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Someoen accidentally saved half a million-dollars
- vardump 1y agoSometimes relatively trivial actions can save millions. Say, finding a "simple" bug in the firmware causing a lot of expensive industrial PCBs appear completely dead. Millions of dollars of savings in service personnel travel and board costs, in no time.
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- Spivak 1y agoIt really is fun doing cost optimization at companies whose business model is setting money on fire in various clouds. Everything is over provisioned by at least a factor of ten and you look like a god damn hero for having like basic sysadmin knowledge.
- cainxinth 1y agoFunny read. The author has a black belt in snark: > “They hired some incredibly talented people to make this happen, and then like five times as many idiots.” > “I'm a substantially less experienced engineer than many of the readers here, but suffice it to say that I can read documentation without panicking, which is considered S-tier in this country.” > “I ping a chat full of good engineers and no managers to make sure I'm not about to nuke everything, then just do it.” > “My team has spun this as a huge cost saving, when really we just applied a fire extinguisher to the pile of money that we had set alight.” > “The subtext is that if we do this all slowly enough, it might seem like it took a lot of effort instead of just clicking buttons that I said had to be clicked almost a year ago.”
- ingen0s 1y agoI left those computers idle so we can run a secret botnet and you messed it up!