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   Hazel Weakly (hazelweakly@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 09-Jun-2024 20:04:09 JST Hazel Weakly

   One of the hardest things for people to understand with distributed systems is that eventual consistency is the same thing as eventual inconsistency. The very same pattern that lets you non atomically deal with things also ensures that eventually you'll have a system that doesn't match your understanding.

   Resources will go stale, things will go missing, stuff will exist without ever having been created, and data will be destroyed that never got manifested.

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     Ed W8EMV (w8emv@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 09-Jun-2024 20:04:06 JST Ed W8EMV

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     @hazelweakly “We build our computers the way we build our cities—over time, without a plan, on top of ruins.” Ellen Ullman

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     Hazel Weakly (hazelweakly@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 09-Jun-2024 20:04:07 JST Hazel Weakly

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     • Ed W8EMV

     @w8emv "working" and "functional" are but a noble lie we build the foundations of civility on, lest we squabble about which way is up and which way is down :)

     pettter repeated this.
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     Ed W8EMV (w8emv@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 09-Jun-2024 20:04:08 JST Ed W8EMV

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     @hazelweakly

     every working big system is always partly broken, in ways that ensure that systems people and operations people will always have something to do.