Elon Musk Buys Twitter

[Gabriel]

I thought it was "squeal"? That's how Primeagen says it on the clips that The Algorithm has fed me.

[Belize]

I thought it was "squeal"? That's how Primeagen says it on the clips that The Algorithm has fed me.

No, squealing is what the data scientists do when their query finally stops returning errors

[gondrin]

So, in some news that will probably delight Musk haters(this includes me), since Musk has gone on his rampage throughout the government and he did his "special gesture", his net worth has dropped by a lot.

How much? Well, since Jan 21(stock market was closed on Jan 20th due to a federal holiday), Tesla stock price has dropped around 96 points. Which means his actual net worth has dropped a bit over $40 billion. That is right. this man has lost nearly 10% of everything he is worth because of what he is doing and it is continuing to drop because he is absolutely hated around the world right now due to the closing down of USAID and tampering in European elections.

He has lost more wealth in a bit over 2 weeks than what is the entirety of the GDP of Honduras. That takes real skill to do that.

[Santti]

I thought it was "squeal"? That's how Primeagen says it on the clips that The Algorithm has fed me.

I love how he says ChatGPT as "Gippity".

[Drutt]

Again, Elon Musk genuinely isn't very bright, genuinely has no idea how most things work, and his entire supergenius engineer persona is a tech press-enabled mythology (they've never been held accountable for)...



Some day... some rogue poster... is going to necro those "elon is a genius" threads. Instead of the wierd beef with 3 posters and 2 mods threads.

I feel obligated to point out for the non-techies that this isn't what de-duplication is or does.

De-duplication essentially works by storing data once rather than storing the same thing many times, meaning it only takes up less space (i.e. a de-duped disk would store 100 copies of a file once, instead of keeping 100 copies on disk that each taking up the same amount of space).

It has the square root of fuck all to do with enabling or blocking people from registering a SSN more than one time. A database being deduped or not deduped is mostly about storage efficiency. The fact he thinks the two are related means he objectively has no fucking idea what he is talking about.

[Edge-]

I feel obligated to point out for the non-techies types that this isn't what de-duplication is or does.

De-duplication essentially works by storing data only once rather than storing the same thing e.g. 100 times, meaning it only takes up the space on disk once (i.e. a de-duped disk would store 100 copies of a file once, instead of keeping 100 copies on disk that each taking up the same amount of space).

It has the square root of fuck all to do with enabling or blocking people from registering a SSN more than one time. A database being deduped or not deduped is mostly about storage efficiency. The fact he thinks the two are related means he objectively has no fucking idea what he is talking about.

Basically, that old tweet about the guy who knew nothing about cars or rockets and assumed Elon was as smart as everyone said he was. And then Elon started talking about coding and the guy, as a software engineer, realized he had no fucking clue what the fuck he was talking about and consequently that he probably also didn't know fuckall about cars or rockets, either.

Americans love a bullshiter more than anything else.

[Xyonai]

It really shines a light on how fucking broken both our system of Government and system of Economics is where someone this fucking stupid can achieve so much wealth and influence through the sheer momentum of having money.

[Drutt]

Basically, that old tweet about the guy who knew nothing about cars or rockets and assumed Elon was as smart as everyone said he was. And then Elon started talking about coding and the guy, as a software engineer, realized he had no fucking clue what the fuck he was talking about and consequently that he probably also didn't know fuckall about cars or rockets, either.

Americans love a bullshiter more than anything else.

Yeah, it's absolutely surreal. I couldn't believe what I was reading even as I read it.

Astronomically ignorant stuff.

[Edge-]

It really shines a light on how fucking broken both our system of Government and system of Economics is where someone this fucking stupid can achieve so much wealth and influence through the sheer momentum of having money.

i mean, it's capitalism

he made some bets that worked well (apparently his spacex bet almost didn't).

the whole thing is stupid and it's why i laugh when i read glowing articles about VCs who "know the right companies to invest in" because they invested in a startup that got bit.

literally VCs superpower and edge is being able to play the odds/field, that's it. You invest in 100 startups and 95 will probably fail, but you'll never hear about those failures. 2 might perform reasonably well, 2 might perform very well, but 1 hits it huge and that one alone more than recoups all your failed bets. now, you get to do a round of interviews about how you're a visionary that saw the potential in this 1 company and how you're an investing genius! and not that you simply basically played a game of roulette that's fairly stacked in your favor.

