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Perpetual cynic and hopeless optimist. SRE. Contributor @LFISoftware. Journalism, security and privacy. Equality for all. (he/him)
Austin, TX
Joined April 2011
Call for participation for @SREcon 25 Americas is now out! https://t.co/HupdeA9v0i Joint Cognitive Systems is even mentioned in the call! How cool is that?
usenix.org
SREcon25 Americas will take place on March 25–27, 2025, in Santa Clara, CA, USA. Sponsored by USENIX, the Advanced Computing Systems Association.
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In remembrance of the late @ri_cook (August 31, 2022). https://t.co/UHDu7OeFLc
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It's happening. Join us for the live premiere of Kyle Kingsbury's talk from #SD24 (“Jepsen 15: What Even are Transactions?”). Wednesday, August 28 at 10am PT / 1pm ET / 7pm CET https://t.co/tUiInqEeJm
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While this week's storm was the largest in two decades, there have been much stronger storms. The Disturbance storm time (Dst) index May 2024: -412 nT Nov 2003: -422 nT Mar 1989: −589 nT May 1921 (estimated): -800 to -1000 nT Sep 1859 Carrington event (est.): -850 to -1750 nT
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The modern tech revolution is just three ultraviolet lithography machines in a trench coat.
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Some scientists believe that there is an approximately 12-per-cent chance of a severe solar storm striking the Earth in the next decade—which could devastate our power grid and communication systems. Are we prepared?
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Join me on Thursday, January 25 for a webinar on Chaos Engineering. Covering: fundamentals of Chaos Engineering, strategies for successful implementation, how to navigate common adoption challenges, and measuring success. Register now: https://t.co/b3Fa2ybSNM
#ChaosEngineering
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Learning from what goes well: @HorsleyCarl @picudoc13 @LfEcommunity @Kevin_Fong Japan jet crash: How crew pulled off flawless evacuation from plane inferno - BBC News
bbc.co.uk
Leaving valuables behind was a "major factor" behind the evacuation of 379 people as fire engulfed the plane.
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We're excited to announce Jeli has been acquired by @pagerduty 📟❤️ Jeli is made up of folks who have been carrying pagers our entire careers. Joining forces w/ PagerDuty gives users an all-in-one #incidentmanagement solution - from response to analysis. https://t.co/8S5I8ZJO2C
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Today is the day! Talk proposals for SREcon24 Americas are due today, Tuesday, October 31 at 11:59 pm PDT. View the CFP and send in your submission now: https://t.co/pT2rmZbj9F
#srecon
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The fact that the CEO of OceanGate was in the submarine is a reminder that we can’t tell when someone deliberately takes an excessive risk (the stereotypical sloppy engineer or greedy exec) versus someone whose risk estimate is poorly calibrated (underestimating the risk).
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If you’re doing action items, focus on the quality over the quantity!
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First up on the resilience track is our host @v_hue_g
https://t.co/ixg7SewcpG
qconnewyork.com
Uncover emerging software trends and practices to solve your complex engineering challenges, without the product pitches.
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Did you know that, taking into account relative weight, a gerbil could outdrink several elephants? My latest on the boozie-suzies of the animal kingdom for @NautilusMag
Drunk as a skunk. And a bird. And a monkey. And a deer. And an elephant. The list goes on and on when it comes to animals hitting the bottle. But are these animals really getting wasted, and why? https://t.co/hYtG20xY9B
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The topic for today in Human Factors & Systems Safety is Four Concepts of Resilience. Rebound Robustness Graceful Extensibility Sustained Adaptability https://t.co/Mf9M2CrRI4
researchgate.net
PDF | On Apr 1, 2015, David D. Woods published Four concepts for resilience and the implications for the future of resilience engineering | Find, read and cite all the research you need on Research...
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AI is not going to exponentially self-improve and destroy the world. ChatGPT is pure mimicry powered by scores of wage-based workers helping refine and tune the language model, “We are grunt workers, but there would be no AI language systems without it”
nbcnews.com
Two OpenAI contractors spoke to NBC News about their work training the system behind ChatGPT.
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VOID Podcast Ep. 6 with @lauralifts is a must-listen! Laura discusses everything from incidents where control plane was a factor to ways to better factor in human-computer collaboration to help make incidents easier to handle. Listen in at https://t.co/MJc3z7oNtF
#incidents
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