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In IT it’s called the scream test. You unplug it and see who screams.
I have literally done this. Had a VM I didn’t know who owned in my lab, so I turned it off to see who complained or if it was really unnecessary. 3 min later I get a slack message asking if a VM was running.
Here's some hints...the lumber we need to build houses, the oil we use to power/heat those houses and transport goods around the country (so, anything that spends time on a semi or delivery truck) and cement. So anyone that needs to purchase things that's are transported or wants a house should be piping up soon.
Natural gas for heating.
I love how they didn't even exempt heating oil for the northern states. They acknowledged that tariffing it was fucked up by only doing a 10 percent tariff on it but it didn't cross their minds to just exempt it. A ten percent price increase on heating is going to literally kill people.
Dude let covid burn through New York City because it's like 80% Democrats, letting people freeze is par for the course.
I hate that you're right. In my poli sci classes they taught that every political decision has winners and and losers but I never thought we'd see a president killing Americans on purpose.
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Never heard of the scream test in 40 years of software dev, but I like it.
That’s because it’s the ops guys who turn off all your sites.
Sounds like you need to live life more dangerously.
I've been in IT Operations for 8 years and do this practice but first I've heard of 'scream test' as well
Maybe it's more common with databases and reporting? I've seen this a million times over the years with removing tables or reports. Then again, it's possible I've only worked in places with poor data governance.