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20%, do we just make numbers up?
by gottagocode 1mo ago
20%, do we just make numbers up?
- ozarkerD 1mo agoDepends if this is coming from engineering or management
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- anonymousab 1mo agoIt seems vastly higher on every region and VPN I've tested, so I think this is a case of the "technicalies". It is technically 20%, because a bunch of the requests that happen on page load do succeed. Just not the few crucial ones that are required for the page to load correctly - those return a 500 the vast supermajority of the time.
- brookst 1mo agoI can't get a single PR or issue to work. Maybe it's "20% globally, 100% anywhere people are awake".
- malfist 1mo agoFeel free to disregard this because ultimately its a tangent that doesn't matter; but supermajority is specifically a political term referring to the required threshold to advance legislation when simple majority isn't procedurally enough. It doesn't mean simply a greater share of.a majority
- zmgsabst 1mo agoThis is how language evolves. For supermajority: the construction means “beyond majority” or “above majority”, it is implemented as a higher percentage in most systems, and there is a utility in being able to refer to high ratio majority. So people have repurposed a technical word to a general word, of roughly the same meaning.
- albatross79 1mo agoNo, some usage is just wrong, even if many people are doing it.
- bhelkey 1mo agoEnglish is descriptive not prescriptive. The meaning of words change over time. "Disappoint" was originally the inverse of "appoint" and meant to remove from office.
- albatross79 1mo agoIt's neither. If you accept and approve of people wearing their pants around their knees, its a fashion evolution. If you think pants should cover your ass, it's just poor behavior. Analogous to the use of language.
- normie3000 1mo ago20% of requests on a GUI page also makes the whole thing unusable.