"If you focus too narrowly on preventing the specific details of the last incident, you’ll fail to identify the more general patterns that will enable your future incidents."

Great blog post from @norootcause

https://surfingcomplexity.blog/2025/05/26/the-same-incident-never-happens-twice-but-the-patterns-recur-over-and-over/

#SRE #IncidentManagement #Resilience #Reliability

🤖📉BREAKING: #Chatbots are as reliable as that friend who swears they almost landed a gig on Mars. 🚀🔥 Study reveals 73% of large language models' conclusions are as accurate as a weather forecast from a fortune cookie. 🍪🔮 Maybe the secret to AI's success is just a splash of human hyperbole? 🌈
https://www.uu.nl/en/news/most-leading-chatbots-routinely-exaggerate-science-findings #Hyperbole #AI #Reliability #LanguageModels #HackerNews #ngated

This is how I make purchase #decisions👇
- in cases of durable goods
- in cases where #reliability counts

#thx4sharing these tremendous helpful data, #backblaze.
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-life-expectancy/

Apple Devices & The Reliability Question: A 20+ Year User Retrospective

https://my-notes.dragas.net/2025/05/14/apple-devices-reliability-question-20-plus-year-user-retrospective-updated/

#Apple #MyNotes #Technology #Tech #IT #Reliability

organization benefited from having a platform team as a service provider? 💡

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#PlatformTeams #Efficiency #Consistency #Reliability #TechLeadership

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JavaScript’s spread and rest syntax · The power of the three dots in code https://ilo.im/163p88

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#Programming #Coding #Clarity #Readability #Reliability #JavaScript #React #WebDev #Frontend #Backend

New publication: Code-sharing policies are associated with increased #reproducibility potential of ecological findings, by @antica_c and others. #codesharing #replicability #reliability
https://doi.org/10.24072/pcjournal.541

#statstab #328 How to Assess Task Reliability using Bayesian Mixed Models
by @Dom_Makowski

Thoughts: Nice walkthrough using {brms}, with code, data gen, and plots.

#r #bayesian #mixedeffects #reliability #brms

https://realitybending.github.io/post/2024-03-18-signaltonoisemixed/

German study reveals electric vehicles are 2.5x more reliable than traditional cars, marking a significant breakthrough in automotive technology and performance #EVs #Reliability

Interesting to note that Waymo apparently uses a modified Jaguar I-Pace which had reliability problems and will be discontinued by Jaguar in 2025.[1, 2]
Also Waymo "says it may use videos of passengers captured by in-vehicle cameras to sell ads and train its AI models"
https://gizmodo.com/waymo-considering-using-in-vehicle-cameras-to-sell-ads-and-train-its-ai-2000586126

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaguar_I-Pace
2. https://www.carscoops.com/2025/02/once-the-sexiest-ev-the-jaguar-i-pace-is-now-resigned-to-the-scrapyard/
#robotaxi #reliability #safety #privacy

#AITA or does the #Fairphone3plus's #battery tend to #bulge pretty quickly?

Cuz I shouldn't be on the 3rd battery when I bought it mere days before it got discontinued...

#Fairphone #NoticesYourBulge #BulgeGate #DangerPillow #Lithium #LiPo #LiIon #Batteries #rechargeable #BatteryGate #repairability #reliability

Here is something less funny on this #april1 that sounds like a joke, but isn't:
I want to use a certain big data set and asked the first author of the paper presenting it where some parameters used come from, after the reference they claimed they used didn't show these values. The answer below is what I got and I found it quite puzzling.
The params used are reasonable values, but how much can I trust that data now?

#science #reliability #scientificmethod

AI Agents: Less Capability, More Reliability, Please

https://www.sergey.fyi/articles/reliability-vs-capability

#HackerNews #AI #Agents #Reliability #Capability #Technology #Innovation

“Take This On-Call Rotation And Shove It”, Scott Smitelli (https://www.scottsmitelli.com/articles/take-oncall-and-shove-it/).

Via HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43498213

On Lobsters: https://lobste.rs/s/ki4dkb/take_this_on_call_rotation_shove_it

#OnCall #OnDuty #PagerDuty #Reliability #DevOps #SRE #WorkLifeBalance #SoftwareEngineering

So hand-wavy 😒; you still need #OnCall for critical services with defined SLAs 🧐:

“Breaking Up With On-Call”, Alexey Karandashev (https://reflector.dev/articles/breaking-up-with-on-call/).

Via HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43378671

#PagerDuty #SRE #Reliability #SoftwareEngineering #DevOps #AI

A quotation from Franklin

There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American statesman, scientist, philosopher, aphorist
Poor Richard (1738 ed.)

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/franklin-benjamin/75…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #BenjaminFranklin #assets #dog #faithfulness #friends #liquidity #money #practicality #reliability #spouse #wife

I really liked this informal community poll and thematic analysis on SLO usage. It does a better job at highlighting the hurdles to adopting them at a Company Who Is Not Google than a lot of "Here's how to do SLOs" pieces that just don't cover it.

If there is ever a "Seeking SLOs" book, this should be the first chapter.

https://ericmustin.substack.com/p/notes-on-service-level-objectives

#SRE #SLO #Reliability #Robustness #ErrorBudgets #SLI #SLA

🚨 Breaking news! #Hetzner, the internet's most reliable #traffic #router, is apparently now the internet's least reliable post office, forwarding traffic to the wrong addresses like it's a game of digital hot potato. 📬🤦‍♂️ And in a shocking twist of cutting-edge technology, you need to *turn on* JavaScript for the magic to happen. 🤯✨
https://kiwi.fuo.fi/notes/a5oh5qt4ra5o000v #Internet #Reliability #DigitalHotPotato #JavaScriptMagic #HackerNews #ngated

Google's latest #innovation to prevent #outages is an #SRE love letter wrapped in buzzwords and sprinkled with acronyms like #STPA and #Prodverbs 🎩🔍. Apparently, teaching a new method involves rehashing 20 years of "lessons" that somehow didn't prevent past outages 🚨. But hey, who doesn't love a good old-fashioned #reliability #theory seminar when your server's on fire? 🔥🤔
https://sre.google/stpa/teaching/ #Google #HackerNews #ngated

Analyzing Software Quality Dimensions: Functionality, Usability and Reliability Interplay https://visualmodo.com/analyzing-software-quality-dimensions-functionality-usability-and-reliability-interplay/ 💡🧑‍💻🔌 #Software #Analyzing #Quality #Dimensions #Reliability #Usability