Well that ansible job was quickly ran, buhbye atop. Very concerning coming from Rachel and not some rando. I know a number of fortune 5's that use atop for troubleshooting as well. So as others have commented if you had this baked into images or loaded with puppet etc than now may be the time to cleanup.
Note that "bury the lede" isn't really about "make the reader get to the end to find out the answer" but when a reporter/writer emphasizes the wrong part of a story in the intro then you'd say they buried the lede. Like, if the first graf is all about a politician attending a ribbon-cutting ceremony in Podunk, IL and then in the third graf you have "at the rally, he called for all left-handed people to be put in jail" then you've buried the lede.
If you have in the first graf "so-and-so proposed a radical, and illegal, prosecution of a minority group" it's not burying the lede to make the reader get to the third graf to find out it's against left-handed people. Annoying, perhaps, but not technically burying the lede. :)
>'The Eagle Has Landed' – Two Men Walk on the Moon
That is the entire story, in the headline as it should be. I want to know more! The first sentence should add the most relevant added information.
It shouldn't be "As a child Neil Armstrong always dreamed about..." burying the next most important detail 2/3 through the article. The importance/relevance/interest should start high, end low. Inverted pyramid.
That's the "inverted pyramid" organization that is (or was) taught in journalism. The way it was explained to me is: imagine the reader stops at the headline. Or after reading the first sentence. Or after the first paragraph, etc. In any case, they should have read the most important facts of the story up that point.
Your comment and my response exist in so many places on the internet, but I wanted to point out that most of the web-based recipes I use have a convenient "jump to recipe" button. I won't attempt to explain what SEO/copyright/whatever reasons there are for the excess prose at the beginning, though.
What bothers me more about these sites is how heavyweight they can feel even with ads stripped. I wonder if they all use a similar, bloated JS widget that my phone cannot run smoothly.
I have a theory that a lot of journalists really wanted to be novelists. When they get a chance to write a long-form article they can't resist the urge to flex their stylistic muscles; "look at me, I'm a Serious Writer".
I was talking to a journalist who worked for a major venue and the metric she cared about was number of seconds a user stayed on an article. She didn't say "this is the most important..." she just talked about it for 20 minutes and the different results from different demographics and link sources so it was quite obvious.
So that's what journalists are measured by these days apparently, how long a piece can keep the attention of a user.
Ironically she worked for what I would consider one of the best players in terms of not writing attention grabbing BS. (I won't mention which here)
The word "lede" was introduced in the 1970s as an alternative spelling for the word "lead" to resolve ambiguity between the leading paragraph of an article and the metal "lead" which was used in typesetting. It didn't even become popular until the 1980s.
In fact, prior to the 1980s, it was indeed spelled "bury the lead". Here for example is an excerpt from a book about newswriting from the 1970s which uses "lead" as the spelling:
Meanwhile, the group "Led Zeppelin" also avoided the ambiguous spelling to prevent people from pronouncing their name "leed zeppelin". You can't win with lead.
> One account of how the new band's name was chosen held that Moon and Entwistle had suggested that a supergroup with Page and Beck would go down like a "lead balloon", an idiom for being very unsuccessful or unpopular.[21] The group dropped the 'a' in lead at the suggestion of [manager] Peter Grant, so that those unfamiliar with the term would not pronounce it "leed".[22] The word "balloon" was replaced by "zeppelin", a word which, according to music journalist Keith Shadwick, brought "the perfect combination of heavy and light, combustibility and grace" to Page's mind.[21]
It certainly doesn't help that in a rock context, "lead guitar" is very much pronounced with a long e! And one could be forgiven for thinking that a formation of flying things would necessarily have one member in the lead position. I'm glad they had the foresight to keep us from being led astray!
I would argue that there's no reason to continue misspelling "lead" as "lede" outside of a context where you are worried about conflating the "lead" paragraph with the "lead" piece of metal which was used as a spacer between words in a Linotype machine
It's not a misspelling, it's jargon. FWIW I prefer it and I think it's valuable to preserve in part because people who dig into it a bit learn about the history of the term and practice of putting publications (especially newspapers) together.
