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Am I in the minority that finds these slides hard to parse?

One stylistic quirk is its liberal use of `=` and `+` for things that aren't equivalence or summation, which keeps throwing me off.

Does she ever do a presentation of these, talking through / commentary on the slides? If a recording of that, I'd 100% clear half a day's worth of meetings to watch it.

what we need is not more regulation

I think of a lot of thing in terms of distributions, and I think the how-much-people-value-quality distribution is not that much different.

On the right side, you have the minority of connoisseurs. And on the left, there is a minority who really don't care at all. And then the middle majority who can tell bad from good, but not good from great.

anyone _can_ see it, but _most_ people don't (and don't care)

To be clear, I am not saying it's not valuable, only that to the vast majority, it's not.

Curious what desktop speakers you are using? I'm in the market for a set.

My first thought was: I wonder if this will have a knock on effect of coffee shops and cafes going out of business.

But then I remembered that the price of coffee is probably just a small fraction of their running costs.

Sweet setup! I'm curious if you use the machines for anything when it isn't being used for a LAN party.

what's the default though? defaults matter, most people don't change them.

This is absolutely not true. Customers regularly shift spends in the >= 7-digit between cloud providers. Yes, it takes planning, and it takes many engineer-months of work, but it definitely happens.

And also factor in (1) the claim that most cloud growth is ahead of us, eg. moving large customers from on-prem to cloud, and (2) it would be terrible policy to try to charge existing customers more than new customers.

That's the same with.. the Linux kernel? I'd wager that most services people write have less complexity than the the kernel it runs on. We choose to do that not because we need its full feature set, but because it gives us useful abstractions.

"We know that in a large system redundant components make intentional faults more likely to produce global faults."

This is... non-obvious to me. Anyone know what he means by this?