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graph posted:i am SO GLAD your nda expired
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movax posted:“yeah I went to a state school, did one internship and am getting $250K base, $150K RSUs, $50K poo poo-posting bonus and they’re sending someone over to my house nightly to blow me” you were supposed to inflate reality by 50%, tho?
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Sagebrush posted:ok good this is kind of what i perceived to be happening but i didn't want to shoot my mouth off confirmed
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iospace posted:I had no clue Elon hired the entirety of the Rockets. i appreciated this joke
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HAIL eSATA-n posted:lol at Enron but I'm the fully autonomous vehicle it's apparently intended for "ports, factory areas, and logistics megacenters" with no expectation that it would ever go on general-purpose roads https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Gc1zz5bl8I
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FAUXTON posted:1g of water by weight is 1ml by volume though that's for pure water; solutions can be significantly denser. increasing concentration does affect volume but it's not necessarily a simple relationship, the solute doesn't like displace the solvent. like a sucrose solution that's around 75% sugar by weight is 30% denser than water of course in coffee the actual concentration of solutes is nowhere near that level, it would be totally undrinkable
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Sagebrush posted:S.T.A.L.K.E.R. is fallout in russia and it's far better than any fallout game anyway roadside picnic is a weird book
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huh, cracks showing in the eternal stymie/fishmech/shaggar mutual non-aggression pact
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Oct 7, 2018 16:08
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Shame Boy posted:my old boss used to talk about his previous job where everything required documentation and design and paperwork and approval before work on the programming could even begin and you'd work on one small project for 6 months straight as a result because everything moved glacially slow and for some reason this was a bad thing to him that isn’t generally a culture that leads to good results, no. you do this long design and approval process and then you run into reality same as everyone else. meanwhile efforts to e.g. upgrade the test infrastructure to not be based on grepping for specific strings in 20 megabytes of poorly-ordered log files would also go through the same design review process and so never actually happen
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Oct 20, 2018 06:43
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Mr. Nice! posted:there are a lot of briefings, but at the end of the day all of those meetings are necessary for a good chunk of the people present. there’s no need to discuss minor discrepancies, but these things help make sure major problems are well known and being fixed. yeah, if you’re managing a team that works in extremely tight coordination with multiple other teams (in this case because you’re literally working on the same physical things) and your day-to-day progress is of enough importance to upper management that they need to be ready to jump in to fix conflicts as soon as they come up, it’s useful to have a lot of daily meetings. like you had a couple peer meetings (previous shift, shipyard, next shift) and a down-meeting (team status) and an up-meeting (xo/captain briefing). all of those have clear purposes and seem totally reasonable when orgs get stifled with process it’s usually because there are a lot of steps with vague, aspirational purpose, or which are happening with much more granularity than is useful
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lol, gotta slam a hugely successful 20-year-old brand because it’s a threat to father musk
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Oct 21, 2018 05:00
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KOTEX GOD OF BLOOD posted:glad we are getting to the bottom of the yospos tesla-whipping fetish: its not that you’re shorting the stock, its that you all have poo poo taste in cars, even though u have the p deece six figgies a car is a tool for transportation and not a lifestyle decision, op
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President Beep posted:wrap it up driverailures specifically, tesla plans to run its own uber-like network: https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-robo-taxis-elon-musk-pt-barnum-circus-2019-4 posted:"Expect this to operate sort of like a combination of the Uber and the Airbnb model," Musk said. "So if you own the car, you can add or subtract it to the Tesla network and Tesla would take 15 or 20% of the revenue. In places where there aren't enough people sharing their cars we would just have dedicated Tesla vehicles." and elon is predicting that it'll have a million cars on it next year: quote:"I feel very confident predicting 1 million autonomous robo-taxis for Tesla next year," Musk told a room of investors and Wall Street analysts at the company's Palo Alto, California, headquarters. "Not in all jurisdictions because we won't have regulatory approval everywhere, but I'm confident we will have regulatory approval at least somewhere, literally next year. " but i guess it's much more relevant to this thread to just get trolled about nuclear power
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Apr 23, 2019 18:54
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i still can't believe how much public transit portland has built in the ten years since i lived there, and as a former san franciscan / current new yorker i am insanely jealous at the idea of planning and building new transit on that sort of timescale instead of planning for everything to take twenty years and two hundred billion dollars and inevitably get replanned and delayed under future political leadership
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Apr 23, 2019 22:08
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don't you work at a bart stop
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Apr 23, 2019 22:17
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haha this is the exact same kind of pointless bullshit that twitter has always wasted resources on. all of the pretense of running leaner, out the window day one
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i made a “lol elon” tweet about this for-cause news and won myself a musk fanboy who is very mad about journalism
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mystes posted:It's going to be (e) and it will be the bot thing again because Elon is the sorest loser in the history of sore losers it literally has to be (e) because all the others have specific factual requirements. but yeah there’s no way it stands up to a lawsuit, and it’s purely an attempt at spite. except of course it’s not like any of these people desperately need the cash immediately, and they’ll easily win damages and fees in court, so it doesn’t work at all as spite. it’s just elon throwing more cash into his big baby tantrum, and tying himself up in court for another couple years
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twitter is a delaware corporation, so the relevant law would be delaware’s unless it’s spelled out more specifically in the contract. in delaware law, gross negligence is a very high standard because it requires recklessness, i.e. "careless disregard of a substantial and justifiable risk" or "careless disregard of the corporation's best interests”. at least that’s all true according to some webpage i just pulled up. anyway, just running the company poorly is not gross negligence, you have to be way more incompetent than that, like not even trying to do your job levels of incompetent
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Oct 30, 2022 08:54
