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Re:Giving a Shit as a Service by SoftTalker on Sunday October 29, 2023 @03:02PM (#38061539)
You think that, but when Github is down, or AWS-East is down, everyone just kind of endures it, waiting until it's back up. And life goes on.
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Re:Giving a Shit as a Service by alwa on Sunday October 29, 2023 @04:13PM (#38062264)
Of course, when a hospital’s IT systems go down, people do indeed have to endure it, but life does not always in fact go on [0]. Horses for courses, I guess.

[0] https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/27/22696097/hospital-ransomw...

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Re:Giving a Shit as a Service by SoftTalker on Sunday October 29, 2023 @05:12PM (#38062856)
Hospital IT systems failures are are mostly going to cause problems with scheduling, record-keeping, and billing.

By far, the most likely thing to kill you in a hospital is not the IT system but errors by the doctors and nurses. Or that you're too sick to save no matter what they do.

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Re:Giving a Shit as a Service by somsak2 on Monday October 30, 2023 @12:22AM (#38065660)
Right, and the reason "everyone" has confidence in just waiting a bit for it to go back up without panicking and having to try to find an alternative is precisely because GitHub and AWS have on-call engineers that are alerted and immediately work on fixing it.
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