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@ironicbadger also always critical to look at axis on graphs. Worst case here is above 99.5% uptime, or 7 minutes of downtime per day. The average across Microsoft’s tenure appears to be closer to 7 seconds of downtime per day. Now “5 9s” (99.999%) is more like 5 minutes of downtime per year, and yeah that’s clearly better. But still, it’s not like the bottom is 0 or 90% or anything.

RE: https://techhub.social/@ironicbadger/116326155409620757

If they are going for 100% uptime, they are doing not well. But I would guess that at Microsoft’s scale, they could do that. So clearly, that’s not the aim (even if some wish it was). It’s always annoying with github goes down, but generally brief and has never actually blocked me from doing anything. And they have built some great stuff in this time.

I was in a good mood until I started petting a duckling in the park. Then I started feeling a little down.

This should be studied in schools, a field guide in recognising LLM generated text.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia%3ASigns_of_AI_writing

Wikipedia:Signs of AI writing - Wikipedia

I want to float an idea.

There's a version of being sensitive to the other person, of being aware of them and attuned to them, that isn't masking. 1/3

#AutisticMasking #ActuallyAutistic #Autistic #Neurodiversity #unmasking

Masking is suppressing who you are to avoid rejection or keep yourself safe. That's real, and it's exhausting.

But noticing that someone's having a hard day and softening how you show up? That's not masking. That's just being in a relationship.

Two very senior engineers, pairing for over an hour, to figure out that a function call had its first two arguments in the wrong order.

I'm not sure what the moral of this story is. Maybe it's that stupid stuff will trip you up, no matter how experienced you are. Or that positional arguments were a mistake. Or maybe that meatbags weren't meant to code and we really do just need to hand it all over to the AI overlords.

I’m rewatching old Star Trek episodes to see which ones pass the B’kdel Test:
(1) Two named Klingons
(2) Talking to each other
(3) About something other than honor

Try to unsee it

Level: impossible.