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dendrite9
on Feb 5, 2023
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Scalability is overrated
I believe that quote is thought to have come from Frank Westheimer or at least he is associated with an earlier version of it. “Why spend a day in the library when you can learn the same thing by working in the laboratory for a month?”
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2007/04/frank-h-westh...
hinkley
on Feb 5, 2023
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I’m quite fond of a version of this somewhat popular in Ops circles: why spend an hour doing a task that you can spend a week automating?
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