s a fever dream that’s far too stupid to exist, but if it did exist there would definitely be a bunch of shanties along it’s entire length. You think the slave labor is going to be allowed to live inside the megacity? Eww no, they thought of that. the sides being mirrors will ensure that a large area on either side is baked to a crisp each day, making it completely uninhabitable
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Oct 23, 2022 22:52
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Remember when he wanted to build that submarine to get that group of kids out of the flooded cave, butdidn't.... Lol
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Oct 23, 2022 22:53
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https://twitter.com/jeffreytowson/status/1584003920355287040?s=46&t=ZrTRftRBXNJXVVGG7FGMVQ
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Oct 23, 2022 22:53
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Lol tell me that’s a parody account
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Oct 23, 2022 23:33
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Skilled, hard working people love to have their job turn into a battle royale.
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Oct 23, 2022 23:56
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Bad Purchase posted:no, they thought of that. the sides being mirrors will ensure that a large area on either side is baked to a crisp each day, making it completely uninhabitable https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qksm5cRtcU
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Oct 24, 2022 01:12
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the mad max post apocalypse could make archimedian solar death rays out of the glass sides of this thing
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Oct 24, 2022 01:37
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engineers do love a challenge in their domain, not the kind where you are fighting your employer’s garbage culture/policies.
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Oct 24, 2022 01:44
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Bad Purchase posted:it's dumb, yeah, but the phone is supposed to be a backup. the key fob issue he had would be like if you broke or lost your physical key. most modern cars would also be stuck in that situation (although many you could still shift out of park for easier towing). my car came with a 2nd set of keys, though. not sure if that's standard on teslas or not. seems like this whole thing could be mitigated if you kept a 2nd key fob at home for emergencies. then at worst it's an uber trip home or bugging a friend/family member to bring it to you at the garage you're stuck in. What's crazy to me is that the phone and the car both need to be connected to the internet. I own a Polestar, and I can use my phone as a key, and while I needed an internet connection to set this up I'm fairly certain everything from there is simply bluetooth, which seems like such an obvious choice to me that it's surprising anyone would do it any other way.
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Oct 24, 2022 03:16
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just so it's clear i haven't actually verified all of that info, i was just repeating what dennis from always sunny said when he told the story. it's possible he didn't get all the details right in the explanation. i was curious and looked at the model S owner's manual just now, and it does say you don't need the internet to unlock with a phone: https://www.tesla.com/ownersmanual/models/en_us/GUID-E004FAB7-1C71-448F-9492-CACF301304D2.html posted:Once a phone has been authenticated, it no longer requires an internet connection to be used as a phone key for Model S. so maybe he just hadn't ever paired the app on his phone with his car before (at a location with internet access), and if he had it would've worked. or maybe the owner's manual is just wrong, i don't know.
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Oct 24, 2022 03:26
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I can totally see them accidentally patching that out randomly and never saying poo poo
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Oct 24, 2022 03:59
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my guess is that it probably would've worked if he'd paired ahead of time. it's human nature not to worry about the back up system until you need it, but  i have a coworker with a tesla, maybe i'll ask her tomorrow. mode 3, not S, but probably the same phone app.
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bobjr posted:https://twitter.com/jeffreytowson/status/1584003920355287040?s=46&t=ZrTRftRBXNJXVVGG7FGMVQ Big "If you can't handle me at my worst, you don't deserve me at my best" energy there.
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Yaldabaoth posted:The concept itself is not dystopian, but God knows the saudis are like the worst people to put in charge of this. The concept itself is pretty dystopian when you look past the beautiful investor-ready graphic renderings. Certain elements of it are not, but at the end of the day you have this huge vertical structure where the rich live in the fun upper levels and a servant class lives and toils in the sunless lower levels. This is dystopian cyberpunk 101 tier stuff. It's great that it's designed for public transport but it seems like it'd be a nightmare actually living there as someone who's not already mega-rich
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Oct 24, 2022 05:03
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goatface posted:It's not meant to be the complete city, a more normal looking one is meant to grow around it. Hopefully it ends up like a massive Kowloon walled city. Yes it is, the surrounding area is uninhabitable without massive work to bring in water and other resources and that's before the giant mirrors are there. All the design is around bringing resources to only the people that live inside. But it will never be finished, I'd be shocked to see even one section completed.
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Oct 24, 2022 05:45
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Hasn't construction on the 1km-tall Jeddah Tower been on hold for years now? Yeah, I see something similar happening here.
