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My experience is that customers don't really care that much about small amounts of downtime no matter what size you are, people mostly get that unexpected stuff happens as long as you don't get hacked or misplace their data. Customers might complain a bit but seldom leave because of a few hours downtime.

This seems to mostly hold true to developers also, GitHub manages to survive just fine after all.

I think those of us who have had to suffer through ClearQuest, Lotus notes etc have an entirely different scale on how bad things can be compared to those who appear to really really hate Jira today. I'm not a fan of Jira but atleast it loads, eventually.

Most pizza-places here attempt to avoid the "(wolt|foodora) tax" price increase for pickups by offering free drinks if you call and order instead of doing it through the app.

Wouldn't be surprised if they start splitting into separate legal entities soon to get out of the pickup price matching restrictions.

At this scale you pretty much need to apply some sort of DDoS scrubbing service. Your ISP might already have one they can route traffic through or if you have your own AS you can let a DDoS service announce the target prefixes.

A game i run was recently hit with a 102 Ggbps CLDAP reflection attack. We were down for a while until our ISPs DDoS protection detected it after that we were mostly unaffected. If the attack is difficult to separate from legitimate traffic you'll still suffer though.

Fire services are learning how to deal with batteries [1] and most fire departments have had to adapt to new fire hazards as society changes over time with automobiles, high-rise buildings etc. For grid storage however it doesn't seem unreasonable to require each site to have the ability to move a burning pack somewhere where it can be extinguished.

[1] https://cfpa-e.eu/container-puts-out-inextinguishable-fires-...

I got very lucky about then when my father got his work to pay for bonded ISDN to our house in the middle of nowhere. Being able to connect to BBSes at 128kbit was insane.

But the big thing with ISDN and the internet was the latency. A bunch of mudding friends brought over their computers all the time since they could suddenly play with a latency almost as good as the older kids who played from their university dorms.

Its tricky to compare debt between countries since it works differently.

In Sweden you can't 'walk away' from your mortgage like in the US for example. This means its much safer for the bank to lend money and that interest rates are very low. Swedish mortgage default rates are very low.