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by notabee 7y ago
Goodhart's Law applies, so you can't have a set-and-forget certification process. It can be a dynamic process. And just perhaps, we should disincentivize trying to launch new technologies when the institutional knowledge is not th
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by notabee 7y ago
It's not about being perfect, it's about being fault tolerant, just like regular engineering. I think especially for safety-critical situations ( cough Boeing cough ) there needs to be stringent, formal standards for quality, re
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by notabee 7y ago
I've made mistakes, though thankfully no huge outage-causing ones. The only "I'm going to get fired" mistake was a political one, where I accidentally emailed a report to someone, and was informed after the fact that it
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by notabee 7y ago
Well I guess if that's too much trouble, then why write documentation either? That's extra work and people could just read the code. And so on. Ultimately, the effort put in to proper distribution reflects on the maturity of the p
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by notabee 7y ago
Checking in a browser may not be representative. https://www.idontplaydarts.com/2016/04/detecting-curl-pipe-b...
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by notabee 7y ago
Honestly, many of the obstacles seem to be social and procedural ones. We already have the technology to easily facilitate better communication between e.g. PCPs and specialists to better diagnose rare diseases, but it's not used well.
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by notabee 7y ago
Let's take a little trip down memory lane about what deadly force in the hands of private corporations looks like: https://timeline.com/rockefellers-hired-militias-to-shoot-at...
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by notabee 7y ago
Here's a few for depression and air pollution[1][2] Here's some studies on anti-inflammatory treatments for treatment resistant depression[3] And more relevant to the original topic, 5HT-2A receptor agonists may have anti-inflamma
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by notabee 7y ago
A slow moving disaster of neglected infrastructure across the country would also like a word: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-lead-map/reuters-find...
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by notabee 7y ago
Depression has plenty of evidence linking it to inflammation. If we can start seeing it not in terms of mind/body dualism, or on some outmoded moral spectrum, but on the same terms as any other illness, like the common cold, we'll
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by notabee 7y ago
Somehow I think the mass and speed is far more significant than a pointy bumper.
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by notabee 7y ago
Way back in ancient times, employees formed unions to demand better working conditions instead of waiting for a company to benevolently provide them. Replacing burnt out employees and writing good PR articles is cheaper and easier than fixi
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by notabee 7y ago
This is such a critical point. So many problems that plague the industry tie back to this. Lack of company investment in juniors leads to greater job hopping, which leads to building things based on bleeding edge fads to pad resumes, which
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by notabee 7y ago
No, a meeting or a phone call is synchronous. You can't put a meeting down for 10 minutes, do something, and pick it up later. There is no requirement to answer chat messages immediately unless your organization has ridiculous expectat
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by notabee 7y ago
You would think that no one would, in 2019. I hope that you never have to witness otherwise.
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Some cities have dedicated mental health crisis units that are trained to deal with such situations, and some cities do not. In most of these cases, emergency services are only called if the situation escalates out of the control of the per
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by notabee 7y ago
Prototypes are very valuable as long as you know to throw them away and build the real thing. The unfortunate aspect of many business environments is that low knowledge outsiders see something "working" and demand that it be throw
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by notabee 7y ago
I think debt is also useful for the interest metaphor. An unfinished kludge by itself may not be very expensive to fix up and change, but if that kludge doesn't change and becomes a dependency in a complex environment it is likely to b
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by notabee 7y ago
"a common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools" - Douglas Adams
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by notabee 7y ago
Doing so often requires non-standard DNS hacks such as CNAME flattening or ANAME/ALIAS records to achieve the aesthetic preference of a bare domain name. The www subdomain is still an obvious choice for anyone that's still running
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by notabee 7y ago
The economy is inseparable from the climate issue. The way humanity conducts itself economically greatly determines the scale of emissions we produce through energy use, agriculture, concrete production, land use, etc. There is no way to ma
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by notabee 7y ago
It's quite possible that we have already passed the threshold for triggering feedbacks that make cutting consumption insufficient to ward off cataclysm. The permafrost is one, among many others that we're still discovering. Even i
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by notabee 7y ago
How concepts are communicated matters a great deal, because one of the primary obstacles is simply lack of awareness and education about the graveness of the threat facing humanity. We have decades worth of very good physical evidence that
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by notabee 7y ago
Average people don't understand local variability or averages. They hear "global warming" and think that means every place must be hot at once. There's the stellar example of a congress critter bringing a snowball in and
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by notabee 7y ago
Flights will consume those miles and fuel much faster than those trees can grow to consume the CO2 from them, so you'd need an exponential number of additional trees planted in anticipation to offset future flights up to a certain poin
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by notabee 7y ago
To make the reduction permanent however, the ultimate fate of all those Christmas trees is important. That market also entails more (fuel burning) economic activity surrounding Christmas and transportation of those trees. If they are dispos
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by notabee 7y ago
And building massive, complex nuclear reactors somehow doesn't incur tons of fossil fuel usage? How much carbon is associated with the years' worth of human activity and material supply chain to build a reactor? How about the ongo
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by notabee 7y ago
If people don't want to be political now, they're really not going to like the choices (or lack thereof) left after politics have failed and the crisis, famines, and other impacts start to become apparent to the general population
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by notabee 7y ago
Specialists still exist in DevOps, and it was never supposed to be a singular role. It's a major holistic cultural change that's intended to integrate dev, ops, and other specialties into a shared sense of ownership of the entire
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by notabee 7y ago
The article very much needs a link to this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_triviality

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