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Re: massive facebook outage presently


From: Karl Auer <kauer () biplane com au>
Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2021 15:52:19 +1100

On Tue, 2021-10-05 at 06:31 +0200, Mark Tinka wrote:
Q: What is automation?
A: Breaking the network at scale.

P J Plauger (I think) once defined a computer as a mechanism allowing
the deletion of vast quantities of irreplaceable data using simple
mnemonic commands. He defined a network as a mechanism allowing the
deletion of vast quantities of *other people's* irreplaceable data
using simple mnemonic commands...

Regards, K.

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