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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_factor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_factor The bus factor (aka lottery factor,[1][2] truck factor,[3] or circus factor[4
by nycdatasci 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_factor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_factor
The bus factor (aka lottery factor,[1][2] truck factor,[3] or circus factor[4]) is a measurement of the risk resulting from information and capabilities not being shared among team members, derived from the phrase "in case they get hit by a bus".
- dktp 2y agoI think the question is about why someone would want to _increase_ their bus factor for the family
- nixgeek 2y agoBus factor being “1” means nothing works if you’re hit by a bus.
- chrisweekly 2y agoOr, less gruesome, if you take a bus out of town.
- nkrisc 2y agoThat’s much less meaningful.
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- lloeki 2y ago> The "bus factor" is the minimum number of team members that have to suddenly disappear from a project before the project stalls due to lack of knowledgeable or competent personnel IOW higher == better
- zeagle 2y agoThere is a bias in technical knowledge. I used to be huge into self hosting but came to the realization that if I died tomorrow my NAS, domain, email and backups of our family photos would work until they don’t. An unpaid invoice, a cancelled credit card, a failed reboot or maybe the nastiest was plugged into a new network. So in my case increasing the bus factor refers to: a regular usb drive hooked up to the nas that has an unencrypted ntfs drive with our photos and paperless archive; iCloud email that will stay up; Bitwarden hosted on their end. Same reason I have a very health life insurance and disability policy.