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- Comment on 7 years after being delisted for a second time, the 2013 Deadpool game just got a mysterious update on Steam alongside 6 other delisted Activision games 9 hours ago:
these also showed back up on my wishlist
- Comment on Capsaicin 2 weeks ago:
This is not new and it does work to some extent. Back in highschool my buddies and I used to cheat at hot wings challenges by chewing a few cough drops first.
- Comment on History's Major Downtimes: Lessons from the Biggest Outages 4 weeks ago:
reason for that is isolation and reduncancy though. Most incidents/outages are the result of a change and in the cases you mentioned they are mitigated by the fact that not all instances receive updates at the same time. Presumably, the error is noticed in one place and traffic is then served by healthy instances.
By all accounts these are practices that significant service providers follow. In fact AWS typically rolls out updates to us-east-1 before updating other regions to use it as a canary to warn against issues.
With federated services, this is less of a conscious decision and tends to happen only because instance maintainers update on different schedules.
Blue-green deployments and failover are common mitigation strategies and mature organizations actively employ these. Conversely, these patterns are integral to the decentralized nature of the fediverse and other distributed solutions such as cdn.
- Comment on Literally Nineteen Eighty-Four 4 weeks ago:
Not just an engineer thing though. Everyone finds it obnoxious.
- Comment on If a planet was completely covered in water, wouldn't it all be freshwater? 4 weeks ago:
Enceladus, a moon of Saturn is actually mostly water, but salt has been found in volcanic emissions ejected into space.
That said it’s not impossible that conditions exist somewhere in the universe where you have H2O and no NaCl since that is the salt we usually mean when we talk about salt water. Unfortunately it is not the only thing found to be mixing with water as on Jupiter, liquid water does exist but it mixes with amonia.
- Comment on Eels 4 weeks ago:
that would be because electric eels are fish, not eels.
On my phone but see phylogeny en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_eel