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I see the "sorry, we are receiving too many requests, try again in a few minutes" error several times a day on here. I don't think that HN is reliably able to handle the amount of users it currently has.
Hmm. I get a different message. Something like "We are having trouble handling your request. Sorry!" I saw it just a few minutes ago, but I don't remember the exact wording...
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I can guarantee you with 100% confidence from experience that the call centers for AT&T, T-Mobile, Comcast, etc. are all blowing up right now because of users who assume that if the Instagram app isn’t loading it means the “wifi” is broken. Also keep in mind “wifi” doesn’t mean 802.11, it means “anything related to the internet” up to and including 4g/5g and Ethernet.
Heh, as soon as I saw Instagram failing to load, I immediately assumed it was Roger’s fault. They just suck when it comes to reliability and Instagram has a much better track record.
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That's not a Steam thing though, but rather the specific software. Steam explicitly has an exit path for the user if Valve disappeared overnight that allows their downloaded games to continue working offline. The difference being that we are discussing platforms, not the things that run on those platforms.
Steam Offline wants you to go online and perform a bunch of steps, including launching games and then enabling offline mode. Every game launch is is probably a download of at least few hundred megabytes of data. And then every game requires its own networks where your account linked to steam acc, etc. and Rockstar games iirc it you must be online when you launch the game. So the fact that Steam client has offline mod…
Sidenote, but my experience with the Rockstar launcher has been absolutely atrocious, to the point that I just avoid rockstar at this point even though I'd otherwise be interested because I've been burned so many times. That's a Rockstar issue, not a Steam issue.
Edit: I'm leaving the comment as penance but as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39610130 points out, this is an old message about an old update, not the current one. A short update from meta with some initial high level technical details: https://m.facebook.com/nt/screen/?params=%7B%22note_id%22%3A...
This system that checks for invalid values in the cache looks like a very bad idea in the first place as in my understanding it checks things beyond "is the cache up to date?".
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time to move away from undersea cables to satellites.
We have satellites. We use cables b/c they lack the speed and bandwidth necessary to support the total requirements of the modern internet. Satellite-only is only feasible if you're fine with going back to waiting minutes for your saucy jpegs to load (elder millennials, you know what I'm talkin' about).
Edit: I'm leaving the comment as penance but as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39610130 points out, this is an old message about an old update, not the current one. A short update from meta with some initial high level technical details: https://m.facebook.com/nt/screen/?params=%7B%22note_id%22%3A...
edit: https://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/social.media/09/24/facebook.ou...
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It's only slightly better than "my mom claims". My mom would ask if I had the internet at my house. Yup. all of it. in a rack in my bedroom closet. She'd also report the "internet is down" when a single website was having issues. To me, that is down detector carrying on the legacy of moms everywhere.
A single report on there is useless. A sudden flood of reports is a good sign that something interesting is happening.
Edit: I'm leaving the comment as penance but as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39610130 points out, this is an old message about an old update, not the current one. A short update from meta with some initial high level technical details: https://m.facebook.com/nt/screen/?params=%7B%22note_id%22%3A...
That's from 2010. edit: https://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/social.media/09/24/facebook.ou...
Edit: I'm leaving the comment as penance but as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39610130 points out, this is an old message about an old update, not the current one. A short update from meta with some initial high level technical details: https://m.facebook.com/nt/screen/?params=%7B%22note_id%22%3A...