Have you ever wondered why Elon Musk wants so much money?
Dude has become a shitty combination of Tucker and Trump
“Just asking stupid questions”
Just asking stupid questions seems like a Joe Rogan thing.
Musk asks stupid, leading questions. Pretending he’s Socrates, leading you to a truth he understands and you don’t.
Also, what phone does he have with multiple terabytes of storage if he’s downloading it on his phone…?
He’s right that you can actually fit the entire text of wikipedia on your phone. Wikipedia let’s you download a copy and it’s not that huge.
But obviously Wikipedia has a huge image and audio library and those make up the majority of storage space.
If you don’t download the history, and only download one language, sure, but that’s not Wikipedia
Oh yeah good point, forgot about all of that.
What a painfully stupid man.
That was savage!
He sounds like some upper level management I’ve known. “Why does this cost so much, you’re just displaying a couple of web pages? Backups? Disaster Recovery? Bandwidth charges? What are those?”
It’s a legitimate question that they don’t usually actually care about the answer to.
A sales exec at a place I worked at, asked me how companies like Apple made their products look so so much more professional than ours. Umm, billions of dollars in revenue and hundreds, if not thousands, of developers and artists, I replied. Yeah he wasn’t the sharpest crayon in the box and I’m glad he retired where he couldn’t cause any more damage.
“Make it look like google.”
Sure. Do you have a billion dollars for this project? No? Okay. You get one half resource junior UI designer.
Don’t forget to mention said resource was unable to get hired at a job that paid better than your company… (which, no offense, isn’t likely to be very good if you’re having this kind of conversation)
We tended to have very expensive engineers and very cheap designers. That was emblematic of where customers placed their value and, thus, where management placed their priority in hiring.
That said, of the four designers… one went to NASA, one went to Amazon, one went to McDonald’s (leading global service design research) and then to Lyft.
They were very talented folks
The UI design of Google isn’t very hard to emulate, even by a junior frontend developer. It’s the backend that’s the really compel stuff.
I think you’re vastly underestimating the amount of research and work that goes into making Google products so easy to use.
UI isn’t just a front end development mashing their keyboard with HTML, CSS and JS. It’s hours and hours of observation, research, prototyping, pattern identification, prioritization of information, experimentation and then you create a simple white screen with one input box that does a million things.
The insane thing to me is that even if MediaWiki shut down completely with no warning, I bet we wouldn’t lose anything. We got people backing it up instantly
But you would need a new foundation, or those copies will stop being collaboratively updated. In addition, it would be difficult for people to access the information again, without a new website.
He sounds like the kind of guy that was shutting down random servers and firing people until things visibly stopped working.
Only a true business genius could come up with an idea like that!
He is literally that guy
You would think that to lead an IT organization you should know something about IT.
Sadly, management cluetards “think” otherwise. And Musk the fool is leading the charge into oblivion.
I don’t think you necessarily need to know about the IT aspect if you have enough knowledge in some of the other aspects of running the business. However, if you don’t know the IT aspects, you should absolutely have a right hand person who is very familiar with the IT aspects and manages that and updates you on that side of things.
Musk has fired enough people who voiced criticism that I think he is only left with yes-men, not experts who can freely offer meaningful guidance and be taken seriously.
He sounds like a conservative stand-up comedian with a crappy routine.
So, a conservative stand-up comedian [.]
He’ll just be screeching “Dr Fauci” in a bird voice next. I hear that’s what passes for comedy on the right.
I think that not being able to be funny is one of the eternal thorns in musk’s side that his billions of blood money can never buy him. His stupid twitter quips, dumb sight gags like walking into the office holding a sink… he knows he’ll never be able to become funny and it eats at him.
Also since he can’t keep his giant dumb yap shut people who had a good image of him 10 years ago as a guy trying to help the earth now know that he’s a huge piece of garbage. Money can’t buy his legacy, no matter how many fanboys impotently scream on forums.
He is a conservative stand-up comedian with a crappy routine. Can you tell if the following quote is by him or I made it up?
“I’ll give them a million dollars if they change their name to ‘Dickipedia’.”
So, how long before the “Readers added additonal context” feature mysteriously vanishes?
Kinda surprised it’s still there, honestly.
I could’ve sworn it had already been disappeared. I guess I’m misremembering.
