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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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I don’t get the anti-VAX mentality. VMS wasn’t that bad!

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I’m just young enough that I never had to deal with “near” versus “far” pointers in C on Intel machines.

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Data should always be used to inform judgment, never to replace it.

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I can tell you right now that your system contains within it many vulnerabilities (what James Reason called “latent pathogens”) that may or may not manifest as incidents, you can’t predict which ones will bite you, and you don’t have the resources to root all of them out.

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New blog post: https://surfingcomplexity.blog/2024/05/25/the-error-term-isnt-pareto-distributed/

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The hard thing about distributed systems is that "turn the whole thing off and on again" isn't an option.

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When a system is extended to support a use case it was not originally designed for.

https://www.thedrive.com/news/hertz-charging-a-tesla-renter-for-gas-was-not-an-isolated-incident

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“Ethernet” is a great name.

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I’ve never understood this compulsion by some to display the ten commandments in schools.

Heck, I attended a parochial Jewish elementary school and I do not remember them being displayed there! And that’s despite the fact that representations of the Ten Commandments are a very common iconography in the main sanctuary of Jewish synagogues.

https://www.axios.com/local/new-orleans/2024/05/17/louisiana-10-commandments-classrooms

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Nothing is more real than a social construction.

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They should rename Chief Technology Officer to Chief Migration Officer.

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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.

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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?

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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.

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Sometimes I think we could use some further ado.

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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.

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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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