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Murdstone posted:What are these subscriptions about? People buying checkmarks
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Coding isn't engineering either. Well, it shouldn't be.
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Chainclaw posted:Just because it's lovely rear end code for a lovely rear end PC game in the '80s or lovely rear end FMV games in the '90s doesn't make it not engineering. Hopefully the very meager code he wrote 30 years ago comes in handy here.... ....oh wait it hasn't at all.
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If it doesn't involve architecture or moving machine parts it shouldn't be called engineering. Just like they should stop calling auto mechanics technicians.
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It turns out I'm an engineer now!
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I just wrote a bunch of processes for a Linux distro, I'm an engineer! No you're not, nerd, you just need a shower.
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Chainclaw posted:Just because it's lovely rear end code for a lovely rear end PC game in the '80s or lovely rear end FMV games in the '90s doesn't make it not engineering. Yeah, the fact that it's not engineering makes it not engineering. Why are we having this dumb argument anyway? It's a difference without distinction. Whether or not he has an actual engineering background is completely moot because he still has a completely undeserved reputation as smart guy when all evidence of his contributions to anything is at best capital and at the least "didn't get in the way."
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My muted words on Twitter are now showing up on my timeline anyway so I guess whatever microservice it was is going kaput too
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140.06!!
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WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:Elon has 122 MILLION FOLLOWERS. WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:It's funny that they whine about likes versus votes. https://twitter.com/Hmm4441/status/1605210281336262656 CaptainSarcastic posted:It's not banks, but Mastercard and Visa. There's been a Christian war on porn going on for years, and the most visible effects have been SOSTA/FESTA and when they get Mastercard and Visa on board. It happened with Pornhub, and almost happened with OnlyFans, too. It's funny, because banks and credit card companies are the biggest whores on the planet. They'll do anything for money... except actually take it for/from The Oldest Profession. It's hilarious when money handlers pretend to have ethics. CaptainSarcastic posted:I'd really like to see a wordfilter convert "woke" to "non-bigot" - it's become painfully clear that's what it means to the fuckwits who use the term as a pejorative. They are just so drat mad they aren't allowed to be racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic shitstains, or at least aren't allowed to without facing consequences. It's handy to use it as a barometer for whom to spend time on. If someone uses "woke" in the pejorative, you can stop listening to them. They have nothing useful to say.
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:Coding isn't engineering either. Well, it shouldn't be. Very true and I hope this point gets hammered home. Engineering is building a bridge or designing a rocket or the HVAC for a building; it's understanding a complete system and being able to predict from well-understood principles what the correct and accepted way to do something is. It's the kind of thing you can do "by the book", because you expect your solution to be around in 30 years and the next generation to learn from it. Most coding is seat-of-the-pants hacking. It's inventing new, half-baked solutions on the fly to new emergent problems, solutions that get you through the day and past the crisis du jour but not by any means expected to last ten years or even five. Software companies are constantly inventing new problems to solve and they do not share their findings or their techniques with other companies, because they're all competing with each other. Some software development is engineering. Not much. Some.
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Gomez Chamberlain posted:Why are we having this dumb argument anyway? I'm not sure, but as best I can tell some Elmo stans showed up?
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Darchangel posted:It's funny, because banks and credit card companies are the biggest whores on the planet. They'll do anything for money... except actually take it for/from The Oldest Profession. It's hilarious when money handlers pretend to have ethics. From what I understand its not about ethics, but rather the fact that The Oldest Profession has high chargeback rates.
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I've written code greg, can you milk a title out of me?
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Gomez Chamberlain posted:Why are we having this dumb argument anyway? Because we're all killing time waiting for him to do something new and stupid. We've all gotten addicted to the rush of him causing a constant stream of train wrecks and trash fires.
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explosivo posted:People buying checkmarks
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ryde posted:From what I understand its not about ethics, but rather the fact that The Oldest Profession has high chargeback rates. lol yeah its because dudes buy porn and then remember that their wife reads their statements and it's a giant pain in the rear end to deal with
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I'm not putting deep thought into this, but shouldn't "engineering" involve physics in some fashion? If it involves computers and programming it seems like it should have a more specific label, like "codemonkeying."
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Murdstone posted:I mean the “@name” subscriptions. Do you have to pay to follow some people now? No I know, I think those are the users buying checkmarks or whatever other services you can get. It's hosed on the iOS store so it I guess shows recent people who have bought stuff in the app description.
