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Small teams prioritize expertise and agency. Large teams prioritize service resilience and depth of coverage.

Two large lotteries in my area: Lotto Max: 1:33,294,800 Lotto 649 1:14,000,000 (excluding the smaller pool draws of 5/6, 4/6, etc) One ticket as the width of a human hair (60-80 µm…

Back when I was invested into todo lists and the Android task list app I was using was still available (since archived by the author): 01 Today 02 Soon 03 Month 04 Scheduled 05 Lat…

I find HN rife with its own form of "I'm too smart" bro-science. Your cardiologist spoke directly with you; they're a trained, accredited, licensed, and in good standing profession…

The full article is available as the published Nature version care of Yale's Carlson Lab. Specifically, Baik, L., Talross, G.J.S., Gray, S., Pattisam, H.S., Peterson, T.N., Nidetz,…

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I heard this presented as a photography class. Doing a quick search shows that it's from a memory plot in "Atomic Habits" by James Clear. The story features Jerry Uelsmann and havi…

This used to be a feature in Opera a decade ago IIRC.

Thank you for giving that insight against my assumption! I discovered GPSJam a few months ago, and have enjoyed some of your content on Twitter, and really enjoyed your work on the…

(major assumption) That's more than likely the position of the USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78). Its support planes are in the area [1], and it was sighted on Sep 28 near Italy [2], and…

> Aside from not being able to differentiate one window from another similarly colored window in the background I thought this was my slowly acquired technical debt: "what option h…

No edge case dependencies on the WWW server's configuration, and no sudden "why did we just saturate our external connection?" No emergency change requests from the outage team tha…

The codes are possibly (also) related to incidents that CDC or other organizations would like statistics on. Lemur's aren't common, ducks are, and "Chlamydia psittaci in ducks: a h…

I have more trust for eBay then Amazon at this point. However, I think the last purchase I made through Amazon was super specific (particular model of washing machine agitator moto…

My first comment on this site was about Bombardier. Bombardier went into high-risk, high-reward territory, and failed: 1) project they'd never done before 2) technology they'd neve…

We're dealing with extensive loss of localized institutional knowledge in my workplace. The specific area I work in has one technically astute resource with experience dating back …

This article has no analysis, insight, or data. It has a few singular datums, but doesn't establish any relations or context. Unless I missed it in a one page article. This is just…

Canada's "The Trucker's Protest" is more commonly referred to as a hostile occupation and blockade. There is a strong white-washing attempt by certain unsavory elements to recast i…

This issue has come up in the past on other forums, I think one of the answers that I identified the most with was saying: "I'm not sure I agree with that, and I have a few signifi…

That's a fair point, and I think you're giving a good example of a certain context of established-expert wrt beginner and how to treat it. FWIW, I had a friend indicate that becaus…

I've an established theory that most people will try to pull you into a small sub-set of a field or area that they're an expert in, and then beat you silly with their knowledge. Th…

It would be if you could be bought by IBM...

BUSINESS TECHNOLOGY; "Peering Out a 'Real Time' Window", By Peter H. Lewis, Feb. 8, 1995 https://www.nytimes.com/1995/02/08/business/business-technol... The article also indicates …

This was an issue decades (oof) ago with IRC and other public forums. C&C through a third party. The issue as I recall is that the IRC moderation tools didn't allow shutting down t…