Elon Musk has made a serious mistake

[The Duke]

So you don't like EVs, ShitBird Synth? What about Climate Change, bruh?

Fuck, how you escaped being in the above meme is beyond me. Yet it happened.

Unless one of those is/was yours

 

[Synthaholic]

Elon isn't the brain some of you fan boys think he is.

 

[Synthaholic]

If trump is elected, he will shut down infrastructure efforts to support EVs and the Chinese will leave the US in the dust in their development. This will give China the chance to catch and even surpass the US in GDP.

Republicans are pulling another Solyndra. And just like solar, they will hand EVs to the Chinese.

 

[JimH52]

Elon isn't the brain some of you fan boys think he is.

Does Musk realize that if trump is re-elected, he is going to try and kill the EV initiatives? That will see Tesla take a dive in value and Elon will see his person fortune plumate. Why he has turned into a MAGA nutcase, I will never know.

 

[Synthaholic]

I keep telling you he's a rich dumbass.

 

[Boo Radley]

Right, I'm sure an internet dipshit knows more that Musk.

 

[Captain Caveman]

Does Musk realize that if trump is re-elected, he is going to try and kill the EV initiatives? That will see Tesla take a dive in value and Elon will see his person fortune plumate. Why he has turned into a MAGA nutcase, I will never know.

Probably why Tesla are looking into hydrogen, even they know AA battery vehicles are a waste of time. Took them long enough. Some bakes still think EV's are a great idea.

 

[Synthaholic]

Elon is now in bed with Communist China. They wouldn't allow Tesla cars to be bought as official government vehicles because of all the built-in cameras. They were (publicly) worried about the car's ability to spy on China. Elmo goes to China few weeks ago, and now - SURPRISE - the government has lifted its ban.

 

[Synthaholic]

 

[Synthaholic]

Lol!

 

[Synthaholic]

Tesla Cybertruck Owner Finds New Way to Chop Off Fingers in Its Doors​

The Cybertruck's fashionably discreet door release buttons are perhaps too sleek for their own good.
The Tesla Cybertruck’s predilection for chopping vegetables and fake human fingers is well-known, but the infamous pinch hazards have mostly involved the EV’s powered frunk. A Cybertruck owner is now warning others of similar dangers posed by the sharp edges of the electric pickup’s doors after a member of his family suffered a “very serious laceration” by getting a finger caught in the seam between the front and rear doors during a routine family outing. According to the owner, his father-in-law was reaching for the Cybertruck’s pillar-mounted door release but mistook its location and put his hand in the wrong place at the wrong time, just as the man’s son was closing the rear passenger door.


The forum user shared his warning on the Cybertruck Owners Club on Monday, beginning the post by saying that he’s owned his 2024 Tesla Cybertruck since May, logging over 1,500 miles since then. The owner adds that he “absolutely love the truck,” and says he recently had to explain how to open the front door to his father-in-law, who was a first-time rider in the Tesla. He recounts teaching his father-in-law that opening the front door requires pressing the door release button on the truck’s B pillar, which has a small white light denoting its location.

The arrows point to each door’s respective release. Tesla

The lesson stuck after a few tries, and the family went on its merry way. But when it was time to return to the truck after dinner, disaster struck. The Cybertruck owner writes, “When my father-in-law reached up to the pillar button to unlock the truck, my son closed his rear passenger door. Whatever circumstance caused it to happen—confusion, looking in the wrong place, distraction—my father-in-law’s finger got closed inside the door gap between back and front doors.”

The accident prompted a trip to the emergency room, and required “only seven stitches and a splint” for the unfortunate father-in-law whose index finger was crushed in the door seam. Even though the accident could largely be seen as a result of user error, the danger is such that Tesla specifically warns against it in the Cybertruck’s user manual, reminding owners to beware of distractions and miscommunication between front and rear passengers that may lead to bodily harm.

 

[Synthaholic]

I love the EU more each day.

 

[Synthaholic]

 

[jbander]

I don't understand a lot of the technical stuff, but it's becoming clear that firing all these engineers was a monumental mistake, which may sink Twitter, Tesla, and his wealth.

Gergely Orosz​

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What I'm hearing from inside Twitter:

Several people who were let go on Friday, then asked to come back were given less than an hour as a deadline.

