Anyone who is actually responsible for the uptime of anything understands the difference between 3 nines and 4 nines and how significant it is to gain or lose a nine.

Rather than guess at which percentage representation is more intuitive to people, the blog post suggests something more concrete:

instead of: GitHub Actions: 98.31% uptime.

We say something like: GitHub Actions: 12 hours affected in the last 30 days (98.31% uptime).

I’ve been presenting numbers to people for a long time and I know they flip back and forth between “these percentages are abstract - what’s the actual total number?” and “how do I put these totals in perspective? What percentage is it?” The blog post suggests offering both, which is the right choice.

Your point, she is not making sense.

English is a wreck of three other languages but at least we escaped gendered nouns and adjectives. That’s got to be the most pointless language feature of all time.

Again?

I just meant that you were replying to a comment about not being able to discern someone’s true opinion and it was kind of hard to discern the true opinion behind your very reply. That was the “again” part - recursion. I thought perhaps you were being deliberately witty. I would honestly appreciate that kind of humor, in all sincerity. I didn’t mean to make fun of you like haha you’re funny you clown.

I guess you actually meant yet another interpretation, which is that you simply never knew this was a thing and hadn’t imagined it, so were surprised. Fair enough!

Honey seems similar to milk - we’re harvesting a secretion. But I think vegans care about more than just killing animals - it’s also about enslaving them, for lack of a better word. Cruelty. And I don’t know enough to argue whether bees are free. It seems like they are - they leave their hives and then return. But their Queen does get moved around by the beekeeper and they are bound to her… its an interesting one.

Again, can’t tell if that’s because you think it’s an insignificant issue, or if you think the answer is obvious, and if so which answer you think that is. Are you being funny on purpose? If so bravo.

In this case “T” means “twenty-years-ago” for me :D

Never get excited or scared about the final data point in a time series. Especially when it’s a ratio metric that will conceal it when the data begins that final data point is still only partial.

It’s right there with never start a land war in Asia and never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line.

aka luck

It’s so odd to ask children with cancer to make a wish. Don’t they all wish to not have cancer?

“Not like that”

Asking this group to be discriminating in their hate for AI is never going to win you votes, but you’re completely correct.

It does so based on their inputs though. That doesn’t mean people are entirely in charge, but I think it’s wrong to say they have no involvement and just receive whatever the silicon genie dictates.

I see a lot of honest YouTubers who break their backs putting together quality educational hobby content and over time I have followed some as their numbers climb and it turns into more of a full time thing for them.

And then I see these brainrot morons pulling down 1000x the numbers and it’s just crushing. I guess people would rather eat shit than vegetables.

Honestly everything around here is about cherished narratives.

But you do create an interesting tension between two cherished narratives:

1. cars are evil
2. surveillance cameras are evil

I think number 2 is just winning out.

This is like some deep deep agro-economy hustle culture. Yo don’t be complaining about things - go out there and git them soybeans!!

Probably, yeah, because as the casuals drop out, only hardcores will remain, and they are frankly willing / compelled to pay more. So they will.

The number 18 is not allowed up that cat’s asshole.

One way to fuck roads is to not fix them very much, so I guess we are on the right path?

This reminds me of that weird MAGA couple who stood in their driveway brandishing their guns as a protest went by. I know little about guns but someone pointed out that he was holding it in the wrong direction such that hot shells would be ejected directly into his chest if he were to fire. I guess in addition to other things, Seagal is guilty of that one here too since he’s holding the gun both ways.