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[–] nukul4r@feddit.de 106 points 1 year ago

The brand with the bird and all was actually one of the more valuable parts of Twitter that he bought...

[–] 7heo@lemmy.ml 81 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (15 children)
[–] PapaStevesy@midwest.social 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Idk, if you're doing the same thing after your training that you were doing before, you either didn't need training or you weren't successfully trained.

It's an idiom, it's not meant to be a clinical diagnosis. Like, yeah if you're psychiatrist says it to you qnd tries to have you institutionalized, that's obviously a problem. But I highly doubt that's ever happened, certainly not in the modern age.

Ultimately, it's actually the same exact idea as "Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it," but in less politically correct terms.

[–] 7heo@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)
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[–] boonhet@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

You're also in a meme community, commenting on a meme, so while technically correct, it's not super relevant.

[–] lobelia581@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 year ago

it's also what i do when i run my programs over and over again hoping the bugs fix themselves

[–] Uli@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 year ago

For me, it's the definition of Flamin' Hot Cheetos.

[–] buckykat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Yeah but Vaas is iconic and absolutely arresting in every scene he's in.

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[–] Butters@lemmywinks.com 5 points 1 year ago

You miss 100% of the DSM that doesn’t get discredited 3 years from now.

—Michael Gretzky

[–] Sol0WingPixy@ttrpg.network 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Doing the same thing over and over with an expectation to see differing results is also science.

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Actually when you create a hypothesis and test it and prove it out, it is meant to be 100% repeatable by anyone following the metgod. Otherwise your method or hypothesis is wrong.

[–] TheActualDevil@sffa.community 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Right, but the reason you run the experiment repeatedly is to test the validity of the hypothesis. You're looking for something different to happen. That's the point behind rerunning the tests.

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[–] 7heo@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
[–] boonhet@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

But also if you keep running the compiler without changing any of the code hoping for the errors to be magically gone, you are insane. So there's the same logic being applied to insanity in computer science

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[–] lorez@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

If you're getting different results it's because you're adjusting something. That's training.

[–] gun@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Not to mention it's always attributed to Albert Einstein which is not something he said and not something he would ever have said. Doesn't stop people from continuing to invoke this "definition of insanity" as if its a smart thing to say.

[–] squaresinger@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

What a lovely twist on an annoying misattributed quote!

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[–] Kerfuffle@lemmy.blahaj.zone 62 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He's been hanging onto that x.com url for so long, he insists it's gonna get used

[–] zagaberoo 40 points 1 year ago

The best part is he had to buy the rights back from Paypal, he just did it back in 2017.

[–] DmMacniel@feddit.de 44 points 1 year ago (2 children)

He's just a big fan of X11.

[–] treadful@lemmy.zip 23 points 1 year ago

Nobody's a big fan of X11

[–] alcasa@lemmy.sdf.org 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Still astounding that after so many years Wayland is still inferior in a lot regards to X11. And by design will probably never be able to better in these regards

[–] DmMacniel@feddit.de 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

X via SSH is such a great feature. Would really love to see it in Wayland.

[–] conneru64@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 year ago

There's no protocol-level support, but all the communication happens over a socket and shared buffers, so that can be serialized. I believe Waypipe does this.

[–] Kerfuffle@lemmy.blahaj.zone 43 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is anyone going to tell Elon he cant own the letter X

[–] diskmaster23@lemmy.one 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's a pretty terrible trademark

[–] onichama@feddit.de 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Tell that Apple.
Didn't they try to sue someone for using an apple as a logo in Switzerland?

[–] Pixelphoria@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] moonmeow@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

curious what the result of this case was, quick search didn't come with any updates.

[–] Pixelphoria@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

Very hard to find updates indeed, this doesn't say much more but it's from 2015 https://itkey.media/apple-sues-polish-entrepreneur-over-ap-pl/

[–] moonmeow@lemmy.ml 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

At this point where he is basically stripping the site of its users (paid + limits) and branding (removing the twitter bird) why didn't he just start up his own social media site and slow grow it instead of wasting money to pillage the competitor and then strip it of everything that made it what it was, i.e., the user base and the brand recognition?

[–] MaoWasRight@lemm.ee 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He didn't want twitter in the first place. He made some legally binding comments and was legally required to purchase it after meme-ing an offer and thinking he could get away with it lol. Now he's suing the lawyers that made him buy Twitter.

Musk is not a very smart man.

[–] Hoagie@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

To be precise, he's sueing the lawyers Twitter hired in the case to force him to buy, as Twitter paid them a bunch of money they weren't legally obligated to pay, just before the purchase went through.

[–] Notyou@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 year ago

Weren't legally obligated, that we know of. There could have been a fee paid at delivery of the deal being made, since that's how this firm and the firm that Musk hired to sue the old firm charge. They keep the billable hours down in order to keep the price low unless they win and then there is normally a "winning fee".

Without context it makes it seem that the payment was out of left field when it was business as usually, especially since Musk didn't want to actually go through with it.

[–] hanni@lemmy.one 22 points 1 year ago

Giving a shit about some corporation rebranding itself?

[–] fades 18 points 1 year ago

He failed at PayPal and they kicked him for it, so surely the X is totally a good omen for him right? That’s why he keeps going back.

[–] atlasraven31@lemm.ee 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Kempeth@feddit.de 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The Lemmy Project has been activated. You are our first and last line of defense!

[–] atlasraven31@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Shoot down that UFO! We can't lose our Furry funding!

[–] PanArab@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago

He looks older in older pictures, creepy

[–] superflippy 3 points 1 year ago

There are a lot of “that guys.” That guy who quotes Bob Dylan. That guy who wears crazy pants. That guy who’s good at ping-pong. And so forth. Decades ago, Elon Musk apparently decided to be That Guy Who Really Likes the Letter X. You do you.

[–] Simplesyrup@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago
[–] Psychobiologist@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

The legal term for not knowing the difference between right and wrong? I suppose that still applies.

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