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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A single DNS race condition brought AWS to its knees⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a full postmortem from AWS. One piece that stands out to me:

  due to the large number of droplets, efforts to establish new droplet leases took long enough that the work could not be completed before they timed out. Additional work was queued to reattempt establishing the droplet lease. At this point, DWFM had entered a state of congestive collapse and was unable to make forward progress in recovering droplet leases.

  That is, the load that resulted from the initial failure was not something the system was designed to handle, so it had cascading effects / required manual cleanup.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rondo Energy turns on first major thermal battery — at an oil field⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  The installation is housed in what looks like a four-story prefabricated office building. Inside sits a massive stack of refractory bricks, which are heated to temperatures of more than 1,000 degrees Celsius (1,832 degrees Fahrenheit) by an adjoining 20-megawatt solar array. That heat is tapped to generate steam that is injected into oil wells to increase production — a job previously done by a fossil-gas-fired boiler.

  The project is something of a Faustian bargain. It will reduce carbon dioxide emissions by about 13,000 metric tons per year, said John O’Donnell, Rondo’s cofounder and chief innovation officer. But, of course, those reductions are in service of bringing more planet-warming fossil fuels to market.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sniper attacks Texas ICE facility amid soaring tensions over US immigration⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  According to local news reports, all three victims were detainees. FBI Director Kash Patel confirmed no law enforcement officers were injured, and suggested he believed the motive was political:

  While the investigation is ongoing, an initial review of the evidence shows an idealogical (sic.) motive behind this attack … One of the unspent shell casings recovered was engraved with the phrase ‘ANTI ICE.’

  Huh, don’t know how to interpret that.