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Sure, that timeline looks bad when you leave out the 14 updates between 12:11am PDT and 8:04am PDT.

The initial cause appears to be a a bad DNS entry that they rolled back at 2:22am PDT. They started seeing recovery with services but as reports of EC2 failures kept rolling in they found a network issue with a load balancer that was causing the issue at 8:43am.

George Vaccaro was a Verizon customer who, in early December 2006, had a customer service phone call where Verizon had a legendary "math fail" as it would have been dubbed at that time. This is a viral tale from the early/modern internet age of the oughts. In the calls, the Verizon employees repeatedly fail to acknowledge the distinction between 0.002 dollars and 0.002 cents because they think "0.002 cents" is $0.002; in other words they think $0.002 is 0.002 cents simply because the 002 comes after the decimal point.

The Pentagon Pizza Report has been having a lot of activity the past 24 hours. Maybe just a coincidence

iirc the Dandelions we know are are native to Eurasia and are considered invasive across the US. They were brought over by early settlers for their health benefits

You have a good point. I live in Michigan and recently traveled down to Austin, Texas. The roads didn't seem all that much better but all of the road markings really stuck out to me. Reflectors in all the lines separating lanes, soft bollards surrounding cross walks and parking areas, extra curbs built in for bike lanes. It makes things look a lot nicer but my first thought was, "could you imagine trying to plow around those bollards, or those reflectors would get ripped up on the first pass."

Stop Killing Games 2 years ago

I guarantee you the result will be less games released

Best case would be that it results in less games that are reliant on a public server to connect to. I don't really think we need any more 4-5 person team deathmatch shooter games

That’s because the Dialog’s underlying technology is based on medical devices used to reheat donated organs that are kept cold for transport.

The first guy to make the jump from heating donor organs to heating your food probably got a couple of weird looks. I wonder if there was any viewing the Silence of the Lambs before the connection was made.