Elon has never been an engineer, so let’s set the record straight. He has nothing to do with the quality of Teslas. Any moron who thinks Elon is a good engineer, when he has zero engineering experience nor, to my knowledge any engineering education, immediately loses all respect in my eyes.
No no no, he is an engineer, designer, CEO of three companies, CTO of a company, father of 14, avid computer gamer, ketamine addict, Nazi aficionado, and Zombie Twitter poster extraordinaire with the sickest memes in the galaxy!
Don’t get jealous because he works at least 70 hours a day. You just wished you could be that productive. /s
I want the fucker to try. Let him blow billions in chasing a stupid idea.
I did’t expect Elon say the word Retarded on X
He hears space is cold, immediately thinks that will cool data centers. And some kids in Lemmy think he is an engineer genius.
He hasn’t been involved in an engineer project in 20+ years. He did some SWE at paypal and then lead some of the first teams at spacex. That was the last time he was even 2 steps removed from a tech team.
Everything since then has been filtered through multiple layers of middle management and executive staff. It would be way more reasonable to respect him as a businessman or maybe a visionary than an engineer. (not that I’m advocating for the existence of that respect in the first place).
Yet he wants to be the first author in articles published by his research teams:
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=8qD8mxQAAAAJ&hl=en
Well, this academic still has enough respect for Elon to pay him for a blue checkmark…
Literally, every time Musk says anything in your own field (mine are UX design and programming), you immediately realise he’s a dumbass who knows nothing about anything and is literally bullshitting his way to the top, paraphrasing smarter people without understanding what he’s saying, and just declaring himself a genius.
Thankfully I learnt this very early because he bullshitted about my field pretty early on. Everyone seems to get there eventually, the more industries he claims expertise in.
Ain’t it most of the billionaires? They just know how to tell big lies so that they can earn more money.
When questioned about Twitter, he didn’t even know the difference between front-end and back-end on coding. He has done code before at Ebay (it was all re-written by others before deployment), but he should know that and yet it is completely lost on him.
I’m not convinced he coded at eBay. I think he did some markup, which was not coding. That feels like code to someone who doesn’t know what coding is.
that’s like me saying “you know I do a little coding myself” and the entirety of my experience is setting up a Geocities page in html in the 90s, setting my xanga background picture and music, and aliasing a few bash commands and setting up an update script.
tbf everyone at work thinks I’m a tech god because I spend 2 minutes clicking around menu options before calling IT and I wear glasses
Yeah that tracks. I didn’t pay that much attention to the details on that.
Musk sounds like a genius to people who are not experts in things Musk talks about.
The worst of Dunning Kruger manifest.
Funny, though, that this issue with cooling problems is a long known issue in all things space. This should be obvious to anyone who has seen the cooling fans (infrared radiator plates) of the ISS. And they try to be very, wery careful with creating waste heat.
Maybe Elon should ask someone who actually knows something about space instead of an AI. I mean, this guy has a f-ing company that sends rockets into space. Someone there must be capable to do an ELI5 on that topic, so even Elon can understand it.
He doesn’t want to understand it. He wants to break through it and some sleazy and/or desperate engineers are telling him everything he wants to hear. They understand that it’s impossible but they also understand that if they don’t cater to his fragile ego they’ll be looking for a new job and no job will ever pay more.
Elon legitimately believes that nothing is impossible because his entire life he’s been able to pay other people to fix his problems for him and he can’t handle the idea that he’s not the most special important smartest boy.
Unfortunately for him, ambition is all well and good but we obey the laws of physics in this universe.
The funny thing is I’m pretty sure he could have achieved a lot more with the space stuff if he wasn’t so deadset on grandstanding and picking up irrelevant bullshit.
Exactly, he actually kind of was heading in the right direction but when you end up mentally stuck at age 12 it will never be enouh.
Musk was never any sort of engineer. He was just the one with daddy’s money there to take credit for the work of better people.
I think the cybertruck is the only thing hes ever had a involvement in creating. and you see how well that went.
everything else he just bought, kicked the original owners out, and gag ordered them, so he can take all the credit.
There is a very clear line you can see in their cars between the stuff that had the founders Eberhard and Tarpenning working on it, and the stuff that Musk as had a hand in. The original Roadster, and the S/Y/3/X range are all based on the original design and engineering team. Then you see the Musk lineup, Cybertruck, Semi, Cybertaxi, “Flying”-Roaster.
The desperation is starting to become very apparent, just waiting for the final merge between Tesla and Space X and to have the entire company renamed X.
I think we will see those small things, basically a single server rack with huge solar panels and cooling radiators. Some companies are really motivated to burn someone’s money for that and it is somewhat realistic to pull off, even with the big challenge of cooling. At the same time it also makes zero economic sense and has next to no computing power to even a small datacentre back on earth.
Cooling is just one of the challenges with data centers in space, though.
Indeed, which is why they are just choosing to launch merely a single rack and that blows up to a massive undertaking while delivering next to nothing in compute.
I honestly think saying that Tesla’s are good cars is glazing him too much to be honest. They’re basically the iPhone of cars. That’s not an endorsement by the way that’s condemnation I fucking hate iphones. The best thing that Elon musk could be argued to have done is to make people realize that EVS are viable.
You’re totally allowed to hate iPhones (I’m not arguing otherwise), but iPhone hardware is way better built than Tesla cars. I don’t think it’s fair to compare the two quality-of-build-wise.
I’m mostly thinking of the atrocious repair ecosystem.
That’s fair, but again Apple seems to be getting better and Tesla worse.
iPhones don’t trap you in a fiery death without door handles lol.
Ok, these are the only two good points to Musk;s name.
Yes, he did do a decent job of kick starting EV’s again even if it was by crushing down the founders for narcissistic reasons.
Secondly, he did generally tend to have a decent eye for enabling some design details (pre-cyber truck era). He did at least push them to move car design a little further on the original few models, you know the ones that actually sell decent numbers.
Beyond that, there isn’t much good to his name.
But he did that by bribing himself into being called a founder of an electric car company that already existed and already had the plan for initial growth before his arrival.
His main contribution to EV adoption is a negative one; the years delay the rollout of tesla’s dowmarket models because of his insistence the doors of the model X must open upwards.
He’s also not an engineer.
To be fair i never said he was.
Apple makes phones for people who hate technology but are forced to have a smartphone in the modern era.
Don’t forget sheep
That too lol
I’m with the Felon Mu$krat on this one. Anyone who thinks he’s an engineer is retarded.
he should go to spaace
See this is how you know he is kind of full of crap, he won’t step on one of his rockets. Credit to Bezos, at least he was willing to take a ride. Unfortunately, it was a successful launch and landing.
His first mistake was thinking musk was a good engineer.
The only thing musk has ever done was buy or steal tech. He’s never had an original thought in his life.
Only cool thing he ever did was insist that the spacex engineers figure out to land vertically like ye olde sci fi rockets
Yes he has and they’re not gonna build them anymore
