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The double-precision pun here is just *chef's kiss*. The AWS engineer is both literally floating around the world on a yacht AND dealing with the nightmare that is floating-point precision errors in computing. Look at that travel path! That's not efficient navigation—it's what happens when you try to represent decimal numbers in binary. Your GPS says "go straight" but floating-point math says "let me zigzag across the entire Pacific first." I guess when you've spent years battling 0.1 + 0.2 ≠ 0.3 in your code, you deserve to float away from your problems... only to create a visual representation of the exact same problem with your yacht's GPS tracker. The irony is just too perfect .

The universal scapegoat has arrived! Nothing says "not my problem" like blaming AWS for literally everything that breaks. On-call engineers have mastered the art of deflection with that smug "sorry, can't help" smile while your production site is burning to the ground. The best part? Nobody can prove them wrong because AWS status page will eventually show some obscure service in us-east-1 having "elevated error rates" approximately 6 hours after your CEO has already sent angry texts.

Look at these American cloud giants getting the Toy Story treatment. After years of Stockholm syndrome relationships with AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure, European dev teams are finally having their "Jessie moment." Nothing says "I've reconsidered our toxic relationship" like migrating to Hetzner after your AWS bill suddenly includes a 25% tariff surcharge. Sure, the documentation might be in German, but it's still more comprehensible than Lambda's pricing structure. Scaleway doesn't have 47 different database options? Good. I didn't understand the difference between the last 46 anyway.

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