Is Elon Musk the greatest visionary or the greatest snake oil salesman of our age?
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Storm Fox
Trying the find the next noun to verb
Most data centres have Christmas lockdowns, where nothing is allowed to be changed due to high demand and reduced staffing due to holidays.
If you're a genius, I guess the rules don't apply.
If they were sensitive racks, they probably have hot standbys that took over.
He thinks he's being really clever and is proving some kind of point, when to most people with any idea of data centres, he's an idiot.
If you're a genius, I guess the rules don't apply.
If they were sensitive racks, they probably have hot standbys that took over.
He thinks he's being really clever and is proving some kind of point, when to most people with any idea of data centres, he's an idiot.
tommers
Busta Rhymes is an unstoppable movement
What is he even talking about? Sensitive rack of servers? What? He's wandering around a DC turning off servers? And there's no fail over for those? And Twitter isn't set up on containers anyway so the orchestrator doesn't automatically spin up new containers when those disappear? Maybe I'm misunderstanding something but none of this makes sense.
And apart from all of that, in that tweet he basically says he has no idea how Twitter works but is still "switching off sensitive servers".
What?
Supine
Newt Member
Boris Sprinkler
Dont be scared
I have been head of security at big companies.
One of the biggest pranks I used to play at Christmas was finding our most sensitive servers and then turning off and on again to see if anyone noticed.
If they didnt notice I fired them, If they did notice I fired them for letting me have access to the sensitive servers.
One of the biggest pranks I used to play at Christmas was finding our most sensitive servers and then turning off and on again to see if anyone noticed.
If they didnt notice I fired them, If they did notice I fired them for letting me have access to the sensitive servers.
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MrCurry
right after this urgent rest
Boris Sprinkler
Dont be scared
Glædelig jul.
We’ve covered this before. The preppy paid for crowd watching nothing (the after effects can be added later) with sfw comments.
“Wow, here it comes.
Wait for it. Sonic boom.
Wow. Amazing “ clapping.
Then the model in the ocean gets landed on. Smoke and dust. Then it’s landed and Elons sucking it’s titanium tits. Mmmmmm space force.
All illusions
We’ve covered this before. The preppy paid for crowd watching nothing (the after effects can be added later) with sfw comments.
“Wow, here it comes.
Wait for it. Sonic boom.
Wow. Amazing “ clapping.
Then the model in the ocean gets landed on. Smoke and dust. Then it’s landed and Elons sucking it’s titanium tits. Mmmmmm space force.
All illusions
Rob Ray
Weight is meaningless
Firing people at Christmas is one hilarious prank buddy, man must they and any dependents have been surprised to have their incomes cut off without notice in the middle of winter!
Really though is this a serious thing you actually did?
Boris Sprinkler
Dont be scared
fitting tagline.
Boris Sprinkler
Dont be scared
They are the servers that react when you mention that capitalism is a death cult.
Supine
Newt Member
Not the u75 server then
Dogsauce
I’ve got Skol but I’m not a Scholar
It’s something Branson perfected with his balloon adventures etc.
Doing the sort of fun stuff most people would want to do with almost unlimited amounts of money available to them makes them appear more human. All the dark stuff that gets them to this position of power is conveniently overlooked…
weltweit
Well-Known Member
It just is so cool the rockets coming back and landing like that ..
NoXion
Craicy the Squirrel
And it's entirely possible to recognise the talent of the engineers who made such a thing possible, while also knowing Musk to be a cunt.
weltweit
Well-Known Member
Indeed.
But equally great for the engineers that they have a boss that positively wants them to do cool things.
NASA rockets had been fire and forget, SpaceX rockets are like cars, "reusable".
NoXion
Craicy the Squirrel
Does he though? I think Musk's recent public behaviour has thoroughly destroyed any idealistic mask he may have wanted to put on. There is (or was) an entire department at SpaceX devoted to basically distracting Musk so that the real geniuses could work without him distracting them too much.
And let's not oversell the reusability aspect; it's just the lower stages which are recovered. They've not yet achieved the Buck Rogers-esque dream of having the same rocket come down as went up.
weltweit
Well-Known Member
I don't know about that, fwiw I do think Musk is clever where things like SpaceX and Tesla are concerned, but I also think he has hired people at both companies who are very capable and can increasingly be left to their own devices.
However Twitter is a social website with political issues that Musk hasn't come across before and hence he has made some decisions which are hard to fathom.
Why post the poll on his continuing as CEO. Any lawyer would advise you never to ask a question unless you already know the answer. Perhaps he wanted that answer? or perhaps he hadn't thought through the possible outcomes?
I think that is the role of Starship.
NoXion
Craicy the Squirrel
That's hardly the mark of genius though, is it? Any half-way competent manager should be able to do the same.
I prefer to go with the hypothesis that Musk is a needy, narcissistic prick who seeks validation through his saviour complex. Or did you miss that awful shit he came out with about the "woke mind virus" being the biggest threat to civilisation?
weltweit
Well-Known Member
I am not sure I think Musk is a genius. There was a radio program about him recently where a journo who had interviewed him a few times said that he was similar to many US Tech entrepreneurs who all think they are clever people.
I thought that was tongue in cheek. Though he does believe SpaceX and Tesla are good for mankind. Bearing in mind that Tesla has been a leader in EVs and SpaceX is intended in the end to make humans a multi-planiitary species.
magneze
🎧
Rumoured data breach of 400M Twitter users data. ie: everyone 
Artaxerxes
Look out, he's got a gnu!
Is that views counter thing on twats new or am I only just noticing it more?
NoXion
Craicy the Squirrel
It's a new thing, one of Musky-poos latest brainwaves. It's a way for him to inflate the appearance of engagement on his platform.
BigMoaner
What A Load of Old Bollocks
Really enjoying the Post humanism series of lectures on Spotify from Stanford university. The one on Byun Chul Han is pretty spellbinding. A quote from him " information technology can make us forget reality" which made me think of Musk. Shit posting and edge-lording your fortune away
BigMoaner
What A Load of Old Bollocks
Infact i think that lecture mentioned is a great piece for helping locate and understand Musk in the context of our times, though it doesn't mention him. Great lecture. Great philosopher too.
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