The death of folk graphic design in favor of AI slop across our country's delis is leading to some incredibly Lovecraftian food horrors
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Incident response & management+human factors in software development & operations. “How many incidents does it take to get to the center of a sociotechnical system?" (Yes, that @jpaulreed on The Old Bird Site/Mastodon)
OH: "We don't do counterfactuals in the incident review, but they certainly may come up with your boss the next day!"
Sometimes, the airlines do try…
ACARS Drama@acarsdrama.bsky.social · last wk.Air to Ground Message: EVENING. ONE OF OUR PAX CONNECTING TO CUN IS GOING FOR A FUNERAL TOMORROW. CHECKING IF YOURE ABLE TO HOLD FOR BOTH CXNS.. Area: Watsonville, CA, USA Type: Boeing 737-900 A: #a8988c7a637 F: #f150ddefad8
The time cost for generating code keeps dropping thanks to LLMs. Code is important in a sociotechnical system, but the more crucial bit has always been socializing the work. As in, you need folks that know the thing deeply enough to operate it and address novel failures.
Uber has been sending me emails warning me they’re going to close my account in 30 days for the better part of the last decade.
Came across a dev saying they couldn’t do their job without LLMs now just like they wouldn’t have been able to do their job without being able to copy and paste from Stack Overflow 5 years ago
AI could subsume this code all day long and still wouldn’t get the artistic significance…
@gloriouscow.bsky.social · 2w agoYou can form valid 8088 machine code as a MS-DOS COM executable using nothing but UTF-8 Braille characters and Windows newlines. This is what it looks like rendered with 2x4 bitmaps. You can view the actual COM file here: github.com/dbalsom/exec... #x86 #asm #assembly #8088 #retrocomputing
if your government software looks like this, it will never break, never need replacement, and will work on every computer since we landed on the moon
onekade@onekade.bsky.social · 3w agoThis is not a joke. This is a screenshot of the actual case management software used by Massachusetts' 11 District Attorneys. Must-read work here by @nasser.wiki nasser.blog/dial-up-just...
88°F atop Mt. Tam 58°F on Panoramic Highway A 30-degree difference in just three miles, but the 1,585 feet of elevation gain is key. Temperature inversions are a remarkable thing and Marin County shows them off in a stunning way.
If you’re gonna do a layoff, it’s always prudent to have a sense of who happens to be on-call that day…
OH: "I don't think there's any blood left in the 'GitHub Outage Incident Review' rock..."
Efficiency looks like an unmitigated good right up to the moment when efficiency looks like a synonym for fragility.
these Young Male Christians should form some sort of Association, then they could offer services beyond gymnasiums and shower facilities, such as short-term lodging at which it might be fun to stay
huck mason@tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · last mo.foolproof 👍
Telling someone they’re the expert on a topic, arguing with them about said topic, and then saying “Well, let’s agree to disagree” is… a choice.
It’s worth noting that Taco Bell identified the source before the FDA did, and promptly pulled it from their stores. The FDA didn’t even name the source until Taylor Farms outed themselves, and hasn’t issued a recall. Basically, Taco Bell is now a more reliable authority than the FDA.
Forbes@forbes.com · last mo.Taylor Farms, which supplies major fast food and grocery chains, was identified as the possible source of the cyclosporiasis outbreak Thursday.
Was asked today if I was familiar with the "Swiss Cheese Model"; responded that I much rather prefer a good "Smoked Gouda Model"
“Oh, that’s what that was for” - Americans repeatedly in the years ahead
"You have to go slow to go fast." (Yet another DevOps-y concept I don't see much reference to anymore...)
