Yes. Which is why "I generated X lines of code" "I used a billion tokens this month" sound stupid to me.

Like I used 100 gallons of petrol this month and 10 kilos of rabbit feed!

People use stupid metrics like those because more useful ones, like "productivity" or "robustness" are pretty much impossible to objectively measure.

Yes great so we sell shit. No one buys a ticket because ofnhow safe the 737 Max plane is or buys a post office franchise based on how good the software Fujitsu sold the post office is, but fuck lets take some pride in outselves and try to ship quality work.

Or if your kettle is not working the house is considered not working?

I've been on a flight that was late leaving the gate because the coffeemaker wasn't working.

What is Google's uptime (including every single little thing with Google in the name)?

I don't think that's a fair comparison. Google Maps, Google Calendar, Google Drive, Google Search, Google Chrome, Google Ads, etc. are all clearly completely different products which have very little to do each other, they're just made by the same company called Google.

GitHub is a different situation. There's one "thing" users interact with, github.com, and it does a bunch of related things. Git operations, web hooks, the GitHub API (and thus their CLI tool), issues, pull requests, Actions; it's all part of the one product users think of as "GitHub", even if they happen to be implemented as different services which can fail separately.

EDIT: To illustrate the analogy: Google Code, Google Search and Google Drive are to Google what Microsoft GitHub, Microsoft Bing and Microsoft SharePoint are to Microsoft.

Completely agree, it makes it worse actually as Github's secondary functions so to speak are things we implicitely rely on.

When I merge to master I expect a deploy to follow. This goes through git, webhooks and actions. Especially the latter two can fail silently if you haven't invested time in observation tools.

If maps is down I notice it and immediately can pivot. No such option with Github.

It depends, for example - I would consider Google Drive uptime as part of say Google Docs’ overall uptime because if I can’t access my stored documents or save a document I’ve been working on for the past 3 hours because Drive is down I would be very pissed and wouldn’t care if it’s Drive or Docs that is the problem underneath I still can’t use Google Docs as a service at that point.

C++ ftw

Mixed usage—of em-dash and en-dash—is suspiciously human–like.

What amazes me is frequency of shinkansen for Tokyo-Osaka. Like more frequent than some metros! Just rock up Must change how people think.

Asia, including India soon!

I miss the good old days whem there were "hire me" ads in NPM installs.

You just need your normal watch without numerals?

That's what I thought, but in the 2nd para:

> No Roman numerals. No Arabic numerals. No left-to-right reading direction. No assumed orientation. Something that works in a mirror, in zero gravity, in any language spoken on Earth or beyond it.

As other comments have pointed out, base 10 is a pretty big assumption though.

Normal watch + "arc" remove the assumptions about orientation and direction.