OT: Hurricanes Lounge XL. 99 Luftballons

[hblueridgegal]

My wife’s oldest brother unexpectedly passed away this morning. His wife was out of town and when he didn’t respond to her texts, she checked her security system’s cameras and saw him lying on their porch. He appears to have had a cardiac event and died before he hit the ground. He was only 60.

My condolences to you both. I know it can feel surreal.

 

[EverettMike]

Hello. I was hoping some of you could please help an out of towner. I will be in Raleigh for a couple day this weekend. I am staying in downtown (where the wedding venue is). Any recommendations for restaurants and must-see locales/dishes would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you.

 

[cptjeff]

This is not targeted @cptjeff . You'll do a great job.

But I'm thinking HF26 needs a bit more impressive ranking mod. Something in the vein of Commodore or Field Marshall or Generalisimo. C'mon guys; think about it.

yes I've been drankin'

I'll upgrade myself to Admiral if they ever get me to agree to become a global mod. Ain't likely.

 

[MinJaBen]

Hello. I was hoping some of you could please help an out of towner. I will be in Raleigh for a couple day this weekend. I am staying in downtown (where the wedding venue is). Any recommendations for restaurants and must-see locales/dishes would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you.

Hi Mike. Welcome! We have a thread dedicated to these kind of questions. Here is the link.

Bunch of good stuff in that thread. Would also be the place to maybe tell us a little more about the type of stuff you like to do or eat if you want a better, more targetted recommendation.

Enjoy the wedding!

 

[EverettMike]

Hi Mike. Welcome! We have a thread dedicated to these kind of questions. Here is the link.

Bunch of good stuff in that thread. Would also be the place to maybe tell us a little more about the type of stuff you like to do or eat if you want a better, more targetted recommendation.

Enjoy the wedding!

Much obliged. Thank you very much.

 

[Svechhammer]

 

[Navin R Slavin]

Elon clearly believes in doing QA in production. Bold strategy, Cotton.

 

[MinJaBen]

Elon clearly believes in doing QA in production. Bold strategy, Cotton.

Which may be why he is not signing up to be the first one to go to Mars. I'll wait to book my trip until he has gone himself.

 

[Svechhammer]

Elon clearly believes in doing QA in production. Bold strategy, Cotton.

Its like he wants us all to realize he bought the 'tech genius' label rather than earned it.

 

[Navin R Slavin]

SpaceX is a good company because Elon can give direction and then listen to what his engineers tell him. Same with Tesla. Elon is good at big picture thinking and defining a critical path for growing a company. Most companies fail because of distractions, and a leader like Elon is perfect when the vision is more or less right and you need people to follow it. But Twitter was a company in crisis already, and the skills needed to build a company are far different than those required to turn around a company. Add to the equation that Twitter is a narcissism factory, and it's the perfect kryptonite for ol' Super Elon.

 

[The Stranger]

Fantastic interview with Marc Andreessen including a discussion on the problem of the "missing Elons".

 

[Lempo]

Donggothere, Stormy. Älä lähre sinne.

 

[MrazeksVengeance]

Donggothere, Stormy. Älä lähre sinne.

huonoja juttuja tapahtuu avaruudessa... ja Twitterissä

 

[Porvari]

Paid off the last instalment of my mortgage today. My life is now complete.

 

[raynman]

Paid off the last instalment of my mortgage today. My life is now complete.

If you ever get bored I have 28 years left

 

[tarheelhockey]

SpaceX is a good company because Elon can give direction and then listen to what his engineers tell him. Same with Tesla. Elon is good at big picture thinking and defining a critical path for growing a company. Most companies fail because of distractions, and a leader like Elon is perfect when the vision is more or less right and you need people to follow it. But Twitter was a company in crisis already, and the skills needed to build a company are far different than those required to turn around a company. Add to the equation that Twitter is a narcissism factory, and it's the perfect kryptonite for ol' Super Elon.

I would add, there's also a very real effect when this type of "visionary" CEO loses the room. The whole premise of their leadership is largely a confidence game where people are willing to follow a direction they may not entirely agree with, because they trust the person it's coming from.

