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[-] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 6 hours ago

did he just attempt to fix a virus on his system by only deleting the containing folder and being like well that's that

[-] pfm@scribe.disroot.org 11 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

To me, the whole thing with "woke" being used as a derogatory term is the same as conservatist folk calling XR, Last Generation and other activists "eco-terrorists".

[-] pyre@lemmy.world 23 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

good god he wrote two lines and they're both dumb as fuck

[-] shirro@aussie.zone 44 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

I was a huge SpaceX fan from the early days so watched a lot of Musks presentations and interviews and noticed a lot of repetition and always felt he was strongly working from talking points combined with a reasonably good high level understanding of the topic.

He didn't work as well off script and seemed to have stunted emotional development, not unlike a lot of internet age manboys raised on memes, video games and porn. It is difficult to reconcile his behaviour with an adult, father and manager of people and money. I suspect he has some seriously competent peiple around him like Shotwell who cover for his fuck ups.

IMO he probably is the kind of guy who can soak up stuff around him, turn it into a set of talking points and repeat it with the appearance of expertise. I think he may have had some cognitive decline due to age and lifestyle but I think he was a pretty competent bullshit artist in the past.

I am not an expert at anything but like many IT people discovered long ago that I can pick up most things in my general field with a bit of research. It is a dangerous mindset sometimes. There really is the feeling that with some basic undergrad math and comp sci and a weekend of googling you can understand quantum field theory and it's totally delusional of course.

Unfortunately the fake it to you make it culture seems to have won. It doesn't matter how crap you are, if you put yourself out there with confidence you will outcompete the quiet competent types. And when you get caught out there never seem to be consequences.

[-] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 hours ago

Nah, he is just a scammer with a lot of luck.

Je was fired for incompetence, for one.

However, if you start looking in what he has promised and what he really has done, a new pattern emerges: it's all bullshit. He continuously makes fantastic claims that will be ready by tomorrow. It'll all be done by tomorrow, really!

Tesla's full self driving, is already here, claimed for 10 years and still isn't even close. Tesla hasn't made any new models in the past 10 years begpnd the cyber truck which is a horrendous laughably stupid thing, yet Tesla is still valued more than any other car company that make 10-100 times the amounts of cars that Tesla does.

SpaceX? We'll be on Mars in 2020, 2021, 2022, etc... SpaceX still can't get itself beyond low earth orbit and only managed to explode a banana over the Indian ocean. They're literally 1% done of what they got billions of tax payer funding from. Meanwhile they cheer every time a rocket blows up because.....fun? Ohh, how about the tickets sending people to the other side of the world in 39 minutes? Of course any high schooler could tell you 20 reasons why that's bullshit but Elon fans lap it up.

Boring company? Would make tunnels 100 times cheaper than others, really, truly! Of course anyone can do that too if you don't put in rails, emergency exits, space to escape in case of emergency, stations, etc.

Okay, how about star link? You know, those thousands of satellites that do the job of single satellites, and totally won't cause the Kessler syndrome? Yeah, use thousands of satellites in orbits so low that you'll have to replace them every 5 years costing billions. What does it get you? A slightly lower ping. This seems the most actual successful project to date that comes from him and it's still a shit show

Hyperloop? The absolute bullshit show what got tens of Billions of investment and went nowhere ever because the idea is fundamentally flawed? Even universities jumped in because reasons, it stopped high speed rail development in the US because this would be so much better, and yeah... China has tens of thousands of kilometres of high speed rail now, and the US has... Nothing.

The robots? The spandex guy, FFS... Any "real" demo of his robots has been 20 years behind on Boston dynamics and even then they had to fake most of if with humans controlling those sad machines

Did I forget anything? Ooohh yeah, the solar roofs, where he cheated too. Lots of court cases about that one

Elon Musk is a scammer, that's it

[-] frezik@midwest.social 2 points 58 minutes ago* (last edited 6 minutes ago)

Compared to NASA, SpaceX is developing at a breakneck pace. The SLS has its roots in the Constellation program from 2005 which itself came from the 2004 report "Vision for Space Exploration". That was when NASA finally admitted the Shuttle was never going to live up to its original goals and it had to go.

Ares V is a reconfiguration of Shuttle hardware into a more traditional rocket. It's still taken two decades and has one test launch to show for it.

SpaceX is the only Musk company I'll defend, and it also seems to be the one that's best at keeping Elon from fucking around with them internally.

That said, the whole point of commercial launch systems is that it's not just one company doing it. Blue Origin might finally have something to show off soon, but there's nobody else at a reasonable development level. Virgin Galactic only seems interested in space tourisim. (Edit: for completeness sake, I should also add that ULA is a joke.) A bunch of small companies are doing R&D, but few have even a single small launch yet. If it's just going to be SpaceX, might as well make it a government-run company like the USPS.

[-] frezik@midwest.social 1 points 1 hour ago

Each of his companies has to have a layer of management that's simply about directing his attention somewhere that won't hurt the company. SpaceX seems to do this best, Tesla is OK to bad, and Xhitter is by far the worst.

[-] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 24 points 13 hours ago

you put yourself out there with confidence and your parents blood money from emerald mines you will outcompete the quiet competent types.

But yeah. Point taken.

[-] Entropywins@lemmy.world 16 points 13 hours ago

Woke mind found at loopback interface

Wokemind deleted

Now let's traceroute a fucking loopback of something you deleted...

It's not funny, it's not smart but it definitely is Elon.

[-] lost_tortie@lemmy.world 82 points 19 hours ago

Please do notice that he replied to himself a month after the fact. He was cooking that up for an entire month ๐Ÿ˜น

[-] minyakcurry 25 points 18 hours ago

It just took a month to connect to his own brain.

