Louis Ingenthron @LouisIngenthron@social.cleverlibre.org

@CryptoNaturalist Except for a small subset of them who live in the western Pacific who write graphic erotica about rigid limbs.

@annmlipton @klonick They must have had a hell of a problem with clogs if they started building redundant toilets into every stall.

@brody I worked with C++ for six months, and that was enough for me.
It's good to understand the concepts C/C++ imparts, especially memory management, but the amount of time spent working on semantics instead of results was too frustrating, especially when the terrible compilers only report obscure error messages that mean almost nothing. There are really good reasons modern languages prevent one variable's memory from overflowing into another's, and exceedingly few reasons not to do that. C/C++ just feels like a license to hang oneself at times.

I've been working in managed languages for over a decade now, and I don't regret it one bit.

@QasimRashid You want people to sign a petition asking Democrats to not let Republicans repeal a Democrat-passed bill?

If you're wondering why few folks are signing it, my personal reason is that it seems exceptionally hollow and pointless. Whose mind are you trying to change with this? I'd get better results signing a petition asking a campfire to not blow smoke in my face.

@toplesstopics I get that, but I'm referring to a different phenomenon: Like seeing a picture of a giraffe in a book vs seeing a real giraffe up close. The latter imparts a sense of awe and respect that the former does not.

@toplesstopics I'm not a parent, so feel free to entirely disregard this, but maybe it'll help:
From what you've posted, it sounds like you would never allow a gun in your household, correct? Could it be that, because he's only ever seen them on TV, they're no more real to him than a wand from Harry Potter? That to him, they *are* no more than outrageous hyperbole?

Growing up, I'd always make and play with toy guns with friends. It wasn't until I shot a real one that I really gained the proper level of respect, caution, and gravity to guns that they truly deserve.
Now, obviously, four years old is too young for that lesson, but if you know a responsible gun owner, then maybe it would help to introduce them to your kid. In a controlled environment, your son could maybe even hold an (unloaded!) gun, and feel the weight of it, while the owner closely supervises and explains the responsibility and danger that it represents.
Once it's made real to him and he considers the stakes, maybe his past words will feel different under the new context.

But then again, maybe that would all backfire horribly. 🤷‍♂️ Anyway, just a thought.

@antonioserrata There's ample evidence that those companies ran well *despite* him, not because of him.
Tesla/SpaceX even have policies in place to insulate employees from their "leader".

You can keep pretending he's some mastermind if you want, but the rest of us see the emperor standing naked and we're not afraid to call it out for what it is.

@antonioserrata @mmasnick It makes perfect sense when viewed through the lens of ego and incompetence, which is 100% Occam's Razor here.

That he hobnobs with other rich assholes does not a conspiracy make.