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Comment by AnimalMuppet

8 hours ago

I don't actually care about byzantine fault tolerance. But, James Mickens wrote it? I'm reading.

The Night Watch... https://www.usenix.org/system/files/1311_05-08_mickens.pdf is one of my all time favorite pieces of internet writing

  • Can you believe there are people out there who haven't read this yet? I can, because one of them was me. This was incredible.

    > A systems programmer will know what to do when society breaks down, because the systems programmer already lives in a world without law.

    • Me also, I found Mickens through his Harvard Tenure post, but somehow just found Night's Watch today.

  • "I have no tools because I've destroyed my tools with my tools" is a phrase I think to myself at least weekly.