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@steeldioxide
electron shepherd | @ValarAtomics
i've been saying for years that devops engineers as a role should not exist within organizations as it is a fundamental misalignment of incentives. this fantastic article makes this case v eloquently: rethinkingsoftware.substack.com/p/in-retrospec…
you’re either an eye-protection worker or a blue light glasses worker no one wears collars anymore
come work with us!
I'm hiring a software engineer, or two. Come redeem your SaaS sins at @valaratomics . Write code that will run in a real nuclear reactor. valar-atomics.breezy.hr/p/8db296d0260c…
“today I gave my students an assignment. give everything you’ve got… then watch the ripples”
I was talking to a SpaceX engineer ~8 years ago, asking about his day to day work, which just wasn’t making sense what I knew from my days in physical product development (Solidworks, etc). I finally asked what tool he used most when he sat down to do work – “Python” was his…
Patrick Collison says humanity has never cured a complex disease. Not cancer. Not Alzheimer’s. Not Type 1 diabetes. His Arc Institute is trying something new: Simulate biology with AI. Test interventions before touching the body. Build a virtual cell. Test hypotheses in code.…
hard problem solving is not about how smart you are. it clicked for me at some point in the middle of doing my 586th proof in college that all it takes to solve a problem is to think about it for a long time and have the discipline to not stop thinking about it
Approx @SpaceX Raptor engine startup sequence. Timescale not representative
only effective way to introduce a third party in America is to first push for a constitutional amendment for switching to ranked choice voting or any voting system that solves the problem of spoilers
VOX POPULI VOX DEI 80% voted for a new party
we are reaching levels of word soup previously thought impossible
I’m so fucking done I can’t take this anymore
A tangential observation is that low-agency/low-competence people benefit from institutionalized, “beaten path” circumstances because the structure pulls their outcomes towards the mean. High-agency people are hampered by highly institutional settings for the same reason—they’re…
accept the church of engineering in your life and you'll find yourself never powerless
people (understandably) failed at software in the ‘00s because near-zero marginal cost businesses had never existed in history, ever. now people will fail at hardware because they think all business should be run as the near-zero marginal cost businesses of the last 20 years.