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

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[–] FizzyOrange@programming.dev 4 points 1 day ago (2 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 5 points 1 day 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.

[–] tyler@programming.dev 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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

as far as I've read he actually doesn't, he just pretends to. You can see this in a lot of his interactions with his employees and the public. but yes, people are multidimensional. musk is a good salesman.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Along those lines, consider the decision for why the Model S charge port is where it is, according to Tesla's former chief engineer:

https://electrek.co/2025/01/31/teslas-charge-port-location-is-due-to-elon-musks-garage-layout-says-lucid-ceo/

tl;dr: you don't want it directly in the front-center (like the Nissan Leaf) because a minor fender bender will ruin it. Front-driver's side is a good choice that a lot of other manufactures are going to. Elon didn't want that, because it didn't line up with his Bel Air garage. So they stuck it in back, but due to the way Tesla Superchargers are laid out, it now means Tesla drivers have to back into the parking space.

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

musk was a good salesman.

ftfy

[–] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 1 points 22 hours ago

I don't think that's even true. He just had enough money that he could fail 99 times before succeeding once, and the return from that one was enough that he could fail 999 times before succeeding, and so on.
He just threw money around until enough other people succeeded in big enough ways, and then he claims credit.