Mal-3 posted:

He's kinda boxed himself in at this point. He can't say "yeah you can use the n-word now" because then the advertisers will all start to pull out publicly. But at the same time he can't say "no, you still can't use the n-word" because that'd make all the people who currently shower him with love turn on him.

big nipples big life posted:

Klyith posted:

Pookah posted:

Sorry if this is a dumb question, but I know very little on the subject but I'd like to learn. Is writing it in the way you've just described kind of like writing in a personal shorthand that no-one else can easily interpret?

C-Euro posted:

1. Elon wants everyone to like him.
2. Elon understands why some people like him, but crucially does not understand why other people dislike him.
3. Elon doubles down on the things that make some people like him, doesn't realize that these same things are disliked by others.

Probably more nuanced than that, someone help me workshop this.

Mal-3 posted:

He's kinda boxed himself in at this point. He can't say "yeah you can use the n-word now" because then the advertisers will all start to pull out publicly. But at the same time he can't say "no, you still can't use the n-word" because that'd make all the people who currently shower him with love turn on him.

So that's pretty funny. Burn on your pyre of hubris, Elon!

Endorph posted:

near as i can tell he hasnt even actually presented anyone with an actual plan for new content moderation policies, he just keeps gesturing at free speech and 'both sides.' presumably hes scared to actually say 'yeah you can say the nword now'

CharlestheHammer posted:

Lol if Musk walked back a bit he would probably get back his advertising.

He wouldn’t even have to mean it

Crazypoops posted:

I'm still kind of processing.


It's kind of hard for me to articulate.

Twitter was this perfect public face for commercial advertising, engagement for consumers.

I mean I hate it but I can see it's value for commercial interests. We had people just having conversations with brands like a Philip k Dick short story.

Twitter was huge, I know TikTok is big but Twitter was like the base interface between like everything.

Like the president of the United States uses it. The loving UN uses it.

And it just got destroyed (and was ALLOWED to be destroyed) by some pissbaby meatface because he didn't like mean tweets

I mean my uneducated mush brain can't think of something like this happening before but maybe like the Hearst era this kinda poo poo was going on.

But all I can think is like the president is about to get on air force one and I'm 9 years old and my older brother stole my fries so I go throw a tantrum in the cockpit fly the plane into the empire state building and nowhere along the way am I stopped

Crazypoops posted:

Lol he fired everyone, that's it. Donezo no one will work there and advertisers know there's nobody to baby sit the ads

What's left? It's done. Put a fork in it

Blarghalt posted:

Musk will either

1.) quietly sell off the company to the saudis and other shady types while twitter becomes a living FOX News adspace filled with spam for dick pills and prescription pillows and the site begins a long death march to myspace obscurity

Trixie Hardcore posted:

Don’t you need like a functioning website in order to sell it though?

CharlestheHammer posted:

The problem is he can’t just sell because he 1 bought it way above value 2. Is actively tanking its value.

He probably could only get enough to service his debt at this point

Endorph posted:

its really very funny because like. he owns the platform at this point. the advertisers already hate him. he already has billions in government grants. he can literally say anything he wants and nobody can stop or punish him in any meaningful way. but he cant actually articulate anything meaningful so he just does random shitposts and spouts vague rightwing bleating about free speech. like gently caress it, restore donald trump's account. post your dick. take a dump on the us flag. who cares

Shaman Tank Spec posted:

Yeah in part. Some terms in programming can be very technical and sometimes people get so far up their own asses that they forget that not everyone is as familiar with inside lingo as they are. Let's say that someone is writing a method that fetches all small cell type mobile network elements. They could be tempted to name it something like FetchAllSCTMNEs(). Maybe people who know what small cell type mobile network elements are can immediately parse that acronym, but most people won't, and it's not very readable. You see this poo poo all the time.

But beyond that, in most modern programming languages you can chain together method calls. So let's say that someone is writing a program that takes in the currently logged in user's internal identification number, fetches that corresponding user's preferences and then applies their preferences.

You could be sane and write it normally (this is just pseudo code):

code:

var loggedInUserID := browser.GetAttributes("loggedInUserID")
var userPreferences := storage.GetUserData(loggedInUserID)
var websiteVisualPreferences := userPreferences.visualPrefs
WebBrowser.ApplyPreferences(websiteVisualPreferences)

But that takes like FOUR LINES! It's something a loving NEWBIE could write! You can embed method calls within method calls and be a cool HACKERMAN

code:

WebBrowser.ApplyPreferences(storage.GetUserData(browser.GetAttributes("loggedInUserID")).visualPrefs)

See now it's all in one line and it's so COOL AND ELEGANT! Except when someone has to parse what the gently caress is going on they're going to curse you and your unborn children to hell.

