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tailscaler2026 15 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Throwing AI-generated walls of text into conversat...

I don't think redis existed back when this industry was called IT

amelius 15 days ago [–]

I still think IT is more descriptive than Tech.

And the doctors at the hospital where I work still call us the "IT people".

YurgenJurgensen 15 days ago | [–]

Fire is ‘tech’, the wheel is ‘tech’. People using ‘tech’ when they mean ‘computers’ or ‘software’ needs to stop.

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