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bobjr posted:https://twitter.com/jeffreytowson/status/1584003920355287040?s=46&t=ZrTRftRBXNJXVVGG7FGMVQ seems obvious that this guy does not hire or recruit in tech. there totally are weirdos out there who want to work insanely hard on something (“climb a mountain”). they are 22, with minimal experience, and none of them work at twitter. they work at bullshit private companies we have never heard of, and you couldn’t persuade them to work at twitter no matter what. plus you wouldn’t want to: their skillset is totally different from the skillset you need to run a massive website. the weirdos can crank out a rickety tech demo by working 25 hours a day, but twitter doesn’t need that. twitter’s last new feature was changing the shape of user icons if the icon was an NFT. that took 20 minutes to program and 750 person-years to design, test, review, document, and deploy. the weirdos don’t know how to do any of that and they don’t want to learn.
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Oct 24, 2022 06:19
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its almost like saudi arabia is has been huffing its own oil farts for decades and is starting to believe the hallucinations
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Wendigee posted:its almost like saudi arabia is has been huffing its own oil farts for decades and is starting to believe the hallucinations saudi arabia is the country version of a trashy redneck who wins the lottery
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QuarkJets posted:The concept itself is pretty dystopian when you look past the beautiful investor-ready graphic renderings. Certain elements of it are not, but at the end of the day you have this huge vertical structure where the rich live in the fun upper levels and a servant class lives and toils in the sunless lower levels. This is dystopian cyberpunk 101 tier stuff. It's great that it's designed for public transport but it seems like it'd be a nightmare actually living there as someone who's not already mega-rich They're also displacing a ton of folks (20,000) indigenous to the region, which of course that part's well underway. There's also this, lol. Wikipedia posted:Also, the scope of the projects based on the crown prince's vision incorporates some technologies that do not even exist, like flying cars, robot maids, dinosaur robots, and a giant artificial moon.[65] Kind of a shame there's some really cool, and actually achievable stuff in there, but that'll get overshadowed by the financial disaster and humans rights violations.
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Elviscat posted:There's also this, lol. But what about the robotic dragons?
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The Lone Badger posted:But what about the robotic dragons? Make them anatomically correct and I am in!
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Oct 24, 2022 10:40
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Dinosaur robots. Why does a city need dinosaur robots. He's played horizon recently, hasn't he? "I want those". Well worth the colossal waste of resources.
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Oct 24, 2022 11:46
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So they can tear apart any low caste people who enter higher caste spaces.
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Roblo posted:Dinosaur robots. Why does a city need dinosaur robots. Man, I was making jokes about the cyborg dragon island guy but it turns out they've already got that covered. I'm more interested in the "artificial moon". Are we talking a blimp with a bunch of lights on it that flies around at night, or some sort of actual gigantic orbiting body?
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Roblo posted:Dinosaur robots. Why does a city need dinosaur robots. "What if the Batcave... was a city? And also a line?" "gently caress, this is great, someone write this down!"
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normally when a dictator starts trying to teach dogs to perform opera things get a little coup-y so looking forward to how the false moon trench city plan works out
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The Moon Monster posted:Man, I was making jokes about the cyborg dragon island guy but it turns out they've already got that covered. I think it was a big mirror out at geostat.
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The Moon Monster posted:Man, I was making jokes about the cyborg dragon island guy but it turns out they've already got that covered. According to TrashFuture, it's a gigantic steel-frame sphere that will house a hotel (and really gently caress with the werewolves of the middle east)
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goatface posted:I think it was a big mirror out at geostat. What the gently caress do they need one of those for?
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It might be someone else who was doing the big space mirror. It was someone's proposed idea to save on street lighting. e- Looks like that was China
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Robo Reagan posted:normally when a dictator starts trying to teach dogs to perform opera things get a little coup-y so looking forward to how the false moon trench city plan works out luckily for Prince Bonesaw, all the impossible megaprojects are just a hobby, while his true passion is ruthlessly imprisoning & lightly torturing his many relatives
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Oct 24, 2022 21:32
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I’ll be honest, if they had the world largest marble on top of this thing rolling from one end to the other constantly, with some way to catch it then speed it up so it can go back to the other side, I’d be all for it Otherwise it’s stupid
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Oct 24, 2022 22:24
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Pitch your idea to Mr. Bonesaw. It’d go perfect with the artificial moon and robotic dinosaurs.
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hemale in pain posted:What do you do if your at the end 170km house and you want takeaway from a place near the start it's got the same amenities every 5 km
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bobjr posted:https://twitter.com/jeffreytowson/status/1584003920355287040?s=46&t=ZrTRftRBXNJXVVGG7FGMVQ If there’s one thing I know about high performing engineers, it’s that they love inheriting the unmaintainable piles of bullshit produced by the bottom 20% of engineers at the company. Good engineers basically only want to build new poo poo, you need legions of drones who are happy toiling away in bullshit to keep the lights on. Good engineering orgs find a way to have both. This is exactly why google has rebuilt chat apps 75 times.
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Chess is for babies and Kasparov is an idiot. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1584533444444332033 https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1584537377837490177
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