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/dev/random: Simulation Station

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Robert G. Ferrell

I was planning to discuss SRE this time, but as I was looking up that abbreviation I realized I don’t actually know anything about it. In my day, “site reliability engineering” meant you used four empty heavily caffeinated soda cans to support the particle board shelf with the server on it instead of the customary three. Fortunately for the admittedly tiny segment of my audience who labor under the misapprehension that I’m an authority on anything outside the realm of sarcastic goblin detectives, I stumbled across the Joe Rogan interview with the Muskmeister and fell headlong into his metaphysical rabbit hole of cosmological solipsism.

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Winter 2018, Vol. 43, No. 4
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