mcstafford

There may be room to improve in describing the undefinable?

Whose popularity do you champion, and what sorts of motive bring deservedness in to the discussion?

:-) Delicious irony

I suspect science has had more to do with the reduction than superstitions like jinxes.

> Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do. -- Isaac Asimov

Useful discussion is an interesting scope for someone with the broad, in-depth knowledge of a vast array of subjects he demonstrates in the linked essay.

You make a decent point. There's a clear limitation... but a clearly worded prompt often produces more valuable content than an SEO optimized guess article.

The vulnerability sounds like it's inherent to SQL Server, and that cloud providers haven't been successful in blocking the underlying problem due to its proprietary nature.

Presenting it as a Cloud SQL problem is disingenuous.

I'm a little curious, but haven't heard a word of what you're referring to. A quick search for 'atoms stalled' didn't result in anything that felt helpful.

Do you have a link that would clarify?

One thing we seem to have discovered is that absolute randomness is harder than it might first seem.

Your idea combines what feels like a significant percentage of randomness while still having enough participation to rationalize buy-in.

It's tough to want to yield control of an important choice to a random number generator... though that's not an inaccurate description for this.

I like this as a perspective on "the illusion of choice". Part of me hates the phrase because I want to believe that I can take meaningful action.