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Same. What you're romanticizing about is it being a common and regular occurrence. It's not. It's a fluke.
by daneel_w 5y ago
Same. What you're romanticizing about is it being a common and regular occurrence. It's not. It's a fluke.
- emodendroket 5y agoNow imagine you have one of the world's largest assemblages of electronic devices and they all turn on at once. How likely are some flukes?
- dpratt 5y agoAnd when you have 500,000 copies of something, most of which have been in use for some appreciable fraction of their effective lifetime, it doesn’t have to be “common” to occur to some fraction of them. The post you’re responding to never implied that it happens to _most_ of them, or even many of them, just that when you have a gigantic farm, it’s not unreasonable to see a small handful of hardware instances release up their magic smoke when they’re all coming back from being powered down. MTBF is a thing.
- ericd 5y agoA fluke x massive scale = regular occurrence.
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- unionpivo 5y agoPretty much anyone who has worked in datacenter disagrees with you. Your assumptions that you know better than people working there are arrogant to extreme. If electronics (not just computer) is going to fail its almost always at power on or power off. And since DC is one big electronics warehouse, stuff breaks. Old spinning drives were most prone to this, with power supply and motherboards being second.