malf

This is why it annoys me when journalists say P!=NP is about scheduling flights.

If I leave other people’s stuff that I promised to take care of on the street and it gets stolen, I would be to blame.

> It's a solved problem on the CPU side of things

Is it? gestures at pile of cpu bugs

I always assumed you had to talk your way into some committee to submit one of these. Apparently it’s wide open. But why do it? Resume padding?

> common sense

75% of people surveyed drink coffee every day?

Some people may prefer that to “oh no, Steam did rm -rf $typo/“

This page tries to send expensive SMS messages.

“Using modern experiment frameworks, all 3 of ideas can be safely tested at once, using parallel A/B tests (see chart).”

Nooo! First, if one actually works, you’ve massively increased the “noise” for the other experiments, so your significance calculation is now off. Second, xkcd 882.

SO had a fairphone. Broke screen. Turned out the screen replacement module was vaporware.

Noob question: the Top type here is exactly the Node constructor of the stree type. It seems useful to declare a type that is “this ADT, but limited to these constructors”, but even Haskell seems to avoid it. Why?