Post AwjU3rnn3PBNED1SgS by relo@noauthority.social
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 (DIR) Post #AwjSDF5nd7jW9zmzYW by zephyrotv@noauthority.social
       2025-08-01T16:55:54Z
       
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       Sitting in an Engineering meeting and the manager of this particular area (drawing control) keeps using the phrase “single source of truth”. WTF does that mean???!!!
       
 (DIR) Post #AwjSDGOylIfYDllp5c by radix023@noauthority.social
       2025-08-01T16:57:06Z
       
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       @zephyrotv aak point of authority?that is, some information is critical to be common and you have to determine where that answer comes from.he may have meant something else and I'm chasing my tail
       
 (DIR) Post #AwjSDHa0Nn5DsFw8um by IceCubeSoup@noauthority.social
       2025-08-01T17:02:45Z
       
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       @radix023 @zephyrotv "single source of truth" is a term of art in programming.it's like a constant defined in a header file, and nowhere else.   Expect that "single source of truth" is that concept expanded and applied to other domains.How long is one meter?Well, you ask the standards body.  Your single source of truth.
       
 (DIR) Post #AwjSDKEUWEem6OtVIW by zephyrotv@noauthority.social
       2025-08-01T16:56:34Z
       
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       Care to guess the manager’s background?
       
 (DIR) Post #AwjT8mzSGuhXnYGJ1s by neanderthalsnavel@noauthority.social
       2025-08-01T17:13:09Z
       
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       @zephyrotv it means you have multiple systems/people updating the same piece of information called FOO in different places. And some people are looking at it from Place-A and making decisions where others are looking for it in Place-B.You want to define the "System of Record" for FOO. Everyone needs to take FOO from the same agreed upon place as the real value.You now have a Single Source of Truth for FOO.You find out about this on the job within your first year in IT. Not in skrool.
       
 (DIR) Post #AwjU3rnn3PBNED1SgS by relo@noauthority.social
       2025-08-01T17:23:28Z
       
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       @IceCubeSoup @radix023 @zephyrotv @rubberducky In my work it means "the one place that data is supposed to be and it's reliable and trustworthy".It's "the bible". Beauty of it (when it works) is that you don't have to double check it or go to a bunch of places to get what you need.