khuston

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   by khuston 8d ago

   Good designs tend to have simple mental models. Some of these mental models are generic and apply across many projects. Or are even written into standards. I wouldn’t be too dogmatic about impossibility of understanding before building. Som
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   by khuston 1mo ago

   “Root cause analysis”, like “single point of failure”, is often misunderstood. A root cause analysis often finds multiple root causes. And a system can have multiple single points of failure.
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   by khuston 2mo ago

   I never used office hours as a student, which I later regretted because it made me work longer and harder to perhaps achieve somewhat better understanding in some classes, but also I dropped every proof-based math course I ever took. Overal
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   by khuston 6mo ago

   I’m all for mass surveillance of roadways, but I want to see results. Every day I see and hear people breaking laws with their vehicles in ways that make life worse for others around them.
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   by khuston 11mo ago

   LLM-powered deep research tools are very useful at finding whether someone has already published on a research question. You could spend days performing keyword searches and traversing citation graphs but still miss relevant pockets of the