Twitter likely to take idiots offer to buy them for $43 billion

[TomC]

Isn't Texas 80% of roads to nowhere and the rest of it two major Cities where normal humans live?

It's also 38 EC delegates.
Don't forget that part.
Tom

 

[TSwizzle]

LOS ANGELES - The massive crush of layoffs washing through the United States tech sector is sparking panic among large numbers of immigrants, who are scrambling to stay employed or risk losing their right to live in this country. These workers, primarily Indian nationals, are in the country on temporary visas designed to help U.S. firms employ an exceptionally skilled and educated workforce. Many have been here for years, in some cases decades. An H1B visa holder - who spoke on the condition of anonymity so his parents in India wouldn't find out he had lost his job - voiced frustration that he'd been courted by recruiters in the past, but is now struggling to find a job so he and his wife don't get deported. "It's very hard. ... I've been here 10 years but I'm on the 60-day clock," said the software engineer laid-off by Amazon in January. "For the past two years the market was good and the salaries were getting higher. Now, even though you're experienced you'll have to compromise a lot," he said. "I'll probably end up at a start-up with one-third of my pay. They know I'm desperate, I have no negotiating power."

Yahoo

Do these people not understand the meaning of "temporary"? Ten years and he still doesn't have a green card?

 

[TomC]

Do these people not understand the meaning of "temporary"? Ten years and he still doesn't have a green card?

Do you not understand "This Nation of Immigrants"?

Maybe y'all should push that Statue of Liberty, with all its liberal bullshit, into the sea...
Tom

 

[lpetrich]

He's gotten rid of most everybody that knows how it works. Anybody brought in to fix it will first have to figure out what they're fixing.

It’s a microblogging site. How high do you think the learning curve would be?

It has a lot of users and a big database of tweets, it select out tweets for its users and also finds trends and shows them to its users. Getting it to work well requires a lot of technical expertise.

 

[Oleg]

He's gotten rid of most everybody that knows how it works. Anybody brought in to fix it will first have to figure out what they're fixing.

It’s a microblogging site. How high do you think the learning curve would be?

It has a lot of users and a big database of tweets, it select out tweets for its users and also finds trends and shows them to its users. Getting it to work well requires a lot of technical expertise.

I get the anti-Musk take. But if his personnel changes were to doom the platform it would have happened already.

 

[TomC]

But if his personnel changes were to doom the platform it would have happened already.

I don't understand why you think that.

Sometimes it takes a long time for bad decisions to result in catastrophic failure.

Russia is still around, despite years of bad decisions.
Tom

 

[Shadowy Man]

a Tesla thing rather than Twitter.

Tesla is moving its engineering HQ back to California. Gee, he supposedly moved out there for lower taxes and cheaper labor (and less regulations). I don't think those things have changed, and there doesn't seem to be an explanation for the move back.

Tesla engineering HQ returning to California, Musk announces

Tesla is bringing its engineering headquarters back to California.

thehill.com

Musk discovered the top talent isn't just going to follow him. If the best engineers want to live and work in Southern California, who they work for is a secondary consideration.

This is likely correct except that Silicon Valley isn’t in Southern California.

 

[hurtinbuckaroo]

Perhaps, but's Twitter is running fine.

Basically, the Chief Twit got rid of pretty much all of the maintenance staff. Things will run fine for a while. Maybe they'll degrade over time, maybe they'll come to a screeching halt when a high-severity flaw is discovered somewhere in the software stack.

Nah, the guy running Space X, Starlink and self driving cars surely has access to resources to make certain security is up to snuff. Hell I just work on accounting in the plumbing industry and made enough friends to keep my house on the up and up and I make under 40k a year. I can't imagine what the x richest man on earth could do.

He's gotten rid of most everybody that knows how it works. Anybody brought in to fix it will first have to figure out what they're fixing.

Huh? There are only but so many programing languages out there though.

Knowing the language and knowing the architecture are quite different.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

He's gotten rid of most everybody that knows how it works. Anybody brought in to fix it will first have to figure out what they're fixing.

It’s a microblogging site. How high do you think the learning curve would be?

At that scale there's a substantial learning curve. Nothing is easy when you work with that much data.

He's gotten rid of most everybody that knows how it works. Anybody brought in to fix it will first have to figure out what they're fixing.

Huh? There are only but so many programing languages out there though.

Knowing the programming language is merely the first step of many.

I get the anti-Musk take. But if his personnel changes were to doom the platform it would have happened already.

You already showed us you don't understand the problem, no need to double down on it. It's not like Musk got rid of the driver of the car--he got rid of the mechanics. For a one-off majorly custom car. It's going to keep working until something breaks. Maybe the redundancy is enough that it keeps working (consider his pulling cables stunt--what he actually showed is that the original people did it right, the system could tolerate a fault and keep on going. He doesn't understand that such redundancy is a necessary feature), maybe it crashes and burns badly.

Knowing the language and knowing the architecture are quite different.

Finally, someone who gets it.

 

[Oleg]

You already showed us you don't understand the problem, no need to double down on it. It's not like Musk got rid of the driver of the car--he got rid of the mechanics.

When do you expect this Twitter apocalypse to happen? Do you use Twitter? What problems have you experienced? I've not noticed any change since October.

