• CyclohexaneM
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      -32 years ago

      I bet they copied some code for mastodon and paid Gargron to not try to go after them. That would definitely give them a huge lift. Otherwise, I don’t see how they were able to quickly come up with this. Tech companies take forever to build stuff usually

      • @[email protected]
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        332 years ago

        The hard part is scaling and building a user base, but threads simply bootstrapped both off Instagram so it probably wasn’t hard for them to make.

          • @[email protected]
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            152 years ago

            Not sure about Twitter internals, but doing a Twitter clone is one of the most popular Ruby on Rails noob exercise.

            • @[email protected]
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              Ah yeah, probably because Twitter was originally written in Ruby on Rails and it’s always nice to do exercises that feel like something real. But yeah, making things actually scale is pretty difficult and they felt they had to move from RoR to something else (Scala in this instance).

              Of course, Elon Musk probably fired everyone responsible for making it scale properly, so at this point, stopping the growth of Twitter is probably good, because otherwise it might run into issues again.

            • @[email protected]
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              42 years ago

              Anybody can make a twitter that can handle 100 users. The challenge is making worth at the scale of twitter

              • @[email protected]
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                12 years ago

                Sure, but the “scale of Twitter” becomes a more and more accessible goal by the day. elon fires everyone and intentionally breaks everything while only new feature releases are “new and exciting” paid tiers of horseshit that nobody wants. I’m not paying a penny for the privilege to yell into his sad, shrinking room with the remaining 17 nazis, 4200 corporate brands and 1.75 million bots that are left to make up its userbase.

    • @[email protected]
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      42 years ago

      What grinds my gears the most is that every fucking manufacturer sucks at software and usability so hard it hurts every time. I rather have bad UX than bow to this moron though.

      • @[email protected]
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        62 years ago

        I just went MA -> TN -> OH -> MA and only had one place where all stations were offline, but they came back within a half hour.

        • @[email protected]
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          -22 years ago

          I’ve never had a Tesla supercharger be offline.

          However I’ve had several EA chargers derated, one at 30kWh. Not to mention broken stalls. Or how about EA charging me the full price even though I paid for their membership thing?

          ChargePoint never hit full speed on my last trip.

          A random CCS station did better than any of the big names.

          Tesla is by far the most reliable, why do you think auto companies are changing to NACS?

    • @[email protected]OP
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      152 years ago

      I have even forgotten he is in cars business, more news from him when he is manipulating crypto prices

    • Scrubbles
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      1102 years ago

      I’m in the EV market right now, looking for a good commuter car, and Tesla went from my #1 spot to one of the last options. It’s amazing how well he tanked that whole business. Luckily there’s a ton of competition cheaters now

      • @[email protected]
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        392 years ago

        A conservative was talking at me a few weeks ago about how much he loved how Musk was pissing off the libs and about how he’s a shrewd businessman. I asked if he would buy a Tesla and he said never. He didn’t have a response when I told him Musk doesn’t sound like a good businessman.

      • thisbenzingring
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        152 years ago

        What is at the top of your list? I’m leaning towards the Ford Mach E with awd but have only looked deeply at half of what is available. Tesla is at the bottom of my list also

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          82 years ago

          I’ve had my Mach-E GT for two years now and it’s been very reliable and very comfortable. There were a couple of small hiccups early on, but I can’t see going back to non-electric cars. Would definitely buy it again!

        • @[email protected]
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          52 years ago

          My parents got a 2021 Mach E and they love it. I’ve driven it a few times. I’m eyeing one for my next car too, though I’ve also been interested in Hyundai’s offerings. I’ve never wanted a Hyundai in my life but their new EV lineup looks pretty compelling.

        • Scrubbles
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          242 years ago

          Mach e is up there. Currently number one spot is the Hyundai ioniq 6, it looks like a direct competitor to the model 3. Nissan leaf and I think Honda are in the running too. Idk gotta start test driving to really know. I’ll still test drive a model 3, but from what I hear and see I probably won’t go for it

          • Ophy
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            142 years ago

            The Ioniqs are absolutely sexy vehicles, they’re at the top of my list too!

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              Yeah Hyundai in general recently has knocked it out of the park with their design language and the ioniqs are some of the best in their lineup

          • GeminiFrenchFry
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            42 years ago

            My friend bought a 22 leaf last year and from what I know, she loves it. It definitely took some getting used to! We still normally take my car on road trips, though.

          • @[email protected]
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            12 years ago

            Well their brake lights wouldn’t turn on during regenerative braking and Hyundai has had some bouts of hacking scandals. But I have heard owners saying food things about them.

          • @[email protected]
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            82 years ago

            I was in the same boat as you having the Tesla be my dream car until all this Twitter shit hit the fan. My roommate has an Ioniq 5 which I liked so much I got an Ioniq 6 as soon as it came out. I absolutely love it.