Musk has done an extraordinary job of building and then destroying a cult of personality. He still has a shrinking core of die-hards who will get behind whatever he says, but he turned a huge number of people off politically and is now actively flushing his CEO reputation as well. That has a compounding effect... it's almost like the Tinkerbell effect, where a CEO ceases to be a visionary when people stop believing he's a visionary.

 

[Navin R Slavin]

I would add, there's also a very real effect when this type of "visionary" CEO loses the room. The whole premise of their leadership is largely a confidence game where people are willing to follow a direction they may not entirely agree with, because they trust the person it's coming from.

Musk has done an extraordinary job of building and then destroying a cult of personality. He still has a shrinking core of die-hards who will get behind whatever he says, but he turned a huge number of people off politically and is now actively flushing his CEO reputation as well. That has a compounding effect... it's almost like the Tinkerbell effect, where a CEO ceases to be a visionary when people stop believing he's a visionary.

The companies actually have to stop performing, though. Twitter is trash, and Tesla is getting caught by the rest of the industry -- but SpaceX is actually pretty incredible.

 

[tarheelhockey]

The companies actually have to stop performing, though. Twitter is trash, and Tesla is getting caught by the rest of the industry -- but SpaceX is actually pretty incredible.

I agree SpaceX is incredible. The problem is simply one of perception. If he drives a company as ubiquitous as Twitter into a ditch, and Tesla continues its slide, people will ask if he was really such a genius with SpaceX after all.

It's a bit like NHL coaches, really.

 

[MinJaBen]

The companies actually have to stop performing, though. Twitter is trash, and Tesla is getting caught by the rest of the industry -- but SpaceX is actually pretty incredible.

That is a huge understatement. I can't tell you how many aerospace engineers and professors when I was doing the rocketeering job flat out said it couldn't be done, let alone done profitably.

I still giggle like a school kid everytime I see one of those booster come down and stick the landing on a boat.




ON.A.BOAT!

 

[cptjeff]

That is a huge understatement. I can't tell you how many aerospace engineers and professors when I was doing the rocketeering job flat out said it couldn't be done, let alone done profitably.

I still giggle like a school kid everytime I see one of those booster come down and stick the landing on a boat.




ON.A.BOAT!

Personally, I'm more impressed with the RTLS landings, especially the Falcon Heavy double landings. The work required to flip around after sending off the 2nd stage and come back all the way to where the booster started is so damn impressive.

And then there's Starship and it's belly flop. You're gonna do that, and then have it caught by the tower? I mean, c'mon.

 

[Svechhammer]

Musk essentially admitting he fired an employee because of a disability is just another epic win for the tech genius

What an absolute clusterf*** that Twitter has become. As an outsider, its been one hell of a follow

 

[Nikishin Go Boom]

Musk essentially admitting he fired an employee because of a disability is just another epic win for the tech genius

What an absolute clusterf*** that Twitter has become. As an outsider, its been one hell of a follow

That tweet doesn’t say that. It says he was misrepresenting a disability. Huge difference

 

[Navin R Slavin]

That tweet doesn’t say that. It says he was misrepresenting a disability. Huge difference

Either way, wrong and absurd.

Harald Þorleifsson was the founder of a startup that Twitter bought. He has muscular dystrophy and has had for 20 years. He was voted Person of the Year by one of the biggest Icelandic media sites in 2022.

You don't ask guys like that to be code slingers. He was literally the CEO of a company that y'all paid for. Want to lay him off because you've got enough visionaries? Fine, let HR handle it. Happens all the time. But when he asks on Twitter "hey, it's been nine days since you cut off my access to my work systems, no one has contacted me since, do I still have a job?" the answer is not a glib "you should never have had a job in the first place, you weren't fired because you were never doing anything in your first place" rant.

Elon has done some amazing things, but he is an absolute asshole, when he absolutely doesn't need to be. There was no defensible reason to treat that guy that way in public. None. Except that he's a thin skinned bitch.

 

[Svechhammer]

Looks like Elon's lawyer finally got in touch with him today

 

[Lempo]

Lollers. We got the Parliament election within a month, which means that every singular road side pole is littered with the ads of the candidates.

Turns out, these ads occasionally mess up the adaptive cruise control and its traffic sign recognition in the newer cars, and the candidate's voting number gets misinterpreted as the speed limit and the cruise control will react accordingly.