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what the hell does having american born engineers have anything to do with software quality. Man. This site is filled with weird racism.
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Re: Incident with Github.com [resolved]
#142To everyone who is angry: calm down. Github’s servers are constantly on fire as their usage increased something like 50x due to LLM sloppers pushing large amounts of trash code Unless you have a emergency hotfix (you don’t), go hit the gym or walk outside. If a work tool going down triggers you enough mentally to start angrily ranting online, it’s a sign you need to chill out and focus more on your health
Or, you know, it's perfectly reasonable and natural to feel angry when a service you paid for gets worse over time.
> Unless you have a emergency hotfix (you don’t)
Oh, we do. Given the sheer number of users, it's almost guaranteed someone is on fire ever time GitHub is down. Statistics is a very charming branch of reality.
Re: Incident with Github.com [resolved]
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Your comment history is full of barely-hidden racism. Get some help.
Off-topic clearly. but is there like an "NA/AA" for racism? Or like a therapy program or something akin to? Does 'usual' therapy touch on racism?
Like..where does one 'get help' for being racist? Honest question, I don't mean to sound snarky...
Re: Incident with Github.com [resolved]
#144Re: Incident with Github.com [resolved]
#145I recall reading years ago that cloud services were expected to run with a reliability of 3 or 4 '9's and that if they didn't competing services would quickly overtake them in adoption. The industry was supposed to be that cut throat.
Has big tech reached a similar status like banks in that they are "too big to fail" i.e. when they do fail we all just look the other way and say: "well everyone else is out too". Didn't someone recently calculate that GitHub is running at 95%? For comparison the Irish Rail service which is not reliable has 80% of it's trains run on time.
This seems absurd and really challenges a lot of ideas I had about big tech and cloud infrastructure. GitHub seems to have remained the dominant player relative to GitLab etc.
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Unfortunately, my company uses Outlook and Teams. Both are the worst piece of software I've ever used. They're just trash. The UX is so bad. Things don't work as expected. Even basic things like composing an email, copy and pasting, formatting text are always a chore. Try setting up a Teams integration vs a Slack integration. Gmail is absolutely light years ahead in UX. I really miss working at a company that uses Sl…
I'm not a huge fan of Team, but I do have to give them credit for making the experience better over the years- a few years ago, search didn't even work!
Re: Incident with Github.com [resolved]
#147To everyone who is angry: calm down. Github’s servers are constantly on fire as their usage increased something like 50x due to LLM sloppers pushing large amounts of trash code Unless you have a emergency hotfix (you don’t), go hit the gym or walk outside. If a work tool going down triggers you enough mentally to start angrily ranting online, it’s a sign you need to chill out and focus more on your health
> Github’s servers are constantly on fire as their usage increased something like 50x due to LLM sloppers pushing large amounts of trash code
Which means they have a pricing problem. Rate limit non-paying users.
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#149It's been a downward spiral since covid. Enterprise works ok-ish, but the standard version has daily issue ever since.
Not sure covid was the sole driving force. A combination of MS taking over and deciding to move it to Azure, a massive increase in traffic due to ai usage (not that this should be an excuse for a platform that should be scaleable), and Github going all in on AI usage to write its own code.
They're making it very easy for a viable alternative to pop up and take their lunch - it just wont be Gitlab.
Re: Incident with Github.com [resolved]
#150Earlier quoted context omitted.
I’m willing to give them a break as I’m assuming they have a lot of scaling problems due to the influx of LLM assisted coding. But maybe I’m wrong?
It should be embarrassingly paralel I don't get how they can't figure out
What should? Presumably if it were easy and solved their most visible problem then they would have done it already?