Post #1362066
2026-04-02 12:37 UTC
Hold on now, the uptime number contains two digits that are nines! The image itself has four nines in total!
Replies (2)
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@samvines@awful.systems 2026-04-02 13:20
Alas, foiled again! Nobody said they had to be leading 9s!
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@corbin@awful.systems 2026-04-02 20:55
Can't believe I'm nerd-sniped this easily. Very technically, the point at which a service should be considered unreliable or down is at γ nines, where γ = 0.9030899869919434… is a transcendental constant. γ nines is exactly 87.5% availability, or 7/8 availability, and it's the point at which a service's availability might as well be random. (Another one of the local complexity theorists can explain why it's 7/8 and not 1/2.)