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by fedeb95 4y ago
Yes, I am aware of this. Your points are valid, but I am trying to gather some proper research on actual projects about this and not just anecdotal evidence (which is fine, I have many too, but should be supported by something else ideally)
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by fedeb95 4y ago
Thanks I will check out those references mentioned by wikipedia and also include the term software brittleness in my searches. It seems related even if maybe not exactly my goal
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by fedeb95 4y ago
The averaging comes from zooming in and zooming out, which apparently is some kind of scientific method I am not aware of.
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by fedeb95 4y ago
It doesn't limit anything. Let's say you put 100k in the market today. With probability p you will have 8% return at some unknown point in time in the future (your argument may be false even from a simple temporal point of view, t
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by fedeb95 4y ago
My main point isn't the only risk is the economy collapsing, this is nitpicking
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by fedeb95 4y ago
It's not the same type of risk. I'm not against risk taking, but betting everything in the stock market is plainly stupid. I'm ok with many people believing it's not however, I can keep benefiting from crashes ;)
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by fedeb95 4y ago
Yes, but I'd like something more like: can two codebases be compared as per fragility? Can fragility increase and decrease with some practices?
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by fedeb95 4y ago
Not suggesting something else isn't an argument. Long term from now you don't know anything, you know long term up to now. The risk of a market crash isn't the same as of a meteor hitting earth, since tails of the probability
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by fedeb95 4y ago
"In other words, the stock market has never declined over any 20-year time period!" That's not true. It is if you cheat by taking useless averages. It as declined, as you say too, a lot of times, and very badly, many many tim
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by fedeb95 4y ago
I've clarified in my edit, thanks for pointing that out.
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by fedeb95 4y ago
It's not that I'm referring to. It's how likely a change in software will cause more bugs. Specifically, how a bug fix could result in more bugs because of interconnections (that's some layman definition I've constr
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by fedeb95 4y ago
This is bullshit: past returns aren't indicative of future returns. You can't predict the next catastrophe. "Zooming out" is the perfect way to loose money, even better than CAPM or similar stupid things. Edit: Since I&#
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Ask HN: Is there academic research on software fragility?
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by fedeb95 4y ago
As any other poetry I've read by an AI this is uninteresting. I'd have a few real poets to recommend to whoever said that script chilled him to the bones... starting with the waste land by Eliot. AI makes cool verses, but deep mea
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by fedeb95 4y ago
The diameter of the universe isn't even close to the highest number one could use for a real thing. Try the number of atoms in the universe... but I doubt such a threshold exists
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by fedeb95 4y ago
Yes but also no. This kind of things, usually called "checks" in the wild, are nearly everywhere in code that works (i.e. wasn't fixed in a while and is triggered often)
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by fedeb95 4y ago
If the same thing is said about A and B, it is not guaranteed that A=B, unless that thing specifies equality. Anyway I agree with the article that microservices are basically modules. They extend the domain of modules. They're usually
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by fedeb95 4y ago
The author states that the incriminated blog post is perfectly logically constructed. That is not the case. The argument: Once you have less skin in the game, it is easier to make bad decisions Doesn't quantify how much it's easie
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by fedeb95 4y ago
In that case a solution may be dropping grades altogether, exchanging them with some kind of written comment. This way "grades" can't be compared. Ultimately if you think about it, grades imply that knowledge can be measured,
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by fedeb95 4y ago
What the article doesn't mention, and that I have only anecdotical evidence for, is classes becoming easier. What may cause what is unclear, but probably it's a system so complex that pinpointing a single cause is hard
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by fedeb95 4y ago
This is a serious problem that I think is more widespread than just Harvard or the US. Schools giving higher votes necessarily compress the variance with mean toward the high bound. The real problem is that everything becomes too much sensi
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by fedeb95 4y ago
This is a very good post if you like to live in a society where the way of talking is highly stereotyped and interesting conversations are almost missing.
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by fedeb95 4y ago
Is that even a paper? Which advancement does it make for science apart cosmetic terminology? Language doesn't define reality, if you study linguistics just a little bit. Sadly today the exact opposite is pushed forward by a lot of enti
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by fedeb95 4y ago
Just don't make your life revolve only around software development. Try to limit at the necessary extra hours, knowing that yes, they may boost your career for a while, but they both diminish your work quality and get you closer to bur
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by fedeb95 4y ago
I'm speaking as an amateur reader of QM things. This approach may be useful to someone using QM. But for someone wondering about the world, it is not. The question remains: which model that describes nature better than QM we will have
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by fedeb95 4y ago
What survives best is something that gains from stress, like culture. To make a specific part of it survive frozen in time, it's still better to make different copies of it. The Rosetta Stone survived out of luck, many more pieces of i
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by fedeb95 4y ago
Well, some claim to have it. I think it can be true, until it isn't
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by fedeb95 4y ago
I'm not downvoting you for sure, given I share your sentiment. However some stocks may exhibit some persistence (as in Hurst exponent > 0.5) so some gambles may be worth taking, in the right proportions (very small). I am also wary
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by fedeb95 4y ago
Do you have other investments you hold that you feel comfortable sharing?
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by fedeb95 4y ago
Yes, robotics and automation is an interesting field

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