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In Guatemala, painted altar found at Tikal adds new context to mysterious Maya(sciencedaily.com)
1 points by docmechanic 2y ago|0 comments
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by docmechanic 2y ago
Nope to a dilettante without experience in this domain. You’re like a plaintiff on the Peoples Court trying to quote Black’s Law to a judge. I’ve been exposed to the domain-specific terminology for technical documentation for three decades
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The world suddenly has a plausible alternative to US treasuries(deccanherald.com)
9 points by docmechanic 2y ago|1 comments
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by docmechanic 2y ago
Nope. Feature requirements are part of the standard product development process, not a part of product documentation. In thirty years of writing product documentation, I’ve never once heard this usage. You are confused by obscure sources
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by docmechanic 2y ago
Nope. Product documentation is published for an external audience. Feature requirements are never published for external audiences.
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by docmechanic 2y ago
I’m eager to see research confirm whether microplastic contamination is harmful for humans. Given that 'These can be smaller than a virus -- just the right size to disrupt cells and even alter DNA.’, I’m not too hopeful that this is ha
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by docmechanic 2y ago
You’ve conflated feature requirements with product documentation. The MECE documentation example is a feature requirement, not product documentation. A better title would be ‘feature requirement to code’. That is what the example feeds t
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Researchers discover why plastic sheds dangerous fragments(sciencedaily.com)
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Saturn's moon Titan could harbor life, but only a tiny amount, study finds(sciencedaily.com)
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by docmechanic 2y ago
'Despite its uniquely rich inventory of organic molecules, Saturn's largest moon, Titan, may be able to support only a minuscule amount of biomass, if life exists on the moon, according to a study using bioenergetic modeling.&#x27
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by docmechanic 2y ago
Thank you for sharing!
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by docmechanic 2y ago
Interesting that reduced sentence lengths appears to greatly predate recent declines in reading comprehension. 'The reason the average reader could have been smarter in the past is because literacy used to be more limited.'
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Bonobos use a kind of syntax once thought to be unique to humans(newscientist.com)
194 points by docmechanic 2y ago|125 comments
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by docmechanic 2y ago
Yes, every release checklist for product documentation should include a box for a pretty printable version, such as a PDF. It covers several usability edge cases discussed here. Ideally, a technical writer acting as a user advocate would t
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Monkeys are best yodellers – new research(sciencedaily.com)
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by docmechanic 2y ago
'New World monkeys, whose range stretches from Mexico to Argentina, were found to have evolved the largest vocal membranes of all the primates, suggesting these thin ribbons of tissue play a particularly important role in their vocal p
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Touchlessly moving cells: Biotech automation(sciencedaily.com)
2 points by docmechanic 2y ago|1 comments
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by docmechanic 2y ago
This should accelerate the process of screening new drugs.
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Exception to Laws of Thermodynamics(sciencedaily.com)
1 points by docmechanic 2y ago|1 comments
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by docmechanic 2y ago
Surely there are nano technology applications for this discovery?
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Sound frequencies of stars sing of our galaxy's past and future(sciencedaily.com)
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by docmechanic 2y ago
I didn’t realize that we haven’t yet performed ‘accurate identification’ of the mass and age of stars in our own galaxy. 'Dr Reyes says this study will lead to the accurate identification of the mass and age of stars in the Milky Way -
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by docmechanic 2y ago
This is the first I’ve heard of ‘team-matching’ as an additional filter before an offer. I haven’t run into it myself in the last five years of remote work, but good to know.
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Early Earth's first crust composition discovery rewrites geological timeline(sciencedaily.com)
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by docmechanic 2y ago
'Modern continental rocks carry chemical signatures from the very start of our planet's history, challenging current theories about plate tectonics.'
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Machine learning helps construct an evolutionary timeline of bacteria(sciencedaily.com)
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by docmechanic 2y ago
'"Results show that at least 3 aerobic lineages appeared before the GOE -- by nearly 900 million years -- suggesting that a capacity for using oxygen evolved well before its widespread accumulation in the atmosphere," Profess
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Calcium may have unlocked the origins of life's molecular asymmetry(sciencedaily.com)
1 points by docmechanic 2y ago|1 comments
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by docmechanic 2y ago
'What makes this study especially intriguing is its suggestion that polyesters -- simple polymers formed from molecules like tartaric acid -- could have been among life's earliest homochiral molecules, even before RNA, DNA, or pro
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First ancient genomes from the Green Sahara deciphered(sciencedaily.com)
1 points by docmechanic 2y ago|1 comments

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