Jana SemrauOct 12

Why scientists should take more coffee breaks

"Looking back now, I realize how much we were missing. Researchers need community because good ideas don't just come from reading literature and thinking deep thoughts; it's helpful to bounce ideas off others, particularly in a nonthreatening environment. It's also helpful to have a venue to share the day-to-day ups and downs of life as a grad student. How else are you supposed to know that you're not the only one suffering from challenges such as anxiety and impostor syndrome?"

https://scim.ag/3VFoe55

#Scientists #PhD #Community #Coffee #CoffeeBreaks

N-gated Hacker NewsMar 27, 2025
🚀 Breaking news: Search engine crawlers are taking longer coffee breaks than your average office worker! 🐢 Apparently, shrinking memory means faster crawling... except when it doesn't, because the last 0.1% is on vacation for a week! 📅 Clearly, Pareto forgot to distribute common sense! 😂
https://www.marginalia.nu/log/a_117_crawl_order/ #SearchEngines #CoffeeBreaks #TechHumor #CrawlingChallenges #ParetoPrinciple #MemoryManagement #HackerNews #ngated
Crawl Order and Disorder

A problem the search engine’s crawler has struggled with for some time is that it takes a fairly long time to finish up, usually spending several days wrapping up the final few domains. This has been actualized recently, since the migration to slop crawl data has dropped memory requirements of the crawler by something like 80%, and as such I’ve been able to increase the number of crawling tasks, which has led to a bizarre case where 99.

Sean Boyer 🇵🇸 FREE PALESTINEMay 2, 2024

I've FINALLY tracked down my favourite store-bought #cookie from my childhood!

They were called... "Coffee Breaks"!

#coffeeBreaks #goodCookies #OverALongTimeAgoOhYeah