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Re:Inconsistencies in MCP support across LLMs on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @12:22PM (#50090197)
Hello, author here. Happy to answer any questions!
You are probably right. In which case they should also mention that 99.978% is also an average.
Re:Staying at the forefront of email security and reliability on Thursday March 20, 2014 @05:16PM (#7438860)
> In 2013, Gmail was available 99.978% of the time, which averages to less than two hours of disruption for a user for the entire year.

Does anyone understand why they use the term "averages" in this statement? What is being averaged? Isn't it just 0.022% * minutes in a year.

I had a similar issue this weekend. Once I changed my Apple ID password I started to receive SMS messages from people with iOS devices. I had to re-authorize all Apple services on my other devices and machines.
Re:Turbocharging Solr Index Replication with BitTorrent on Thursday January 26, 2012 @09:36AM (#3514281)
Great article and insight.

FYI mrsync is confusingly named since it doesn’t actually use the rsync algorithm it performs multicast file transfer. (The whole file is sent not just the deltas).

I’ve always thought it would be cool if someone added rsync capabilities on top of bittorrent. I’m not sure Etsy would see any benefit but I bet Twitter with their murder server deploy would.