I have an excel VBA macro that can find emails that outlook says don't exist

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In fairness, the Falcon 9 / Dragon capsule systems are solid and reliable, with good track records.

So its not literally all SpaceX stuff.

But... yeah, the Starship/HeavyBooster is what happens when Elon is in charge, utter shit show.

And also, the Falcon 9 family never actually got close to the cost reductions Elon initially said would be delivered by the re-usability paradigm.

It would have to be roughly an order of magnitude less expensive, for a ton to orbit, than what it currently is, to match what he said it would achieve.

as 18107 says, yeah, at various Musk companies, their have been people whose main job was primarily to distract him from getting involved very directly, but this has apparently stopped being a thing.

Just go find the conversation he had with some of the high ups on the Twitter team, when he took it over.

He just knows buzzwords, beyond that, probably most of the people in this thread are more intelligent than he is, on literally any subject... he has no idea how anything works beyond a very big picture / conceptual level.

I had a similar experience a while back when a VP suggested I somehow 'implement the blockchain' ... in our entire SQL database system.

I literally head-desked, buried my head into my hands in that meeting, and just said No, you really really don't want to do that.

These people are fucking idiots, like actively, aggressively morons.

They only thing they are good at is being corpo social butterflies, they have no idea how anything actually works.

In a sane, meritocratic world, they'd lose their jobs.

But we live in an insane, nepotistic caste system that just loudly pretends it is meritocratic, so, don't be surprised when the inbred 'nobility' routinely produce abominations.

Probably give him a few easy to spot ‘problems’ to overrule, so that he doesn't meddle with the important things.

Please share!!

I don't know what the hell happened to outlook's search function with the update to 11, but I'm convinced it was actual sabotage.

Outlook insists that no one has ever sent me anything. If I search for an email from a specific person, that person doesn't exist. Unless sometimes they do. The first three letters of their last name, out of order? Fine, can find them no problem unless you're looking for when they sent you an attachment. Then no.

Copy and pasting their name in to the search bar? Who the fuck you talking about guy??

Looking for an email that has "and" in the subject line?

Here's every email you have with the letter A in it. Hope this helps! By the way have you tried CLAUDE?!

This is pretty good stuff.

Lets just say there is a reason Warren Buffet has ~30% of all his investments in... cash.

Ain't no good investment opportunities.

There was the whole department for it at Tesla, that's why their previous stuff was basically functional. Then something happened and they failed or got disbanded, and that's how cybertruck happened.

In fairness, the Falcon 9 / Dragon capsule systems are solid and reliable, with good track records.

This is what I was claiming, too.

he has no idea how anything works beyond a very big picture / conceptual level.

You remind me of the recent declaration about launching data servers in orbit.

Bro, I have 900 unread emails alone. Ill be done in 3 weeks.

And them make him create a new Minecraft account

This might be better than the Guillotine

Use? Their livelihood should depend on using functions of their app. "Couldn't find that email in two mins? Sorry you just lost 100K."

It feels like he has to Titan submarine himself at this point. Maybe it'll be a cybertruck

Yah, I had a similar thought regarding Google and the SEO which changed recipes into page long stories about the author's grandmother. Instead of wading through all the text to find the ingredients, just use ai.

God, don't get me started on orbital data centers.

Either you cause kessler syndrome by launching a million microsats, or, you just I guess invent scifi level orbital engineering, and come up with a scifi solution for thermal regulation.

Also like, server data centers require, you know, on site maintenance.

... its a very dumb, expensive idea.

Still faster than using the "search" function.

Im not here to support Microsoft, but I am forced to use it at work. And I reference or forward old emails ALL the time. Like yea sometimes the search function brings up some extra shit also, but I've never spent more than a minute or two looking for an email.

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