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And there will have been no briefing paper on the Green's specific entrenchment proposal, because it was introduced on Monday, and voted on on Wednesday. Under urgency. And the people who would normally see it, just didn't. Also because urgency.
AND THIS IS WHY URGENCY IS BAD.
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I am not surprised by how much I agree with weaver, mikey and co:
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Bit late to the party, but if you want to build your own CO₂ Monitor for #WorldVentil8Day check out my project
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Then why do I have to goto Australia to get a booster for the recent varients?!?
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Every time you catch COVID-19, your risk of other severe issues starts to rise.
I ia wā ka pāngia koe e te KOWHEORI-19, ka piki haere te mōrearea ka pā mai ētahi atu mate kino.
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#SREcon FOMO is strong this week :(
Doubly so since I just had to decide I won't be able to make it to SREcon APAC in Dec either.
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Why are these useful? Standard diagrams aid in training and onboarding but the most important thing is that they build shared understanding.
You're trying to trick all of your coworkers into thinking about the system the same way. What can you use this for? Onboarding to start.
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This is a great tale and I recommend you scroll back to the top and read the whole thing. But I want to say three things that I love about this tale: vocabulary, engineering, and culture.
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So every year after that, we celebrated Ben Smith day. Ben himself was mildly nonplussed but willing to roll with it. On Ben Smith day we retold the story of Katana and the importance of reliable design.
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For the past couple years I’ve debated writing a follow up, called “Stick A Fork In It”. I haven’t been dumb enough to call it on DNSSEC quite yet, but I think the case is pretty strong. Here are some reasons to believe DNSSEC is never going to be relevant:
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This is one of the most important experiences from my time in SRE, which encapsulates so many of the lessons. Any big system change adds new risks. But failing to scale Google would not have been a success. You have to try things, and be honest about and learn from failures.
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Many great memories in this thread (and lessons too!) twitter.com/lizthegrey/sta
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Agree this is concerning - doubly so since the Police have been soo squirrely on their actual privacy policies around this.
They only released portions of the PIA for ANPR use (fyi.org.nz/request/16225-) and straight out didn't do one in another case -fyi.org.nz/request/20071-
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This is very bad - and avoidable with stronger governance and audit trails. Auror and SaferCities need to evaluate whether or not this is a breach of their agreements with Police - but challenging when both rely on working with Police to achieve their purpose. twitter.com/nzherald/statu…
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Classroom air quality poster criticised for contradictory information
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I know and have worked with almost all the folks kicking off this exciting project - so I'll definitely be watching with interest!
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Hi! We are Stanza and we're on a mission to help you make sense of production.
We’ve brought together some of the most experienced SREs and developers in industry to create an ML-enhanced platform bringing SRE wisdom to any engineer.
Want to know more? stanza.systems
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This misleading poster that NZ MoE is now distributing to schools is a shameful backdown from their previous guidance.
If you see this poster around - I recommend getting it taken down ASAP.
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Now compare this against MoE's latest 'Help Slow COVID-19' poster that doesn't even start any recommendations under 1250ppm twitter.com/shoshanahjacob…
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I'm looking forward to help selecting talks from the amazing range of submissions in a few weeks.
Get your talk in now! twitter.com/lizthegrey/sta
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The Ministry of Health has been telling people to ignore positive RAT results if they have finished their isolation period, and is still telling people to head out to work or school.
Worse than useless. twitter.com/MichaelPlankNZ
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I'm really excited about Oliver's work and have a related project that I'll reveal soon.. in the meantime, your answers to his survey would be really appreciated!
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What features would you want in a portable CO2 monitor?
A reliable good quality CO2 sensor is a given.
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What features would you want in a portable CO2 monitor?
A reliable good quality CO2 sensor is a given.
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"there is some confusion" is a very polite way of saying the Ministry of Health is spreading dangerous misinformation by telling people not to test, and to ignore positive results.
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Since there is some confusion about this, a thread with some scientific evidence on RATs and how to interpret a positive result.
TLDR: RATs are actually very good at telling when you’re infectious, which is what matters most for reducing spread
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Worth looking offshore and noting basically everywhere else has seen multiple waves: We’re experiencing our first, others are up to their fifth or sixth. This is a long way from over.
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"Anyone who has symptoms within 90 days of having Covid-19 should still get a test and follow public health guidance".
"Rapid tests don't detect historic cases - a positive result means you are currently infectious."
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FYI :)
Tricksy one.
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TIL “realpath ../../dir/absent” returns nothing on stdout (just error on stderr, no zero exit code).
If you have:
TO_GO=$(realpath ../../something)
sudo rm -rf ${TO_GO}/*
you might want more error checking. (And to reconsider how badly you want a wildcard and/or sudo there.)
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I said goodbye to Google SRE last Friday after 15 years. I'm taking 3 months off to recharge and plan what's next. Probably leaping into the unknown of building a business myself...
Exciting times!
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Absolutely amazing to watch!
Well done RocketLab!!!
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Wow.
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Our extraterrestrial helicopter spotted the parachute and back-shell that guided the @NASAPersevere rover to the surface of Mars over a year ago.
And what a sight
Space debris crash-landed on another world snapped by an aerial drone. What a timeline we live in.
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I thought we called this "McGhee's Law' ?
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Steve's Maxim:
"If you look at graphs/charts/consoles with no explicit reason, you will find a problem that isn't really a problem."
corollary: all large distributed systems are always slightly broken, and that's fine.
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We are SO excited to announce that of is on our speaker lineup!🔥
In this talk, Steve will provide a few points from Greek Ancient Literature and how to relate them to our modern Internet world.
Register here to watch it sloconf.com
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What would help the recovery (I mean this genuinely - I love being out & about with my family in Auckland), is having things like robust ventilation standards and great indoor air quality, and making these standards visible to the public. We should help businesses to do this./5
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Why are we not doing this across NZ ?! No point doing some air scrubbers, sometime soon. "Every public classroom" and asap, please.
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I think Victoria should be so proud of this. Amazing asset and working through any COVID wave, plus flu season and - dare I say it - any fire season with significant smoke effects. 51,000 in place and thousands more coming. Every public classroom. twitter.com/DrPieterPeach/…
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Here's my attempt to establish more precise terminology to replace each instance of "root cause". Thanks for the suggestion !
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Replying to @_pkill and @norootcause
I feel like it would help to have some established terminology for the things on Alex's list so we wouldn't need to talk about "root cause". Or maybe the terminology exists and I just don't know about it?
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Not sure I want a 2009-era borgmon from an image.... but I would love borgmon at home :) twitter.com/delroth_/statu
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Excellent summary of the last few weeks...
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Replying to @obra and @quinnnorton
Um, let's see. Strap in, wild ride ahead.
NZ govt workers who had public-facing roles (border, healthcare, police, defence) were required to be vaccinated. This became a focusing cause for Covid deniers, butmahs, and "Covid is killing", plus a few Qs, neonazis, etc.
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Russia is doing many bad things at the moment, and retribution is part of what happens to people who pick fights. But this is not the thing to do. Among other things, it violates both the naming/numbering and cryptographic principles of norm:
cyberstability.org/wp-content/upl
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