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From a finance perspective I think they’re a _little_ weird but functional (NVDA moves with semis, MSFT with software, etc) whereas from a tech perspective I’d say very weird until you learn about the backstory and what motivated it.
My favorite quirk of mine is aphantasia but kids are more entertained by ear wiggling.
I thought for sure you were going to mention USPS “media” rates which allowed Amazon to ship books very cheaply.
The parent post is a chef’s-kiss-perfect illustration of the problem with modern tech.
similar, user-hostile behaviors I have found include:
- wifi network passwords are persisted through a system wipe and reinstall in recovery mode - a phone home is required by an activation step during installation - bluetooth is always re-enabled after an upgrade
hugged but someone caught it: https://archive.is/VrEtg
“line management” is the term I am familiar with
at orgs significantly larger than that, the kube team has to aggressively spin out platform functions that enable further layering or risk getting overwhelmed trying to support and configure kube features to cover diverse team needs (that is, storage software doesn’t have the same needs or concerns as middleware or the frontend). this incubator model isn’t easy in practice. trying to adopt kube at this scale is very challenging because it requires the kube team to spin up and out sub-teams at a very high rate or risk slowing the migration down to a crawl or outright failure and purchasing e.g. off the shelf AWS because teams need to offboard their previous platform.