Toots from 2024-02-08#
With occasional success, I’ve tried to tone down my pedantry penchant over the years. I lose t…#
With occasional success, I’ve tried to tone down my pedantry penchant over the years.
I lose that inner mental battle when “productivity”, “efficiency”, and “effectiveness” are used synonymously when describing engineering organization performance.
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“I try to stay focused on that human aspect of things, thinking of what will provide value for …#
“I try to stay focused on that human aspect of things, thinking of what will provide value for a reader in doing their job day-to-day.”
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“Engineers like to rage against process, bureaucracy, and friction, but I’ll be the first to te…#
“Engineers like to rage against process, bureaucracy, and friction, but I’ll be the first to tell you that—especially in larger organizations—some process is important. My only point in this article is to hopefully convince you that OKRs ain’t it.”
https://blog.appliedcomputing.io/p/okrs-are-bullshit
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“This example highlights a second strawman that I will set up and then knock down: That securit…#
“This example highlights a second strawman that I will set up and then knock down: That security is uniquely hard because you have to get it right over and over again, at every layer of the system.”
https://systemsapproach.org/2024/02/05/why-security-is-different-or-is-it/comment-page-1/#comments
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“A key part of iteration that goes beyond automated reindexing, evaluation, etc. involves fixin…#
“A key part of iteration that goes beyond automated reindexing, evaluation, etc. involves fixing our data itself. In fact, we found that this is the most impactful lever (way beyond our retrieval and generation optimizations above) we could control.”
https://www.anyscale.com/blog/a-comprehensive-guide-for-building-rag-based-llm-applications-part-1
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“It’s profoundly weird to read RSS’s obituary as a person who checks her very-much-still-alive …#
“It’s profoundly weird to read RSS’s obituary as a person who checks her very-much-still-alive feed reader several times a day to get everything from cryptocurrency news to dinner ideas, and who rarely encounters a website that doesn’t provide a functional feed.”
https://www.citationneeded.news/review-read-write-own-by-chris-dixon/