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  • What is your country's "coals to Newcastle"?

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  • It means to pointlessly take something to a place that already has it in abundance.

  • What small piece of advice you would like to give that isn't heard enough ?

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  • No disagreements here! What you're doing here is recognising that the waste incurred from storage is less of a problem than the waste incurred through Transportation, or Waiting for resupply. In this case, inventory is waste worth doing. Any workshop needs to keep SOME spare parts, every house needs to have SOME food in the freezer. But that doesn't mean it's not a kind of waste to store stuff -- a fact people acknowledge when they choose not to rent a warehouse to store even more.

    What I'm saying is that it's a trade-off. In fact it's a pretty bland statement, obvious when you think about it, but putting it into words like this can be helpful when making processes more efficient.

  • What small piece of advice you would like to give that isn't heard enough ?

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  • It's an idea from Lean management. Everything you need to keep, prevents you from keeping something else; requires you to remember where it is, where you could be remembering something else; takes longer to move when you have to move it; takes longer to organise than having less would. It poses fire hazards that having nothing wouldn't pose. Blocks light that having nothing wouldn't block. Keeping stuff is inherently wasteful.

    None of this is to say that keeping stuff is bad. It may be very useful to keep it. But you should always recognise that doing so incurs a cost that you need to trade off against its usefulness.

    While we're on it, inventory is one of the eight kinds of waste identified in Lean. They are:

    • Transportation
    • Inventory
    • Motion
    • Waiting
    • Overproduction
    • Overprocessing
    • Defects
    • Skills (misuse of)

    Remember TIM WOODS.

    All of this is meant for running a factory, but I've found a lot of them useful in other bits of life, especially the idea that Inventory is a form of waste.

  • What small piece of advice you would like to give that isn't heard enough ?

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  • Inventory is waste.

  • the now-finalized Alyaza read list of 2023

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  • How was the Graeber? I loved Bullshit Jobs.

  • Books @lemmy.ml
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    What I read in 2023

  • 4 billion if statements

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  • This is poetry.

    My favourite part is that he uses the modulo operator in his Python script to generate the C code.

  • Manga @lemmy.ml
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    Today I finished 20th Century Boys

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
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    What distros have you tried and thought, "Nope, this one's not for me"?

  • Six books (and one play) to read to understand British politics today

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  • I finished this one recently. It was brilliant and utterly horrifying. Have you read his previous one, How to Be a Liberal?

  • I've got a couple of days off, 2 kg of sculpting clay, and zero previous experience of sculpting. What should I make?

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  • This... sounds kinda awesome.

  • I've got a couple of days off, 2 kg of sculpting clay, and zero previous experience of sculpting. What should I make?

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  • At last, something achievable.

  • I've got a couple of days off, 2 kg of sculpting clay, and zero previous experience of sculpting. What should I make?

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  • But I was hoping to be done with all that...

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    I've got a couple of days off, 2 kg of sculpting clay, and zero previous experience of sculpting. What should I make?

  • boardgames @feddit.de
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    Just played my first game of Escape the Dark Sector

  • Statistical Rethinking - A Bayesian Course with Examples in R and Stan (and PyMC3, brms, and Julia too)

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  • His book is THE best book on statistics I've ever read. Thoroughly recommended.

  • Stop ChatControl!

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  • And just like that, a rewatch is triggered...

  • What are you looking forward to in 2024?

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  • Christopher Walker confirmed to be playing the Emperor, while Sting will have a surprise cameo role playing himself.

  • What are you looking forward to in 2024?

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  • The new Dune film.

  • Is there a way of browsing random communities?

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  • Interesting! I'm on Jerboa now, but I'll check it out. Thanks!

  • Is there a way of browsing random communities?

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  • What I enjoyed doing on The Other Place was going to a random community and seeing its top posts, its hot posts. It gave a sense of how vibrant or interesting it was.

  • Asklemmy @lemmy.ml
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    Is there a way of browsing random communities?

  • Creative @beehaw.org
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    Cycling in the rain. Technical pen, November 2023.

  • Creative @beehaw.org
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    Waiting for the bus, part 2. Technical pen, October 2023.

  • What's your houses equivalent of a poop knife.

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  • This made my day.

  • Waiting for the bus. Technical pen, October 2023

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  • A fancy fineliner. I use a Rotting Isograph with a 0.1 mm nib. It has a refillable ink reservoir which I really like, making it quite cheap to run. Plus you can order just the nib if you break one in a fit of frustrated scribbling-over.

  • Waiting for the bus. Technical pen, October 2023

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  • Thank you! More to follow...

  • Creative @beehaw.org
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    Waiting for the bus. Technical pen, October 2023

  • Asklemmy @lemmy.ml
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    You can have any B-tier superpower you like. What do you choose?

  • Creative @beehaw.org
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    Spider. Technical pen, September 2023.

  • Creative @beehaw.org
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    Street in Brussels. Technical pen, 2023.

  • Creative @beehaw.org
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    Puddle. Technical pen, 2023.

  • Programming @beehaw.org
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    Software engineering for data scientists

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    Work in progress: Cowley Road, Oxford.

  • boardgames @feddit.de
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    Bought a copy of Stratego in a charity shop today, and guess what: you can even play it on your phone!

  • Creative @beehaw.org
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    Daddy longlegs

  • UKCasual @lemmy.world
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    Want to lose weight? Move to Cornwall.

  • UKCasual @lemmy.world
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    Want to lose weight? Move to Cornwall.