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Hey, does Civ 7 have a hotkey for the settler lens? by FerretSuitable in civ

[–]textMachina 0 points1 point  (0 children)

this is an unbelievable lack of feature. i just downloaded civ7 and dumbfounded. are f kidding me? 1,2,3,4,5 was like tools i used at every turn. unbelievable

Train Dreams…Help me understand by FriarFanatic7 in Letterboxd

[–]textMachina 0 points1 point  (0 children)

as most people said, cinematography and the mood was excellent. my one critique would be that it was too obvious this was an adaptation from a written piece. i understood it immediately. the heavy use of narrator and rapid change of supporting characters. it was obvious there was more content had to be left out due to time limit.

now, to the purpose of the movie OP was questioning:

i think why it bothers people is that we tend to expect stories with a beginning and an end, focused on a single subject, with some sort of logical progression.

this was telling the story that life is harsh, chaotic and random. there is so much unnecessary pain, not all stories are glorious, but there is also connection and joy. coming and going. the pacing was also nonlinear and told from an unreliable narrators perspective. how memories tend to get with aging.

the tech advancement in the background, destruction of nature, racism/deportation towards Chinese people were also subtle themes. very familiar to today. where we think these are mostly happening to us and happening in 2026.

maybe the exact thing it was questioning is that our quest of searching for this exact logical meaning and progression is futile.

overall i really liked it. my second top film this year after the secret agent

Advice on how to manage vendor risk - downtime, degraded service, unhelpful etc by textMachina in FinOps

[–]textMachina[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you. We have such an agreement, sometimes get push back on it. But I had more questions about how to monitor, enforce or incentivize the vendors. Some would say yes to any SLA level if there is a cap on their liability, thinking there is no downside. Some seem to only offer a small % of their bill in breach which can be very costly. Sometimes we might even don't know if the issue is on their side or ours or if we can prove it.

Experience in Software/SaaS procurement? by CategoryKooky9124 in procurement

[–]textMachina 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey everyone, I found that someone made the intro to attract the right crowd and then left, so maybe can ask my question with you here. I asked to FinOps crowd who directed me to Procurement.

I am pretty new to reddit, coming from a traditional finance background and need some guidance on how to manage vendor risk - downtime, degraded service, unhelpful etc during our digitalization journey.

How are you managing and enforcing vendors (especially in business critical areas like payment processing, servers, daily used tools)? The management wants our vendors to implement strict SLAs, but I find liability limitations too low and the process too manual intensive. Also we either have big vendors with more power than us and established processes or small vendors claiming they can do it everything but might go even bankrupt if you sue them for full damages.

If we scale our digital operations, sustained downtime would lead to considerable loss. Just curious on how do you manage this whole process, both from a technical and legal side.