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by cbsmith 2y ago
What drives me nuts is people storing uuids in databases as hex strings. They're bytes, and if you do it right, even the type 1's are lexigraphically sortable.
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by cbsmith 2y ago
Yup.
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by cbsmith 2y ago
Sorry if it was implied that I thought it was scientific or accurate. My comment was intended to be sarcastic. Every now and then people drag out these weird, "this is why Genghis Khan was so successful" stories.
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by cbsmith 2y ago
I thought it was all because of a genetic mutation that allowed them to digest milk... https://annemontgomerywriter.com/2022/02/11/the-power-of-mil... .
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by cbsmith 2y ago
How do you figure this is suspicious circumstances? The pathology seems pretty reasonable, he got sick, developed pneumonia & MRSA, and ultimately suffered a stroke. It's not like he had radiation poisoning.
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by cbsmith 2y ago
I was unaware of such prediction, but it's unsurprising. In that case, it's the probability of one dying, which was no more unlikely than the first one. ...and of course, people have said this about whistleblowers and witnesses wh
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by cbsmith 2y ago
> The chance they died is 100%. There you go. Because it is after the fact, it's a given. It's not surprising that you can find a connection of some kind between them after the fact. Just because you can, after the fact, draw t
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by cbsmith 2y ago
I'm not sure why you think the 0.5% figure is relevant. One of them was 62. Even if they were both 45-55, their risk of death would no doubt be dramatically higher than the mean. They were both whistle blowers, and not just ordinary wh
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by cbsmith 2y ago
"I'm baffled by this comment. It's exceedingly rare for two middle-aged and otherwise healthy people to die without warning." That statement is not even limited to whistleblowers. If you restrict the population to known
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by cbsmith 2y ago
If we assume their base mortality rate is 0.1%, that the pool is only 100, and that the deaths are completely independent (and we know that since they were both whistleblowers, both worked for the sample employer, that may very well not b
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by cbsmith 2y ago
> First, otherwise healthy people don't just die from stress. Stress can sometimes exacerbate underlying health issues and lead to a long, downward spiral in health that can result in death, but it does not happen in a matter of jus
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by cbsmith 2y ago
You're right. I screwed up the math.
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by cbsmith 2y ago
> One of those people died of a gunshot wound, so whether it was self-inflicted or not, their age and health and any related statistics have nothing to do with the death. Mental health is health. Age and physical health are factors that
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by cbsmith 2y ago
> Both were whistleblowers of which there are allegedly no more than 32 in the last few years. Yeah, out of a population of 32, it's unlikely to happen. It seems likely that this number is grossly underrepresenting the size of the p
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by cbsmith 2y ago
> I'm baffled by this comment. It's exceedingly rare for two middle-aged and otherwise healthy people to die without warning. No. It happens every day. Yes, if you pick two random middle-aged people at random, it's exceedi
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by cbsmith 2y ago
> With so many people in a position to notice and speak out about Boeing's issues, it isn't terribly surprising that a few deaths have occurred. Also, let's not kid ourselves, even if Boeing doesn't retaliate (and the
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by cbsmith 2y ago
Yeah, I feel dirty for clicking on the link.
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by cbsmith 2y ago
This is an important area of investigation, and you should be proud to take on the challenge. I would encourage you to look at the competitive landscape to get a sense of what the current state of the art is (there's definitely room fo
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by cbsmith 2y ago
There's been a ton of analysis on the safety of automobiles in the US. Does it really make sense that we got to leaded gasoline being a problem decades before tire particles?
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by cbsmith 2y ago
Very.
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by cbsmith 2y ago
It'd didn't take nearly that long for us to start to identify that there was a problem there. Making the case that it required a regulatory response definitely took really long, which I expect will happen again this time.
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by cbsmith 2y ago
I'm kind of stunned that we're just now getting a handle on problems with tire particulates. It's been roughly a century.
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by cbsmith 2y ago
I definitely think I'm projecting and maybe seeing things that aren't there. If you replaced splines with linear weights, it kind of looks like a decision tree to me.
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Feels like someone stuffed splines into decision trees.
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by cbsmith 2y ago
Oh boy. This is the beginning, not the end.
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by cbsmith 2y ago
Prior to Gpt4 there was PowerSet, which was specifically targeting search. They got bought by Microsoft and then... nothing. While you can use Gpt4 to do the job, you have to ask yourself why there isn't a search engine just using it.
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by cbsmith 2y ago
Ironically (and unsurprisingly), it's a repeat of what happened at Yahoo. ;-)
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by cbsmith 2y ago
He called Raghavan a "management consultant", whilst acknowledging that he never was a management consultant. It's slinging pejorative nonsense labels.
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by cbsmith 2y ago
It's nice to think that with the right leadership, companies will behave differently. "Organizations can only be so complex at the top" implies that only the dynamic at the top of the company drives its behaviour. It's s
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by cbsmith 2y ago
Yes, in the same sentence that says that his choosing the management track "definitely tracks with everything I’ve found about him".

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