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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon’s DNS problem knocked out half the web, likely costing billions⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Reading comprehension is dead

  Ken Birman, a computer science professor at Cornell University, told Reuters that “software developers need to build better fault tolerance,” suggesting Amazon could have done more to prevent the latest outage. “When people cut costs and cut corners to try to get an application up, and then forget that they skipped that last step and didn’t really protect against an outage, those companies are the ones who really ought to be scrutinized later,” Birman told Reuters.

  The professor is explicitly saying that the reason these blips from hyperscalers cause such widespread impacts is that the companies/applications that use these services don’t bother to take any precautions against outages.

  The full context from the Reuters article is literally 3 sentences I don’t understand how this “reporter” so fundamentally misunderstood what was being said

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It Took Many Years And Billions Of Dollars, But Microsoft Finally Invented A Calculator That Is Wrong Sometimes⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Not the point of this article but

  Meta is shaking up and downsizing its artificial intelligence division

  Wasn’t it just a month or two ago that Zuc was poaching AI engineers with multi-million dollars sign on bonuses? These boom and bust cycles are happening at breakneck speed. Most efficient system btw