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Re:Why Twitter didn’t go down: From a real Twitter SRE by scott_w on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @09:55AM (#33706464)
Then go consult for the FAA and tell them those safety systems are just bloat for aeroplanes.
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Re:Why Twitter didn’t go down: From a real Twitter SRE by concordDance on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @10:55AM (#33707099)
I'm not saying they're bloat. They're a tradeoff between cost (man hours of work) and lives. They've increased the cost of small planes tenfold but have saved tens of thousands of lives.
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