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[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 17 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Also: uptime percentage must be computed as the intersection of uptime across services, not the union.

GitHub Actions: 98.31% uptime. We say something like: GitHub Actions: 12 hours affected in the last 30 days (98.31% uptime).

Normal people have no understanding of percentages or numbers, I agree saying 12 hours of downtime is more useful, but I’m also tired of trying to contextualize numbers for the numerically illiterate.

[–] Beacon@fedia.io 9 points 2 days ago (2 children)

"innumerate", same as illiterate, but for numbers. Not sure if it's a common enough word for people to understand what you're talking about, but still there it is

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 14 points 2 days ago

So if "innumerate" and "innumerable" are both words, there must be an "illiterable," meaning "too many words to be expressed."

[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 days ago

I was looking for that word but didn’t arrive at it

[–] whats_a_lemmy@midwest.social 5 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] staircase@programming.dev 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

According to that, actions is down ~1 working day/month. That's sooooooooooo bad.

I thought big tech wanted us to move away from personal devices into the cloud. This isn't the way to do it.

Don't forget about: https://www.dayswithoutgithubincident.com/

Important because it shows their high score. The best they've done this year is 6 days without an incident. That's their high score.

They're tied for their high score right now which is cool, but it's shameful that the longest they've gone all year without something going down is 6 days.