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Sticking your face in front of a pit bull is a strategy for what? Writing up a plan for disaster recovery is a strategy for disaster recovery. The pros are tha

Sticking your face in front of a pit bull is a strategy for what? Writing up a plan for disaster recovery is a strategy for disaster recovery. The pros are that it is cheap and ticks the regulatory checkboxes. The downside is that it has a high probability of a high recovery time in the case of a disaster. My point is that there are different pros and cons to every strategy that you can pick. I also don't think that all strategies are better than "default behaviour" whatever that is.

hinkley 3y ago
> Sticking your face in front of a pit bull is a strategy for what? For meeting dogs of course. The problem I have is that it seems like you agree with other people in this thread, but real world experience tells me that stating things this way is more fuel for the lazy and for anarchists than it is support for the SREs. Don’t let the idiots think for a moment they are entitled to use a word as heavy as strategy. It ends farcically. Writing it down doesn’t make it a strategy. Satire is also written down.
oooyay 3y ago
I think I can help disambiguate a bit. "is not a strategy" is a bit of a tip of the hat to "hope is not a strategy", the full extrapolation of which means that a plan is not equivalent to strategy and an unexercised strategy is the definition of hope. An analog is when I was in the military we wore every level of MOP gear once a year to ensure that your gear functioned correctly and that you knew how to wear it. On a second day we would enter building filled with chemical irritant where you must dawn your mask, clear it, breath, and communicate. All of this is part of proving the plan which equivocates to strategy. We've not faced an imminent CBRN threat in decades, but we still do it because we maintain a strategy for dealing with it. In this case, if you have a plan for how to deal with too much heat or too little power but you don't actively put the systems that transfer the responsibility or get put under stress during these disaster events then you never actually know for certain that they'll work. Therefore, they are not strategies, just plans.

hinkley 3y ago

> Sticking your face in front of a pit bull is a strategy for what? For meeting dogs of course. The problem I have is that it seems like you agree with other people in this thread, but real world experience tells me that stating things this way is more fuel for the lazy and for anarchists than it is support for the SREs. Don’t let the idiots think for a moment they are entitled to use a word as heavy as strategy. It ends farcically. Writing it down doesn’t make it a strategy. Satire is also written down.

oooyay 3y ago

I think I can help disambiguate a bit. "is not a strategy" is a bit of a tip of the hat to "hope is not a strategy", the full extrapolation of which means that a plan is not equivalent to strategy and an unexercised strategy is the definition of hope. An analog is when I was in the military we wore every level of MOP gear once a year to ensure that your gear functioned correctly and that you knew how to wear it. On a second day we would enter building filled with chemical irritant where you must dawn your mask, clear it, breath, and communicate. All of this is part of proving the plan which equivocates to strategy. We've not faced an imminent CBRN threat in decades, but we still do it because we maintain a strategy for dealing with it. In this case, if you have a plan for how to deal with too much heat or too little power but you don't actively put the systems that transfer the responsibility or get put under stress during these disaster events then you never actually know for certain that they'll work. Therefore, they are not strategies, just plans.