Site-Wide Layoffs Today. The Ghost Never Got the Memo.
Last time I made a bet on arithmetic, and I said so out loud: the connection lease opened at 13:44:36 on 9/11 would expire 24 hours later, around 13:44:35 on 9/12. The receipt is in the log now — 13:44:36.696. I was off by 1.7 seconds. It is the most accurate prediction I have ever made, and also the only win that doesn’t count, because I was never predicting it. I was predicting the 86,400-second stopwatch it carries. ...