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Cake day: November 14th, 2023

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  • It’s never work in the US because holding private companies accountable for how they spend public money and maintaining well regulated competitive markets is communism or something

    It did work in the US for many years. During the 90’s the Internet was regulated like that. Phone lines, t1’s etc were infrastructure that the ilec was required to provide at the same cost to isps they used internally to sell service to consumers.

    Then Bush came in and ruled that fiber and cable were immune from those common carrier laws.


  • In real world software systems, you need to handle monitoring and alerting.

    That’s one example of your particular programming job. Many real world software systems do not require handling monitoring and alerting especially not using statistics, rolling averages, etc.

    For example, I once wrote the encryption code used on smart card chips. Writing statistics for smart card card transactions would be someone else’s job. Same with the modem code I wrote for a product.