The guy from Nvidia who tweeted that they should replace all the scala with python deleted the tweet and quit his job haha
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Saturday, 5 November 2022 00:48 (one year ago) link
Threatening advertisers seems bad for your relationship with current advertisers but also seems like a guaranteed way to never get any new advertisers.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Saturday, 5 November 2022 00:49 (one year ago) link
Matt you are a hero
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Saturday, 5 November 2022 01:01 (one year ago) link
Apparently, free speech does not extend to making fun of the king.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Saturday, 5 November 2022 01:02 (one year ago) link
should change the profile image to thishttps://mcanhealth.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/elon-musk-before-hair-transplant-cnn-e1637934950726.jpeg
― after several days on “the milk,” (gyac), Saturday, 5 November 2022 01:03 (one year ago) link
idk why people think these old photos of him are embarrassing, he looks way more embarrassing now
― plax (ico), Saturday, 5 November 2022 01:06 (one year ago) link
He doesn’t think that though
― after several days on “the milk,” (gyac), Saturday, 5 November 2022 01:06 (one year ago) link
matt i'm dying
― call all destroyer, Saturday, 5 November 2022 01:11 (one year ago) link
Elon Musk as crying clown - I meant actually crying but whateverhttps://i.imgur.com/E81zyxq.png
― papal hotwife (milo z), Saturday, 5 November 2022 01:16 (one year ago) link
Twitch streamers should be covering this. I want to consume this trash even more passively than refreshing ilx
― maf you one two (maffew12), Saturday, 5 November 2022 01:27 (one year ago) link
holy cow this thread
1/ There is some pretty substantial context about Twitter's 2023 revenue and advertisers that I think partly help explains why Musk is really losing it...And it involves upfront ad sales. Let me explain...— Angelo Carusone (@GoAngelo) November 5, 2022
― frogbs, Saturday, 5 November 2022 01:40 (one year ago) link
That whole context about the way those big ad deals are booked is interesting. Totally makes sense people wouldn't want to commit to Twitter in the middle of the drama. So Elon kind of fucked the financials well before he actually bought it, just by being his mercurial maverick dipshit self.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Saturday, 5 November 2022 02:49 (one year ago) link
LOL @ Matt that was heroic.
Right? He's all lumpy now. He looks like a celeriac with hair.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Saturday, 5 November 2022 04:00 (one year ago) link
this is good https://maxread.substack.com/p/what-does-elon-musk-think-twitter
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Saturday, 5 November 2022 04:06 (one year ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/6JVRAe0.png
― frogbs, Saturday, 5 November 2022 05:44 (one year ago) link
More Ed Zitron fun:
https://ez.substack.com/p/billionaire-brain-damage
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Saturday, 5 November 2022 09:30 (one year ago) link
so are the mass layoffs and abuse of remaining labour particularly bad because he fucked up the ad sales with his antics or is it just what he would always do anyway?
― your original display name is still visible (Left), Saturday, 5 November 2022 10:06 (one year ago) link
I think he wants to straight-up punish them because he doesn’t respect them. It reminds me of something that Steve Jobs would do only Steve wouldn’t shitpost about it first.SpaceX runs well because Gwynne Shotwell, despite being 100% Team Musk keeps the place running efficiently. I applied for job there once and got as far as a skype interview but hfs the pressure that everyone there joyfully works under.
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 5 November 2022 10:53 (one year ago) link
this is a super-dumb question from someone whose grasp of coding is not much more advanced than GOTO10 DUBDOBDEE IS SKILL but what is this code that everyone is writing all the time: by which i mean i guess is it speculative new projects, greenlit projects, new better faster solutions to old problems, frantic patches to looming disasters, other?
i guess i just find it odd (as someone who works in the CONTENT-O-SPHERE where the endpoint of the work is that the public see the work) that so many ppl are just off in rooms tasked all day with "writing lines of code"
― mark s, Saturday, 5 November 2022 11:03 (one year ago) link
10 MODE 220 COLOUR RND(15)30 PRINT "snoball IS SKILL ";40 GOTO 20
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Saturday, 5 November 2022 11:07 (one year ago) link
(except mostly in Scala apparently)
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Saturday, 5 November 2022 11:08 (one year ago) link
> what is this code that everyone is writing all the time
i spent the last week improving user experience and fixing errors in code written in 2017. and reviewing other people's attempts at same. i didn't do any new features this week but there's often that too. there are also times when you are forced to update things due to infrastructure changes or increasingly obsolete hardware.
