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家庭发芽对比实验应如何设计，才能让两个家庭的结果具有可比性？
开放问题：实验室依照国际种子检验协会（ISTA）的《国际种子检验规程》检验种子，但家庭若想比较两批种子或两个窗台的发芽情况，却没有共通的方案可循；怎样的样本量、计数规则、持续时间和条件记录，才能让这类家庭对比既有参考价值，又能在不同家庭之间进行比较？
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在低流量服务中，哪种链路采样策略能让罕见故障依然可见？
开放问题：现有的采样指南大多针对每秒成千上万条链路（trace）的服务而写，在那种规模下，1% 的采样比例仍具有代表性；但对于每秒只有几个请求的服务，头部采样（head sampling）、尾部采样（tail sampling）、按路由设置的采样率与数据保留策略要如何组合，才能以团队可以接受的成本，保住那条每周才出现一次的故障链路？
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哪些镜像保留规则既能让容器镜像仓库保持精简，又不会删除仍在使用的镜像？
开放问题：镜像仓库只会垃圾回收不再被任何清单（manifest）引用的数据块（blob），生命周期策略则按时间、数量或标签模式让镜像过期；哪种规则组合能让团队多年运行下来既不会无限膨胀，也不会出现因镜像已被删除而回滚失败的情况？
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Which code-review metrics predict escaped defects without being gamed?
Open question: review turnaround, comment density and change size are easy to measure, but which of them actually predict defects found after merge, and which stop working once teams optimise for them?
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Welche Rollout-Strategie funktioniert auf einem einzelnen Host mit Docker Compose und Reverse Proxy?
Offene Frage: Rollierend, Blue-Green und Canary sind für Orchestratoren beschrieben; viele kleine Dienste laufen aber auf einem Host mit Docker Compose hinter Traefik, nginx oder Caddy. Welche Nachbildung – zweiter Container mit umgeschalteter Proxy-Regel, gewichtete Verteilung, start-first – haben Teams über Monate betrieben, was hat sie gebrochen, und ab welcher Grösse lohnt sich der Orchestrator?
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Which household records fix the start and end of a power outage after the fact, and how far have they disagreed?
Open question: after a power cut a household has several clocks of the event, such as the utility's notice, a UPS log, a router's uptime, a home server's reboot records (the last(1) manual page states that last reboot produces a record of reboot times, and journalctl can list boots with the timestamps of each boot's first and last message), a battery clock that kept time and a mains clock that flashes; which of these have households actually used, how far did they disagree, and which gave the earliest and latest bounds?
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How much of an agent's context is tool output in real runs, and does trimming it change task success?
Open question: the MCP specification says clients should validate tool results before passing them to the model but leaves the amount to the client; in recorded agent runs, what share of tokens is tool output rather than instructions or reasoning, and does truncating, summarising or filtering tool output change task success, cost and latency?
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Which observability signals should a JVM or .NET service emit by default, and at what overhead?
Open question: both runtimes ship built-in telemetry (Flight Recorder and GC logging on the JVM; EventPipe counters and dotnet-trace on .NET) and both have OpenTelemetry auto-instrumentation, but there is little shared evidence on which of these should be always-on in production, what they cost, and which ones actually shortened incidents.
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How can a household water-use observation be reproduced?
Open request for a bounded observation protocol, without claims about water savings.
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After how many soft bounces, over what period, should a sender stop mailing an address?
Open question: enhanced status codes separate permanent failures (5.X.X) from persistent transient ones (4.X.X), but the standard leaves the transient case to sender policy; which thresholds have senders used, and what happened to recovery rates and reputation?
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Which evidence hierarchy fits claims about software-engineering practices?
Open question: medicine grades evidence with explicit hierarchies and downgrade factors; claims about engineering practices rest mostly on case studies, surveys and vendor reports. Has a grading scheme for such claims been proposed and actually applied, and how does it handle context-dependent effects?
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When does client-side routing still pay off now that browsers offer bfcache, prerendering and cross-document view transitions?
Open question: in-page routers were adopted to avoid full page loads, at the cost of shell serving, 404 handling, scroll and focus restoration and a bundle that must arrive first; the back/forward cache, the Speculation Rules API and cross-document view transitions now address the original motivations in multi-page sites. For which sites and interaction patterns does an in-page router still measurably win?
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At what repository size do teams need monorepo build tooling beyond plain Git?
Open question: sparse checkout, partial clone and per-directory CI filters cover the first stage of a growing single repository; at which size, team count or build time have teams found that a build graph tool with remote caching became necessary, and what did the transition cost?
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How much test coverage is enough for a small service?
Open question: for a service of a few thousand lines with a database and an HTTP API, what coverage level and test mix has been observed to keep defect rates acceptable without slowing change?
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Which User-Agent conventions do site operators use to classify AI agents, and how often are honestly identified agents blocked anyway?
RFC 9309 tells crawlers to carry a product token and a description URL in their User-Agent, and operators increasingly sort traffic into browsers, crawlers and agents by such strings; this question asks which conventions operators actually key on, whether honest identification raises or lowers the chance of being blocked or rate-limited, and what the measured share of misclassified traffic is.
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How far back should a scheduled pipeline reprocess for late-arriving events, and how have teams chosen the window?
Open question: stream engines admit that some events can be arbitrarily delayed, and batch schedulers run each interval once after it closes; a common compromise re-runs the last N intervals on every run, but N is usually a guess. What evidence has been used to size N, and what happened to the events that arrived later still?
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When should a service with users in every time zone schedule its maintenance window?
Open question: a maintenance window at 3 a.m. locally is midday for someone; how have small teams serving global users chosen their windows, and did traffic-minimum, staff-availability or rotating-region windows lead to fewer complaints and safer changes?
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How do teams run several coding agents in parallel git worktrees without their caches, hooks and ports colliding?
Open question: worktrees give each agent its own branch and files, and the git-worktree documentation says a linked worktree shares everything except per-worktree files such as HEAD and the index, so hooks and configuration are shared while build caches, dependency directories and local ports are often hard-coded; which conventions have kept parallel agent runs isolated, and what broke first?
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Do FAQ pages earn their place, and what keeps them from rotting?
Open question: GOV.UK's style guide forbids FAQs on GOV.UK on the grounds that content written from user needs does not need them, while Nielsen Norman Group argues FAQs deliver value and that search alone is rarely enough; which measurable outcomes, ownership rules and staleness checks have teams recorded for FAQ pages in technical documentation?
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How should the reliability of an acting agent be measured when a run can succeed at its task and still cause an unwanted side effect?
Open question: benchmarks score whether the goal state was reached, and pass^k adds consistency over trials, but neither counts a run that reached the goal and also deleted a file, sent a message or spent a budget it should not have; which measures teams use for that, how they collect them, and whether they move with prompt and model changes is undocumented.
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