 

[Patooka]

When do you expect this Twitter apocalypse to happen? Do you use Twitter? What problems have you experienced? I've not noticed any change since October.

Twitter Glitch Places Limits on Tweet Frequency, Impacting Business and Individual Accounts

The company limits users to a maximum of 2,400 tweets a day, but users reported being prevented from tweeting far below that limit.

www.hollywoodreporter.com

This was over two weeks ago, but it's clear the cracks are showing.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

You already showed us you don't understand the problem, no need to double down on it. It's not like Musk got rid of the driver of the car--he got rid of the mechanics.

When do you expect this Twitter apocalypse to happen? Do you use Twitter? What problems have you experienced? I've not noticed any change since October.

You continue to show you don't understand the issue. When will your car need repair? You can't answer?? Obviously your car will never need repair.

 

[bigfield]

You already showed us you don't understand the problem, no need to double down on it. It's not like Musk got rid of the driver of the car--he got rid of the mechanics.

When do you expect this Twitter apocalypse to happen? Do you use Twitter? What problems have you experienced? I've not noticed any change since October.

You continue to show you don't understand the issue. When will your car need repair? You can't answer?? Obviously your car will never need repair.

No problem: when the car breaks down he can just hire some motorcycle mechanics and leave the car in the shop while the mechanics learn how to fix it.

 

[Gospel]

Knowing the language and knowing the architecture are quite different.

Finally, someone who gets it.

My presumption is that hardly anyone in the field knows the architecture as it's forever evolving, what they do have is the ability to adjust & find what's needed to complete tasks. For the really knowledgeable folks it would likely take them half a year to become effective in Twitter security/architecture. That's my wild guess. It's like saying a car mechanic who's been working on cars learned nothing from working on many different cars over 20 years and when one never seen before like a 2021 Rolls-Royce Ghost rolls onto their lot, they forget what parts an engine needs to run.

The mechanic has a good idea of where and what to look for. Might have to learn new things specific to Rolls but that mechanic after a slow start will get acquainted fairly fast.

 

[TSwizzle]

Another 200 emptied out of Twitter;

Elon Musk posted a feel-good inspirational tweet wishing his followers a “good Sunday” just a day after some 200 Twitter employees learned that they had lost their jobs. “Hope you have a good Sunday,” the Twitter owner tweeted. “First day of the rest of your life.” Musk’s tweet coincided with the news that 10% of the remaining workforce at Twitter has been cut — including Esther Crawford, the loyal executive who bought into her new boss’ “extremely hardcore” work ethos.

NYP

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

"Have a good Sunday"... from the high functioning Autism Spectral owner of Twitter. People in management often have a gift (or higher learning ed) for poor communication, inability to answer questions, and utterly unbearable relating skills. Musk puts them all to shame.

 

[Gospel]

Police Radio: We're putting out an APB on AI!! The suspect lacks the ability to account for multiple topics at once!! Doesn't have a nuanced understanding of language!! And can't for the love of Talos answer any questions requiring inference!!

Wee woo wee woo wee woo!

Elon would get arrested asap for matching the description.

 

[Oleg]

You already showed us you don't understand the problem, no need to double down on it. It's not like Musk got rid of the driver of the car--he got rid of the mechanics.

When do you expect this Twitter apocalypse to happen? Do you use Twitter? What problems have you experienced? I've not noticed any change since October.

You continue to show you don't understand the issue. When will your car need repair? You can't answer?? Obviously your car will never need repair.

You're hatred of Musk has ruined your reason.

 

[hurtinbuckaroo]

Knowing the language and knowing the architecture are quite different.

Finally, someone who gets it.

My presumption is that hardly anyone in the field knows the architecture as it's forever evolving, what they do have is the ability to adjust & find what's needed to complete tasks. For the really knowledgeable folks it would likely take them half a year to become effective in Twitter security/architecture. That's my wild guess. It's like saying a car mechanic who's been working on cars learned nothing from working on many different cars over 20 years and when one never seen before like a 2021 Rolls-Royce Ghost rolls onto their lot, they forget what parts an engine needs to run.

The mechanic has a good idea of where and what to look for. Might have to learn new things specific to Rolls but that mechanic after a slow start will get acquainted fairly fast.

Knowing the architecture is what allows you to fix a problem without breaking something else. Car repair isn’t a good analogy.

 

[Gospel]

Knowing the language and knowing the architecture are quite different.

Finally, someone who gets it.

My presumption is that hardly anyone in the field knows the architecture as it's forever evolving, what they do have is the ability to adjust & find what's needed to complete tasks. For the really knowledgeable folks it would likely take them half a year to become effective in Twitter security/architecture. That's my wild guess. It's like saying a car mechanic who's been working on cars learned nothing from working on many different cars over 20 years and when one never seen before like a 2021 Rolls-Royce Ghost rolls onto their lot, they forget what parts an engine needs to run.

The mechanic has a good idea of where and what to look for. Might have to learn new things specific to Rolls but that mechanic after a slow start will get acquainted fairly fast.

Knowing the architecture is what allows you to fix a problem without breaking something else. Car repair isn’t a good analogy.

Experience makes the getting to knowing part easier because the mechanic knows not all cars are exactly the same yet they know all the components that makes an engine work. . Would sexual intercourse be a better analogy for you? Pick your poison.