They’re shorthand for long words you don’t want to type. You keep the first and last letter and replace the rest of the word with the number of characters you removed.

Kubernetes ➡️ K8s Observability ➡️ O11y

🤷🏼‍♂️

Rolling onto a client that uses “O11y” for observability almost gave me permanent damage.

Someone help me understand?

I don’t disagree with the sentiment but the Ilyushin Il-76 is made by Ilyushin, not Boeing. Let’s not cross the streams incorrectly.

Gah he looks worse than usual in this shot.

No way! What’s Vermont’s story?!

Ah shit, the bar must be so low then.

Ya know, that sounds super obvious but no that wasn’t a fact that I consciously knew. Great point! That is definitely not taught to us…Thank you for teaching me that! It does kind of change my perspective, too…

Am Texan. While it’s a fun little thing to kind of be proud of - that Texas was its own country before joining the United States - we stopped being a country for a reason. And today we are 100% less capable of independence from the United States compared to then.

We are taught “We can opt out of the United States whenever we want to. Other states can’t because they weren’t their own countries beforehand.” as a fun fact in 7th grade (Texas History) and no one seems to clarify that we can’t to the students or later in life when they’re grown ass adults. But by then, most refuse to believe it… like they do with most inconvenient facts.

sigh.

Was really hoping to read something else. Something arguably less plausible… but something else nonetheless.

I hope you have a good week though!

Even with removing the Christian aspect from this, it’s pretty heavy and a strong point.

I wonder what their plan is to retell the story in 8-12 years from now when people who were effectively left behind on purpose are of voting age.

Lifelong Texan. Fuck it, you have my support. So tired of this.

Whyyyyy would you actually say this out loud? We all know it’s a dick move but I’m curious what would possess them to actually broadcast it? Like you’re not supposed say the quiet parts out loud. Right?

This is so well written. She communicated what happened and that how it was done was shitty, her eagerness for something new and willingness to stretch into other areas without sounding wow-is-me accidentally, and professionally @‘d people to call them out. 10/10

All I can think about is how many shooters’ fingers might have been lost to this thing.

You don’t sayyyyy

It doesn’t actually. It’s just an asshole.

Okay yeah that’s true. I should have been cognizant that not being economically viable / efficient enough does not mean it’s impossible/I don’t believe it’s real. Definitely works.

Carbon capture 🥀

I feel seen.