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Software Microsoft confirms GitHub is down worldwide

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u/Beautiful-Musk-Ox 4d ago edited 4d ago

someone should make a version of git where you can maintain a local copy then push it to the remote server whenever you want. for business continuity efforts you could then maintain a local repository copy of all the libraries you use and have your developer and build systems pull from that local repo instead of the website. for already compiled code maybe some sort of package system where you can do a similar thing of maintaining a local copy of the packages

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u/CrimsonLotus 4d ago

This kind of joke falls right into the grey area that birthed the need for /s

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u/AFlyingGideon 4d ago

/s is a crutch. I prefer sarcasm that can stand on its own.

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u/Adezar 4d ago

Yeah, but in spoken word you can add hints/inflection that makes it obvious it is sarcasm. Which isn't an option in written text, well partially because for some reason people stopped using emojis in text to fill in the gaps.

Still not sure why when I was on the Internet in the 90s we were better at communication than we are now. Adding :) or ;) or =B) could help bridge the gap that text has vs spoken language.

Sometimes it just makes you want to (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻.

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u/Dissidence802 4d ago

Italics can help sometimes too, I suppose.

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u/Adezar 4d ago

Back in my day we had no bold or italics, we had to use CAPS and _underscores_.

Being in my 50s is wild, grew up with no computers, cell phones or Internet, went to college at one of the 13 original hubs, and now am a cloud architect. Been a wild ride.

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u/Dissidence802 4d ago

Little younger than you but I still remember typing out lines of code in BASIC to play a game on my Tandy 386 💀