I loved the ending! Glad you kept it in. I’m sure the emacs folks will appreciate the humour in it. And they’re welcome to write their own article on the history of emacs and end it similarly. They’ve probably got a binding for it.
In South Africa the "big" (historically incumbent) banks were indeed disrupted by a "startup" bank relatively recently (in the last 20 years) - and this startup bank went on to in turn become one of the big banks.
There is an excellent book called "Stalking Giants" [1] that covers this story nicely. It's a fun read (especially for South Africans) and was published recently.
It’s not the first article / publication on Google SRE I’ve read, and they’re all similarly (and imho unnecessarily) verbose.
Whilst I’m deeply grateful to the good folks at Google for sharing their hard-earned knowledge with us, I do wish their publications on this important topic were far more succinct.
> My class valedictorian went on to become a doctor and while that is certainly impressive to me, there are many doctors and he practices (like almost every other doctor) and isn’t pushing the boundaries of medical science.
You seem like someone who thinks things through, so I suspect you’ll know what I’m about to say, but given the sentiment of your comment, I think it’s worth explicitly sharing this:
The fact that your class valedictorian went on to be a doctor is great. Not everyone needs to push the boundaries. Your classmate may end up saving/helping countless lives.
If you weren't already aware of it, check out the #f1 community on libera.
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