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Cake day: February 14th, 2025

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  • As someone that knew engineers that worked at Tesla. Interviewed and turned down an offer there myself.

    As soon as I graduated in 2015 and got a job in silicon valley I quickly learned that literally every real engineer hates Elon. Especially the ones that work at Tesla. And they treat their employees on H1 visas like indentured servants.

    Awful piece of shit company. But I respect most engineers that work at it. I’m glad the normies outside of the industry are finally catching on to this. For years I had to explain to my normie friends why Elon is a braindead idiot and they would just nod and not really understand why.

    I hope people start to understand that “tech bros” and “people that work in tech” are entirely different people. The SF bay area just happens to be filled with both of them.

    Very thankful I don’t live there anymore. This isn’t unique to Tesla either. But Tesla is definitely a perfect example for people to point to and understand now.

    Most engineers just wanna make shit. And most companies take advantage of a lot of people that enjoy their profession by overworking and exploiting them to an insane degree. Especially H1 visas. Those guys/gals deserve so much more. Tech needs a massive union push.


  • Can you plug it in and also deplete the battery at a similar rate somehow? Like an infinite money drain on Tesla?

    I’m sure the impact to climate change would be canceled out by the loss in profit to a Nazi billionaire. But I’d have to do some math.

    Maybe we hack together a device that just drains power and tricks the chargers into thinking it’s your car. Use the power consumption to do something like mine crypto and send it to a charity. Idk. Just brainstorming shit lol

    A simple one would be to power your PC off the car and just let it sit. Mine some crypto for free on Elon’s dime.

    Fuck this Nazi PoS.



  • Every company is “financialized” now. They essentially run like a bank. They aren’t being run based on a product or a service. They are being run to maximize returns for investors to such an extreme level that stock buybacks and layoffs are the tools used to bring the stock price up.

    The stock market has been a scam for awhile and not really connected to any company “doing well”. But they are essentially just shitcoins at this point. All running on whether or not people feel like they’ll go to the moon or not.

    People that mock Bitcoin but pretend like Tesla doesn’t run on the same toilet paper thin vibes are kidding themselves.

    Edit: this is not a defense of crypto. It’s just an example of how fucked the stock market is. Especially in “tech” companies.



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    People give JS a lot of shit. And I do too. But it’s meant to continue running and not fail like C code would. It’s meant to basically go “yeah, sure I’ll fuck with that” and keep trucking.

    So you can always make it do stupid shit when you use it a stupid way.

    Is this bad? Maybe. Was it the intention of the language? Absolutely.

    Typescript fixes a lot of these headaches. But I feel like JS is doing exactly what it was meant to do. Keep trucking even when the programmer asks it to do stupid shit.

    If you’re using JS and don’t understand this then it’s your fault and not the languages fault.

    Do we all want to live in a world of typedefs as strict as C and have our webpages crash with the slightest unexpected char input? Probably not.

    We don’t notice all the time JS goes “yeah I can fuck with that” and it works perfectly. We only notice the times it does that and it results in something silly.

    TLDR: JS does what it was made to do. And because of that it looks absolutely ridiculous sometimes.




  • I’m impressed it hasn’t become a bloated copilot mess like all other Microsoft products have. It’s still relatively as quick and functional as it’s ever been.

    I wouldn’t say it’s perfect. Definitely not. But it’s definitely on the highest end of Microsoft owned products.

    Probably because it’s very similar to how it was before they bought it.

    I primarily do not use it for development though. So take that with a grain of salt. Some small projects I contribute to still.