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by drewcoo 1763 days ago
A dashboard in a car gives you largely active feedback to help you drive. Mechanics' diagnostic tools give them a deep dive into information about repairing the vehicle, not limited to real time or to just driving activity. Those two things are very different.

I don't think a debugging "dashboard" is a dashboard. That conflates two very different ideas. We need a different name for that.
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SkipperCat 1763 days ago
What about the "check engine" light or the "low oil" light? Both are debugging indicators about the health of your engine.

But snark aside, I do agree with your about the intent of a dashboard. I've always told people dashboards are there to give you historical and real-time info about the performance and rates of your systems. It doesn't show you exactly what's wrong, but it is very helpful in showing where to start looking.

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ethbr0 1763 days ago
"Pre-configured EDA"

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploratory_data_analysis

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