Expo70 posted:

Yup, he's blowing up with inflammation, oxidative stress and the same way someone with kidney or liver failure does caused by ammonia buildup in the blood, when they're medicated for it.

He's retaining fluid, his hands and wrists are swollen, and he has reduced control of his lower facial muscles visibly in this photograph relative to his body language, which is often amplified to compensate.

Think like the way old rockstars look when they're abusing and you can tell something is seriously wrong. Corroborated this with a few friends in medicine and yeah, this is very obvious.

Fits with the expectation that he's abusing and his history.

Friendly reminder:
While in the short term you can mix ambien with these things, the following (benzos, opioids, cannibis, alcohol) lead to:

• Depression
  
• Memory loss
  
• Learning problems
  
• Impaired decision making
  
• Outbursts of anger
  

And in the long term?

Benzos, and alcohol will lead to:

• Glaucoma
  
• Raspatory depression
  
• Renal dysfunction
  
• Liver disease
  

I would not be shocked to learn he's masking a huge gut by wearing a girdle.

Dude needs to get his life in order. This is pretty stand issue midlife crisis stuff which usually physically scars mogul yuppy graduates into gammon elephants for life, but he's weak willed, spoiled, and stupid enough to let it kill him.

Based on past fluctuations in his body structure, my guess is whenever he has to do "real" work he turns to substances and just hopes the problems go away the same way some uni-students doing medicine maladapt and then quit when faced with actual work after assuming that being titled and stationed would result in a lower workload some how.

Twitter is not worth destroying your health over, mental or physically.

That said, it is pretty funny watching him gently caress himself over for a stupid website where people poo poo glorified double text messages at eachother.

Addendum:
Don't you dare feel sorry for these guys.
Remember:

• They think empathy is a cult
  
• It consists of acting and tests designed to weed out "free thinkers"
  
• Every waking moment of their life is a test to see if they "fit in"
  
• Kindness is purely performative
  
• That other human beings are resources or objects
  
• That they are the only mind in existence
  
• That its all a simulation
  
• They can't stand to be alone with their thoughts for any reason, ever
  
• That they want to be alone on a "compound" to pursue an exitarian strategy so they don't have to "maintain the act"
  
• This backfires, so they want to make humanity into perfect copies of themselves, seeing empathy as an evolutionary weakness
  
• They want the species to "advance" so they can "escape the simulation"
  
• All because: because the last they probably felt a shred of it was when their age was in single-digits
  
• They probably killed it over something stupid like refusing to stop doing the stupid poo poo they were told to
  
• Because of how spoiled and only-child-brained they are
  
• They are massive loving losers who make it everybody elses problem
  

They could literally be fixed with a lego set and 150cg of LSD in three sessions with the right therapist to talk about their childhoods and they microdose it instead because emotions scary so they treat feeling like its an extreme sport for enhancing productivity by loving with neuro-entropy cult fetishism

Occasionally you do meet someone who bumped into the right combination of people and substances, learned to do an empathy and they either take their own lives or just become upstanding individuals and give away almost all of their wealth because they realize how completely loving pointless it is to larp as a dragon

qirex posted:

geohot seems like his whole gimmick is “[large thing] is bloated I’m going to hack a tiny version of it that is better”

qirex posted:

it's almost like people who can't work with others have a vested interest in perpetuating the "brilliant jerk" myth

Nessus posted:

https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/we-fired-our-top-talent-best-decision-we-ever-made-4c0a99728fde/amp/

Decon posted:

Sorry that Twitter engineers had the political discussion around the gi-loving-gantic rewrite you proposed to the tune of "We can't loving do that with 90% of our people gone."

4lokos basilisk posted:

i think you have a point, but i also think this analysis is eerily similar to all the theorycrafting about donald trumps health that started going immediately after he got inaugurated and every armchair enthusiast was suddenly an expert in how to detect imminent medical collapse from photos

which basically means that elons going to truck along for at least 6 years no biggie

qirex posted:

it's almost like people who can't work with others have a vested interest in perpetuating the "brilliant jerk" myth

Shame Boy posted:

it's actually pronounced "gooeyhot"

ryde posted:

I had a big ol rant on politics in orgs because I had a similar mindset early on (Focus on good technology not politics) that led to me not being very effective. But you're right that this is probably what it boils down to: he wanted to rewrite a bunch of stuff and probably got told "Yes that would be better technology-wise but its not something thats possible to do right now for these non-technical reasons.

the talent deficit posted:

the funniest bit was an ex-twitch adtech guy explaining to elon that you can't just use the tweet recommendation engine to recommend ads to users because:
* the ad business doesn't work like that. advertisers care more about showing ads to the people they want to target than showing ads to people who will like the ad
* users hate repeated ads; especially in video. advertisers love repeating ads though because it massively increases their effectiveness

elon was just like 'well the advertisers are rational so they will do what is best for us'