The moderation for it has disappeared. So often it’s just right wing bs these days
Ah, right. That’s what it was. I guess I figured the feature went with the team he fired. Of course he just left it running unmonitored.
Ah, thanks for reminding me to donate to the Wikimedia Foundation.
musk is dumb as a brick
Hey, now; at least bricks are useful.
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I’d prefer “dumb as a husky.” Which is to say, smart enough to get into relatively creative predicaments but too dumb to get out. The dunning kruger zone.
A colleague of mine is one of the stupidest people I’ve ever met, but also among the most arrogant, so I say he’s like a pigeon.
This is intentional. He attacks anything that provides a benefit he thinks should be Capitalized upon.
Capitalized
is… …is that a pun?
Maybe they meant anything that can be subsidized by the government.
Tesla and SpaceX take in tons of government subsidies, either directly like SoaceX, or with car enables to artificially make their cars more competitive in the market.
No no, the pun is supposed to be the first letter of the word capitalised being capitalised.
I sincerely hope that in the future when peole look up the archaic expression of ‘Dumb Fuck’ they find a beautiful portrait of man baby Elon.
Obviously he has an axe to grind with facts being easily available to regular people. He’s trying to leverage his voice as a hated billionaire to signal maga conspiracy theories.
As the CEO of a company that makes its money from running a website, shouldn’t he at least be aware of the operating expenses?
That would require him being aware of anything that goes into running any of his businesses, and maybe not tweeting all day from his private jets to actually pay attention to them.
Technically his website doesn’t make any money
Technically his website makes money but loses more money
He just does the galaxy brain thing and doesn’t pay his bills. Problem solved.
https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-twitter-lawsuit-he-never-planned-to-pay-rent-2023-5?op=1
You can literally fit the entire text on your phone
But not the photos, video, or audio. And I can’t serve it to hundreds of millions of people from my phone. This truly one of the stupidest things a tech CEO has ever said.
Building a Plex server with every TV show and movie on Netflix is easy. Distributing that data to 300 million of your friends daily is where the cost is.
Using his ass-stupid logic, Xitter is worth a small box of USB drives I can pick up at Dollar General because the text from every Xeet fits on them? Might actually be true.
Using his ass-stupid logic, Xitter is worth a small box of USB drives
The idiot actually believe that and unplugged Twitter servers to prove it, that according to his biography is still causing stability issues to this day.
Ooh is there more info about this?
EDIT: Looks like this is it.
https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-christmas-eve-moving-x-servers-cut-costs-biography-2023-9
Plex and IPFS has it’s place, but I still support Wikipedia as a non profit, just like you don’t need to pay to enter a library, unless your in some kind of elite library of the bleeding edge lol
Give it another year and I bet 6 to 1/2 dozen on the value of USB drives and Twitter.
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This truly one of the stupidest things a tech CEO has ever said.
Not stupid, just misleading stupid people. As the owner of one of the most popular websites on the internet, and the guy who killed third party APIs, there’s no way he doesn’t know what it costs to process millions of queries/day.
Yep. It didn’t come across as stupidity (not saying Musk isn’t stupid), but as someone blatantly borrowing from the Trump playbook.
This implies he has learned lessons from his past mistakes - he has not. The odds are better on Must thinking the people who executed his perfect demands did those things wrong.
You would think the CEO of a major internet website, and a self-proclaimed coding genius, engineer, rocket scientist, would understand how web server, computational, and bandwidth charges work. But he’s determined to prove once and for all how stupid he really is.
I was about to say “at least people will see him as stupid when he says shit like this” but anyone still a fan of him think he’s playing some kind of grand scheme or whatever, ruffling feathers but still genius.
“Nah he’s just trolling lol he totally got you. He made you think he was an idiot lol, a total moron lmao”
The problem is that the people he says this kind of stuff for don’t understand anything, so they just believe everything he says. If someone tries to educate them they literally can’t process the information.
There are still people who think he’s a genius
Musk is such a giant fucking idiot. It’s tragic that such dumb shitty people have all the money.
Could you imagine what a truly smart and altruistic trillionaire could achieve?
Although as soon as they tried to change anything they’d probably get disappeared.
Anyone good with a billion pounds no longer has that billion pounds. Because they use it to cure a disease, or give to poor countries, or whatever. But what we need is systemic change, because we shouldn’t have to rely on rich people being philanthropists, the government should have that money and spend it on what the people vote for.
