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Re:Things to say when you're losing a technical argument (2001) by rrrrrrrrrrrryan on Friday November 05, 2021 @09:17PM (#29126590)
> the lightweight design doc— what's the background, what are the motivations, what's the proposal, what are the alternatives and why aren't we doing them, what are the implications and potential downsides, does the proposal change anything about our exposures as far as security, privacy, etc.

Maybe it's just me, but this sounds quite heavy.

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Re:Things to say when you're losing a technical argument (2001) by mikepurvis on Saturday November 06, 2021 @12:36AM (#29127563)
I think it's as heavy as you want it to be— not every point on there requires a whole treatise, but each is an opportunity to be like "is there information here that I have which might be useful to my colleagues or my future self?"
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