[Xyonai]

i mean, it's capitalism

he made some bets that worked well (apparently his spacex bet almost didn't).

the whole thing is stupid and it's why i laugh when i read glowing articles about VCs who "know the right companies to invest in" because they invested in a startup that got bit.

literally VCs superpower and edge is being able to play the odds/field, that's it. You invest in 100 startups and 95 will probably fail, but you'll never hear about those failures. 2 might perform reasonably well, 2 might perform very well, but 1 hits it huge and that one alone more than recoups all your failed bets. now, you get to do a round of interviews about how you're a visionary that saw the potential in this 1 company and how you're an investing genius! and not that you simply basically played a game of roulette that's fairly stacked in your favor.

There was a bit in Musk's autobiography about this; it details a game of Poker where Musk kept losing hand after hand after hand... Then finally won once, got up, and left. That's kinda just how this shit goes, and by having more money than god you can take more stupid risks over and over again and shield yourself from the consequence of failure.

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Also despite all the contract and spending freezes going on, there's -one- company who's still getting paid. Take a wild fucking guess which one.

[Edge-]

Also despite all the contract and spending freezes going on, there's -one- company who's still getting paid. Take a wild fucking guess which one.

I mean, they all got elected the loot the government so this checks out.

[fwc577]

I thought it was "squeal"? That's how Primeagen says it on the clips that The Algorithm has fed me.

It's Sequel. Anyone saying it any other way is simply wrong.

[PhaelixWW]

I go back and forth, though I think I generally use "SQL" when using it as a noun, or when stressing it (like "I fracking hate Ess-Cue-Ell!") and "sequel" when using it as an adjective (like "sequel backend") or when it's part of a larger combined word (like "SQLite" being "Sequel-ite").

[Gabriel]

I go back and forth, though I think I generally use "SQL" when using it as a noun, or when stressing it (like "I fracking hate Ess-Cue-Ell!") and "sequel" when using it as an adjective (like "sequel backend") or when it's part of a larger combined word (like "SQLite" being "Sequel-ite").

SQLite is "Squealite" like a "Nurglite" tho.

[PhaelixWW]

SQLite is "Squealite" like a "Nurglite" tho.

"Squealite" is never correct.

[Gabriel]

"Squealite" is never correct.

It's a head canon now.

[Kathandira]

There was a bit in Musk's autobiography about this; it details a game of Poker where Musk kept losing hand after hand after hand... Then finally won once, got up, and left. That's kinda just how this shit goes, and by having more money than god you can take more stupid risks over and over again and shield yourself from the consequence of failure.

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Also despite all the contract and spending freezes going on, there's -one- company who's still getting paid. Take a wild fucking guess which one.

38 million to play with spaceships...

[noidentity]

Armored Tesla (Production Units) incoming

FY25 Q4 DS/C/DEAV Armored Tesla (Production Units) New Armored Tesla (Production Units) >$100M and <$500M 5 years Chrismene Etienne EtienneC@state.gov Schools, Jacqueline SchoolsJ@state.gov Secret Richard Crum CrumRB@state.gov N/A No N/A 311999 - All Other Miscellaneous Food Manufacturing United States TBD TBD N/A IDIQ Fixed Price 9/30/2025 No $400,000,000.00 5/1/2025 Department of State PLANNING TBD Unknown 12/13/2024 9:48

Nothing to see here folks

[Edge-]

Armored Tesla (Production Units) incoming

FY25 Q4 DS/C/DEAV Armored Tesla (Production Units) New Armored Tesla (Production Units) >$100M and <$500M 5 years Chrismene Etienne EtienneC@state.gov Schools, Jacqueline SchoolsJ@state.gov Secret Richard Crum CrumRB@state.gov N/A No N/A 311999 - All Other Miscellaneous Food Manufacturing United States TBD TBD N/A IDIQ Fixed Price 9/30/2025 No $400,000,000.00 5/1/2025 Department of State PLANNING TBD Unknown 12/13/2024 9:48

Nothing to see here folks

Why is it listed under "311999 - All Other Miscellaneous Food Manufacturing" in row 22?

Why are the other supposed armored vehicles below it listed as "Soft Drink Manufacturing" and "Bottled Water Manufacturing" in the NAICS Codes?

[Belize]

Armored Tesla (Production Units) incoming

FY25 Q4 DS/C/DEAV Armored Tesla (Production Units) New Armored Tesla (Production Units) >$100M and <$500M 5 years Chrismene Etienne EtienneC@state.gov Schools, Jacqueline SchoolsJ@state.gov Secret Richard Crum CrumRB@state.gov N/A No N/A 311999 - All Other Miscellaneous Food Manufacturing United States TBD TBD N/A IDIQ Fixed Price 9/30/2025 No $400,000,000.00 5/1/2025 Department of State PLANNING TBD Unknown 12/13/2024 9:48

Nothing to see here folks

Lol, if it's as armored as the Dumpstertruck I would *not* want to rely on it for security.