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I don't think that's how it works. A model doesn't become a good model simply because it's hard to or nobody has bothered to make a better one.

This can be stated more generally: If you didn't explicitly control for it, your results probably only reflect selection bias.

No, I mean that many motorist lives would be saved if they all literally wore helmets. They should be required to. Airbags and roll cages help, but they are (obviously) insufficien…

Motorists should probably be required to wear a helmet too, by this standard.

Oh. I thought for some reason that their index included the top 25.

I'm not sure this is such good advice. It means you're guaranteed to miss out on high appreciation of anything but the largest coins. That's all well and good for a less volatile s…

This is a thing others have already done, although I don't have citations to hand.

> Given that stop-the-world pauses are never evenly distributed throughout time That is not a given. And, even distribution is only part of the equation. If they are sufficiently s…

Overall latency is important. Where it comes from isn't very important. Transferring data a few light-nanos of distance into or out of a colocated Mongo DB instance simply isn't go…

Most people don't espouse the FSF's definition of evil.

Technically the tithe is to be given to the church. Charity giving is above and beyond that. And you are supposed to tithe out of your gross income -- your "first-fruits." It's an …

No. There is a holdback set of pages that are never displayed. At least according to the lawsuit.

It's just management, after all. I don't mean to be too flippant, but isn't this whole article an instance of exactly what the author is complaining about? Let's have good managers…

One does wonder how much damage this memo does to that case. It will be interesting to see.

Sarcasm often doesn't come across on the internet. Is my surmise that you are joking correct?

I think what's concerning is that advertising that an app is in a sandbox suggests to those out of the know that they can use it safely. They expect that the integrity and privacy …

I'm kinda surprised Netflix weren't already using THP.

Theorems are all well and good, but ultimately the thing that matters is the experience of using the system "IRL" as the kids say. If spanner is up 99.99% of the time, and is consi…

The first slide, which names the presenting company as "[redacted] data broker llc" already had my bullshit alarms firing. Does someone really name their company that? Who would tr…

Does the average f2p shovelware author really have the resources to implement a system like the one contemplated in this presentation? I doubt it.

Microsoft would seem to be one counterexample.

Their medium article explains the reason apple rejected them. They use chromium on their servers to render pages. Apple wants them to use webkit.

Hah. I'm not sure it would matter that much to me if I were the only person who saw the flaws. Comp, work-life balance, interesting problems, and a minimum of local bullshit are wh…

If I thought that every single person who leaves a job leaves because of their manager, I would have said "ten out of ten times" or "always." But what I actually said was "seven ou…

Agreed. And seven times out of ten (made up statistic, ymmv) that event is precipitated by one's management chain. Just yesterday someone reposted the article "People don't leave j…