[-] friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 21 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

Without even realizing that rm -rf works on posix filesystems which are not directly exposed at osi layer 3.

This is the brilliant scientific mind that wants to take humanity to mars. ๐Ÿ™„

[-] takeheart@lemmy.world 8 points 9 hours ago

Waddaya mean we can't just arbitrarily delete stuff of a public server once we know its ip address? It's not fair! ๐Ÿ˜ก

[-] Molten_Moron@lemmings.world 8 points 11 hours ago

No, this is the rich, entitled asshole who wants to severely underpay brilliant scientific minds to take humanity to Mars.

[-] Mim@lemmy.zip 28 points 19 hours ago

And still couldn't figure out how it works.
What a pathetic loser ๐Ÿ˜น

[-] frunch@lemmy.world 21 points 15 hours ago

He can fake gaming kinda-sorta, he can fake admirers kinda-sorta... Why could he kinda-sorta fake programming skills?

He's the ultimate fake

[-] Luci@lemmy.ca 131 points 20 hours ago

thats not how rm -rf works

[-] Artyom@lemm.ee 79 points 19 hours ago

Not to diminish the fact that that's not how rm works, but that's also not how anything else in his tweet works either.

[-] Luci@lemmy.ca 20 points 17 hours ago

I only care about the rm part

[-] dragonfucker@lemmy.nz 17 points 19 hours ago

Yeah that command wouldn't run. Which means Elon still has the woke mind virus.

That's probably why he told everyone to take the red pill. The red pill is estrogen.

...ohhhhhh, so that's how he's going to create those genetically engineered catgirls! He meant epigenetic changes caused by estrogen!

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[-] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 92 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

It's just another case of Musk trying to sound smart but instead ends up proving that he doesn't even have a basic working understanding on the subject.

I guess this time the only difference is that it doesn't look like he paid an actually competent person to help him with it.

[-] bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 49 points 19 hours ago

This might be giving him too much credit, but I think what he's trying to say is that he had the woke_mind_virus and deleted it from his mind? They've all co-opted the term red pill from the Matrix (widely seen as a trans allegory) and are using it to justify their unpopular actions because they're now free of having to be "woke" and can oppress those who are marginalized.

Obligatory Fuck Elon:

Fuck Elon

I'm actually shocked Elon hasn't offered to impregnate her. Either it's an oversight, or he HAS and we just don't know about it.

[-] Sanctus@lemmy.world 13 points 17 hours ago

Fuck thats some good shit. It will never cease to amaze me how every piece of pop culture they touch brings the creators out swinging.

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[-] RedSeries@lemmy.blahaj.zone 71 points 19 hours ago

This is a freshman CS/IT major's attempt at humor. Most of us learn and grow out of it and/or get the memes right, but Elon isn't smart and isn't actually capable of understanding how stupid this looks

[-] Taleya@aussie.zone 45 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

No IT major would fuck the syntax like that, this is a script kiddie hooting through a mouthful of cheetos

[-] MothmanDelorian@lemmy.world 12 points 18 hours ago

Musk has no teal programming credentials to speak of I thought. His degree(s) are physics and economics.

[-] sir_pronoun@lemmy.world 20 points 18 hours ago

Funnily enough he doesn't even have a physics degree. He has been wrongly claiming that forever, and one joke is that's one reason he bought Twitter, because the guys there wouldn't shut up about that

[-] MothmanDelorian@lemmy.world 8 points 17 hours ago

That's why the plural is in parenthesis.

He bought Twitter because he had to. He made a legally binding offer to purchase it at a soecific price per share as a joke and then was forced to follow through because Jack Dorsey et al did not take it as a joke.

Elon's forced purchase of Twitter is proof how dumb he can be.

[-] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 16 points 15 hours ago

did he just delete his brain via neuralink?

[-] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 6 hours ago

can't delete what you don't have

dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/neuralink bs=5G

[-] Sabata11792@ani.social 67 points 21 hours ago

Sounds like Muskrat can't remove the virus it as it deleted the RM command.

[-] noride@lemm.ee 29 points 20 hours ago

GASP the virus is in the user!

[-] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone 22 points 20 hours ago
[-] MrLLM@ani.social 13 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)
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[-] joyjoy@lemm.ee 49 points 20 hours ago

Elon is not an engineer. Don't believe his lies.

[-] lol_idk@lemmy.ml 8 points 15 hours ago

Now if he would just remove the French localization

[-] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 43 points 21 hours ago
-bash: woke_mind_virus: command not found
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[-] z3rOR0ne@lemmy.ml 9 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

God this tweet makes me mad on so many levels. Anyone who has spent any meaningful amount of time in the command line knows this tweet is such bullshit.

EDIT: Further venting of frustrations.

[-] Scoopta@programming.dev 20 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

๐Ÿค”, I must not have the mind virus then as 127.0.0.1 does not loopback on my machines. Victory? Also I'd just like to point out that while hostnames can contain _ they're not supposed to as it's reserved for special purposes like SRV records.

[-] carpelbridgesyndrome@sh.itjust.works 11 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 14 minutes ago)

Well if its in $PATH he just ran it

[-] bad_news@lemmy.billiam.net 4 points 15 hours ago

I love how this lucky fucker is always playing his perpetual rolling 20 by chance as genius, when its apparent luck just loves the WORST former genocide victims, from South African Huguenots to Israeli Jews. Armenians, do worse if you want to do better!

[-] villainy@lemmy.world 8 points 19 hours ago

Musky needs to hook up with NextGenHacker101 and get on that tracer-t tip!

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