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Re:Tell HN: HN Moved from M5 to AWS by pmoriarty on Saturday July 09, 2022 @07:10AM (#32033900)
> it's the kind of thing that tends to be known by grizzled infrastructure veterans who had good mentors in their chequered past—and not so much by the rest of us

This is why your systems should be designed by grizzled infrastructure veterans.

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Re:Tell HN: HN Moved from M5 to AWS by dang on Saturday July 09, 2022 @05:59PM (#32039677)
That reminds me of Jerry Weinberg's principle: whenever you hear the word "should" on a software project, replace it with "isn't".

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=590075

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Re:Tell HN: HN Moved from M5 to AWS by kqr on Monday July 11, 2022 @12:58AM (#32052382)
That goes along with "almost never" which is a synonym for "sometimes" and "maintenance-free" which is a synonym for "throw it out and buy a new one when it breaks".
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Re:Tell HN: HN Moved from M5 to AWS by duckmysick on Monday July 11, 2022 @08:28AM (#32055245)
"Almost never" -> "more often than you would want"
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Re:Tell HN: HN Moved from M5 to AWS by mst on Monday July 11, 2022 @04:41AM (#32053679)
This is brilliant and I suspect generalises to "won't" when reading RFCs.
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