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bcantrill

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Co-founder and CTO of Oxide Computer Company. Nom de guerre: General Protection Fault.

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Look, I know I'm a cheap date on a Friday night -- but this stress test is just way too much fun to watch

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‘Questionable Advice: “My boss says we don’t need any engineering managers. Is he right?” – charity.wtf’

Most tech cos are founded by guys who don’t understand what management is for and when they’re forced to implement a management structure they reach for authoritarianism https://charity.wtf/2024/01/05/questionable-advice-my-boss-says-we-dont-need-any-engineering-managers-is-he-right/

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@baldur @ljrk Damn, those are some good threads. 😉

On @mipsytipsy's excellent piece, the one bit that I would add to it is that there is a deep seated problem among management: they often think of their career in terms of the number of reports in their org. This is dangerous thinking: like a software engineer that thinks of their career solely in terms of the number of lines written, the desire for more reports above all else leads to deeply suboptimal results!

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As someone who worked at both Babbage's and WaldenSoftware as a teenager in the early 1990s, this piece is deeply evocative https://huguesjohnson.com/features/loser_phase/

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Many years ago, I made two decisions about my public speaking: that all my talks would be recorded and publicly available -- and that I wouldn't give the same talk twice. The result has been a wide variety of talks; to help folks navigate them all, I collected them -- and have kept the list updated ever since.

I mention this, because inspired by the kind words of @nnungest, @herrbischoff, and @troglobit, I just updated the list for 2023:

https://bcantrill.dtrace.org/2018/02/03/talks/

Enjoy -- and thank you!

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My 11-year-old daughter thought it was hilarious that someone had bothered to make a reaction video to my talk, and she insisted on watching it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iBkpPtN-Ek

She (correctly!) observed that the rebuttal was missing my argument ("he's not doing a very good job listening!"). But more interesting was that she really took issue with his obsession with IQ ("he doesn't understand that people are smart in different ways"). Finally, she turned it off: "He's boring."

The kids are alright.

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One of the more prominent AI doomerists made a reaction video for my Monktoberfest talk "Intelligence is Not Enough" -- and it is both revealing and disconcerting as to the depth of the doomerist conviction.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iBkpPtN-Ek

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Last week, AMD officially launched the MI300. We at @oxidecomputer have been keeping an eye on this one for a while, and @ahl and I are excited to be joined by two analysts who attended the event last week: George Cozma from Chips and Cheese and Jordan Ranous from Storage Review. Join us as we nerd out on the future of accelerated compute!

https://discord.gg/QrcKGTTPrF?event=1181642457297977454

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Video for my recent talk "Things I learned the hard way" is now up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJ0y7Oqr4Zo

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What punch cards teach us about AI risk https://bcantrill.dtrace.org/2023/11/26/what-punch-cards-teach-us-about-ai-risk/

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Despite an inability to grow a beard (of any color), I was honored to be asked by Ray Lucchesi and Jason Collier to talk about @oxidecomputer on their "Grey Beards on Storage" podcast

https://greybeardsonstorage.com/2023/11/21/157-greybeards-talk-commercial-cloud-computer-with-bryan-cantrill-cto-oxide-computer/

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Boy, this talk from @bcantrill is terrific:

https://youtu.be/bQfJi7rjuEk?si=sOg2PqVeJFgwKnk-

Conveys some foundational liberal arts criticisms of the current AI mania through hard engineering problems.

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@happyborg @billjings Please watch to the end: I do not, in fact, dismiss unacceptable risks -- and in fact, I think that the "x-risk" fear is problematic exactly because it allows the very real risks of AI to be summarily dismissed. (As for it being a strawman: I wish it were so!)

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If you're looking for a chaser to the OpenAI boardroom drama, the video for my 2023 talk "Intelligence is not Enough" is now up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQfJi7rjuEk

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Things I learned the hard way https://speakerdeck.com/bcantrill/things-i-learned-the-hard-way

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The Oxide hiring process sparked a bunch of discussion online! Today on Oxide and Friends, @ahl and I will be joined by @gergelyorosz to talk about hiring processes -- both Oxide's and some of the processes that inspired it. Join us today, 5p Pacific:

https://discord.gg/JvxR694q?event=1171122414579634196

The Oxide hiring process:

https://rfd.shared.oxide.computer/rfd/0003

The discussion will be recorded and made available as a podcast, as always:

https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/

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At P99 CONF, I was joined by @adamhjk and @ag_dubs on a panel on open source. All three of us left the panel with much still to talk about, so join @ahl and me on Monday at 5p Pacific as we have Adam and Ashley back to pick it up:

https://discord.gg/jV7bPFNv?event=1165423360222703646

You can view the panel here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yTrGsts00U

And here is my presentation that preceded the panel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=um5bC20NTQ0

Looking forward to picking up the discussion on Monday!

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Video for my latest love letter to HashiCorp is now up:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=um5bC20NTQ0

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From the originator of a "malicious" open source strategy comes the tragedy of open source foundations!

https://www.thestack.technology/hashicorp-ceo-predicts-oss-free-silicon-valley-unless-the-open-source-model-evolves/

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As it turns out, Oxide and Friends was called out by another podcast, Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs, for some of our unvarnished thoughts on C++! We're fans of ADSP, so tomorrow @ahl and I will be joined by Conor Hoekstra, co-host of ADSP. We'll settle the beef between our podcasts -- and we'll hit on some bigger themes on tribalism in tech, the underlying fears that feed it, and what we can all do to moderate it.

Join us, 5p Pacific:

https://discord.gg/wZsYtXSn?event=1163198618459701329

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Slides for my talk, "Intelligence is not enough: The humanity of engineering' (video to come!):
https://speakerdeck.com/bcantrill/intelligence-is-not-enough-the-humanity-of-engineering

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Number of days since not setting TCP_NODELAY was the problem: 0

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I have recovered the original video from my "Corporate Open Source Anti-patterns: Doing it wrong" talk from FISL in 2012! I will be giving an update of this talk (with many new anti-patterns!) at P99 CONF on October 19th -- it's online and free!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anXKAcrJ5Wc

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This is such a good rant on string theory from @acollierastro; can someone please do molecular nanotechnology next? https://youtu.be/kya_LXa_y1E?si=puoTrlM8ZxOJI17S

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Still thinking about the time I was debugging a process stopped by mdb with @bcantrill, and he mentioned continuing the process with some command (I think ::cont in mdb). I was like "oh, that's like kill -CONT" and he reacted with "we absolutely DO NOT use signals to do debugging on illumos"

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@rain 🤣 "In THIS house, under THIS roof, we do not use job control for debugging!"

bcantrill,
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@lanodan @rain They are honestly just different ways for stopping and resuming a process; the reason to separate them is to allow them to co-exist. For more details, I would point you to seminal work of the late Roger Faulkner: https://www.usenix.org/memoriam-roger-faulkner

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Two decades ago today, DTrace integrated into the operating system. Much has changed in the last 20 years -- but one thing has remained true: we ourselves still use it on a daily basis. With your forgiveness, a short thread... 1/

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First, to take you back to 2003, read the mail we sent out after we landed in the gate: 2/ http://dtrace.org/resources/bmc/houston.txt

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