Software engineers who got this call I know of all said "no" and the only ones who could eventually say "yes" are on visas.

Also:
Many people got a phone call with this "offer", and a short deadline. Lots of people stopped answering unknown numbers to avoid this.

Inside Twitter, managers I hear are getting desperate, trying to call back more people. People are saying "no" + more sr engineers are quitting.

None of this is surprising. As a rule of thumb, after you lay off X% of people, you get an additional half attrition. Lay off 10%: expect another 5% to quit. Lay off 50%... not unreasonable to expect another 25% to quit.

Calling back people you just fired rarely works.
Why it's a problem that senior people are quitting and people don't want to come back:

Twitter has a complex architecture for a reason. And it needs some level of institutional knowledge to maintain.

This institutional knowledge both got fired + is walking out the door.

In practical terms: software engineers who are with the company are now put on oncall rotations for systems they have no idea about. I mean, they can figure it out... easiest to talk with someone who knows these.

The problem is when there's no such person left.

Talking with engineers, some things people don't realize about Twitter:

• On prem data centers
• Lots of infra-level advanced stuff. Eg multi-level infra feature flags
• Advanced infra-level incremental rollouts to avoid outages that were caused by infra changes in the past

Unless the institutional knowledge is somehow retained, in days/weeks/months, we should, sadly, expect to see a lot more outages.

The straightforward option to reduce damage is:
1. Retain experienced folks, at least mid-term
2. Hire and onboard new people with these seniors

I know that on Twitter it's fashionable to mock how "slow" Twitter was to ship.

But the more I learn about the internal systems, and why it was built in a way, the more impressed I am. Eg Twitter onboarding to k8s was extremely challenging (+brilliant) thanks to legacy infra.

Twitter has no nuance to discuss Twitter tradeoffs. But as I understand, there were many: some workaround of legacy decisions, some deliberate.

This doesn't change that Twitter is a complex system, and it's complex for good reasons. I really hope enough people stay who know why.

Also, thank you to both people who built these systems Twitter runs on, and especially those staying and maintaining them.

Keeping Twitter running became far more challenging overnight for no fault of ppl doing all this difficult work.

Thanks for keeping the lights on and more!

One thing that continues to bug me:

Elon Musk is an experienced operator and no stranger to layoffs (and their impact). He has a team of advisors from the VC world.

Surely they expected all this to happen. So, why did they do it? Or is this the plan?

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A timely comic from a former Twitter software engineer - several people told me he was one of the most productive web engineers -, who was also Twitter's unofficial Chief Cartoonist.

So a bit more of an insider view:



Worth linking how the author of the above comic got fired at Twitter.

He was working on a high-priority project at 9pm on Tuesday (after Elon bought Twitter). Disconnected and fired mid-work-meeting. No justification as to why.

Now he's suing Twitter.

It is simple buying a Tesla is now Anti American, the same restrictions put on internationally against German Manufacturers in WW ii will happen to Tesla . for the exact same reasons. And to me there is nothing more capitalistic then going after products whose leaders support this countries biggest threat and enemy. Elon has turned out to be totally pro anti American.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

It is simple buying a Tesla is now Anti American, the same restrictions put on internationally against German Manufacturers in WW ii will happen to Tesla . for the exact same reasons. And to me there is nothing more capitalistic then going after products whose leaders support this countries biggest threat and enemy. Elon has turned out to be totally pro anti American.

Using the government to punish your political opponents, how very Fascist of you

 

[Lastamender]

It is simple buying a Tesla is now Anti American, the same restrictions put on internationally against German Manufacturers in WW ii will happen to Tesla . for the exact same reasons. And to me there is nothing more capitalistic then going after products whose leaders support this countries biggest threat and enemy. Elon has turned out to be totally pro anti American.

Fruitcake!

 

[Synthaholic]

This is great! It also talks about the regret from people who moved from California to Texas.

Column: Who elected Elon Musk our arbiter of social norms?

Elon Musk says he's relocating his companies to Texas because California laws 'attack ... families.' Wait till he learns about Texas laws restricting parents' rights over their own children.

www.latimes.com

 

[Synthaholic]