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Steadiman posted:https://twitter.com/colourmeamused_/status/1596116629355892736 holy smokes
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Nov 25, 2022 13:54
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Rigel posted:Related to this, I'm really curious about what kind of complete imbecile decided that it would be a good idea to completely shun LIDAR and just assume they can program their way into making cameras work. Since this is an Elon company and its clear now that he's a loving idiot with no empathy, I'm wondering if maybe his engineers and lawyers wanted to use LIDAR as a backup but maybe this was one of the few times Elon broke free of containment by his Elon-wranglers and insisted they go without. Allegedly Elon was big on insisting "if other people do it we should be different just to be different". A bunch of Tesla's problem are supposedly rooted in that, because even down to common-sense machining/assembly practices were not allowed. Gotta be different and break the mould!!
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Nov 25, 2022 13:55
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learnincurve posted:Stewart lee pointed out, a lot of British gammons are confusing "woke" with basic health and safety regulations as well now. One I have personally heard is "the woke are making passengers wear seatbelts in cars, it's disgusting" Correctly fighting against the smothering woke regulations. 
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Nov 25, 2022 13:56
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Ehud posted:what the hell is right wing art 
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Nov 25, 2022 14:01
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Strategic Tea posted:No, same Octavian! I suppose I mean charitable from a moral point of view, and on the question of whether he actually wanted to become history's most successful dictator. The Late Republic's main issue was that the Senate had become the most undemocratic institution possible, to the point of dysfunction, all in an effort to "own the plebes" by the Patrician class. The Civil Wars and Progroms had also drained Rome of anyone but fail-sons and idiots in that class, so Octavian was trying to rebuild a civil society from square one. His own Progrom hosed things up horribly too and killed quite a few great minds/ voices he didn't have to when he initially made the Triumvirate with that moron Marc Antony. Anyway, for Musk related content: IBroughttheFunk posted:This thread got even worse: "I AM NEITHER RIGHT NOR LEFT: I AM A PERFECT SIMULCRUM OF HUMANITIY'S GREAT GENIUS IN THIS ARTIFICIAL REALITY, BY THE WAY HAVE YOU HEARD ABOUT HUNTER BIDEN'S LAPTOP AND HOW JE-UHHH, FTX RUNS THE WORLD?!" TulliusCicero fucked around with this message at 15:03 on Nov 25, 2022 |
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Nov 25, 2022 14:03
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Zzulu posted:I keep seeing the "woke" stuff a lot in American media. Like, A LOT. It seems to be a huge topic of debate in your country and one I barely hear about in my own. Have you heard the term culture war? It was a fox news talking point back in the 2000's At my office, wokeness is plot by blackrock, george soros and "banks" to destory the christian family, and take down western civilization. If you go to the internet a bunch of old fat men, seem to be very angry over wokeness because it made star wars bad. God help you if you point out that that 50 year old movie about space wizards wasnt that good to start with. Edit: so take this tweet here If I showed this to Skylar our file clerk. He would explain that alex jones has a mark on him, and elon must obey his masters. Honestly though Elon is doing the very thing hes accursing jones of. I feel for the mom you dont blast that poo poo on the internet. Ups_rail fucked around with this message at 14:13 on Nov 25, 2022 |
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Nov 25, 2022 14:08
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I love the posts about Musk being manic or what have you. I mean, he may be. But at his core he's a narcissistic fuckwit and he attracts other narcissistic fuckwits like that dude who thinks social justice somehow impacts his enthusiasm for consumer goods.
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Nov 25, 2022 14:10
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 What the actual gently caress  His stans really do just want to gently caress him With content like this being posted by the CEO, just 
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TulliusCicero posted:
The extreme nature of it makes me think/ hope it's a joke post but...
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MysticalMachineGun posted:The extreme nature of it makes me think/ hope it's a joke post but... Yeah same. It really shouldn't be this hard to tell. I mean if they are trolling, top points. dr_rat fucked around with this message at 14:24 on Nov 25, 2022 |
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Nov 25, 2022 14:21
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*sees a trans person on tv* THE WOKE MIND VIRUS!!! *farts, shits self, passes out in a rage*
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Nov 25, 2022 14:24
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Rigel posted:Related to this, I'm really curious about what kind of complete imbecile decided that it would be a good idea to completely shun LIDAR and just assume they can program their way into making cameras work. Since this is an Elon company and its clear now that he's a loving idiot with no empathy, I'm wondering if maybe his engineers and lawyers wanted to use LIDAR as a backup but maybe this was one of the few times Elon broke free of containment by his Elon-wranglers and insisted they go without. Didn't their LIDAR partner pull out (unlike Elon) of the partnership because the stuff Tesla was making their self driving cars do was dangerous and they didn't want to be liable.
