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by otterley 2mo ago
Biting the postman isn't the crime, though. The underlying crime in this example would be gross negligence or recklessness for failing to control their dog.
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by otterley 2mo ago
I'm not sure. On the other hand, there're plenty of corruption and loss of quality of life where there's not much money in electioneering, or not even a democracy. Take Russia, for example, or any of a number of African or Ce
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by otterley 2mo ago
I agree - however, I was responding to your direct question about whether GitHub's operating cost was high, and there's some data that suggests that it is!
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by otterley 2mo ago
That’s more surgical than load shedding. With load shedding you intentionally return 503s to a proportion of all legitimate requests. It turns a hard blackout (total outage) into a flakiness issue.
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by otterley 2mo ago
It’s in a comment halfway down the page. It’s not in the issue description. If enough comments are added to the discussion, it might end up being collapsed.
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by otterley 2mo ago
I wondered that myself. Curious as to why they couldn’t shed load at the edge to help protect goodput.
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by otterley 2mo ago
GitLab has its own problems. It might be somewhat more available than GitHub lately, but it too is not immune to incidents, particularly involving workflow dispatch and managed runner availability. Plus the UX isn’t nearly as good. Sometime
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by otterley 2mo ago
> what suggests GitHub has a huge operating cost? They just added 3 million CPU cores to the fleet. That’s a lot of cheddar.
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by otterley 2mo ago
Close but not quite: https://builder.aws.com/content/3EumjoZascWd1oZiEgL8ORlv3qE/... “Circuit breakers, where calls to a downstream service are stopped entirely when an error threshold is exceeded, are widely prom
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by otterley 2mo ago
This is probably the best and most thorough explanation I’ve seen: https://builder.aws.com/content/3EumjoZascWd1oZiEgL8ORlv3qE/... I’m particularly fond of the token-bucket mechanism for pacing recovery.
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by otterley 2mo ago
If you’ve got a workaround, I’d suggest updating the issue description to have it up top there so similarly impacted users can spot it quickly and benefit.
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by otterley 2mo ago
I...didn’t say you did say that? No need to be defensive. But a reasonable interpretation of “the primary reason for people voting like this is the ungodly sums of money spent on elections” is that such a direct causal link exists. If you m
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by otterley 2mo ago
If money won elections, then the outcome of every election could be predicted with accuracy based solely on the relative spending by or on behalf of each candidate. In reality, that's not how it works. There are countless examples of c
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by otterley 2mo ago
> Way I see it, US has the power to just tell any creditor that they won't be repaying It does not. The Fourteenth Amendment forbids that. Section 4: "The validity of the public debt of the United States...shall not be question
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by otterley 2mo ago
That's not what "shall not be questioned" means. It's a term of art meaning that the Government cannot refuse to pay valid claims on its debt.
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by otterley 2mo ago
It's not just an idea; it's in our Constitution! Fourteenth Amendment, section 4: "The validity of the public debt of the United States...shall not be questioned."
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by otterley 2mo ago
That's a great link! Thanks for that :-)
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by otterley 2mo ago
A large majority of basic scientific research is funded by tax dollars. One mustn't underestimate the importance of DOD, NIH, and NSF grants in ongoing technological innovation. Update: s/majority/amount/
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by otterley 2mo ago
It might be that the cases we read all involved someone getting personally injured. There's nothing about the law that limits the "injury" to personal injury, though--for example, if a defective battery catches fire and burns
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by otterley 2mo ago
Property cannot commit crimes. Only people can.
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by otterley 2mo ago
If I remember my torts course in law school correctly, defective product liability law usually only kicks in when someone is physically injured by the product.
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by otterley 2mo ago
Really? You can’t be sued for, say, doctor bills incurred by your cat scratching or biting someone so badly they need stitches, when you failed to take reasonable care of the cat and knew it had a tendency to bite and scratch people?
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by otterley 2mo ago
> But do we still trust the open source software that is created now everything is vibe coded? The provenance of the code matters insofar as how much you should initially trust it, but the fact that it's open source means it's
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by otterley 2mo ago
I wonder why the local government allowed it to be built without a buffer zone.
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by otterley 2mo ago
I don't understand the "theft" or "stealing" angle here, other than as a clumsy rhetorical device. I can see an "unfair" angle, and the behavior is definitely bad for customers, but it's not theft. Th
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by otterley 2mo ago
You said: "if a human cares, a human will author." That statement was somewhat ambiguous, and I interpreted that in such a way that the first human (the consumer) is different from the second (producer). Perhaps that's not wh
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by otterley 2mo ago
> As I said earlier, if a human cares a human will author. That is precisely the observation we're not seeing.
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by otterley 2mo ago
What I meant by "optional" work is that it's not being performed for a buyer; it's volunteer labor. Nobody's paying for individuals' awful LinkedIn posts. I suppose it could be framed as self-promotion aimed at
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by otterley 2mo ago
A human introduced the bug, not Copilot: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49334262
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by otterley 2mo ago
It's not controversial that if left alone, most people will tend towards minimizing laborious work, and that the use of technology to do that ought to be expected. Consider, however: 1. This work was largely optional to begin with. Few

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