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Hey, remember that time the entire power grid in Texas was crippled due to things going out of temperature range spec? Only in that case, it wasn't a beta produ
by kortex 5y ago
Hey, remember that time the entire power grid in Texas was crippled due to things going out of temperature range spec? Only in that case, it wasn't a beta product, it was critical infrastructure, that they were warned about and had ample opportunity to fix.
Getting components rated outside of "normal operating conditions" is a PITA on a good day, and impossible otherwise. You straight up don't design for every possible condition for the beta. That's bad engineering and a waste of time and money. Pick the number of 9's you want, estimate the conditions, draw a line in the sand, and build the damn thing, knowing damn well X% of customers will have an issue. Revise, fix it, refine your product and process.
- path411 5y agoYeah but this isn't a 9. If it's really that low temp spec, it's gotta be kicking off most days for this and next month in AZ
- kortex 5y agoWhat percent of customers don't experience thermal throttling in june? 90-99%? That's 1-2 nines. E: another comment mentions some cities in AZ are the hottest places in the world right now.
- willis936 5y agoThere are no nines in 60%.
- kortex 5y agoThe (back of the napkin) metric I'm using is: Integrate the total uptime of each Starlink customer, for every customer. Divide that by the integral of time billed for each customers. So if you have 10,000 users billed for 1 month, and 10 of them get thermally throttled for half a day, every day that whole month, that's 99.95% reliability this month.
- bagacrap 5y ago122 is not that hard to hit in direct sunlight. All of Texas, Florida and Arizona, plus many other areas, will hit this number on a regular basis in the summer, so this is less than one nine in terms of no of customers.