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We have an opossum visitor this evening, enjoying…
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We have an opossum visitor this evening, enjoying the sugar water from our hummingbird feeder. https://t.co/TBM3lsjD0L

I’m getting my first new car in 15 years soon. I h…
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I’m getting my first new car in 15 years soon. I hear there may be a couple of new features, such as its lack of a gas tank.
I would substitute “My friend Catherine” for insta…
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I would substitute “My friend Catherine” for instances of “My cat” in tweets, but my wife wouldn’t like it. xkcd.com/1689/
Glad MIT moved the hooding ceremony to its own day…
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Glad MIT moved the hooding ceremony to its own day. I remember it was very long, and yet the Ph.D. grads deserved every second and more.
Re MIT commencement today: For ~60 years, my great…
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Re MIT commencement today: For ~60 years, my great-grand aunt Julia sorted and laid out the diplomas so every grad received his/her own.
OK, outage ended at about 4 hours, only costing ab…
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OK, outage ended at about 4 hours, only costing about $31 million in deferred (not necessarily lost) revenue.
OK, so the outage is only North America, so Amazon…
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OK, so the outage is only North America, so Amazon is really only losing $129,000 per minute (source: most recent 10-Q).
Amazon’s losses are probably less than $222,000/mi…
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Amazon’s losses are probably less than $222,000/min because search doesn’t affect AWS, but still…..
Assuming search is required for Amazon to generate…
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Assuming search is required for Amazon to generate revenue, Amazon is losing about $222,000 per minute that search is down.