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by I_Am_Nous 930 days ago
My initial impression is wondering why they picked Q while the internet still remembers Qanon.
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Alfa Bravo Charlie And so on … Q is easier to redefine in part because it has fewer acrophonic opportunities to create a simple repetitive word. Q has a history of being mysterious and is a wildcard of sorts from a linguistic perspective.
I can't wait until it gives us an answer in a riddle we have to figure out ourselves!
I've never found Amazon to be good at naming things and stopped wondering where they pull these out of
At least this one is short. Un-Googleable, but short.

"Amazon Web Services Systems Manager Session Manager" remains my favorite.

I’d have to imagine the simple reason is that Q is short for Question.
Q is short for Quebec.
Q is quite common. James Bond has a Q and Star Trek has a Q.
Maybe it returns "drops" as answers.
Memetic domination of the letter.
> My initial impression is wondering why they picked Q while the internet still remembers Qanon.

The first thought I had was of Q in Star Trek - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q_(Star_Trek)

I was thinking Q from James Bond.
Because of the recent openai conspiracy maybe?