Elon Musk

Starting to think 2022 is The Year of Those Who Fucked Around and Found Out.

Found out that there are no effective consequences to anything you do if you have billions of dollars at your disposal? If so, then yes.

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Look. The site is gonna stay up but the spell is broken. He'll let Trump back in then he'll kick him off and the NYT will cover it in all caps. There'll be another private jet handjob horse bribe incident. He'll make Calacanis CEO and fire him. &c. Everyone will care less daily.

— Paul Ford (@ftrain) November 19, 2022

Sorry, no effective consequences to the wielder of those billions, obvs. Like 'Musk tanks the fuck out of Twitter > Musk flies to Thailand with Bankman-Fried and lives off of cocaine and milk for four months' is a totally feasible progression.

Confidence that the site will stay up seems unwarranted but the spell being broken is about right

xxp - that is sort of how I see it falling apart for Twitter as well. the site may or may not have the sort of cascading failure that a lot of the engineers are predicting but it's gonna start to lose it's appeal. it's already starting, with a lot of accounts I really liked quitting, or getting banned for making fun of Elon Musk. it's gonna get a lot more fashy, will almost certainly have regular technical problems, and may wind up full of so much NSFW stuff you can't open it in public. little by little it'll become less appealing and I think eventually you just say fuck it. Facebook is kinda in the middle of its own problem like this. I can see Twitter being like Myspace, maybe in 5 years you'll be like "ohh I still have an account there!" and log in to find it totally revamped with a really complex layout and a bunch of weird new features you don't like. half the posts will be spam. it's really hard to do anything because they had to disable so much shit to keep from getting sued. but it'll still be around.

prepare to show me your objects

New email from Elon Musk to engineers: “please be prepared to do brief code reviews as I’m walking around the office.”

That’s it — that’s the whole email.

— Zoë Schiffer (@ZoeSchiffer) November 19, 2022

ok that is incredibly funny

I know it's a little uncouth to make these kinds of assumptions but I think this dude is 100% on something right now. his behavior right now really feels like the dudes I know who were rapidly approaching a major inflection point. like, this is what the guys I knew who were on meth started acting like.

he has implied that hes bipolar fwiw

right I mean one of the people I know is too and when he got all hopped up during a manic episode he said shit so bizarre that it was almost scary to hear. like the dude bought this company for $44,000,000,000, immediately started posting conspiracy theories, antagonized all his advertisers until they pulled out, lost 80% of his workforce within 2 weeks, and is now demanding everyone fly in to see him in person on 6 hours notice so he can tell them he's going to stalk the aisles of the workplace and do impromptu code reviews of a programming language he won't understand for an app he apparently knows absolutely nothing about (from the technical side, at least). he went from "all our unbannings will be reviewed by a diverse council that considers all viewpoints" to "should I fukkin do it!?! y/n" within a week. it's literally insane shit. like he thinks he's lucid dreaming or something.

Reinstate former President Trump

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 19, 2022

Gross, but entirely predictable, that you would hold an open-to-abuse poll to justify a totally reprehensible outcome that you have already decided upon but don’t have the guts to take personal responsibility for.

— Matt Carr (@MattCarr55) November 19, 2022

inevitable he would poll it

what's the split?

currently it's the cursed 52-48

Just leaving Twitter HQ code review pic.twitter.com/pYcXRTJm14

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 19, 2022

think ive discovered the problem, too many mixers, twitter is all mixed up!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9d-1d0ltCM

Just lol at clicking on the embed of a proud Elon tweet about Twitter's awesome code and getting 'this tweet is not available' on the actual website (as has been the case with about half of the Twitter links I've clicked this week).

love that the “code review” was apparently doing up a quickie logical architecture of the type that i have drawn, or watched others draw, countless times over my years in IT

yeah if youre curious about how a computer program works thats really the place to start not looking at code

Don't bump the table
I'm trying to code

it’s actually pretty interesting to see it done for twitter!

i like this part

https://i.imgur.com/nBEBLSg.png

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WT..?

hahhaha the dreaded bottom corner where we put the stuff that doesn’t exist yet

more twitter infrastructure research

for people blathering about “just put twitter in the cloud” we tried that. i was there. so just to put some numbers out there, let’s assume aws gave you a 60% discount. now you’re talking approximately 500,000 m6gd.12xlarge systems (new hw was bigger). that’s $300MM monthly

— ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆ but can’t dance off it (@petrillic) November 18, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBHdj8XkVFg

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Michael-Wade-5/publication/302632920/figure/fig2/AS:751645805789184@1556217733527/Then-a-Miracle-Occurs-Copyrighted-artwork-by-Sydney-Harris-Inc-All-materials-used-with.png

TBF that's what I would expect an arch diagram to look like. also I'm a bit surprised he put that on twitter for the entire world to see

also re: cloud that is a good point. cloud hosting is great if you have predictable traffic levels, less good if it fluctuates wildly and you're paying bandwidth costs.

The people have spoken.

Trump will be reinstated.

Vox Populi, Vox Dei. https://t.co/jmkhFuyfkv

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 20, 2022

lol this asshole

Let ‘em eat caek.

The Coca Cola company is not happy with me--that's okay, I'll still keep drinking that garbage.

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 16, 2012

he claims hes not coming back

TRUMP JUST RESPONDED TO ELON’S POLL AND SAID “NO THANKS” LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO pic.twitter.com/CXGr9GY5vE

— Best of Dying Twiter (@bestofdyingtwit) November 19, 2022

xp to infrastructure post

1000 node presto cluster is not “keeping twitter running” that is probably some analytical junk and if the last two years have taught me anything, it is that you really need to segment “this is what keeps people doing things” and “this is how we determine what people are doing and modify that experience”

the latter is where potential exists but if it’s a zillion times larger than the former then you’re taking crazy pils

hahhaha the dreaded bottom corner where we put the stuff that doesn’t exist yet

putting money on trump making "the best deal ever" and coming back after "winning."

but i should probly read/watch/listen to trumps actual reply, which i have not.

you should never read/watch/listen to that guy

When you spend $44b on a ring and he says no

— James Millar (@JDMillar1) November 19, 2022

This is what Zuckerberg is up to btw.

pic.twitter.com/wDF9tRA2qX

— Gavin Mueller (@gavinmuellerphd) November 20, 2022

Tesla is recalling more than 321,000 vehicles in the U.S. because tail lights may intermittently fail to illuminate, the company says. https://t.co/BlEmQTLkz2

— NBC News (@NBCNews) November 19, 2022

its very funny (and good) that regulations classify bug fix updates that can be done "over the air" as recalls, it must make him so mad

tesla bring software industry practices of frequently pushing new updates to their cars is unsafe, cars need to behave in consistent predictable ways and if youre always changing the software thats not happening, even worse other companies are doing it now too

Elon is merely acting as transgressor, exploring how fast others can degrade their service.

I saw someone on Twitter make the point that Trump's deal with Truth Social (i.e. whoever actually put money into that thing, because obviously it wasn't him) require that all of his posts appear there for at least 6 hours before appearing anywhere else. Assuming that's something Trump could wriggle out of if he wanted to, it's still a useful leverage point for him to do something — like, insist Musk buy the company or something.