Those words mean something
Looking at a recent post on this site from ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
buhrger , I was reminded of something that came up in an online course I'm taking about Google's Cloud Platform (basically, their service that competes with AWS). In a video about reliability and service level objectives, the lecturer makes the point that 100% availability is impossible. He does this by saying, "Because we live in a quantum mechanical world..." The implication is that the world is a place where random events happen so you can't control for all modes of failure. I groaned and rolled my eyes and was grateful this wasn't an in-person course because I'd have had to speak up, I think. It would be more accurate and more germaine to point out that we live in an entropic universe where states of order will fall into disorder over time.
buhrger , I was reminded of something that came up in an online course I'm taking about Google's Cloud Platform (basically, their service that competes with AWS). In a video about reliability and service level objectives, the lecturer makes the point that 100% availability is impossible. He does this by saying, "Because we live in a quantum mechanical world..." The implication is that the world is a place where random events happen so you can't control for all modes of failure. I groaned and rolled my eyes and was grateful this wasn't an in-person course because I'd have had to speak up, I think. It would be more accurate and more germaine to point out that we live in an entropic universe where states of order will fall into disorder over time.
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(now i'm wondering what i posted that prompted this.)
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