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Nov 25, 2022 14:30
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Lmao. Justine on some reasons why her marriage to Elon failed. Wilson later wrote an article for Marie Claire detailing ways in which she thought the marriage was unhealthy such as Musk's dismissal of her career ambitions, his description of himself as the "alpha" in the relationship, and his pressure for her to become a trophy wife. Buddy, if you are calling yourself an '''Alpha''', you can be sure as poo poo you aren't one. One of their kids dumped the Musk name for Wilson cos they are sick of Elon. Happened this year. Top guy
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Nov 25, 2022 14:35
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Elon seems like the kind of guy who revokes your man card if you order a salad.
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Nov 25, 2022 14:39
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Sandweed posted:Didn't their LIDAR partner pull out (unlike Elon) of the partnership because the stuff Tesla was making their self driving cars do was dangerous and they didn't want to be liable. IIRC it wasn’t LIDAR, it was MobileEye (who dominated the driver-assist space for ages) using video only as well but felt that Tesla was using their stuff inappropriately.
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Nov 25, 2022 14:44
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Sandweed posted:Didn't their LIDAR partner pull out (unlike Elon) of the partnership because the stuff Tesla was making their self driving cars do was dangerous and they didn't want to be liable. Yeah, the LIDAR company they were using pulled out because they didn't want their good name ruined by Tesla. So afterward Musk of course pretended this was by design.  Humans use eyes, cameras are sufficient All input is errorThat last one is particularly dumb.
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learnincurve posted:Stewart lee pointed out, a lot of British gammons are confusing "woke" with basic health and safety regulations as well now. One I have personally heard is "the woke are making passengers wear seatbelts in cars, it's disgusting"
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Ehud posted:Elon seems like the kind of guy who revokes your man card if you order a salad.  What an alpha....
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TulliusCicero posted:The Late Republic's main issue was that the Senate had become the most undemocratic institution possible, to the point of dysfunction, all in an effort to "own the plebes" by the Patrician class. To expand on this, the late republic was fundamentally hosed. Most of the land, that was once small farm holdings, was concentrated in the hands of the elite. Those mega estates were run with slave labour, which was plentiful after many wars of conquest. This left vastly reduced wages for the poor, if they could find work at all. This fueled an ever growing urban class of poor, ready to be whipped up into a frenzy by whatever populist came along. Any attempt at reform was blocked by the established interests in the senate. Long standing norms, traditions, and eventually laws, such as term limits, were broken every more frequently by ambitious politicians. Scandals that might have ended a political career in an earlier era led to fewer and fewer consequences. Combine this with an army that was mostly comprised of these landless poor (prior to the Marian reforms, service in the military required a certain level of wealth depending on the role, as you had to buy your own equipment. As a consequence, the pre-Marian legions comprised a more balanced cross-section of the population). The legionairies in the late republic had limited loyalty to a state that spits on them, but a lot of loyalty to their charismatic commanders. In short, there was no way this wasn't going to end up in a dictatorship of some sort. Luckily for us, our society has none of these problems.
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F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:
(groimes, im da elpha in dis relashenship alroight?) \
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So musk has now confirmed that there will be a tiered checkmark system after all Gold for companies, grey for government, and blue for individuals (which anyone can have) Lol (or, indeed 🤣)
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Steadiman posted:https://twitter.com/colourmeamused_/status/1596116629355892736 Yeah he's really got the whole Trump thing down with the just constant wanton outright lying. This loving absolute guy man
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Roblo posted:So musk has now confirmed that there will be a tiered checkmark system after all Stupid, but less stupid than other ways they could go from here. Guessing this is them trying to do something to stop companies to leave. As long as the site continues to get flooded with bots and nazi types probably won't work thou.
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mind the walrus posted:Lmao it really is just performative masculinity in a field where results speak for themselves. Good loving luck buddy. Is this right wing grievance filled enough for Elon to make him the new CEO yet? Does he need to pass the interview with group interview with Joe Rogan, Jordan Peterson, Andrew Tate and Catturd2 first?
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Anyone else getting nothing but lovely meme aggregators with random URLs as their promoted tweets?
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Crymetimeboys posted:https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1596083744728928257?s=46&t=nQJBcVqkLudmyzj-Y9pyKg But I thought this wasn't a right wing takeover of twitter? Elon? He legit seems more interested in right wing bullshit right now than running a successful company with real growth potential.
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Crymetimeboys posted:https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1596083744728928257?s=46&t=nQJBcVqkLudmyzj-Y9pyKg The CEO of twitter earnestly posting very neutrally about the WOKE MIND VIRUS, just in case anyone still using Twitter has no clue what’s his ideology (NEUTRAL 100% balanced ofc)
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Kale posted:Is this right wing grievance filled enough for Elon to make him the new CEO yet? Does he need to pass the interview with group interview with Joe Rogan, Jordan Peterson, Andrew Tate and Catturd2 first? It's hard to think of a CEO worse for twitter than Elon, but if he does go with some random kiss-rear end sycophant, by god he may actually manage to find one.
