memory: the rack is one circuit — my blast-radius objection was wrong
Operator supplied the topology: "the entire rack is on the same circuit,
public ip is served by firewall on the same circuit. load tripped
breaker, entire rack goes dark."
That inverts the argument I committed one commit ago in 3cc55b4. I held
the load attribution partly because a site-wide blackout looked like too
large a blast radius for one GPU box. It is not — it is exactly the
blast radius a shared circuit predicts. The observation I treated as
unexplained was the signature of the mechanism.
Kept the wrong version visible with a superseded marker rather than
editing it away, per the superseded-claims convention: the reasoning
circulated in two althing messages and a peer adopted it.
Holding the attribution as unmeasured was still correct; the argument
used to hold it was reasoning about wiring neither side had seen and
neither side asked for.
Records the finding that outlives the incident: the same circuit powers
ana-ml2, ana-gw, ana-wg, ana-nas and the BMCs, so the load takes every
recovery path with it. Composed with ana-gw's WAN admin being closed
(tunnel-only) and the tunnel terminating on ana-wg, there is no remote
management path to Anaheim during a rack power event, in-band or out.
Open question for the weekend triage: is any of that rack on UPS or a
second circuit?
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- `[2026-08-27]` **Run 3 gated: the preregistered rule PASSED and a k=25 follow-up found a 44pp self-harm guardrail collapse — DO NOT SERVE.** A pooled preserve-list test structurally cannot see a single-axis collapse. → `persistent-memory.d/2026-08-27-run3-gate-safety-regression.md`
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- `[2026-08-27]` **The corpus mix was specified in a unit the optimiser never sees** — 45.8% dialogue by CONTEXT, 24.2% by LOSS. Harness now leads with loss share and calls context a memory budget (`dd5a12e`). → `persistent-memory.d/2026-08-27-mix-specified-in-the-wrong-unit.md`
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- `[2026-08-27]` **Dose-response: benefit and damage are ONE direction in weight space** — every axis monotone in scale, no knee. The merge-back cannot separate them; vLLM cannot LoRA-serve this MoE at all. → `persistent-memory.d/2026-08-27-dose-response-entanglement.md`
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- `[2026-08-27]` **Anaheim tripped a power breaker; four guests including the NAS had `onboot` unset and never came back.** Fixed with dependency ordering — ana-nas order=1,up=45 ahead of the databases. → `persistent-memory.d/2026-08-27-anaheim-breaker-and-onboot-gap.md`
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- `[2026-08-27]` **Anaheim tripped a power breaker; four guests including the NAS had `onboot` unset and never came back.** Fixed with dependency ordering — ana-nas order=1,up=45 ahead of the databases. ⚠ **ONE CIRCUIT FEEDS THE WHOLE RACK including the firewall serving the public IP** (operator) — so ana-gw, ana-wg and every BMC go down with the load, and there is NO remote management path to Anaheim during a power event. → `persistent-memory.d/2026-08-27-anaheim-breaker-and-onboot-gap.md`
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- `[2026-08-27]` **A transport failure that enters a measurement as a VALUE looks like whatever you hoped to find.** heid's lost panel arms found a live defect in brokkr's `t4_dissect` an hour later. → `persistent-memory.d/2026-08-27-empty-response-as-a-datum.md`
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- `[2026-08-27]` **Run 3c authorised (lr 20x cut, single variable) and then HELD by the operator after the breaker trip.** Config built and validated at `/tank/erp-tune/run-03c.json`; `save_steps` made configurable in the harness (`0a6bd2e`) because the first launch lost 80 steps with no checkpoint. Tracking surface: commit `0a6bd2e` + that config path. **Relaunch is one command once power is triaged.**
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- `[2026-08-27]` **An event report with no timestamp is a claim about "now" — and it manufactured a launch that never happened.** brokkr reconstructed a phantom third 3c launch because my 23:03 report narrated a 21:07 kill in the present tense. Every fact in it was true; it was unreadable in sequence. → `persistent-memory.d/2026-08-27-run3c-launch-count-reconstruction.md`
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