
If we want to do science better, it would help to know how we do it now. A good way to find out is to just look.
You can find surprising things by just looking.https://meaningness.com/metablog/rational-pcr …
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Replying to @Meaningness
Really enjoyed this one! Before reading I found the video so dull I gave up after 3 minutes. Then found myself fascinated by tiny details once you pointed them out.
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I went through parts of that literally a hundred times, and I was still discovering new things. I only wrote up a tiny fraction of them. It’s an amazing practice.
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I've never done lab work, so would never have seen them on my own, it was just 'scientist does sciencey things'. Now I'm thinking about what this would be like for tasks I have done (my previous software support job would have been an endless source)
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Stuff like deployments, recurring maintenance tasks, common requests like running reports... anything we'd have a wiki page for (with a checklist). Other visual stuff like having a bright red command prompt for the production server, and green for dev...
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I think at work they introduced something where, if you type "reboot", it asks you type in the name of the server you think you are rebooting...
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Ah that would have saved me once. We did have some similar things where you'd e.g. have to type 'live' if you were running something on live.
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