Pop the bubble! Pop the bubble! Pop the bubble! Pop the bubble!
this post was submitted on 25 Nov 2025
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lance the boil!
lance the boil!
Y'know how, if you turn off computers the wrong way, they can be damaged and go blue screen of death, especially if in a middle of an update? This is what needs to happen to data centers, just yank the power cord and plunge them into darkness.
We had a guy in a DC where the ATS cluster borked and took it allll down. There was a guy moving through it on a HDD swap task, and when it all went dark and quiet suddenly
- He thought he'd died
- The ping-ping of the CPUs cooling was scary
- he didn't know where he was or where he was facing, so he had to just lie down and wait for a fix vs blundering into something.
Yes, the emergency fighting failed too, for some reason.
Yes, the emergency fighting failed too
This is a good typo.
Could you elaborate on "the ping-ping of the CPUs cooling"?
Metal makes clicking/popping noises as it cools and shrinks. Commonly heard after you turn off an ICE engine.
Would be interesting to shut down all those data centers and just see how quiet the internet is after, because the bots are all down.
I know it’s impractical but it would be very interesting.
the really important stuff is all backed up on magnetic tape drives. it would lose them some money but only until the backup recovery is done
At some day, same-thinkers should migrate to one geolocation and start their own nation.
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