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okdood64 says>"As an SRE I'm not too worried on a 25 year horizon. Yes I pulled that number out of my ass."< I so wish you had not done that: the number 25 is
by giardini 4y ago
okdood64 says>"As an SRE I'm not too worried on a 25 year horizon. Yes I pulled that number out of my ass."<
I so wish you had not done that: the number 25 is now tainted in my workmates' collective memory, no one of them is willing to touch it, yet I fear we shall need it again soon.
You should have instead "pulled that number out of a hat":
https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/pull+out+of+a+hat https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/pull+out+of+a+hat
As you can see by the following, there is a difference:
https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/pull+out+of+ass https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/pull+out+of+ass
Perhaps you can be forgiven this once, being a back-end developer, but, in the future, please consider your audience.
- justinclift 4y agoThose two phrases are very commonly used interchangeably.