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  1. 11 minutes ago, DigglerontheHoof said:

    This.  When will the FO really start?  

    You should listen to Knowledge Fight if you really want to know - they've been following his lawsuits and judgements and doing deep-dives on his depositions

    It's honestly pretty interesting to hear directly from alex in a setting where he can legally be compelled to shut up and just answer the question. His ability to whatabout and spread the question to a different topic without answering the original question reminds me of quite a few very fine MAGATs here on surly

  2. 2 minutes ago, Chopper said:

    "Experienced software engineers leaving should be worrying because of the complexity of Twitter. Talking with long-time Twitter engineers, they told me the site has a complex architecture for a very good reason. It was built to allow for safe and fast tweaking of any part of Twitter, making it easy for developers to iterate.

    However, Twitter was not built to make architectural changes easy, and structural changes are admittedly difficult and so need to be done with caution. Twitter has on-premise data centers and I’m told that deploying Kubernetes on top of this was already a massive undertaking thanks to all the custom infrastructure.

    Twitter is unique in how configurable the infra team has made infra-level tweaks. There are multi-level feature flags used at the infra layer, which is highly unusual as feature flags usually live within the application layer."

    A very salient quote from a conference I picked up is "it's easy to make things complex, and hard to make things simple". In this case, twitter chose a microservices standardized architecture to minimize the opportunity cost of trying new ideas, which enabled them to move significantly faster with basically zero cost for failure - at the cost of the potential for a non-optimal solution getting deployed that still meets business requirements.

    Building on K8s seems incredibly complex if you're not familiar with container orchestration and modern microservice architectures, but it's really the only way to gracefully and scalably manage an on-premise datacenter. It handles the failover and rescheduling of jobs as hardware fails and is rotated, and is completely portable and can be lifted whole-cloth to basically any hosting context.

    But if you aren't a technical person (meaning web and datacenter ops), it certainly could just look like a bunch of overhead with marginal gain. He just hasn't been around long enough to see why his naïve solution on paper (big computer go brrrr) isn't actually the best solution in reality.

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  3. Just now, Viking said:

    I wouldn't doubt Elon on this one. The move to microservices can be terrible if done wrong and it's so easy to get wrong. Eg a request to fetch timeline -> fetches 20 tweets -> fetches user info for each tweet one at a time -> fetches followers/followed for each user one at a time -> etc etc. All to render a few kb of data on a screen.

    Elon is religious about simplicity. He's gonna hate a microservices based tech stack.

    It's not a move to microservices, Twitter already runs a zoo of microservices as its core tech stack. Microservices do enable simplicity, because (if they're doing it right) each service will follow a standardized architecture pattern (containerized, service mesh, CICD enabled) with all their dependencies self-contained, rather than some horribly monolithic boomertech build on .NET and Oracle.

    But also - you're presupposing that elon is correct that the architecture is bad and needs overhaul. Elon doesn't know what the fuck he's talking about lol.

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  4. 25 minutes ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

    Long Twitter thread.  Techy oriented, if you don't know what Git is and the ramifications of what has happened

     

     

     

    I did/do this for a living - Elon is royally fucking up their devops pipeline and code deployment process. The end of the thread has the functional result:

     

    which is to say: there's zero governance or tracability their deployments, which is the entire point of using a source control tool like git and processes like DevOps and pipeline deployments. Manual processes and developer-managed deployments are a recipe for disaster and it materially limits the amount of change that you can safely and reliably push through your environment.

    And when something breaks, it'll be even harder to fix it because there's no fkn audit logs of changes or centrally managed code repository because it's read only!

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  5. 10 minutes ago, RamjetFDO said:

    Oh, that only has a 23.6π!!1ONE789dickbutt% chance of working.

    A couple friends of mine work on the Artemis human systems here in Houston, I'm really pulling for this boondoggle to fly (successfully). But damn at what point do you think NASA will consider scrapping the whole rocket? The Orion capsule seems like they've worked out the gremlins now at least. Presuming Boeing figured out their software problems lol

  6. 36 minutes ago, Dbeasy said:

    A question for economics experts. Why isn’t the government looking to use additional taxes to slow down inflation? 

    On the other side of midterms, I would imagine that would help. The 2017 TCAJ act really took the brakes off of that mechanism though, and good luck increasing corporate taxes and imperiling their profit margins, and forcing them to lay off their staff to preserve an extra half point of earnings 

  7. 25 minutes ago, Zonahorn said:

    Proud we're such an active and blue bunch

    GenZ being born post-9/11, only knowing the republican party as a bunch of crazy racists trying to take down the first black president, and living through multiple financial meltdowns... Not a complete shock to see them a bit more blue lol

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  8. 8 minutes ago, Humble Beast said:

    Businesses that are bitcoin only are much more trustworthy. They’re genuinely looking to build out something useful and new as we head into uncertainty economic times. You may disagree with the goals, but that’s the deal. In fact “bitcoin maxis” get grief all the time for being “toxic” and calling out all these scams like it’s a big buzzkill. And these scams all blow up. 

    Can you give me some examples of "Bitcoin only" businesses? Because bitcoin is not viable for realtime transactions. Transaction costs alone kill consumer transactions, and the uncertainty of your transaction getting written into a block discourages meaningful financial transactions unless you're willing to wait upwards of an hour for a block with your TX plus a couple more blocks (at LEAST 30 minutes, by protocol) for safety against double spend.

    You spin a nice yarn, but it doesn't hold up my man. 

