AWS Multiple Services Down in us-east-1

Re:AWS Multiple Services Down in us-east-1 by joeyphoen on Monday October 20, 2025 @01:50PM (#45646890)

But you probably have seen the standard example variable names "foo" and "bar" which (together at least) come from `fubar`

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Re:AWS Multiple Services Down in us-east-1 by sunnybeetroot on Monday October 20, 2025 @02:45PM (#45647580)

Which are in fact unrelated.

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Re:AWS Multiple Services Down in us-east-1 by jameshart on Monday October 20, 2025 @04:55PM (#45649250)

Unclear. ‘Foo’ has a life and origin of its own and is well attested in MIT culture going back to the 1930s for sure, but it seems pretty likely that it’s counterpart ‘bar’ appears in connection with it as a comical allusion to FUBAR.

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Re:AWS Multiple Services Down in us-east-1 by worik on Monday October 20, 2025 @02:39PM (#45647516)

Foobar == "Fucked up beyond all recognition "

Even the acronym is fucked.

My favorite by a large margin...

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