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the idea of having a twitter premium subscription with some benefits is a good one that long predates elon. and he’s right that the blue checkmark being this weird invite-only program is pretty hosed if unifying the two ideas means devolving the actual verification step down to “has some ability to pay” then it’s dumb as hell, of course
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musk making twitter a porn distributor leading to an inevitable showdown with their banks and payment processors was not in my predictions
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well they were talking about having a thousand or so microservices, but that looks like a reasonable top-level diagram with some really lol information on it, like they haven’t bothered to get android off the deprecated frontend api yet
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fwiw, word from some ex-tesla folks i know is that the way to prove you’ve been in a meeting with elon is to say “five lines”. apparently whenever somebody talks about something in software being difficult in front of elon, he always says to show him the code, and he’ll find the five lines they need to change to get everything working. that’s his fixed expression, it’s always five lines, everything is simple beep boop just make it happen
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Tesseraction posted:He's a real piece of poo poo  he’s a real piece of poo poo who’s about to be in breach of contract
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in case it isn’t obvious, that shakespeare sex stuff is mostly just bored english teachers making stuff up. a lot of these supposed euphemisms are, like, the word was used in a way that was suggestive in context in some obscure work that nobody would’ve been familiar with at the time high school literature teachers are endless fountains of nonsense about basically everything they teach eta: i feel like i need to add that they also teach some really important skills — critical reading, argumentative writing, etc — and can be very inspiring. i really liked most of my literature teachers and am not at all trying to push some stemlord line about getting rid of the humanities. but yeah you need take anything they say with a lot of salt rjmccall fucked around with this message at 20:23 on Nov 27, 2022 |
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FilthyImp posted:Lol. Big mad about Freethink. i actually went back and added context bc i didn’t want that to be misunderstood. i have a lot of respect for what english teachers do, and probably my favorite teacher in high school taught 11th grade lit. but every english teacher seems to have a quota of ten weird hangups about the english language that they think are hard and fast rules, and they all have a ton of hot takes about the works they teach i have no idea what “freethink” is
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i don’t have a problem with english teachers suggesting that an interpretation is possible. i do think that teachers usually stop there and don’t give students tools for evaluating those interpretations, and that promotes this corrosive view of literary works (especially shakespeare) as sequences of too-clever wordplay that don’t make any sense cohesively i also have a problem with ms whoever-she-was telling me e.g. that there are no contemporary transcendentalists because she didn’t like that contemporary has two meanings and so pretended that one of them was wrong
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Bad Purchase posted:she was trying to prevent kids from reading works by transcendentalists, and for that she should be hailed a hero i kindof get why transcendentalism is part of the american canon — both for boomers because of the 60’s echoes and in modern integrated curricula because it lines up well with us history courses — but it is definitely dull as hell
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ADINSX posted:lol its hauling rear end over those speed bumps too, what a joke yeah it’s going at least 25mph. probably some ai model thinks it’s a divided street. unsafe by design
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Nov 27, 2022 22:55
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it’s definitely also that land is both cheap and very annoying to dig into because the water table is just a couple feet below the surface, so everybody builds out instead of up
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that does look like the pond at apple park, and i’m pretty sure the public can’t get there i don’t know why musk is acting like it’s some coup for him to have gotten a brief meeting with tim cook
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Kazinsal posted:it is morally right to steal elon musk's money. vaya con dios it is not however morally right to murder thousands of monkeys in poorly-designed experiments to do poo poo we already know how to do non-invasively
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Carthag Tuek posted:1500 animals in 4 years, that's one every single day a lot of those were rodents but it’s still something like 300 lambs, pigs, and monkeys
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the companies don’t particularly want to own the housing. apple for one doesn’t even want to own most of its own corporate campus; it’s almost all leased. they just want the housing to exist, because the companies are heavily invested in having operations in the south bay, and the incredibly hosed up housing situation directly interferes with their ability to hire and retain employees there
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Shame Boy posted:oh man wikipedia has more pictures of that stupid truck, hell yes oh my god, what, it has to be paired with its own trailer?
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Lead out in cuffs posted:Lol the only thing I know about Mahalo is that they're responsible for the "worst how to make an Old Fashioned video". wait, the one with the pint glass?
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twitter is still absolutely the best way of announcing things about a project to a broader group of people than who regularly pays attention to your project lists/forums. it sucks that it probably won’t have a real replacement and a bunch of communities will end up fragmented across different sites. it’s probably not too late if elon sells soon and stops actively making GBS threads on the site but i don’t see much hope on either front because he loves being at the center of attention even if it’s costing him like a billion dollars a day
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Zamujasa posted:you would need to completely oust him and all of his idiots, fully roll back all the changes they've implemented in the last month and change, and (on top of that) somehow manage to put out the fires that musk continues to start and spread, and find a way to fix and offload the debt, all while twitter is hemorrhaging money, advertisers, and users yeah, it’d be a lot of work, and i can’t imagine anyone actually wanting to take it on who didn’t have a bunch of lovely ulterior motives of their own the policy changes are easy to just revert. the other damage to the company is huge, though the financial stuff i think actually shouldn’t be that big of a deal. the debt lowers the value of the company, which ought to directly be reflected in the purchase price, and then the buyer still has that money available to address the debt. obviously musk isn’t going to get all the money he spent back, no matter what he thinks. but he’s probably deluded enough to think he will, and that’ll drag it out
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lol jack just invested 14 bitcoins into nostr two days ago
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EricBauman posted:yeah, whenever i give a talk for a corporation, im banned from acknowledging the fact that any other corporations exist legit, if you’re invited to give a speech at a company and you start talking about how employees there should jump ship to a rival, they will cut your mic and not pay your honorarium. that part of the analogy is fine the stupid as poo poo part is thinking that a corporate speaking gig is in any way an appropriate analogy for using twitter
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