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theflyingorc posted:https://twitter.com/realGeorgeHotz/status/1595679136731004928?t=TDfUlxZCxJXO-R0iKCjLnA&s=19 Jesus Christ, this is the tech-fetishist version of that pokemon-and-spaghetti dipshit from a month or so ago. You want to be twelve again, dude. It's not the world, it's you. Dehry posted:I was curious to see what the conservative take on this was while at Thansgiving dinner, and all I got was that George Soros and the Clinton Foundation sent a letter to Twitter investors before they moved on to talking about my transgender relative. Would have been cooler if it was George Clinton and the Soros foundation. 
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dr_rat posted:Stupid, but less stupid than other ways they could go from here. Guessing this is them trying to do something to stop companies to leave. As long as the site continues to get flooded with bots and nazi types probably won't work thou. Oh indeed, it probably is the least stupid thing to do right now. But its pretty much going back on the whole reason for allowing everyone to be verified in the first place. Except now it's just making GBS threads on celebrities as opposed to everyone. I'm waiting for the floodgates to be opened next week myself, it's going to be hideous.
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mobby_6kl posted:It's also just a... maturing industry. Things were way different in the 90s but it's not because of MBAs and SJWs. Doom I/II was made by what, a dozen people? Doom 2016 was at least 1200 The best games I've played in the last half-decade have all been "lovely indie games."
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I personally want to see how he is going to implement the system where you pay money to dm and harass celebrities
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TulliusCicero posted:The Late Republic's main issue was that the Senate had become the most undemocratic institution possible, to the point of dysfunction, all in an effort to "own the plebes" by the Patrician class. Are you thinking of the Populares vs the Optimates here? Because patrician vs plebe hadn't really been a major conflict for hundreds of years by the time Augustus rolls around. And characterizing the Populares vs Optimates conflict as patrician vs plebe feels wrong when the leaders of both factions were all patricians. There's also the realization that the office of Tribune of the Plebs had the power to veto any and all new laws, which often meant that the two tribunes, if they cooperated, were the most powerful elected officials in all of Rome. You had patricians renouncing their status as patricians just so that they could be elected to this office, so there's a lot more going on just before Ceasar/Augustus than a patrician vs plebe.
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Lots of people have been talking about why the Code Review poo poo that Elon has been pulling is dumb, but no-one's really explained why. So I've made an attempt to try and explain to a lay person what it actually is that makes this process such a terrible idea. Code exists in a context A piece of code is written to add functionality to a larger system, and the way it's written and how it works is highly dependent on how that larger system works. Your ability to judge that code is therefore dependent on how much you know about that system. I have 20+ years experience as gameplay programmer, and I wouldn't be able to review twitter's back end code even if it were written in C++, in the same way a twitter coder wouldn't be able to review mine. The contextual knowledge simply isn't there. Even if you DO have that knowledge, you still need to speak to the coder because this poo poo is complicated and you yourself might be missing something. Sometimes I review something my colleague wrote and think "that's dumb, why did you do it like that?", so I go ask them and they explain, and I realize that it's actually a reasonable solution because of some complex detail about the system I didn't know. The idea that an outsider like Elon could properly review twitter production code is absurd, he has no idea about the context of the code and one evening session scribbling diagrams on a whiteboard isn't even close to enough to give that. Code is simple, knowing what to code is hard Often when writing a piece of code, the majority of your time is spent trying to figure out the best approach to whatever problem you're trying to solve. Often a coder will go through several possible solutions before settling on one that is the best. There are a lot of factors to consider, for example: - Will it run efficiently and quickly? - If the system changes, will my code break? - Can I reuse other code for this, to save time and prevent bugs? - Can my code be reused for other problems I'll have in the future? This means that you might spend 75% of their time thinking or experimenting or whatever your process is, while only spending 25% physically typing in the actual code to make it go. That resulting code might look really short and really simple, but that doesn't mean the coder is lazy or that the process to make that code was easy. Quite often it's the opposite! Debugging is even worse, you could spend literally weeks going through code trying to identify a bug, only to discover that someone left out a minus sign in a single line of code somewhere. To someone like Elon, 80 hours to write a single character into a file would look appalling, but that 80 hours could have fixed a massive problem impacting thousands of users. Bad code isn't the end of the world This is probably going to be a controversial thing to say, but lots of very intelligent people write objectively bad code. Code which is hard to maintain or re-use. Code which is ugly, inelegant and inefficient. In the end though, on a practical level, if the code gets the job done that is often enough! Sometimes you look at a colleague's code and think it sucks, while at the same time being impressed that it actually solves an issue in a clever way that you would not have been able to do yourself. The point is that if the coder has brains and talent, then that can be more valuable than the ability to write "good" code. We can teach people to write better code, we can't teach them to have more talent. Elon's purge is guaranteed to get rid of talented, valuable people for bullshit reasons like "not enough comments in the header file" or "poor choice of variable names" or whatever else he read about in "Coding Standards for Dummies" Conclusion The best person to review code is another coder who works in the same area as the person being reviewed. For that to work you need competent coders who you can trust to be fair, and objective. Elon only trusts himself, so he's doomed to failure.
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kazil posted:would love to see some right funded "art" Get hype for the 2023 reboot of The Triumph of the Will! First movie in the right-wing cinematic universe!
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