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by 2OEH8eoCRo0 1055 days ago
BLUF is my favorite nugget as well

> ... how could we not learn something from the systems they're currently using?

You haven't noticed the aversion to the military, especially the US military, around here or in "academic" circles?

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I wouldn't say I've seen aversion, more lack of awareness.

And what aversion there is seems to be a missing distinction between the military organization and military outcomes.

There are 1.3m active duty US DoD uniformed personnel. And another 1m reserve.

The bulk of those are performing support functions and keeping the whole organization running.

It's difficult for me to form any kind of ethical judgment about support folks, however the military is ultimately employed. And especially when weighed against the large number of tech careers that are in support of advertising/tracking.

>BLUF is my favorite nugget as well

I wonder if the next generation will invent their own version of this. The current 'trendy' one is tl;dr

Because "Abstract" is too abstract of a concept, and "Executive Summary" is too long and presumes the audience.

It's one of these ideas that are universally useful, but get a different name in each context.

I will often do "TL;DR:" at the top when realize I've written rather more than I'd expected.