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Chainclaw posted:Just because it's lovely rear end code for a lovely rear end PC game in the '80s or lovely rear end FMV games in the '90s doesn't make it not engineering. Check out my breakout clone for the ESP32, I'm a big-brained engineer now too, doing engineering for fun! C++ code:
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ryde posted:From what I understand its not about ethics, but rather the fact that The Oldest Profession has high chargeback rates. Nah, read the article I posted. It's a concerted effort from theocrats with connections.
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Just wanna throw out there that I was calling him an engineer. A demonstrably bad and dumb one.
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Murdstone posted:I mean the “@name” subscriptions. Do you have to pay to follow some people now? I’d guess it’s a consequence of firing over half of your employees, but I’m no engineer so ![]()
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confused posted:go look at interviews with him. He has very deep understanding of many disperate fields of engineering and can hold his own in discussions with any expert in the field. Could you provide a few examples that show this? Bonus points if you share the 10year old one claiming we would have men on mars by now.
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I see a lot of people saying QYS but nary a S to be Q. When your only explanation for your argument is your own anecdotal experience and ego inflation it seems like you're just throwing up a defense after seeing a reflection of yourself in Musk. In my industry the number of people who aren't engineers who call themselves engineers is borderline comedy. What kind of engineering degree do you have, confused?
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What time is it? If you guessed "Time for More Bullshit No One Cares About," you're 100% correct! https://twitter.com/lhfang/status/1605292454261182464
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mobby_6kl posted:Check out my breakout clone for the ESP32, I'm a big-brained engineer now too, doing engineering for fun! Whoa whoa whoa no one should be saying any of his engineering required any sort of brain largeness. You're getting way ahead of everyone here. People can be bad small brained engineers, too. Also you have some bitwise math in there so you're probably ahead of a lot of modern engineers, anyways. There's a lot of really really bad code out there.
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CaptainSarcastic posted:Nah, read the article I posted. It's a concerted effort from theocrats with connections. It does have an high chargeback rate too, but that's more for the payment processing end and risk assessment. There is also a concerted effort too for some reason.
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IBroughttheFunk posted:What time is it? If you guessed "Time for More Bullshit No One Cares About," you're 100% correct! Uninteresting
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To confused, aka Mr. Musk: Sir, don't listen to the haters ITT, you're a wonderful engineer who's doing a fabulous job with Twitter, and I think you should just keep right on doing what you're doing ![]()
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CaptainSarcastic posted:I'm not putting deep thought into this, but shouldn't "engineering" involve physics in some fashion? Professional engineer is suppose to be a protected term like doctor or lawyer, you're suppose to have a degree, license, code of ethics, liability etc. But there's different kinds like chemical, civil, physics, mathematics, mechanical, electrical, etc. Computer eng was originally spun off electrical but now it's own thing. But yeah programmers have been incorrectly calling themselves engineers for a while now.
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Chainclaw posted:Just because it's lovely rear end code for a lovely rear end PC game in the '80s or lovely rear end FMV games in the '90s doesn't make it not engineering. Everyone who installed and played goon theft auto back in the day is an engineer I guess
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IBroughttheFunk posted:What time is it? If you guessed "Time for More Bullshit No One Cares About," you're 100% correct! I'm just inclined to immediately go toward "information gathered on Twitter may have been used by the government", rather than anything nefarious, but I'm not inclined enough to actually check because I know whatever it is I don't care.
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Flowers for QAnon posted:Could you provide a few examples that show this? Bonus points if you share the 10year old one claiming we would have men on mars by now. Chainclaw posted:Whoa whoa whoa no one should be saying any of his engineering required any sort of brain largeness. You're getting way ahead of everyone here. ![]() Anyway the point I wanted to make is that I don't think a kid copying some game code from magazines is an example of someone doing "engineering" in any meaningful sense, even if we accept that writing code can be "engineering" in some context.
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140.09!!!
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IBroughttheFunk posted:What time is it? If you guessed "Time for More Bullshit No One Cares About," you're 100% correct! I skimmed that, and what would be weird if is a US company didn't do stuff like that. That's way more normal and less concerning than, say, AT&T gleefully giving the letter agencies access to pretty much anything they want access to for domestic accounts.
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# ? Jun 11, 2024 05:53 |
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140.02 come on baby
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