Elon Musk's epic bacon adventures
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He's literally evil.
That's it, I'm definitely not buying a Tesla now.
He’s certainly leaning into his “man that everyone loves to hate” role.
I don't love to hate him, I just wish he'd feck off to Mars already.
Maybe he's not aware of modern coding since he's been rich enough to have people do it for him for ages now, but to say he's a grifter is a bit ridiculous given his history at numerous companies before as a coder and companies founded by him.
This is probably closer to the truth. He likely hasn't seen much code since the late 90s.
Fairly basic telecom stuff. Which I unfortunately had to learn as its good enough to bore anyone to death.
He has never written code. Most of his reputation is based off this weird cult that follows him.
I think he he originally code zip2 from memory. I'm not convinced he's done much since though.
I think it was rewritten though when hired coders saw what he had done.
I get your point about the 1s and 0s and that's about as far as my understanding is able to get
you need only look at his political/social postings to see the guy is quite stunted and really not that intelligent. Its very interesting to watch what is basically a manchild being the richest guy on earth.
Yeah but his cult thinks he's sat in his batcave coming up with the greatest ideas tech will ever have.
If I saw someone who was a programmer 20 years ago and still trying to use that as a part of their resume I'd be calling them a massive fraud.
Many of them probably started as coders (Zuckerberg, Dorsey, etc) and quickly stopped coding because the business grew quickly and they were forced to hire an army of code slingers.
I don’t know about Dorsey but Zuck, weirdo that he is, is a programmer. Musk isn’t.
Boy I almost got tricked. That similar poster names should not be allowed.
Got me too
This is very confusing
It’s odd to trust your employees so little with such intense hiring procedures.
I made a GoDaddy website in the late-2000s. Coder’s like me and Musk need to stick together. Im team Musk now. Go Mars!
He’s just a male Liz Holmes innit.
Bullshit merchant, gets smarter people to do the hard almost genius stuff, takes all the credit and does a cracking job of selling his bullshit.
Bullshit merchant, gets smarter people to do the hard almost genius stuff, takes all the credit and does a cracking job of selling his bullshit.
When he codes a spaceship to rocket through the firmament and on to Mars there will still be naysayers claiming he doesn't know how to code.
I'm off now to code me some dinner.
I'm off now to code me some dinner.
He probably still codes using punchcards.
His bullshit con-artist shtick is great for fooling investors and capital funding but I'd at least say a company like SpaceX sends up a rocket. Holmes knew from day one that her product was all bullshit.
In no way a defence of Elon, his tunnel scam is very Liz Holmes like. And I wish he'd just feck off to some remote island and let the actual professional people of SpaceX run themselves. like all glory hunters his influence is always greatly over represented.
Agreed, I'm not sure what it is but somehow he's founded a company in SpaceX which is way ahead of the competitors. It's not money, because Blue Origin was founded beforehand and they're still about a decade behind plus SpaceX are way ahead of NASA at the moment. Whoever they have designing is a genius, but it's not Musk doing that. Whether he's pushing the business to keep on innovating so is worthwhile is another thing.
Surprised people still buy his piece of shit cars. They’re going to be absolutely decimated once the big auto guys go full electric. He’d be better off just selling batteries to them.
That's gonna be it.
The cars are fine. Not particularly attractive given that they look like giant dinosaur eggs sawed in half, but functionally they are very popular. The supercharger network is also a massive selling point.
They’re not well built cars Raoul. The tech is good, but the cars themselves are horrendous. “Made in the good ol us of a”.
Built in Shanghai, Freemont, Austin and soon to be Berlin. I think they're ugly personally (with the possible exception of the new Model S), but I struggle to find a better EV in terms of the car plus supercharging network infrastructure combo. That said, I'll probably end up with the new BMW EV.
You're surely not a car person are you? American built cars have been some of the highest quality for a decade or so now. This isn't the late 90s/early 2000s anymore.
If you're talking about Tesla's though, yes they are a little poorly built but you're essentially paying for tech. I'm not a fan of Teslas but I'm not gonna knock them for the market they serve
Even on tech, many car makers are quickly catching up. The area where Tesla is light years ahead is in still having its own proprietary supercharging network, whereas all the others have to rely on a patchwork of third party charging stations.
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True that. Model3 base price for the tech is still pretty good but likely won't last long as such
Interesting, is this something you've experienced yourself or just the general news? They've improved the build quality (inc panel gaps) as they ramp up and improved the new factories plus the new single cast shell (Model Y) is very different from their first versions. That said, they aren't built like a BMW. That may be down to supply of materials, weight and costs, for example there are aftermarket providers that will add more sound insulation material in the doors - so you have to wonder why Tesla haven't done that. It may be a different story with the new Model X and S which is their premium range.
The problem with EVs is building them - the big guys (Merc, Ford, BMW, VW, Toyota) are already electric now and released their lineups but they can't ramp up production. VW are needing to open new factories to compete (margin). Tesla already have the contracts with the likes of Vale and CATL plus Tesla are building their own 4680 batteries. They've all warned there will be a battery/materials shortage vs demand in a few years so I don't think it will be straightforward as you think.
I really like the new BMW i4 but it's still a converted petrol car not built EV first so it shows how far behind the big guys are (and that sucks for us consumers because Tesla can and have increased their prices such is their demand/pricing power).
Nobody has released an affordable quality decent sized car - that for me is the key.
In the UK and I think across Europe the supercharger network has now been opened to other cars (not all stations yet) - was announced the other day. Interesting move, has a downside but they may bring in additional revenue from the usage and it fits in with the vision of EV adoption.