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Michael Barnes's avatar

Has Mr Musk released the code as he promised he would?

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John Birmingham's avatar

I believe Mr. musk is currently high on bathtub crank and standing naked in a corner save for the feather duster sticking out of his date hole

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ken's avatar

He probably had a big Doobie smouldering away in the corner of his mouth, too.

Dystopia seems to be the latest fad at the moment, the Eton brigade in Downing Street can crash the UK economy in less time than it takes to finish a test match.

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Greybeard's avatar

War Wraith tweeted a pic of the Joker's money-burning scene with Enol's face. I snorted my tea.

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Andrew Reilly's avatar

It's kind of amazing just how much manual intervention the site seems to require. All that AI and advertising must need a lot of (creaky) code. Remember, at the point where Zuckerberg bought WhatsApp, it had twelve engineers, supporting a billion (or was it only 500k at that point?) users on a single server. Kind of hard to imagine that expanding to multiple thousands (in all dimensions) but I guess that you have to introduce the bugs somehow.

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Rob Mitchell's avatar

It's pretty normal for a codebase to age out as more and more changes are made. It needs to be refactored/re-engineered from the ground up again. Otherwise your playing Sisyphus.

As many problems as I've got with Microsoft they've (mostly?) succesfully done that with most of their products over the decades.

I'm guessing Musks genius never included asking anyone who had a clue about actual software though.

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Parto's avatar

But it’s still only social media, it’s not like it’s real or anything.

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John Birmingham's avatar

But where am I going to get my naughty dog security cam video, Parto? Well? Did you think about that?

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insomniac's avatar

Don't you live in a naughty dog world? Just open your eyes or film it yourself.

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Parto's avatar

I’m having a test drive of Mastodon.

Another learning curve to get in the way of “productivity”.

No dog cam found yet.

& I’d bet there’s a Reddit to suit that demographic.

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