Google loses data as lightning strikes

Post by JupiterMoon » Fri, Aug 21, 2015, 9:01 AM UTC

xeromal wrote: post #43

kuschku wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Similar to git, but if you have multiple branches of the same file, display them visually and allow the user to merge just that file?

If people have to do anything it's not good enough.

Actually quite a lot of serious by non-power-users do want this. You only have to look at a random persons laptop and see and the file names with "final version.docx", "final version 2.docx" "final final version.docx" etc to see this. They certainly don't want a console based solution but a cross between git and word style track changes would make lots of people pretty happy.

Post by wodenokoto » Fri, Aug 21, 2015, 5:28 PM UTC

idlewords wrote: post #24

Relevant amusing bit from the Amazon FAQ: "S3 is designed to provide 99.999999999% durability of objects over a given year. This durability level corresponds to an average annual expected loss of 0.000000001% of objects. For example, if you store 10,000 objects with Amazon S3, you can on average expect to incur a loss of a single object once every 10,000,000 years." I think my favorite part of that is "on average", a…

You're thinking of average as a frequentist, and Amazon are thinking as Bayesian.

Ever thought about how we can talk about the chance of rain tomorrow? Or the risc that a comet may strike the earth within the next million years?

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