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And it's also a fact BOTH options and grants are given to employees, depending.
I didn't use one instead of the other, and frankly the existence of this entire thread is a bizarre amusement to me at this point.
If "we'll do it eventually" was a legitimate excuse for not shipping, then theft would be legal. You know, "I'll return it eventually." You go to the bank, take a loan and then you never pay back. But not to worry, you intend to pay it. Eventually.
It's like the way Twitter pays rent right now. "I'll pay it, eventually." Oddly, he doesn't mind having an office for free right now, though.
If it's unclear, there's no distinction at all between a scammer and an entrepreneur, except the latter ships when they say, and the former doesn't.
Long term we're all dead. Time matters.
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As for me being wrong about zero successes, can you be slightly more specific. What is that "first thing" he promised? The blue checks? The blue checks that helped drive away most advertisers, losing him billions, in order to earn less than 50 mil/year in subscription fees?
That's the "success" you want me to count?
Thanks for the laugh.
With great successes like that, X Corp. will be bankrupt before year's end.
The list of Twitter features he promised when he bought the company is long and he has zero successes so far.
In the case of Twitter, he joined in late October last year talking about the "everything app", talking about how soon we'll be able to make payment transactions, monetize ads in replies, see detailed information how and why we're shadowbanned, compete with YouTube, make Twitter an "optimized giant neural network" and, oh, save humanity from the "woke mind virus" because "nothing else matters if this is not solved".
He says literally whatever. What he shipped so far is few underbaked features started before he bought the company, and wrecked the verification system in a failed attempt to monetize Twitter (by reports he lost 89% of ad revenue which was 5 billion a year, to earn about 600k Blue subscribers for revenue of less than 50 million a year, do the math).
Watch what he ships, not what he says.
The scammer got scammed.
Twitter is being dismantled and sold for parts.
"See, he fired 90% of the company and Twitter is doing just fine!" (ignoring he can't ship any major feature, and also we have bugs and outages every week). "We should do the same, big teams are doomed, small teams are the future."
Meanwhile, I'm really "being aggressive" by saying "I'd be really happy if we stop propagandazing this tech bro BS [...] and start respecting the work of our colleagues."
I suppose aggression is in the eye of the beholder in this case. Geohot was extremely dismissive and arrogant when he joined Twitter, which prompted me to explore what's his actual background (myths aside) and what I found was a lot of Geohot air and nothing else.
It's always the people who never had to build something significant who always have the most cocky armchair advice for those who do, funny that.
If you're victim of this advice, I urge you that we recall our common sense, instead of propagating this toxicity further.
He joined Twitter just few months ago boasting how he can run Twitter with 5 guys and he alone will fix search & UI (he fixed nothing and quit a few weeks later).
So I'd be really happy if we stop propagandizing this tech bro bullshit that suggests everyone in the industry is just twiddling their thumbs all day, and start respecting the work of our colleagues more.
I heard explanations how it'd be slow, or doesn't matter, or what am I talking about, all ultimately variations of "works as coded, won't fix".
There are clearly people at Adobe who are aware of the issue in some capacity, and their efforts have weird specifics, such as... they noticed text anti-aliasing looks weird, so they added an Advanced Control called "Blend Text Colors Using Gamma" option in Color Settings. The bizarre thing is that none of this is specific to text. It's just that text has many small complex shape edges, and you notice it more on text (like Carmack noticed it on the star field). They didn't fix vector art rendering, for example. And the option default is not even the correct gamma for a document, but 1.45 which makes no sense at all. They just "eyed it" and went with it.
There's also a Blend RGB Colors Using Gamma option which is disabled by default. If you enable it, it corrects SOME operations, but not others, with no rhyme or reason. However, you can't really tweak those yourself, because if you do, the settings are not saved per document, they're global. So if you tweak them... then ALL Photoshop files you open will look wrong, because they were originally made for another configuration of these settings. Which leaves you with 32-bit color channels. I have Actions that convert an image to 32-bit to scale, and back to 8/16-bit, just so it's gamma corrected.
It's... a f***ing mess.
But in, say, Photoshop the gamma is still wrong, unless you switch to 32-bit space, which produces huge files and removes access to most filters. You don't need 32-bit precision for proper gamma. You just need gamma correction when combining/interpolating/blending color values. Alas. Ignorance is pervasive.
You're simply ignorant. Very, very, ignorant, and very arrogant which blinds you from your ignorance. That's a classic toxic combo.
For the record, I'm double vaccinated, wore masks before anyone else did, after most everyone else did, and FFP2/N95 respirators at that, not surgical masks, and I obviously avoid tight crowds and wash my hands.
But your attitude is counter-productive and frankly disgusting. Every issue has two sides. A reasonable person is aware of this and plays the uneasy, but necessary balancing game to avoid extremes. You are NOT a reasonable person. You're a loudmouth who thinks they're on a religious mission to shut the mouths of "gaslighters" who do not sufficiently praise authority, which is blameless and infallible. You're part of the problem.
I frankly can't comprehend anyone who would see Elon's day to day erratic solo decisions that change the rules on the platform, and compare them to the nature of a standardized, predictable, basically "eternal" protocol like IP is.
Twitter also has no feature to build communities on top of it, who can moderate themselves. It's "flat". I this it has a feature to this effect, something roughly comparable to a "subreddit" would be, but no one is using it and it's clearly underbaked too.
It can be detrimental overall when the measures to be enforced are mostly security theater, rather than effective. Unfortunately, my observations are that both after 9/11 and during the COVID-19 crisis, force was on the bottom line mostly used to oppress and abuse, less so to decrease risk of terrorist acts and infection respectively.
In a smarter, less corrupted society, where these measures we're trying to enforce are well thought out, tested and effective, the use of force would still be necessary, despite compliance in general would be better due to effective information campaigns. Alas.