Mal-3 posted:

He cares. Which is what makes the entire Elondammerung so loving funny. I mean, you're not wrong that Elon basically has gently caress-you-i-do-what-i-want money but ultimately what he wants is to be loved by the masses. Now fewer masses love him and he has a sad that he's trying to drown in chud drool. (Ew.) It won't work because there aren't enough chuds and stans to make up for the normal people who used to think he was Tony Stark but now don't even think he's Justin Hammer, but he'll keep trying until Twitter implodes and takes him with it.

Cheesus posted:

This I can believe.

Xakura posted:

Don't overestimate the amount of cash he has, most of his value is in tesla and spacex stock, and just lol if he has to sell off that to keep twitter from bankruptcy.

1B a year in interest, lmao

Weasling Weasel posted:

Elon is the Liz Truss of Chief Execs.

Shaman Tank Spec posted:

Yeah in part. Some terms in programming can be very technical and sometimes people get so far up their own asses that they forget that not everyone is as familiar with inside lingo as they are. Let's say that someone is writing a method that fetches all small cell type mobile network elements. They could be tempted to name it something like FetchAllSCTMNEs(). Maybe people who know what small cell type mobile network elements are can immediately parse that acronym, but most people won't, and it's not very readable. You see this poo poo all the time.

But beyond that, in most modern programming languages you can chain together method calls. So let's say that someone is writing a program that takes in the currently logged in user's internal identification number, fetches that corresponding user's preferences and then applies their preferences.

You could be sane and write it normally (this is just pseudo code):

code:

var loggedInUserID := browser.GetAttributes("loggedInUserID")
var userPreferences := storage.GetUserData(loggedInUserID)
var websiteVisualPreferences := userPreferences.visualPrefs
WebBrowser.ApplyPreferences(websiteVisualPreferences)

But that takes like FOUR LINES! It's something a loving NEWBIE could write! You can embed method calls within method calls and be a cool HACKERMAN

code:

WebBrowser.ApplyPreferences(storage.GetUserData(browser.GetAttributes("loggedInUserID")).visualPrefs)

See now it's all in one line and it's so COOL AND ELEGANT! Except when someone has to parse what the gently caress is going on they're going to curse you and your unborn children to hell.

JAMOOOL posted:

yeah Twitter's actual valuation/influence is pretty hard to gauge. like 75% of the people I know use Facebook but I can only name like....3 people who actively use Twitter. but it does have a lot of utility as a news source and a way for celebs/politicians/government bodies to make wide-reaching announcements. I mean random Trump tweets were legitimate news stories on CNN for days at a time, you don't see that kind of poo poo with FB or IG posts. which makes it even funnier that Elon's first big idea is to get rid of verification

Azathoth Prime posted:

The really stupid part about all of it is that the compiler turns both sets of code into the exact same set of instructions as part of its optimization (which it is almost certainly better at than you). Making your code overly complicated serves zero purpose.

Deptfordx posted:

And as others have pointed out, 90% of tweets and content is from an even smaller sub-set of about 20 million.

doctorfrog posted:

Please don't say that, I want this company to be his personal millstone, CEO for life.

big black turnout posted:

I crumbled to dust when I learned that Twitter considered "heavy tweeters" to be 4 times a week

Sophy Wackles posted:

I’m almost positive Elon watched the movie Ex Machina a dozen times and bought Twitter because he believes he can create an AI from twitter data.

Random Stranger posted:

Anyone remember the AI Microsoft trained on Twitter and it went from "Hello. I am a robot," to "Hitler did nothing wrong," in two days?

Bad Purchase posted:

the coding standard that hasn't been updated at work since the 90s still specifies an 80 character column max, and i enforce that with delight in code reviews because it really does prevent a lot of abuse like WebBrowser.ApplyPreferences(storage.GetUserData(browser.GetAttributes("loggedInUserID")).visualPrefs)

it's not a silver bullet and there are times for exceptions, but it's probably the only good thing i have to say about the code style we're supposed to follow in our corporate process manuals