Dont even need to watch the whole video. This is all you gotta see.

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    “Six nines” is practically a meme in the IT infrastructure and DevOps world, and has nothing at all to do with any kind of sex joke. For years “six nines” has been touted as the pinnacle SLA target for high availability and uptime of services. You’ll find references all over the Internet to this SLA from all kind of companies, both big and small, in their marketing.

    Examples from a quick and random Google search:

    Companies such as Microsoft, Amazon (AWS specifically) and Google tout the “six nines” as their HA SLA in loads of their marketing, and it’s easy to find.

    I could go on forever but that should give you an idea. You can read more about “The Rule Of Nines” here if you’re interested: https://vastdata.com/blog/the-rule-of-nines

    My point is, this isn’t a figure they made up for a sex joke. It’s a very real SLA that is explicitly touted in IT marketing all over the Internet and has been for some time.

    So where does the “innuendo” come from then? The uninformed viewer’s own imagination, I think. Because from my perspective, I just see an IT guy trying to brag about how he’s going to ensure his infrastructure reaches a slick “six nines” target for high availability, snapping his fingers and showboating the camera in pride about it.

    It’s up to the viewer to interpret what they see, of course, but it’s also wrong once you know what the true intention more likely was to continue to insist that it was something else entirely. If anything, what he really meant is inconclusive, I personally think it’s a real stretch to assume it was a sex joke.

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      All the LMG channels regularly make “69” sex jokes, if you think they weren’t using the opportunity of the coincidence of “six-nines” coming up to make a double entendre (especially with the body language) then I have to assume you haven’t been paying attention, are extremely poor at human interaction, or are willingly trying to cover for them.

      It is SO completely obvious. Like, beyond any doubt.

      And we all know what six-nines uptime means, as it relates to servers.

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        I guess you can chalk it up to I “haven’t been paying attention” then. I’m not a religious viewer of all of their channels, I just watch the odd video here and there (like, maybe one or two videos every few months), and since this whole fiasco blew up I got curious enough about it to catch up on what happened, and watched the apology video. With that being my context as a viewer and technology enthusiast, that’s the lens I viewed this segment through. I just didn’t see anything wrong with Luke’s part.

        Maybe if I was a more of a regular viewer I might have seen it a bit differently, But even if it was a double entendre, for the sake of argument, it seems to me as though it were pretty tame at worst in his case?

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        Oh man, check it out. We have the body language expert here. Everyone else is just stupid in comparison.

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        Jeez man who hurt you. Both the content and delivery of it from the guy above seemed very genuine. Don’t be a dick.

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        I defended one specific segment which seemed unfairly taken out of context, with support for why I thought so, and remained as objective as I could about it. I never commented on anything else besides that one specific segment, and I never expressed any support for LMG as a whole (full disclosure, I think they’ve done some awful things they need to be held accountable for). But that makes me some kind of LMG apologist?

        Okay. I don’t see what else I can say about that accusation.

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          If it sounds like a duck. Ok, sorry. What you said is certainly a meme that’s part of tech. However, I would bet significant amount of money that their bro culture looked at six-nine and they turned it into an innuendo. As most immature asshats, as they seem to be, would do. If you can’t see that, I’m sorry, but your social awareness is off.

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            I appreciate the toned-down response, so thanks for that. As to whether or not it really was a sex joke, I can’t say for sure one way or the other. It’s anybody’s guess. People should interpret it how they see fit. But I saw it differently and offered up my interpretation, backed with information that supported what led me to it, so that I wouldn’t be thought of as a blind supporter.

            I’m actually not even a supporter or regular viewer of them at all (I’ve watched the odd video here and there, just on occasion). Just someone who heard about all of this and got curious. I watched the apology video and that segment struck me as innocent for the reasons I stated. And it’s totally fair if someone wants to interpret it differently. I just think it’s unfair to conclude with 100% certainty that it must have been a sex joke and therefore everyone who watched it should be offended by it.

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            I think I took the time to fairly and productively as possible express my viewpoint, backed with some reasoning and additional information, without trying to insist that I am without a doubt correct and everyone else is wrong. I acknowledge that others may not feel the same way. So in what way is flaming without adding anything productive to the conversation more helpful than what I shared?

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            A more important take is that it actually doesn’t even matter if it was an innuendo, everyone needs to get over themselves and their pearl clutching over nothing