Right. Saying people outside the industry should feel free to use ‘lead’ instead of ‘lede’ is like saying people outside the tech business should feel free to talk about ‘kilobites’.
Actually had this happen with a boomer long ago. Not saying that insultingly- just a difference in generational cohorts. I use Google keep for all my notes. The guy stopped mid meeting and asked me why I felt he was so boring that I would just play on my phone during the meeting.
I turned the screen and explained the typing was me taking notes. He and I had a good laugh and had a better understanding about this- ever since then I tell new people in meetings with me that I am going to take notes on my phone.
This guy and I became good friends but this is just a difference in technology utilization between generations.
Even as a retired IBEW electrician, I learned several "workmanship tips" from this wonderful assembly guide:
Something that I definitely "did wrong" for decades was over-twisting stranded wires before inserting them into a crimp connector. According to NASA's guide, the correct way is to strip the wire and insert it without additional compaction. Their reasoning makes sense: leads to individual strand breakage and/or loose crimps.
Related, double-crimp terminals are designed to have one crimp over uninsulated wire, the second (closer to contact/space/barrel) mates with the stripped copper. Similarly, for twist-post connections, the first 1.5 twists should be of insulated wire, and then several more of stripped conductor.
Have used this site a lot over the years, really useful resource. I wish ESA was more willing to do this sort of guidance document rather than just the requirements.
Delete Nazis killed a number of good deeply technical pages, always citing some obtuse wikilaw. There was a time when contributing was encouraged and assisted. Now if you make a new article one of these pricks will delete all of your work no questions asked with their fake voting process where they pull in their little cadre of friends.
Now I just add data to places like GitHub and subject specific wikis. I treat wikipedia like Pinterest at this point.
Curious if I am the only one that has such a dislike for wikipedia?
I just posted this because I thought it was interesting how Minecraft is now a huge phenomenon but I definitely get it. Here's an example I quite like: the article for the ADX file format. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADX_(file_format)
It has a detailed description of the file header, and C code samples to help decode it. That's awesome!
But there used to be a note saying basically "this should be removed and put somewhere else, and someone did remove it (click View history) but then someone put it back. I imagine if this wasn't such an obscure subject (it's a music file format used in a few Sega games around the early 2000s that was never visible to end users) the deletionists would have gotten their hands on it years ago.
I think the reason they do this is the same reason forum mods and discord mods act like they do: For some people this kind of thing is fun. It's like a game of whack-a-mole or something, trying to catch them. People do it on stackexchange too, e.g. I've seen questions get voted to be closed because they think it's too complicated to answer (for them). (Why not just leave it without answers until/unless someone wants to?) And I've done it on discord servers before when I was like 13, there was this server for basically support with hacked nintendo consoles and they had a rule against piracy so you would sort of interrogate people to see if they were using pirated games, and it really was kind of fun to "catch" them. Not very proud of it now of course.
Maybe you aren't proud of it now, but that experience (in a minimally dangerous manner, it appears) clearly gave you valuable experience in that you are not only aware of the pitfall but able to share your story constructively here, today! Many people (like the Wiki deleters we are currently discussing) likely never were able to receive the same education, or at least never arrived at the valuable conclusion.
You are not. I distrust almost everything on Wikipedia and verify from other sources because I've found so many examples of heavily editorialized content in the past. (and never mind actually trying to contribute, trying that years and year ago burned me for good.)
A wretched hive of scum and villainy.
Which has always made me wonder how to do it right. Or if it's even possible to do it right. Perhaps some iron law governs a project becoming impossible past a certain number of people involved. Maybe smaller subject specific sites are actually the only possibility?
Or maybe I'm just holding on to the dream of the order internet. I don't know. I'd like to know. But I wouldn't trust whatever answer to the question was on Wikipedia.
Tldr. Never, ever take a tam role at Amazon. My leadership actually told me to avoid that role when I worked at Amazon as I was curious about more customer facing roles.
Ditto, not sure why everyone hates on plex so much. Sure they do some dumb stuff- but overall media handling capability has improved. I am still pissed about camera upload and podcast support. But not enough for all the reddit user rage I see.
