While the most likely, what’s the chance this is all some serious patch being applied in stages across a huge swath of infrastructure?

MBCook 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

There’s a lot of people who needed to get from A to B.

Without planes, lots of them probably just tried to rush to Amtrak and they received a volume they’ve never seen in a very short order.

I doubt there is anything more complicated than that.

Which is why I started with “while most likely”

	▲	odyssey7 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		To actually answer your question, I would be highly surprised if the amtrack ticket booking system had much technical overlap with what led to the ground stop.

fbrncci 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

On a Friday (the 13th), who's brilliant idea was that.

	▲	AnimalMuppet 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		At one place I worked, the two releases that made us the most nervous went out on Friday the 13th, and Halloween (IIRC). The reasons that they made us nervous had nothing to do with the release dates. We were nervous that what we did had hidden bugs, and even after testing, we were still somewhat nervous. Both releases were clean. Go figure.