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Comment · 1 year ago
Probably generated by an LLM
Comment · 1 year ago
The hallmark of an LLM response: plausible sounding, but if you dig deeper, incorrect
Comment · 1 year ago
> You're squandering precious meeting time by having everyone sit and read a document together. They could easily do the same thing ahead of the meeting, and you'd have much shorter meetings.

People don’t read ahead of meetings, and that results in wasting time discussing things already covered by docs.

Comment · 1 year ago
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Comment · 1 year ago
> If I had to choose a language that is furthest from Perl, it might be Lisp.

Rust

Comment · 1 year ago
Israel is directly causing a mass starvation event in Gaza. Innocent children and women are dying every single day, and if nothing is done soon, scores more will in the near future.

The commenter’s position is that the situation in Gaza is justifiable because Israel had to take action against Hamas.

This is textbook collective punishment: causing suffering to a massive number of people due to the actions of a minority.

Comment · 1 year ago
People are arguing for an unconditional ceasefire because innocent people and children are literally starving to death.

Many of the people arguing for ceasefire probably wouldn’t be so animated about it if that wasn’t the case, i.e. if Israel was conducting a legal war with targeted strikes. That isn’t the case.

Comment · 1 year ago
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Comment · 1 year ago
It’s weird to me that the providers aren’t communicating to customers about this. What if you were waiting for a call from a doctor, or similar?
Comment · 1 year ago
Nice bait
Comment · 1 year ago
This isn’t a whole-cloud outage. It’s not even a whole-region outage.

Whole-cloud outages are pretty damn rare. The recent GCP issues are an exception to the general rule.

I’d posit that the complexity of a multi-cloud setup is generally going to reduce your service’s reliability more than relying on a single cloud does.

Comment · 1 year ago
For what it’s worth, I’m a native British English speaker and don’t instinctively consider “practice” “grammatically incorrect”. Indeed, I would probably write “practice” myself.
Comment · 1 year ago
In this phase of flight the pilot’s hands should be nowhere near the thrust levers let alone the fuel cutoff switches. There is no way they could accidentally knock them with their hands.
Comment · 1 year ago
6.5MB compressed, and will be cached. Shrug

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