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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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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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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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@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?

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

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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.

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@coldclimate The most precious of resources!

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