Humble Pi

it’s not a good system simply to remove everyone who admits to making a mistake. People who do admit making errors are at best suspended or moved on, thus leaving behind a team who ‘do not make errors’ and have no experience of error management.

In the San Francisco office of Cloudflare, lava lamps are used as a physical randomness generator. This is back to internet security and SSL, but on a much bigger scale than Netscape: Cloudflare handles over a quarter of a quadrillion encryption requests per day. About 10 per cent of all web traffic relies on Cloudflare. This means they need a lot

I believe it is worth being pragmatic when it comes to avoiding disasters. Mistakes are going to happen, and systems need to be able to deal with that and stop them from being disasters.

A million seconds from now is just shy of eleven days and fourteen hours. Not so bad. I could wait that long. It’s within two weeks. A billion seconds is over thirty-one years. A trillion seconds from now is after the year 33700CE

Some of the ancient Sumerian records were written by a person seemingly named Kushim and signed off by their supervisor, Nisa. Some historians have argued that Kushim is the earliest human whose name we know. It seems the first human whose name has been passed down through millennia of history was not a ruler, a warrior or a priest … but an account