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Open teleMETRY

Any guesses as to etymology?

All those things you describe are computable metrics. They have to be or Otel itself would not be able to compute them for consumption. All you described are cherry picked semantic indirections to obfuscate it’s all just a computer computing metrics of its own memory states.

Sorry for knowing how computers actually work (EE grad not a CS grad). I know that can frustrate CS grads who think their preferred OS and favorite programming language is how a computer works. You’re describing how contemporary SWEs view their day job.

Edit: teleMETRY …what’s in a name? Oh right …meaning.

Code traces are metrics. Run times per function calls metrics, count of specific function call metrics.

Otel is an attempt to package such arithmetic.

Web apps have added so many layers of syntax sugar and semantic wank, we’ve lost sight its all just the same old math operations relative to different math objects. Sets are not triangles but both are tested, quantified, and compared with the same old mathematical ops we learn by middle school.

Correction: no space agency wants to claim it as theirs to avoid responsibility for it

> Those DEI programs like to produce a show.

This a reasonable comment to make about the entire economy. Just role play “creating value” for rent seeker investor class.

Very little of what we accomplish will live into the future. See rotary phones, mechanical printing press… all obsolete despite being bleeding edge technology at some point

In that little emotional void where religion once lived we now store an obligation not to god, but earn an atta boy from a prior generation that doesn’t seem to care about the risk to our future lived experience they’ll not be around to navigate.

Physics is ageist. Instead of acknowledging the obvious lived experience we’re chanting 1984 like cognitive dissonant memes; hustling for the old rich is freedom!

Hmm pretty sure freedom from the prior generations fiat decree they rule is freedom.