• shirro@aussie.zoneEnglish
    26·
    6 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.

    • MajorHavoc@programming.dev
      14·
      5 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
    81·
    5 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.

  • frunch@lemmy.world
    15·
    7 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

  • lost_tortie@lemmy.worldEnglish
    67·
    11 hours ago

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

    • friend_of_satan@lemmy.worldEnglish
      13·
      9 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. 🙄

      • takeheart@lemmy.world
        1·
        11 minutes ago

        Waddaya mean we can’t just arbitrarily delete stuff of a public server once we know its ip address? It’s not fair! 😡

      • Molten_Moron@lemmings.world
        3·
        3 hours ago

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

    • Mîm@lemmy.zip
      19·
      10 hours ago

      And still couldn’t figure out how it works.
      What a pathetic loser 😹

  • RedSeries (She/Her)@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    651·
    11 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.zoneEnglish
      34·
      4 hours ago

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

        • sir_pronoun@lemmy.worldEnglish
          11·
          10 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
            6·
            9 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.

    • Artyom@lemm.ee
      61·
      10 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.

    • Dragon Rider (drag)@lemmy.nzEnglish
      12·
      10 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!

    • psud@aussie.zone
      5·
      10 hours ago

      Yeah he needs a file or directory list after a space after the f

      Traditional is /*

  • DaddleDew@lemmy.world
    76·
    11 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.zoneEnglish
      40·
      11 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

  • bad_news@lemmy.billiam.net
    3·
    7 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!