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by anyfoo 1699 days ago
Maybe their load balancer got hit by a 2009 Toyota Camry with a sticky accelerator pedal?
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wdr1 1698 days ago
I know we're already in the weeds, but Malcolm Gladwell’s “Revisionist History” did an excellent episode on the stuck accelerator problem, basically showing it almost certainly didn't happen.

https://www.pushkin.fm/episode/blame-game/

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Threeve303 1699 days ago
It is a very unlikely Y2K bug
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