          • Venutian Spring
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            32 years ago

            Man those Ioniqs look so good in person too. I’m considering buying one for my wife next year, if I can convince her to get ride of her beloved Prius

      • @[email protected]
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        312 years ago

        My dad was going to buy a Tesla up until a few years ago, there’s far more and better competition nowadays. And it’s really seeming Tesla’s are actively dangerous.

          • @[email protected]
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            22 years ago

            Sure seems like it, and I see an article every other week about the self driving aspect hurting someone or getting into trouble. Just not worth the hassle.

        • @[email protected]
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          22 years ago

          Just include a reaching leg thingy as well then you can drive from the right side too. Musk, if you do this I will sue you for “cheating”.

      • @[email protected]
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        12 years ago

        Idk, from what I heard he barely spends his time with Tesla these days due to being preoccupied with twitter 😂

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      32 years ago

      If you’re in California, be aware that there’s a hidden/sneaky “EV tax” and you’ll be paying (nearly) double registration fees every year. Mine went from $330 to alamost $700.

      Also public charging is starting to be a problem as there’s not nearly enough charging stations and CA does nothing about it.

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        32 years ago

        You’re also not paying gas taxes though. They have to make up the lost gas tax revenue somehow. Realistically, it should be based on the miles driven and the weight of the car (road damages increases exponentially with the weight of the vehicle), but for now they just have that flat EV tax.

      • Scrubbles
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        192 years ago

        I mean I wouldn’t call it sneaky, it’s not like a conspiracy or anything. Most states pay for road maintenance and projects from gas taxes. Since EVs don’t use gas but still use roads they should pay their share too, so it makes sense it’d come from the registration. It’s still way less than paying for gas or taxes on gas.

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          Should be a variable charge like a gas tax placed on public EV chargers and not a one time yearly fee. There is a big consumption difference between a Hummer EV and a Smart EV.

          EDIT: Not every state has thought clearly about additional EV fees. Starting later this year, Texans who drive electric cars will pay significantly more in registration fees than an average gas car driver pays in gas taxes each year…because it’s fucking Texas.

          • animist
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            02 years ago

            Are they going to put a monitor on your home charger then too?

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            72 years ago

            The issue with taxing public charging is you can just charge at home to avoid the tax. Also there are many public level 2 chargers that are free.

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              52 years ago

              I’d much rather pay a flat extra tax than have my personal charging habits monitored. I don’t need any more spies in my home trying to charge me based on my behaviors. I’d rather pay the flat fee and keep my privacy.

    • @[email protected]
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      282 years ago

      Poaching Twitter employees and stealing “trade secrets”.

      Because you know, it has nothing to do with the fact that Threads is basically just Instagram with no pictures.

        • @[email protected]
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          22 years ago

          Lol that’s hilarious. Court case will probably just be quietly withdrawn. Or loudly thrown out.

          • @[email protected]
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            12 years ago

            I like the thought of a long awkward silence in the courtroom and Elon’s lawyer quietly shuffle out.

      • @[email protected]
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        52 years ago

        Isn’t the FTC in the process of banning non-compete agreements? So the rules that Musk is claiming were broken are on their way out?

        • @[email protected]
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          32 years ago

          NCA usually for employees that resigned. That would be messed up if they can just hire some smart people and immediately fires them to block them for joining competitors

        • @[email protected]
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          72 years ago

          NCAs are already largely unenforceable anyway. Federal and state laws prohibit them except in cases of direct competition and the employee having specialized knowledge or skills. And even then, they can’t be for long periods of time, and if they would prevent the employee from a livelihood they can’t be enforced.

          Usually what happens is someone who has a NCA will be hired by a new employer. That employer will see how long the NCA is in force and just have the employee on the payroll but not working until it expires. That, or they will pay the penalty in the NCA, whichever is cheaper.

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            -52 years ago

            Twitter is in direct competition with Facebook/meta/threads. And Twitter layoffs were 6 months or less ago. And these guys presumably have specialized knowledge.

            So it seems like many of the criteria would be met.

  • @[email protected]
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    172 years ago

    Why does he consider it cheating? Now hopefully facebook will fuck it up, as well, so they loose money and user base.

  • As if there’s any secret to Twitter that any person couldn’t figure out, we’re talking about 280 character messages. I hope they both just cancel each other out.

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        192 years ago

        Facebook is significantly larger than Twitter, in the Billions (depressing). Guessing they have decent ideas how to scale an operation in the 10s of millions of people.

        I wonder if Elon helped bolster engineering jobs in other companies. Like “See what happens when you get rid of the engineers you think you don’t need?”

        • @[email protected]
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          22 years ago

          Threads is bootstrapped off Instagram. People I know who tried it out like it because they don’t need to rebuild their network, it just copies the Instagram followers over so you start with all your follows and followers. Instagram also has over 2 billion users so they probably just tacked this on top of the existing Instagram infrastructure and called it a day. Instagram already supported comments so the backend for this probably required minimal changes.