  9. 1 minute ago, Cheeseweasel said:

    Second of all, this has been the argument from Social Media sites all along--they are not publishers & therefore are not liable for shit posted on their site.

    Unfortunately this is not entirely accurate - algorithmic feeds and promoted posts ala facebook arguably DO turn the platform itself into a form of publisher. Content certainly does not propagate and move through the network organically - there's reams of lawsuits and internal documents and criminal investigations that bear that out.

    If social media were just the raw timeline and none of the algorithms that are curating your feed, then I'd 100% agree

  10. Reuters: Elon Musk braces for $56 billion battle with heavy metal drummer

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    WILMINGTON, Del, Nov 11 (Reuters) - Elon Musk has taken on Detroit's automakers, short-sellers and securities regulators. Next week, the Tesla (TSLA.O) chief executive is set to square off in court against an unlikely foe - a thrash metal drummer who hopes to strip Musk of his $56 billion pay.

    The trial will pit the world's richest person against one of the electric carmaker's smallest investors, Richard Tornetta, who held just nine shares when he sued in 2018.

    Tornetta sued Musk and the Tesla board on behalf of the company in what is known as a shareholder derivative lawsuit. If successful, Musk's 2018 package of stock grants will be rescinded, benefiting Tesla. Tornetta is not seeking damages for himself.

    Historically, cases brought by investors with a near-meaningless economic stake in the litigation have been criticized by business groups as "nuisance suits." Such lawsuits often end quickly in a non-monetary settlement and a payment to the attorneys representing the plaintiff.

    "This case looks different," said Jessica Erickson, a professor at University of Richmond School of Law who has specialized in shareholder litigation.

    Tornetta's case survived a motion to dismiss in 2019 and is heading to a week-long trial beginning on Monday in Wilmington, Delaware that will feature live testimony from Musk, who last month bought Twitter for $44 billion.

    The pay package was widely criticized and California's teachers retirement system known as CalSTRS was among the investors who voted against it.

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    10-FOLD RISE IN STOCK PRICE

    Tornetta's lawsuit alleges Musk dictated the pay package's terms to a board of directors beholden to the billionaire and claims it was then put to a vote of shareholders who were misled about the difficulty of reaching certain targets.

    The disputed pay package allows Musk to buy 1% of Tesla's stock at a deep discount each time escalating performance and financial targets are met; otherwise Musk gets nothing. Tesla has hit 11 of the 12 targets as its value ballooned briefly to more than $1 trillion from $50 billion, according to court papers.

    Musk and the directors argue in court filings that the package kept Musk focused on Tesla during a difficult period and led to a 10-fold rise in the stock price.

     

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  11. 25 minutes ago, Cheeseweasel said:

    Everyone needs to chill, sit back, and enjoy the dismantling of 'trusting information posted on the internet".

    Return it to dancing babies and cat memes like it was designed.

    I knew we had crossed the rubicon when people were coming to surly fucking horns for authoritative news updates lol. Hopefully this bender snaps us out of our shared fever dream. There are good information sources on the internet, but they are equal citizens with the infowars and OANN and 8chan's out there too. It's possible to separate the wheat from the chaff, but most people either can't or won't take the time to double check what they're reading before they react to it and propagate it.

    It's the same problem as before, it's just that the internet turbocharged it

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  12. 53 minutes ago, BehoId, The Underminer! said:

    Shame Boebart escaped.  I’d wonder if she’d consider refining her image if I believed she was capable of thoughts at that level.  

    It's not over yet, there's a load of mail in ballots missing a date or that had a fuzzy signature that have until Saturday to be "cured" and counted

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  13. 1 hour ago, Macklemore said:

    Sohrab Ahmari nails it. I’m glad the GOP didn’t get their red wave with peddling the same crap. The transformation to the type of party that I’m looking for hasn’t happened yet because of the zombie GOP playbook that idiots still peddle. This country desperately needs a new party to replace the GOP. Post-liberals like myself don’t have a home.

     

    Not enough goose-stepping for your tastes, I'm guessing?

  14. 1 hour ago, Hefeweizen said:

    On the WFH issue, it’s becoming a really stark divide for employers.  It’s my org’s number three reason for people leaving and it’s so dumb.  As long as the work can be done remotely I cannot understand the need to make people commute and sit in a communal office.  
     

    I could give a shit what he does to Twitter but guarantee this pushes programmers and other star talent to look elsewhere (assuming any is left).

    It's really pretty crazy how much it's tearing some orgs apart trying to pull everyone back in. Engineers and developers will go the extra mile for you if they can do it from wherever they prefer to be. Hell, I'm gonna be in Mexico in a couple weeks and won't have to take time off while traveling visiting friends! Who cares wherever I am, so long as I can get connected to the VPN I'm in business.

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  15. Huh I just realized there's like 10 folks we've seen on screen so far that were also in Chernobyl: Stellan Skarsgård, Robert Emms, Adrian Rawlins, Alex Ferns, Ron Cook, Kieran O’Brien, Lucy Russell, Josef Davies, Alex Blake, Jimmy Walker + a whole bunch of behind-the-scenes overlaps, including Casting Director Nina Gold.

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  16. 40 minutes ago, Humble Beast said:

    Show me a bitcoin only exchange or business involved in these practices? You can’t. 

    LOL there aren't any bitcoin only exchanges, or at least there haven't been since like 2011. Give me a fucking break dude. Take the L, admit that your cryptogrift is what it is.

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