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797 points burnerbob | 4 comments | 20 Jul 23 23:42 UTC | HN request time: 0.639s | source

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You unfortunately get what you pay for.

AWS is more expensive than God, but I'll be damned if you can't have a throat to choke in less than 10 minutes whenever something like this happens.

pinkcan ◴[21 Jul 23 05:34 UTC] No.36810334[source]▶

> a throat to choke

yikes

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1. fuzztester ◴[21 Jul 23 07:09 UTC] No.36810867[source]▶

That's a common phrase, not to be taken literally.

It just means one single person (at the vendor) who you can complain to, or raise an issue with.

2. pinkcan ◴[21 Jul 23 07:19 UTC] No.36810953[source]▶

yea, it's just another one to add to a list of expressions that are unnecessarily aggressive, and for which there are better alternatives

3. ctvo ◴[21 Jul 23 14:56 UTC] No.36814557[source]▶

Been in the industry a long time. It’s not a common phrase. It’s weirdly violent. At most “someone to yell at”. A throat to choke? What the fuck.

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4. pinkcan ◴[21 Jul 23 20:44 UTC] No.36819446[source]▶

not a native speaker, but have been reading and writing english long enough to pick up the meaning immediately

anyway, had the same though when typing my sibling comment, felt so disgusted reading that

Fly.io Postgres cluster down for 3 days, no word from them about it