[HN Gopher] Re: Thesis Defense Issue
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       Re: Thesis Defense Issue
        
       Author : luu
       Score  : 83 points
       Date   : 2024-02-09 18:10 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
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       | pimlottc wrote:
       | For those confused, this is basically a fan-fic in reference to
       | this piece [0] from McSweeney's
       | 
       | 0: https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/faq-the-snake-fight-
       | port...
        
         | tialaramex wrote:
         | I was like "Wasn't that years ago?" - a friend of a friend did
         | her PhD on stuff related to AO3.
        
         | riffraff wrote:
         | I'm glad I read the fanfic first and the original later.
         | 
         | They are both wonderful but the complete confusion caused by
         | reading the email thread with zero context was an added joy,
         | while the FAQ were hilarious anyway.
        
         | axus wrote:
         | I liked this one, which included an offhand reference to SMB
         | share incompatibility:
         | 
         | https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/my-comments-are-in-the-g...
        
           | vundercind wrote:
           | Sweet shit. That rings true.
           | 
           | We have _so many_ tools at work with significantly-
           | overlapping functionality, but use like a different 10% of
           | each one's features. My god, just pick a few and consolidate.
           | The lost productivity is enormous.
           | 
           | Multiple tools with issue trackers. Multiple tools with
           | secrets management. Multiple tools with ci pipelines.
           | Multiple code repo hosts. Multiple project management
           | systems. Multiple container and package registries. Multiple
           | code vuln scanners. Messaging systems. Logging & alerting
           | systems. Documentation hosts. FFS a few of our tools do _all_
           | of those. But that's like seven or eight different tools, as
           | we use them.
           | 
           | The process of getting anything to work, or finding any given
           | piece of info, _often_ looks like your linked piece.
        
       | joe_hills wrote:
       | I'm part of an artist's collective, and this really captures the
       | spirit of how we sometimes spend our holidays.
        
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