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Post by letmevoteplease »

bla3 wrote: post #184
memish wrote: post #168

Earlier quoted context omitted.

George Hotz is interviewing there tomorrow. https://twitter.com/realGeorgeHotz/status/159339146698169139... For a certain kind of engineer, this version of Twitter is far more attractive than the previous one.

I don't think this is serious. Hotz's license plate is FUELON, and he runs comma.ai.

It looks like he's serious about doing it for fun.

https://twitter.com/realGeorgeHotz/status/159297764564540211...

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Post by noobermin »

godelski wrote: post #112
graderjs wrote: post #85

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A culture where being smart gets you social debt may be part of the problem

Why are people eager to defend someone who cosplays as a nerd?

Perhaps because such people cosplay as well.

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Post by throw2022110401 »

nemothekid wrote: post #34
pschuegr wrote: post #25

I hope that the wheels stay on sufficiently to get an idea of where EM wants to take Twitter and find out what kind of value it can bring. Having said that, he really made it obvious to me as an eng that the severance is the option I would be taking. Going "hardcore" on things can be fun, at the right time in your life, for the right reasons, with the right people. But somebody who takes over the company and accrues…

> Going "hardcore" on things can be fun, at the right time in your life, for the right reasons, with the right people. I don't see what it is about the Twitter product that would require going "hardcore". It's a lose-lose situation; I don't think Twitter's problems would be solved by engineering harder; and you will spend 80 hrs/wk where you can end up fired because people aren't as deterministic as cars. It's a comp…

Not to mention the fucking insulting assumption that people were not already working hard. During my tour (left years ago) there have been many time periods when I worked my ass off. I ended up leaving because of the total burn-out and the effect it started to have on my health. Despite that even years later I played with the idea of going back someday. No chance of that now of course. So sad to see it end this way.

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Post by SoftTalker »

dilyevsky wrote: post #196
fotta wrote: post #95

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The TLS cert expires on December 12.

There is absolutely no way in hell those aren’t autorenewed. I think the answer is “quite a long time” actually. Eventually disk/machine rot in DCs will take over but it can take many months or more

Everything I run at work is 5-10 years old or older. It all just hums along. Occasionally I replace a hard drive or a power supply.

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Post by fooey »

Balgair wrote: post #152

Per her most recent tweet: https://twitter.com/ZoeSchiffer/status/1593427480051822592?c... "NEW: The designers leading Elon Musk’s Blue verified project are out, along with the lead web engineer. Many Twitter employees who maintained critical infrastructure have resigned. This is going to look like a very different company tomorrow." The snowball has gained too much momentum now. Especially with Thanksgiving coming,…

The World Cup is in 3 days too, that's a seriously massive global event

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Post by 7e »

areoform wrote: post #173

I am chalking this up to Russia syndrome. Personality types driven to do great things aren't easily satisfied. Most are perpetually dissatisfied & they need to raise the stakes. They win the war of the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th coalitions. For the first time, they find that things are going fine. All they have to do is nothing. Pull back and consolidate. Maybe refine some things, tinker a bit. But it's not enough. It wi…

But Elon was fired from PayPal. He failed at Boring Company and Neuralink. He faked his educational credentials and was in the country illegally. He failed at Full Self Driving, the Roadster is nowhere to be seen, the Cybertruck is MIA and the Tesla Semi is years late. 95% of predictions he has made has failed to pass. As far as I can tell, he lucked out during the .com boom, then invested in Tesla and almost drove it into the ground—-saved only by government subsidies, cheap money, and fortuitous timing. SpaceX has raised $10B and is currently looking to raise more. Elon's MO is burning a ton of cash that his competitors aren't willing to do in order to be first in some space. That doesn't take talent.

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Post by sidibe »

dilyevsky wrote: post #196
fotta wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The TLS cert expires on December 12.

There is absolutely no way in hell those aren’t autorenewed. I think the answer is “quite a long time” actually. Eventually disk/machine rot in DCs will take over but it can take many months or more

I'd be very surprised if disk/machine rot is what it would take for such a large organization to start experiencing major problems. Strange user patterns from all this and recent features/refactors that are suddenly not monitored would hurt something in the stack within a couple weeks if it was really abandoned. Having a few dozen senior engineers/SREs familiar with big chunks of the infra could make it months though.
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