When you get the IRS on your ass, you lose your hair from the stress, your colon turns inside out, you get every one of your transactions scrutinised, and you scramble to deal with it while trying to still keep your life going. When musk gets the IRS on his ass, he hires the best tax lawyers in the world to deal with it, and fucks off to his private beach to sip martinis and get sucked off by whoever the fuck. If he's feeling particularly ornery, he calls up his accountant and donates a billion dollars in "favors" and "services" to whichever SuperPAC lobbies to defund the IRS.
Same if he gets sued or slandered by the media or whatever other problem you can think off. As long as it doesn't threaten his wealth at a systemic scale, he doesn't have to give two fucks.
As far as I see, Elon Musk is bigger than a real person. He can insulate himself from real people problems to such a degree that many of these problems dont even show up on his radar, instead being taken care of by his assistants before they get to his table. You have as much in common with elon musk as human DNA does to Onion DNA - technically you're similar to each other in that you're both human beings, but you aren't even close to the same thing.
The only problems that he might have in common with normal people are interpersonal ones.
I really don't understand how you would even arrive to "My calling is to defend Elon Musk". I feel dirty even spending the time to write this comment.
I can't figure out why this is so hard to comprehend. The rich have so many alternatives that the poor don't to any given problem, and its still so common to find the middle class rise to take up pitchforks for the richest segments.
OP was complaining about how they had to see it WITHOUT consent. Your point about being willing to stomach photos of atrocities is moot if you don't give the viewer the choice of seeing them.
I dont think that the stars comparison is very fair. One is a complex version control and product infrastructure system that intermediate users or experts in the domain get familiar with. The other is a coding tutorial series that literally everyone and their dog forks or saves when they start out on learning programming - every college student, every high schooler that has a CS 100, etc. etc.
Also, is there any point to being discovered by the legion of new users and learners on github? What about discovery by people that actually have the inclination and expertise, and have shown the willingness to commit to a smaller user-base because it's FOSS?
Not trying to disprove or devalue your perspective, just trying to point out that the masses might be wrong to choose the popular option to help get "discovered".
How do we break out of this path of trying to get big enough to break custom, and once you're big enough not having the guts to test wide sweeping changes?
Bravo for the great summary and expanding on the article. I'd like to subscribe to everything you write.
Agree on the VScode comments. Some of the scummiest business maneuvering from Microsoft. The terrifying part is its slowly becoming so ingrained that its going to take a long time and a lot of directed effort to undo the damage.
Agree on the consultancy angle - this is woefully becoming more and more commonplace as true from-scratch engineering dies on the wayside. Do you think this can be mitigated by, say, college courses that concentrate on the base form of the programming domain? Maybe web development with backend hosted on a machine in the classroom, with a registered domain on an external registrar instead of the usual localhost bullshit, and students responsible for routing etc? Like an emulation of the old days when you started learning web dev on your home computer and stayed with it until you were pretty much a journeyman engineer?
Going after the wrong dude my friend, this guy is a friend of the FOSS movement.
As for you, its alright to keep all your project codebases on github or gitlab etc. I think the article is majorly talking about large scale codebases that aim to replace existing closed source functionalities. Either way, if you plan and wish to implement a large project that you think will have many contributors, perhaps you could consider codeberg and similar open source devops projects to host and run your new project on, from the start. That way you won't have any migration pains. If it doesn't end up working out, hey, thats also a useful report for others who might be thinking about doing the same.
Oh man. This is embarrassing, but in college I didn't want to be in any one in-group (I also have some flavor of commitment issue), so I used to push my way into groups and cliques where I wasn't invited. I'd wallow in the palpable social discomfort of "Who the fuck is this?" for quite some time till I got used to it. This was my main way to score "recreational flora". I'd later turn some of them into friends maybe a couple months down the road, but thinking back on this now, I cringe into a black hole.
Nah, not this rhetoric. Masks were mandatory because of COVID, and that was the right move. Get out of here with your bad-by-association argument. Making masks mandatory then was the right move. Banning masks during protests is not the right move. Both these facts are not mutually exclusive.
When you make such weak, bad faith arguments, you only give fuel for the other side to break down even your valid arguments.
There are plenty of reasons to call UK clowns, but masks during this centuries worst version of the black death (so far) isn't one of them.
Did he have any behavioural problems afterwards? I read that removing cats claws makes them skittish since they dont have claws for self defense. Any such issues?
Also, your descendants can keep you hooked up to a ventilator to infinite money glitch.