I could see it where they have something else to do at the start, but the longer it goes on the less productive stuff there is to do not relying on the service?
Comment on xkcd #3170: Service Outage
ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
The curve for people who depend on the service seems wrong. I would expect a sharp drop as soon as the service goes out and then gradually a partial recovery as they find other things to do.
WrittenInRed@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
tyler@programming.dev 1 day ago
You can go several hours without realizing a service is down but as soon as you realize you need it then your productivity drops. If you average that over everyone then the chart seems right to me.
Jankatarch@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Experienced this first hand.
I often challenge myself to not use internet to solve a problem.
One time, after practically an entire day working on some personal prject; I could not push my code to github. I attempted to look up if github is down on my phone and couldn’t.
Turns out there was an outage in my area. I had spent whole day programming without internet and did not notice.
After finding out I just shut down my computer and went to bed early lmao.
9point6@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Also these things are often cascading failures to some extent in that it takes a short while before the bad config or release has been fully propagated.
tyler@programming.dev 1 day ago
Good point, even more so if you depend on something that depends on the original thing but have no clue about the original thing at all.
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
Or it takes a while for the customer to notice so you can ignore it until then