Comment by tfsh
3 days ago
It's not. You might be joking, but that comment still isn't helpful.
My understanding is this is part of Google's internal PSD offering (Public Status Board) which uses SCS (Static Content Service) behind GFE (Google Frontend) which is hosted on Borg, and deploys other large scale apps such as Search, Drive, YouTube, etc.
Wellp. Incident report: "We posted our first incident report to Cloud Service Health about ~1h after the start of the crashes, due to the Cloud Service Health infrastructure being down due to this outage."
How could it not be helpful given that it gave you reason to provide more details that you wouldn't have otherwise shared? You may not have thought this through. There is nothing more helpful. Unless you think your own comment isn't helpful, but then...
Because "It's good to lie because it makes people correct me" is a joke about IRC, not a viable stable game-theoretic optimal position.
Cunningham's Law emerged in the newsgroups era, well predating the existence of IRC.
Of course, I recognize that you purposefully pulled the Cunningham's Law trigger so that you, too, would gain additional knowledge that nobody would have told you about otherwise, as one logically would. And that you played it off as some kind of derision towards doing that all while doing it yourself made it especially funny. Well done!
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