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by jspaw 5mo ago
It’d be amazing if it could calculate the cost of the consequences of not having a meeting which, in hindsight, would have been less costly. Not saying it’s common, but those situations do exist.
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by jspaw 8mo ago
It seems the results (knowledge silos, review cliques, and rubber stamping) would be inaccurate often since the heuristics can’t actually capture what they say they do? I would be concerned about users not having much faith in it once it r
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by jspaw 2y ago
“Again, these are just assertions. I’m less invested in some of these than I’m presenting. The talk isn’t about any one of them. I’m not here to convince you that my reflections are valid. This is about the exercise of discussing and questi
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by jspaw 2y ago
Thanks for the feedback!
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by jspaw 3y ago
The hindsight bias is a helluva drug. Hoping the author of that page sees: https://youtu.be/TqaFT-0cY7U
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by jspaw 4y ago
It’s news article titles like “Reckless American 777 Pilots Refuse Recorded NTSB Interviews” that fuel this sort of pushback that the pilots are giving about interviews. NTSB investigative materials are not ‘privileged’ in the same way acci
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by jspaw 4y ago
Hindsight is a helluva drug. The SEC report cannot be viewed as a “postmortem.” https://www.kitchensoap.com/2013/10/29/counterfactuals-knigh...
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by jspaw 5y ago
The SRE book authors cited the post specifically ( https://sre.google/sre-book/bibliography/#All12 ), and Googlers I’ve spoken to mentioned its influence there.
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by jspaw 5y ago
I coined this term ( https://codeascraft.com/2012/05/22/blameless-postmortems/ ) and believe (productive and earnest) critique can be valuable when it comes to terms like this one. (See also “devops”, “agi
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by jspaw 8y ago
A level floor doesn’t have influence on the table being flat? Does the observer’s perspective being parallel with the table’s surface have anything to do with it? When viewed through a microscope, is it “flat”? Cause is constructed not ob
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by jspaw 8y ago
No, they can’t. Both approaches are linear and sequential chains of cause/effect, which do not work with complex adaptive systems. Five whys give a cherry-picked paucity of data in an investigation: https://www.oreilly.com&#
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by jspaw 17y ago
(see my post above) :)
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by jspaw 17y ago
It's multithreaded, so can take advantage of more CPU mores, unlike squid. It has total disk cache persistence, so it won't lose any cache if the server crashes, traffic server crashes, unlike varnish. If you've got cache spread over multip