The parallels between Musk and Stark seemed perfect on paper. Both are billionaire tech innovators with a flair for the dramatic and dreams of changing the world.

  • @T156
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    1831 month ago

    The parallels between Musk and Stark seemed perfect on paper. Both are billionaire tech innovators with a flair for the dramatic and dreams of changing the world.

    They’re not, though. Stark is a rare engineering powerhouse who personally pushed past a lot of engineering boundaries, and Musk is an investor/programmer who mostly puts his name on existing things.

    I might change my mind if Musk personally invents AGI, nanobots, and a previously-unknown clean energy source capable of powering a 1/3rd of NYC with a room no larger than a foyer, like Stark did, but I’m not holding out much by way of hopes.

    • @Windex007
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      1711 month ago

      Considering he asked twitter programmers to print out their pull requests Im not even sure he’s not cosplaying a programmer

      • @Dasus
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        21 month ago

        Did he want them faxed to him?

      • @rottingleaf
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        -51 month ago

        When he apparently was a programmer, this was a bit more normal.

        I’ve met a few professors requiring uni assignments’ code printed.

        • @Duamerthrax
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          131 month ago

          When he wrote code at PayPal, people kept having to go back and fix it. He doesn’t know what he’s doing.

          • @rottingleaf
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            31 month ago

            OK. I just meant that one can demand that as a sign of respect or something. With a sufficient degree of narcissism.

        • @Furbag
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          61 month ago

          I imagine that a university level coding assignment and the backend code that runs the Twitter.com website (albeit just fractions of it) are several orders of magnitude apart from each other in terms of size and complexity. I don’t know shit about programming though, I took C++ in high school and got a D+. Should’ve called the class Introduction to D++.

    • @[email protected]
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      11 month ago

      And yet

      Back in 2016, Iron Man director Jon Favreau revealed that Musk had been a direct inspiration for their version of Tony Stark. Downey Jr even spent time with Musk to better understand what it would be like to walk in the shoes of a real-world tech mogul.

        • paw
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          11 month ago

          Out of interest, do you have any sources that what he does is not reliable? This is not some kind of I’m pissed off about your comnent, I’m actually not. Having said that, I see tgis as an opportunity to learn about Harris’ shortcomings. Thanks in advance.