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“It’s not that hard” (sh.itjust.works)
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[-] CannotSleep420@lemmygrad.ml 17 points 11 months ago

On October 26, an engineer and mother of two — let’s call her Alicia — sat in a glass conference room in San Francisco trying to explain the details of Twitter’s tech stack to Elon Musk. He was supposed to officially buy the company in two days, and Alicia and a small group of trusted colleagues were tasked with outlining how its core infrastructure worked. But Musk, who was sitting two seats away from Alicia with his elbows propped on the table, looked sleepy. When he did talk, it was to ask questions about cost. How much does Twitter spend on data centers? Why was everything so expensive? Alicia was already tired of Musk’s antics ... So here they were, trying to show Musk what he was about to buy, and all he wanted to talk about was money. Fine, she thought. If Musk wants to know about money, I’ll tell him. She launched into a technical explanation of the ­company’s data-center efficiency, curious to see if he would follow along. Instead, he interrupted. “I was writing C programs in the ’90s,” he said dismissively. “I understand how ­computers work.”

He totally knows what he's talking about.

[-] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Musk wants to know how much the system costs. The information being provided seems as relevant as the article telling us the engineer was a "mother of two".

The more I look at this quote the stupider it gets, which is a shame because the article is quite informative

this post was submitted on 07 Jan 2024
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