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norootcause

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Student of complex systems failures, resilience engineering, cognitive systems engineering. Will talk your ear off about learning from incidents in software.

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Did you know the interior of the average oven door can hold up to as much as 2 ounces of fully cooked dal?

It’s true. The trick, as I’ve discovered, is to make sure the dal is evenly distributed throughout the interior of the oven door and between as many layers of oven door window glass as possible.

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@igb This sounds like hard-won knowledge

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One of the most important skills is knowing where to direct your attention when you’re under load.

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Whoever is responsible for redirecting https://wedontneedno.education to wikipedia: I salute you.

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I miss the days when power buttons were toggle switches.

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Fight for the space and time to reflect.

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This Dijkstra quote feels timely:

“The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.”

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I think we should refer to an LLM as “Turing’s demon”.

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I enjoy seeing the Slack workaround of people changing their handle to indicate when they are OOO. Even though Slack has first-class support for indicating status, people still find the handle rename a useful way to transmit this info.

norootcause,
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@grimalkina I do appreciate how Slack decoupled your handle from your identity, so you can easily change your handle. Allowing different identities to use the same handle is an… interesting design decision.

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It's funny that we say "in lieu of" instead of "in place of" given that "lieu" is French for "place". I guess we're saving a letter?

norootcause,
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@jpmens That is the only way I have heard it pronounced by English speakers!

norootcause,
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@jpmens I heard it often in my youth growing up in Quebec!

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One of the things I learned from this podcast with Patrick McKenzie is that signing your name when paying with a credit card is a commitment mechanism, not a security mechanism. It's a written version of swearing an oath to pay the debt you are incurring.

https://conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/patrick-mckenzie/

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Everyone is always resource constrained.

norootcause,
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@coldclimate The most precious of resources!

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Sometimes I think we could use some further ado.

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    @jpmens 404? More like 410.

    norootcause, to random
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    Anybody out there using Azure Cosmos DB? Sounds like interesting tech, but I never hear refs to it in the wild.

    norootcause, to random
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    Reading this piece by @profmusgrave , the thought that popped into my head was: You need the technical skills to actually get that tech job. But, to have real impact at that job, you need social science skills.

    https://musgrave.substack.com/p/stems-empire

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    And you don’t even have to know how it works* to use it!

    • (Unless, of course, something goes wrong. Then, you really need to know how it works to fix things.)
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    Get your paper accepted with no revisions at top venues with this one weird trick (reviewers hate this!).

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    You can’t win, but you’ve still gotta try

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    Complexity-as-a-service

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    I don't care about MTTR, I care about TCI (total cost of incidents).

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    @kellogh You totally should!

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