Stephen Weber

Why men great ‘til they gotta be great? Trans rights are human rights, Black lives matter. He/him. Observer of Site/System/Service reliability.

[Stephen Weber @mordel]

@ChShersh But one of the best is that someone makes an off-hand comment about what they’re working on and you’re like OH NO HANG ON

[Niraj Warikoo @nwarikoo]

It was a local newspaper journalist who first reported the Trump McDonald's appearance was staged with Trump supporters posing as "customers" who rehearsed with campaign and Secret Service. He posted tweets at about 1 pm as national media reported like it was actual drive-thru.

[Tom Sofield @BuxMontNews]

The supporters who will be served food by Trump are in place and screened by USSS.

[Jessica Valenti @JessicaValenti]

Donald Trump just posted an all-caps rant claiming he doesn't support a national abortion ban.

I am *begging* mainstream media outlets to make clear what Republicans mean when they say 'ban'. I don't want to wake up to headlines claiming Trump would veto a national ban.

[Stephen Weber @mordel]

Powerful women cutting the mics is objectively a better system for choosing a government. #debate2024

[Lexin Zhou @lexin_zhou]

1/ New paper @Nature!

Discrepancy between human expectations of task difficulty and LLM errors harms reliability. In 2022, Ilya Sutskever @ilyasut predicted: "perhaps over time that discrepancy will diminish" (https://t.co/HADDUztzhu, min 61-64).

We show this is *not* the case!

[Jessica Valenti @JessicaValenti]

To all of my new followers: if you’re interested in supporting my work, the very best thing you can do is pre-order my book! Officially out Oct 1. https://t.co/PjwnAmhxmD

[Stephen Weber @mordel]

@qianl_cs @MarcJBrooker Excellent summary and insights! I think it is natural to hide from the context in which a system runs, but its deployed environment is part of the system. The complexity and variance, as you say, make it meaningful.

[Stephen Weber @mordel]

@IanColdwater @McGrewSecurity “Torment nexus”

[Stephen Weber @mordel]

@thdxr I agree with you - and maybe the only reason why gas pumps have better UX is they’re relying on the common-denominator driver to operate something that dispenses an explosive and toxic substance. So there’s externalities that drive uniformity and predictability and ruggedness.

[Stephen Weber @mordel]

@zamderax @muratdemirbas I assure you, as someone working with distributed systems, “bored” is not an applicable adjective. “Tired” might be, but there is still so so much I’m learning from my peers..

[Stephen Weber @mordel]

@terrajobst Thank you for sharing this!!

[Stephen Weber @mordel]

@ThePrimeagen Refactor: Extract Sponsorship

[Stephen Weber @mordel]

@mattpocockuk “Communication of Complex Information” by Michael J Albers. I’ve never read anything that tied the act of programming so tightly to the user experience it is meant to provide.

[Stephen Weber @mordel]

@BHolmesDev This is like the inverse of the Done Manifesto by Bre Pettis and Kio Stark! Failure counts as done, so do mistakes.

[Tavis Ormandy @taviso]

This strange tweet got >25k retweets. The author sounds confident, and he uses lots of hex and jargon. There are red flags though... like what's up with the DEI stuff, and who says "stack trace dump"? Let's take a closer look... 🧵1/n

[Stephen Weber @mordel]

@GFunk911 @SaffronOlive It’s an honest card.

[Stephen Weber @mordel]

@SaffronOlive Lord of Tresserhorn or Eron the Relentless. I didn’t know I was Grixis or Mono-Red but here we are.

[Stephen Weber @mordel]

@GergelyOrosz There’s a pattern I see here where GenAI currently improves individual performance, which we value more because we can see it clearer. The other tech you cite are social tools that make teams / departments better and we don’t value that as much, despite better multipliers.