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nicbou
11 months ago
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CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Lo...
We have multiple exits to avoid trapping people in a fire. Redundancy is important when the cost of failure is high.
lazyasciiart
11 months ago
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America has much stricter rules about this than other places, actually.
ajsnigrutin
11 months ago
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Sure, and all those rules were created when a building without multiple exists burned down and many people died.
Maybe this crowdstrike outage will be the "burning building" that will bring change :)
chii
11 months ago
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Computer systems have gone down before. It's only when people actually die, rather than merely be inconvenienced, that change happens.
JackMorgan
11 months ago
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911 systems down overnight will certainly be found to have caused deaths.
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