motxilo

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by motxilo 4mo ago
Watch this https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090586/
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by motxilo 4mo ago
> The captain was on a break when the co-pilots became confused by faulty air-speed readings. They then mistakenly pointed the nose of the plane upwards when it stalled, instead of down. Investigators concluded the co-pilots did not hav
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STPA (System Theoretic Process Analysis) at Google(sre.google)
1 points by motxilo 9mo ago|0 comments
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by motxilo 9mo ago
You allude to the difference between requirements and constraints. What you say is true, but also it's true that the Therac-25 was not designed to not output high power when an operator typed quickly.
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STPA for Software Systems–Illuminate the Unknown Unknowns(usenix.org)
1 points by motxilo 10mo ago|0 comments
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Teaching a new way to prevent outages at Google(sre.google)
106 points by motxilo 1y ago|37 comments
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by motxilo 6y ago
This sounds to me like the tech version of QAnon.
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Continuous Lifecycle London Keynote(noidea.dog)
1 points by motxilo 7y ago|0 comments
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by motxilo 8y ago
Being a Staff Engineer vs just Senior gives you more leeway for negotiation with prospective employers.
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by motxilo 9y ago
"Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking" by Susan Cain. This book made me think about my own thinking and social behavior patterns.
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by motxilo 10y ago
In the article, it mentions "In any case, the majority of people are on a spectrum of introversion to extroversion.".
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by motxilo 10y ago
C'mon, don't you guys be so nitpicky... The comment above was made in the context of financial places, and is clearly referring to the "City" of London, as they call the financial hub, not the "City of London"
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by motxilo 10y ago
Yes, way better and using a humble tone, e.g. "Introverts are not smarter than extroverts. According to IQ scores, the two types are equally intelligent. And on many kinds of tasks, particularly those performed under time or social pre
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by motxilo 10y ago
If you knew what the problem was before the outage happened, and didn't consciously put the effort to prevent it, then oh well, that's professional negligence. Maybe not on you because you may not have the decision power to apply
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by motxilo 10y ago
Good postmortems should be created for human-induced errors or top-down decision to cut costs. Especially for those.
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by motxilo 10y ago
Same here but s/used book store/amazon/.
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by motxilo 10y ago
Blindsight (Watts) Between the World and Me (Coates) Economics in One Lesson (Hazlitt) Corporate Confidential: 50 Secrets Your Company Doesn't Want You to Know---and What to Do About Them (Shapiro) Los últimos españoles de Mauthausen (
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by motxilo 11y ago
"Turn the Ship Around!: A True Story of Turning Followers into Leaders". I am reading it now, very entertaining and you'll learn thing about management styles.
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by motxilo 11y ago
And Cornell Tech campus in NYC starts running business in 2017.
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by motxilo 11y ago
In Madrid? Prfff, you were lucky, my friend. I lived there for 4 years and I see them as the Mafia on wheels.
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by motxilo 11y ago
I guess not tipping enough is linked to its previous point around rudeness. This happens to me in the city. They are usually rude, and when I tip them %10 or less, their rudeness becomes even more apparent. Meh.
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by motxilo 11y ago
Do you believe in earnest that those $25,000 are destined to feed Zimbabwean people?
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by motxilo 11y ago
Thinking in Systems: A Primer http://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Systems-Primer-Meadows-Donell...
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by motxilo 11y ago
I would like to understand why he's got an account on Twitter. Yes, he uses to proxy his credentials to other sites, but I see the other reasons for not having an account on other sites also applying in the case of Twitter.
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Patch (computing)(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by motxilo 11y ago|0 comments
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How to Become an Astronaut 101(spaceflight.nasa.gov)
48 points by motxilo 11y ago|21 comments
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by motxilo 11y ago
> i'm so very sorry stating an obvious observable fact hurt your fragile moral sensibilities. Why the patronizing? Asking why you don't prefer the bus when you deem it the best in the world was actually a great question. Using
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by motxilo 12y ago
Are we obviating that Sony is a Japanese company?
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by motxilo 13y ago
I wondered what Scheme dialect was F4. Epic!
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by motxilo 13y ago
Totally agree. Another blog in the lines of Good Math & Bad Math or Betterexplained would be awesome.

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