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

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

norootcause,
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@joelle Who knows where those bytes are really stored in memory???

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

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@joshourisman There’s a reason he never made captain.

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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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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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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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“Ethernet” is a great name.

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“Wi-fi”, on the other hand, is way too cutesy.

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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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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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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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