― koogs, Saturday, 5 November 2022 11:34 (one year ago) link
yes mark imagine if you will writing a book that can never be finished
― nashwan, Saturday, 5 November 2022 11:47 (one year ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fgyz77QX0AAkR1J?format=jpg&name=medium
― calzino, Saturday, 5 November 2022 11:58 (one year ago) link
This is basically Cartmanland in reverse
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Saturday, 5 November 2022 12:06 (one year ago) link
yes mark imagine if you will writing a book that can never be finished― nashwan, Saturday, 5 November 2022 11:47 (fifty-seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
― nashwan, Saturday, 5 November 2022 11:47 (fifty-seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
rip me
― mark s, Saturday, 5 November 2022 12:45 (one year ago) link
i know something about programming and i do wonder what everyones doing at some of these companies, google has according to googling 27k engineers! who knows what theyre all up to all day, on some level google is probably just collecting them because they can
― lag∞n, Saturday, 5 November 2022 13:08 (one year ago) link
They're probably just sitting there googling things.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 5 November 2022 13:11 (one year ago) link
that is how you do programming tbf, you google why doesnt my code work, where did i go wrong in life
― lag∞n, Saturday, 5 November 2022 13:15 (one year ago) link
google has a lot of products some of the most used products in the world, they have prob the most extensive infrastructure in the world or at least top two, they have researchers, they make their own programming languages, theyve got frameworks (of course), they do artificial intelligence (not a real thing), theyve prob got some guys who just do math (not programming), idk, my point i dont what they all get up to over there, someone is in charge of the google doodle, maybe a whole team
That seems like a fun, low pressure programming gig, but idk, maybe after a few years the pressure of coming up with new doodles is intense.
― sometimes you have to drink to kill the paranoia (PBKR), Saturday, 5 November 2022 13:33 (one year ago) link
The most recent doodle was about jollof rice, so I guess if you run out of ideas you could just do your lunch.
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Saturday, 5 November 2022 13:42 (one year ago) link
there was an article a while ago about people whos companies had been acquired by google and as part of the deal they have to work for google for a while but then google ends up not really having anything for them to do so they come to work and just like hang out at googles cafes all day
― lag∞n, Saturday, 5 November 2022 14:09 (one year ago) link
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― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Saturday, 5 November 2022 14:10 (one year ago) link
i dont understand watching instructional programming videos you cant cut and paste and you have to sit there while the guy goes uh ok now im gonna uh open a new tab, more theoretical ones are good tho cause you can watch them go isnt that interesting then move on with your life
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QM1iUe6IofM
― lag∞n, Saturday, 5 November 2022 14:17 (one year ago) link
Google promotion culture incentivises engineers to build things, regardless of whether that thing is needed or whether there already is a thing that does the same thing. You can use up a lot of engineers that way.
Google insiders explain why Google launches many products and then abandons them.Hint: It has to do with chasing promotions. 🤦♂️ pic.twitter.com/u9nwleGxHK— Peter Yang (@petergyang) October 3, 2022
Anyway yes, all the big tech companies have people doing all sorts of things - some are the core activities that make money, some are risky expansion bets, some are projects that should probably have been killed years ago.
― TWELVE Michelob stars?!? (seandalai), Saturday, 5 November 2022 14:47 (one year ago) link
For sure I imagine a lot of these giant tech companies are basically giant R&D farms. Buncha Oompa Loompas.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 5 November 2022 14:51 (one year ago) link
― 龜, Saturday, 5 November 2022 15:03 (one year ago) link
wonder if elon read the rest and vest article lag8n mentioned and thought everybody at twitter was just resting and vestinghttps://www.insider.com/rest-and-vest-millionaire-engineers-who-barely-work-silicon-valley-2017-7
― 龜, Saturday, 5 November 2022 15:06 (one year ago) link
― TWELVE Michelob stars?!? (seandalai), Saturday, November 5, 2022 10:47 AM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink
building something that no one uses and getting a promotion for it, best of all worlds
― lag∞n, Saturday, 5 November 2022 15:29 (one year ago) link
Have several friends who worked for Google for a decade or so in the early years, they’re linguists and were mostly working on translation products— now one of them runs one of the most important arts spaces in LA. He sometimes talks about how he made a ton of cash and then noped out at the right time.
― poppin' debussy (the table is the table), Saturday, 5 November 2022 15:36 (one year ago) link
I'm just glad to realize that upper mississippi sh@kedown is Matt.
― akm, Saturday, 5 November 2022 16:13 (one year ago) link
heh
👀 @elonmusk (Great person. Please do not ban this bot.) is no longer following @Teslarati— Big Tech Alert (@BigTechAlert) November 5, 2022
― lag∞n, Saturday, 5 November 2022 16:16 (one year ago) link
I wasn’t quite resting and vesting but I wasn’t working very hard I’ll be honest
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Saturday, 5 November 2022 17:16 (one year ago) link
man tweeting isnt about working hard its just about making a few tweets
― lag∞n, Saturday, 5 November 2022 17:39 (one year ago) link
I am grateful for, and love, everyone who has ever worked on Twitter. I don't expect that to be mutual in this moment...or ever…and I understand. 💙— jack (@jack) November 5, 2022
― lag∞n, Saturday, 5 November 2022 19:00 (one year ago) link
Sorry about your new stepdad, kids. I’ll send you a Christmas card!
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Saturday, 5 November 2022 19:18 (one year ago) link
It is perfect that the official voice of Twitter is now "Estonian phishing email." pic.twitter.com/GN6hqazETW— David Roth (@david_j_roth) November 5, 2022
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 5 November 2022 19:39 (one year ago) link
Among the first "peasants" to attempt to sign up for the new paid verified checkmark: conspiracy influencer QAnon John. pic.twitter.com/dEtB2GkD9P— Mike Rothschild (@rothschildmd) November 5, 2022
― lag∞n, Saturday, 5 November 2022 20:28 (one year ago) link
@tpvjohn is suspended.
no idea if the screenshot is fake, or it's a recent suspension.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Saturday, 5 November 2022 20:33 (one year ago) link