Jonny 290 posted:

what the gently caress did you BUY it for then my good bitch

Jonny 290 posted:

phase 1: "the userbase is poo poo, too many bots. need to purge"
phase 2: "the employees are poo poo, too many slackers. Layoffs"
phase 3: "the advertisers are poo poo, WMV infection."
phase 4: "the codebase is poo poo, full rewrite incoming"

what the gently caress did you BUY it for then my good bitch

Sapozhnik posted:

advertisers are absolute loving vermin

show me one other field of human activity that spends the entire first chapter of its standard training materials reassuring the would-be practitioner that they are not in fact a malignant tumor on the rear end of humanity

Sapozhnik posted:

advertisers are absolute loving vermin

show me one other field of human activity that spends the entire first chapter of its standard training materials reassuring the would-be practitioner that they are not in fact a malignant tumor on the rear end of humanity

Decon posted:

Decon posted:

Just sounds like boywonder is mad that nobody wanted to live at the office for the next two years in the name of an understaffed rewrite immediately following losing a lot of senior talent when their future with the company is clear as mud anyway.

New Zealand can eat me posted:

Don't forget that you were expected to get this job by providing a free "react one liner" that would provide 'twitter-class' contextually aware username autocomplete.

As someone who has built a few native iOS social media apps (one of which being ev williams funded micropodcasting bs), you're generally not going to do a very good job if it's happening entirely locally. Things are a bit different these days but you're still going to get the best results for the least effort by asking the backend to figure it out from a partial string (and also lets you reuse that effort on other platforms). When I pointed this out to him in the form of a dunk, his stans inexplicably dug up my soundcloud and started leaving comments on what amount to tech demos of new hardware? (just going through each effect type poo poo)

Decon posted:

Insurance.

Bugsy posted:

https://twitter.com/BudrykZack/status/1605296705322483712

ryde posted:

I had a big ol rant on politics in orgs because I had a similar mindset early on (Focus on good technology not politics) that led to me not being very effective. But you're right that this is probably what it boils down to: he wanted to rewrite a bunch of stuff and probably got told "Yes that would be better technology-wise but its not something thats possible to do right now for these non-technical reasons.

Edit: A lot of leadership also encourage developers to think of the best tech solution and strive to make that happen. Its a thought process that results in better solutions with reasonable frequency, but when it fails it fails hard. In my career I've found it better to optimize for the greatest chance of success rather than the best technical stack. And if someone tells me to design the best technical stack, I'll tell them that they better be willing to burn a lot of political capital to make it happen.

Main Paineframe posted:

if somebody on a 12-week barely-paid internship suggested rewriting the entire product, it'd take everything i have to not laugh in their face.

doesn't even matter what reasons they cite.

ryde posted:

It was almost certainly a "How complex could Twitter be?" type of bias. Its just displaying a bunch of text fields amirite? Just basic crud style operations, couldnt be more complex.

Nessus posted:

insurance does SOME useful poo poo outside of dispensing medical care.

ryde posted:

I had a big ol rant on politics in orgs because I had a similar mindset early on (Focus on good technology not politics) that led to me not being very effective. But you're right that this is probably what it boils down to: he wanted to rewrite a bunch of stuff and probably got told "Yes that would be better technology-wise but its not something thats possible to do right now for these non-technical reasons.

Edit: A lot of leadership also encourage developers to think of the best tech solution and strive to make that happen. Its a thought process that results in better solutions with reasonable frequency, but when it fails it fails hard. In my career I've found it better to optimize for the greatest chance of success rather than the best technical stack. And if someone tells me to design the best technical stack, I'll tell them that they better be willing to burn a lot of political capital to make it happen.

ryde posted:

as an aside elon has the same "how hard can it really be?" mentality

psiox posted:

thank you, fellow pacific northwesterner

ryde posted:

It was almost certainly a "How complex could Twitter be?" type of bias. Its just displaying a bunch of text fields amirite? Just basic crud style operations, couldnt be more complex.

Captain_Maclaine posted:

*occupants burn to death while frantically hammering on non-functioning doors, all to a cacophony of fart sounds*
"At Tesla we are confident that future models will continue to meet all industry benchmarks concerning safety and reliability."

Main Paineframe posted:

if somebody on a 12-week barely-paid internship suggested rewriting the entire product, it'd take everything i have to not laugh in their face.

doesn't even matter what reasons they cite.

Jonny 290 posted:

i've been driving a small campaign at work to enhance accessibility for our docs pages. Mostly trying to teach people to not include code samples via screenshots of that loving vscode thing

"Why does it matter?"

"turn on a screen reader and turn your monitor off. Now try to understand the page"