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Linus Torvalds built Git in 10 days - and never imagined it would last 20 years (www.zdnet.com)

submitted 4 months ago by cm0002@lemmy.world to c/programming@programming.dev

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[–] FizzyOrange@programming.dev 3 points 4 months ago (9 children)

Yeah Teslas were pretty leading edge at the beginning. Then they started doing weird stuff like removing stalks and making triangular trucks.

Falcon 9 and Starship are obviously futuristic too.

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 16 points 4 months ago (8 children)

Did he, though?

[–] FizzyOrange@programming.dev 4 points 4 months ago (6 children)

No not in the same way Tony Stark did. But Tony Stark is imaginary. Obviously nobody can build an electric car or a rocket in the same way that Tony Stark does.

Of all the criticisms of Musk this is the weakest. There are many way more valid ones... for instance:

He's an arsehole.
He straight up called that diver a paedo, and even paid a scammer to investigate him.
The scummy lottery thing for votes for Trump. I don't care if it ends up being technically legal, it's clearly immoral.
Selling the promise of FSD for hard cash when it clearly is never going to happen as he claimed. I still don't know why there's been no class action suit over that.
Backing proper insane far right groups in Europe. These people are worse than Trump. I wouldn't say he is backing neonazis, but he's certainly in the vicinity.

Despite all that he clearly has a pretty good handle on engineering and is definitely involved. He's not just a figurehead.

I know right, people are multidimensional. You can downvote if that blows your mind.

[–] chunkystyles@sopuli.xyz 6 points 4 months ago

For me the problem is that he LARPs as Tony Stark and idiots but into it. He pretends to be a smart engineer when he lucked into all of it and is really not all that bright.

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