4 ms·

I think I'm setting some kind of Ctrl-R land speed record.

• mrdrozdov 11y ago
  Heh, talk about a negative feedback loop. DDOS propagating more DDOS....
  • mitchtbaum 11y ago
    That would mean a positive feedback loop. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive_feedback_loop https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive_feedback_loop (Positive in this sense has a similar meaning in behavioral psychology's terminology for operant conditioning, adding punishment.. which both come off as odd with our common use of positive as good and beneficial :/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operant_conditioning https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operant_conditioning) ...Carrying on with your analysis, since uninterrupted positive feedback loops result in explosion, I guess that would mean either (for this outage) github's fallback status page would go down or the parts of the network carrying that traffic, which could not handle their increased load, would go down. Probably better we would rework these control mechanisms and reroute \ rewire \ entirely change these processes.