• fades
    16•2 years ago

    He failed at PayPal and they kicked him for it, so surely the X is totally a good omen for him right? That’s why he keeps going back.

    • darcy
      13•2 years ago

      your right. however it is fun to laugh, and sad to realise how much of an impact he can make

      • ThaNookLmao
        5•2 years ago

        yep. The fact that lemmy is even needed goes to show how millionaires are never to be trusted.

    • @[email protected]
      16•2 years ago

      Still astounding that after so many years Wayland is still inferior in a lot regards to X11. And by design will probably never be able to better in these regards

      • macniel
        8•2 years ago

        X via SSH is such a great feature. Would really love to see it in Wayland.

        • zea
          7•2 years ago

          There’s no protocol-level support, but all the communication happens over a socket and shared buffers, so that can be serialized. I believe Waypipe does this.

  • @[email protected]
    188•2 years ago

    The brand with the bird and all was actually one of the more valuable parts of Twitter that he bought…

    • @[email protected]
      13•2 years ago

      You’re also in a meme community, commenting on a meme, so while technically correct, it’s not super relevant.

    • @[email protected]
      3•2 years ago

      Idk, if you’re doing the same thing after your training that you were doing before, you either didn’t need training or you weren’t successfully trained.

      It’s an idiom, it’s not meant to be a clinical diagnosis. Like, yeah if you’re psychiatrist says it to you qnd tries to have you institutionalized, that’s obviously a problem. But I highly doubt that’s ever happened, certainly not in the modern age.

      Ultimately, it’s actually the same exact idea as “Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it,” but in less politically correct terms.

        • @[email protected]
          -1•2 years ago

          For the training, I’d argue that you’re not trying to get different results.

          Each time, the result is minor growth in whatever your goal is, be it strength, muscle mass, or endurance, etc.

        • ThaNookLmao
          -2•2 years ago

          think the meme has some grounds for truth. of course it was designed to be a dramatic speech for a scary character but it has some grounds to it: this may not be the truth but its how it feels. By doing the same thing over and over again and seeing no chance you go insane, and as such it feels like doing so is asking for insanity, thus the characters speech!

    • @[email protected]
      -4•2 years ago

      Doing the same thing over and over with an expectation to see differing results is also science.

    • @[email protected]
      -6•2 years ago

      Doing the same thing over and over with an expectation to see differing results is also science.

    • @[email protected]
      1•2 years ago

      Doing the same thing over and over with an expectation to see differing results is also science.

      • @[email protected]
        7•2 years ago

        Actually when you create a hypothesis and test it and prove it out, it is meant to be 100% repeatable by anyone following the metgod. Otherwise your method or hypothesis is wrong.

        • @[email protected]
          4•2 years ago

          Right, but the reason you run the experiment repeatedly is to test the validity of the hypothesis. You’re looking for something different to happen. That’s the point behind rerunning the tests.

          • @[email protected]
            1•2 years ago

            Right, but if you find a difference you alter the method or hypothesis, to get repearbility. An insane person (not neccessarily crazy person, but one that doesn’t follow sane rationalizarion) will keep repeating exact same thing.

        • @[email protected]
          2•2 years ago

          But also if you keep running the compiler without changing any of the code hoping for the errors to be magically gone, you are insane. So there’s the same logic being applied to insanity in computer science

    • lorez
      2•2 years ago

      If you’re getting different results it’s because you’re adjusting something. That’s training.

    • @[email protected]
      5•2 years ago

      I mean, Jeffrey Dahmer was universally considered insane and he didn’t “do the same thing over and over and expect different results”. He just killed and ate people over and over and expected them to taste good.

    • @[email protected]
      2•2 years ago

      Not to mention it’s always attributed to Albert Einstein which is not something he said and not something he would ever have said. Doesn’t stop people from continuing to invoke this “definition of insanity” as if its a smart thing to say.

    • kadu
      -2•2 years ago

      Not a meme, it comes from a thought experiment trying to disprove quantum mechanics. It’s often attributed to Einstein, though that’s very likely not true.

      EDIT: This is wrong.

        • kadu
          3•2 years ago

          Well, digging further it seems like we are both wrong.

          Rita Mae Brown’s quote is not the earliest example of it being used, so it’s certainly not the origin. Though the misattribution to Einstein was adapted into the quantum argument I knew about. Both are not the earliest mentions of the quote, and the exact origin is debated. The most likely scenario is that it originated in a Narcotics Anonymous setting.

            • kadu
              6•2 years ago

              What an overly aggressive reply. But sure, let’s play.

              Would you look at this, a 1981 Narcotics Anonymous pamphlet that contains the exact quote: “[…] Insanity is repeating the same mistakes and expecting different results.”

              Hmm… 1981… But the book was released in 1983… But your previous comment so eloquently said I’m totally wrong, so you’ve just proven time machines exist! How cool! Einstein would be proud!

                • kadu
                  0•2 years ago

                  There are about 3 quotes in that document that match. Some have slightly different wording. The point is not wether or not it’s easy to CTRL + F. Reading is an important skill, you know.

                  But good to see how you react when presented of evidence you’re wrong. Nice spending time with ya.

  • @[email protected]
    -10•2 years ago

    I don’t quite understand the rage against this guy, imo he’s one of the more likeable and interesting billionaires in the world. At least he has visions and wants to change the world for the better, something you cannot say about Jeff Bezos or Mark Zuckerberg etc.

    • apotheotic (she/her)
      12•2 years ago

      He’s a vocal transphobe and all around nasty piece of work, and he doesn’t want to change the world for the better - he wants to use that narrative to line his wallet for the better.

    • @[email protected]
      10•2 years ago

      He suggested that Ukraine should surrender to Russia and give up their Land. His own daughter hates him so much that she expressed in court that she doesn’t even want to inherit his money or be related to him in any shape or way. He cancelled the Tesla order of a blogger after the blogger said he was disappointed that Elon musk made a bunch of people wait for multiple hours without communicating anything. He is known as a bad boss that overworks his workers and pays then poorly. He has shown himself to be transphobic, ableistic, racist, ageist, hypocritical and a liar

      I like that guy. Very likeable.

    • @[email protected]
      16•2 years ago

      He is an alt-right douche and it escapes me how him constantly being purposely antagonistic for fun lends to being “likeable”. The abhorrent political views would be enough, but there’s a lot more.

  • @[email protected]
    3•2 years ago

    There are a lot of “that guys.” That guy who quotes Bob Dylan. That guy who wears crazy pants. That guy who’s good at ping-pong. And so forth. Decades ago, Elon Musk apparently decided to be That Guy Who Really Likes the Letter X. You do you.