I hope Jack went rogue and nuked it after his most recent hot yoga vision. That's the kind of shakeup we need in this world.
Is that a reference to the Black Mirror episode?
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#282Earlier quoted context omitted.
I share your sentiment to a certain extent, but I believe Twitter is a necessary evil. There should be an alternative to main stream media for people.
It's not so much an alternative to mainstream media as an informal gathering place for workers in the mainstream media
It became the formal gathering place once Twitter bent the knee and started handing out blue checkmarks like candy to every low-level media personality basically on-demand.
At some media companies, getting you your blue checkmark is part of the HR on-boarding process, ffs.
Journalists are clearly the heaviest, most important Twitter users at this point.
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#283Works fine for me. Lucky i guess.
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#284Earlier quoted context omitted.
I share your sentiment to a certain extent, but I believe Twitter is a necessary evil. There should be an alternative to main stream media for people.
I found Gab [0] to be quite a viable alternative to Twitter due to its decentralised nature thanks to Mastodon so that downtimes like this cannot happen on the platform. [0] - https://gab.ai
Is this the neo-nazi Twitter alternative?
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#286Earlier quoted context omitted.
Twitter is especially weird for this since it's often a platform where people talk about downtimes. I don't see this downtime mentioned on Reddit and I don't know of other sites where it might be discussed, so if Hacker News happened to go down at the same time, where would I go to talk about it with online strangers and find out if it's just me? Nowhere, I guess, I'd just wait it out with no extra insights on what's…
reddit feels like it has about a 4 hour lag time on most "breaking" events.
This is the time it takes for news in major subreddits to gather enough votes on the "new" tab to make it to the main subreddit front page, then the actual front page.
Smaller subreddits seem to be less affected by this, which is why /r/toosoon (a subreddit dedicated to dark humor related to current events) is often surfaces news hours before other subs for people who have it in their subreddit list.
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#287Ok, this is too many high-profile, apparently unrelated outages in the last month to be completely a coincidence. Hypotheses: 1) software complexity is escalating over time, and logically will continue to until something makes it stop. It has now reached the point where even large companies cannot maintain high reliability. 2) internet volume is continually increasing over time, and periodically we hit a point where…
Relating to 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pW-SOdj4Kkk
(Jonathan Blow's "Preventing the Collapse of Civilization"... perhaps a melodramatic title, but well-said overall.)
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I think OP is saying the rewards were confiscated so the team wouldn't begin breaking things on purpose to get a reward when they fixed it.
Yeah but does anybody believe that the engineers would deliberately break things so they could have to work in a stressful environment bringing things back up just to get some free beer?
Indeed, the usual motivation to try and be called a hero for putting out the fire you started is much more valuable than free booze: a title promotion with a pay bump.
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#289Ok, this is too many high-profile, apparently unrelated outages in the last month to be completely a coincidence. Hypotheses: 1) software complexity is escalating over time, and logically will continue to until something makes it stop. It has now reached the point where even large companies cannot maintain high reliability. 2) internet volume is continually increasing over time, and periodically we hit a point where…
Or we just managed to construct the biggest circular dependency ever using the whole internet and a combination of all hyped languages and frameworks.
That would in turn lead to an insanely fragile system with increasing amounts of failures that seem unexplainable/weird.
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#290So storytime! I worked at Twitter as a contractor in 2008 (my job was to make internal hockey-stick graphs of usage to impress investors) during the Fail Whale era. The site would go down pretty much daily, and every time the ops team brought it back up, Twitter's VCs would send over a few bottles of really fancy imported Belgian beer (the kind with elaborate wire bottle caps that tell you it's expensive). I would in…
Can someone explain the joke (about the beer) because I genuinely don't understand edit: pretty please
Under the guise of preventing the ops team from being incentivized to create outages, he was selflessly stealing all the nice beer for himself.