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I wouldn't trust Musk as far as I could throw him not to feed them any info they wanted. I wouldn't be surprised if they had access to everything.
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I wouldn't trust Musk as far as I could throw him not to feed them any info they wanted. I wouldn't be surprised if they had access to everything.
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Twitter has tech issues for second time in week
The platform now says that services are "working as normal".
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1 month of outages is comparable to what used to happen in a whole year.
Yesterday reports of twitter failing to monitor the content as good as it used to before elon.
Let me get my cheque book out and sign a massive cheque to start advertising on twitter, said no boss ever since elon took over.
He's definitely not a total douche bag....laughing emojis in response to an employee asking if he is, in fact, an employee given that HR can't tell him.
Worker asks Elon Musk on Twitter: Have I been fired?
In a viral Twitter thread, Halli Thorleifsson is asked by Elon Musk what work he has done for the firm.
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Yes we all like the landing rockets Roar.
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The most recent firing is a guy who won an Icelandic award in 21, then person of the year in 22 for his contributions to Iceland. He also founded a company which twitter bought, and part of the deal was to pay him as a salary going forwards so he paid more tax contributions etc. The guy is a famous UI designer too, and only found out he was fired when musk tweeted a meme at him.
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And the Tucker Carlson spin edit starts to come out and of course Elon is straight on it
Shouldn't that be "I am crazy, the public is being misled by me."
Quite.
It's one of the (many, many) things that puzzles me about his Twitter purchase. He could have spent the rest of his days just being the figurehead of SpaceX and been adored. Even Tesla has its fans, weirdly-designed and badly-built as they are
But instead, he spaffs the kind of sum involved in a small war on buying a social media company, sacks off a bunch of the people who kept it running reasonably smoothly, un-bans then re-bans some racists, and whinges about how his tweets should be getting more engagement than those of the President of the United States of America.
And it's worth noting that the adults are in charge of the rockets.
Musk won't be allowed anywhere near their software and certainly isn't in charge of major decisions that affect their usability, mainly because the safety aspect in aviation is taken seriously and the US government takes a dim view on unnecessary large explosions, so actual engineers who understand things make that sort of decision and things are checked properly. Not to mention investors get a bit upset when they see hundreds of millions literally go up in smoke when there is a paper trail pointing to someone overriding the experts.
Twitter is probably the only time that Musk has been "in the open" with his decisions and they've not been at least moderated by other people who are either at the very least on the same level as him, or able to override him due to things like extensive and irrevocable outside oversight. So at Twitter musk is happily making changes without anyone able to say "that's not a good idea sir" (or at least if they want to remain in the job). let alone testing changes, meanwhile at something like SpaceX every change will be documented and tested extensively so muck can't decide on a whim that he wants to change the shape of the rocket or the materials used because he's heard that something else is cheaper/lighter.
I kind of suspect that in 25 years there are going to be some really fun and interesting books written about SpaceX that haven't had to be approved by the SpaceX lawyers, but written in their own words by the employees whose NDA's have expired.
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Waiting for the SpaceX fans running in pointing out the Musk was their 'Chief Engineer', therefor was definitely involved in the design of the rockets, despite having no qualifications in rocketry or engineering, and just a basic physics degree, although stories surfaced last year claiming all those were fake but I've no idea how accurate those were.
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Th funniest bit about that whole article was his apparent quote of:
Wow - the humility on this guy. I don't know why he bothered to hire anyone else at all then if he's that good...
Personally, I don't believe any of it, but that's just me.
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Little write-up of the API incident yesterday -
No doubt code/platform is archaic and creaking and, these sorts of issue do happen but it's odd to have only a single engineer tasked with such vital platform changes. Typically you would have a big chain of folk signing off these sorts of changes, backed up with a load of testing, before being pushed to production to try and prevent cluster-*****.
As data is already showing, i'm sure outages like these won't be the last unfortunately.
No doubt code/platform is archaic and creaking and, these sorts of issue do happen but it's odd to have only a single engineer tasked with such vital platform changes. Typically you would have a big chain of folk signing off these sorts of changes, backed up with a load of testing, before being pushed to production to try and prevent cluster-*****.
As data is already showing, i'm sure outages like these won't be the last unfortunately.
Rockets are cool. Musk should have stuck with what he knows best
And typically most of those involved in the chain just push it through and don't bother to read the attachment, lols.
He's just a big fraud, you've got him figured out.
Starbase Tour with Elon Musk [PART 1 // Summer 2021]
Join me as I take a tour of SpaceX's Starbase facility with Elon Musk as our tour guide! This is part 1 of 3, so stay tuned, there's a lot more coming!If you...
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I think you can go through this whole video with him just explaining everything being asked, but just watch a couple of minutes of what I linked.
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He certainly has a bloody good understanding and that shows in interviews with Tim Dodd and co but, it is just that, understanding. SpaceX started with the likes of Mueller and has hired extremely smart folk along the way to get SpaceX to where it is now. So it's a bit of an **** you if he did come out and say that.
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The only place i've found it to be a bit like that is in agencies but then, as long as there is a paper trail that doesn't put your derriere on the line then ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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He's definitely not a total douche bag....laughing emojis in response to an employee asking if he is, in fact, an employee given that HR can't tell him.
Worker asks Elon Musk on Twitter: Have I been fired?
In a viral Twitter thread, Halli Thorleifsson is asked by Elon Musk what work he has done for the firm.www.bbc.co.uk
What an absolute arse.
And this is absolutely crazy. Its hard to know who he is trolling. The normal people or the nutters.
He cant honestly believe most of the things he says. Its almost like he is trying to destabilise the USA.
He's definitely not a total douche bag....laughing emojis in response to an employee asking if he is, in fact, an employee given that HR can't tell him.
Worker asks Elon Musk on Twitter: Have I been fired?
In a viral Twitter thread, Halli Thorleifsson is asked by Elon Musk what work he has done for the firm.www.bbc.co.uk
Maybe Jack will pay his salary, given he was the second highest tax contributor in Iceland last year though I won't be giving him too much sympathy, he'll be ******* loaded.
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