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fearmerchant
4 hours ago
I must be unlucky because I'm in that .73% way more than .73% of the time.
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lordgrenville
1 hour ago
There was a post on here the other day explaining this exact phenomenon:
https://brooker.co.za/blog/2026/06/19/waiting.html
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Schiendelman
1 hour ago
That's how outages on very popular systems work - there's no downtime when most engineers are sleeping, since they're not under load.
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KyleTheDev
1 hour ago
A lot of deployments are also being done by engineers, performing the deploys while awake. Thus increasing the risk of outages while I'm awake. :(
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