Toots from 2024-06-07

Still reeling from hearing The The as supermarket music knowing Matt sang Sweet Bird of Truth.

Still reeling from hearing The The as supermarket music knowing Matt sang Sweet Bird of Truth.

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“In practice, I tend to find that you only really want two log levels: ERROR and INFO. That’s b…

“In practice, I tend to find that you only really want two log levels: ERROR and INFO. That’s because we really do only care if something should alert us or not. For all the other uses of logs, we want to see all the context.”

https://ntietz.com/blog/the-only-two-log-levels-you-need-are-info-and-error/

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“So, every time AI is asked to revise an image, it either starts over or makes it more and more…

“So, every time AI is asked to revise an image, it either starts over or makes it more and more of a disaster. People who work with AI-generated imagery have to adapt their creative vision to what comes out of the system - or go in with a mentality that anything that fits the brief is good enough.”

https://www.aiweirdness.com/an-exercise-in-frustration/

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This is referencing customer, product, and business language communities. IME it often applies eq…

This is referencing customer, product, and business language communities. IME it often applies equally well to friction between dev, sec, and SRE.

“Conflicts happen when one party applies their language to a party that is using a different language. It doesn’t translate automatically. So it’s up to us to create systems that not only translate, but that help achieve each others’ goals.”

https://longform.asmartbear.com/three-languages/

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I need to use something other than AI: in my notes. 🤔 This template could benefit from a …

I need to use something other than AI: in my notes. 🤔

This template could benefit from a “CW: Omniscience”.

“We’re thrilled that you want to contribute to improving the system in the wake of an incident! For each post-incident action that you are proposing, we would appreciate it if you would fill out the following template.”

https://surfingcomplexity.blog/2024/06/02/action-item-template/

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“Overall, the whole event felt a bit like sitting in a time machine back to the early 2000s and…

“Overall, the whole event felt a bit like sitting in a time machine back to the early 2000s and before. People only considered increasing efficiency. It did not come to anyone’s mind at all that improving their effectiveness could offer a much bigger lever.”

https://www.ufried.com/blog/responsible_it_1/

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This is a great deconstruction of scaling. Scalability is a multidimensional concept. Collapsing…

This is a great deconstruction of scaling. Scalability is a multidimensional concept. Collapsing it to a maximum point of workload density ignores many of the most business important reasons for distributing work.

“Changes. Perhaps the most universal requirement in systems, and one that is frequently overlooked, is the ability to deal with change.”

https://brooker.co.za/blog/2024/06/04/scale

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@thudfactor Found it - ty. Disabled the “feature”.

@thudfactor Found it - ty. Disabled the “feature”.

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@thudfactor Where does this appear?

@thudfactor Where does this appear?

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With the benefit of foresight, this was foreseeable. <https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/112…

With the benefit of foresight, this was foreseeable.

https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/112571892036265641

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