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Even if you are not at all familiar with cobalt, if you had any brains you would notice that an oddly large number of people are exactly 150 years old which sho
by sschueller 2y ago
Even if you are not at all familiar with cobalt, if you had any brains you would notice that an oddly large number of people are exactly 150 years old which should tell you that it probably means something else than age.
- someothherguyy 2y agoThey could be using BI-type dashboards and are looking at visualizations of aggregations auto flagged by outlier detection or whatever.
- someothherguyy 2y agoThis is pretty much what they are doing, building buckets for aggregation, no insight https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1891350795452654076#m https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1891350795452654076#m
- hypeatei 2y agoElon is the same person who was claiming Twitter had a "brittle stack" that needed a complete rewrite[0]. It's not surprising he's spewing complete nonsense for attention BUT it is worrying he has access to such critical government systems. [0]: https://xcancel.com/elonmusk/status/1632810081497513993 https://xcancel.com/elonmusk/status/1632810081497513993
- retSava 2y agoI haven't seen that particular stack and build setup to dispute or support that claim. Have you? What I have seen in my part of the developer world, is very brittle stacks/setups where minor changes have butterfly effects on completely unrelated parts. Pushing straight to important branches, build depending on several pretty unrelated repos, unclear and messy dependencies, etc etc. I can totally understand such a claim.
- hypeatei 2y agoI don't remember Twitter being known for downtime before he bought it and the claim it needed a complete rewrite indicates a lack of experience in software development. Rewriting everything rarely ends up in better software than you had before.
- sandytoast 2y agoGoogle ‘fail whale’
- sschueller 2y agoI wonder if Twitter is still running on Ruby on Rails. Those were the days...
- galactus 2y agoThe “fail whale” was a thing years before Elon’s acquisition.
- ttepasse 2y agoThe fail whale was a thing in the late 2000s, when Twitter was famously still on Ruby on Rails. After the early 2010s rewrite in Scala (?) it was pretty much stable.
- TheNewsIsHere 2y agoI used to be friends with a group of developers at Twitter after their rewrite. They had no complaints about “brittleness” or stability generally. We do know Elon isn’t anywhere near as smart as he likes to project in areas of modern computing, so I tend to not believe his claims. This was the man who publicly called a senior developer at Twitter an idiot for saying something about the government using SQL.
- insane_dreamer 2y agoDid they rewrite it?
- ozozozd 2y agoAnd then he bought it, fired a bunch of engineers and DID not rewrite it to prove that it wasn’t brittle.
- ndsipa_pomu 2y agos/colbalt/COBOL/ However, that error took me to the Wikipedia page and I learnt that cobalt was named in relation to kobolds (goblins/gnomes) as cobalt ore was a hazard to silver miners - it gives off arsenic fumes when smelted.