If that is the reason why, Elon is dumber than I could have even imagined.
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If it’s more than ninety-eight feet, it’s a superyacht. After that, definitions are debated, but people generally agree that anything more than two hundred and thirty feet is a megayacht, and more than two hundred and ninety-five is a gigayacht. The world contains about fifty-four hundred superyachts, and about a hundred gigayachts.
A Silicon Valley C.E.O. told me that one appeal of boats is that they can “absorb the most excess capital.” He explained, “Rationally, it would seem to make sense for people to spend half a billion dollars on their house and then fifty million on the boat that they’re on for two weeks a year, right? But it’s gone the other way. People don’t want to live in a hundred-thousand-square-foot house. Optically, it’s weird. But a half-billion-dollar boat, actually, is quite nice.”
Good to see society solving the real tough problems facing the world
sailboats use much less fuel than equivalent sized mega-yachts (which can consume 100+ gallons an HOUR) so hey, at least he’s being environmentally conscious!
The two best days of a boat owners life are the day they buy a boat and they day they sell that boat. As a former boat owner, I can confirm that the second is definitely true!
for awhile bezos had a really nice sailboat in a marina on puget sound, that wasn’t a megayacht, and was quite tasteful. i’ve never seen it sail, it i’m sure it left the dock plenty. the rumor was that bezos does actually sail semi seriously
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Sailing is way more fun than any other kind of boating, however you should not buy a sailboat, you should rent it.
I’ve been trapped down a YouTube rabbit hole of yacht walkthroughs and sailing seems to be a lot of actually doing things to make the boat go forward compared to driving a motor yacht, where you basically set up your way points and watch the world go by. I do like the idea of having a 40’ tug boat and basically just puttering up and down the west coast.
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So these mega/super/giga/whatever yachts are solving the problem late-stage capitalism has created: TMM syndrome. These billionaires have too much money, it’s basically impossible to spend it, and they feel gross donating it to, yuck, charities. So, yachts to the rescue!
Yachts are basically a floating advertisement to tax the wealthy.
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Russian propagandists are buying Twitter blue-check verifications
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Business genius had his whole company basically not working yesterday because tools they depend on weren’t working, possibly intentionally or because of his own negligence:
shutting down critical inhouse communication tools is a bold strategy cotton, let’s see how it works out for him
Ooh, my brother is an app engineer who works on Jira for Atlassian. Now I have something relevant to talk to him about! I can sound all smart and shit.
Edit: I also still don’t understand what Jira is or does, and no amount of my brother explaining it to me has remedied that.
Jira is a ticket managing system. It lets you track progress on tickets in several different ways. It is the software equivalent of moving sticky notes across a white board as the tasks change status “open, in-progress, review, testing, done.” A ticket is something to be done; “load these files”, “add this feature”, “figure out this bug”.
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jira in particular but atlassian product in general seem like they’re designed by aliens, they all seem to make sense at the 10000 foot view but then when you actually start using them they have some fundamental assumptions about how software should work that I just absolutely cannot wrap my head around.
Yeah, JIRA isn’t quite flexible enough to fit everyone’s process so it invariable makes everyone who use it change their process enough to fuck everyone up in order to get pretty burn down charts and roadmaps.
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jira’s strength IMO is that it integrates really well with automation around the big repository sites (bitbucket,gitlab,github,etc.) that allows change control to be easily documented and visible. For management or whatever I have zero opinion. as an engineer it’s nice enough to use, but I have seen other things used. Like in most of my pipelines, they hook into Jira in some way to report test passes/failures, automatically transition tasks to QA/testing and assign to the correct person or team, etc. All from code. I like it because it keeps devs away from wasting their time on stupid shit like filling out tickets and actually doing what they get paid a lot for.
The reason it’s idiotic to shut down both slack and jira is slack is usually what devs use to pass around info and jira is what the organization uses to pass around info. jira itself could be hooked into so many things it may be literally impossible to do your job without it, and slack almost certainly has bot integrations for monitoring and stuff that makes it difficult to do without as well.
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Glad to hear my brother is doing important work, whatever it is that he’s doing.
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