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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • While in general, I’d agree, look at the damage a single false paper on vaccination had. There were a lot of follow up studies showing that the paper is wrong, and yet we still have an antivax movement going on.

    Clearly, scientists need to be able to publish without fear of reprisal. But to have no recourse when damage is done by a person acting in bad faith is also a problem.

    Though I’d argue we have the same issue with the media, where they need to be able to operate freely, but are able to cause a lot of harm.

    Perhaps there could be some set of rules which absolve scientists of legal liability. And hopefully those rules are what would ordinarily be followed anyway, and this be no burden to your average researcher.


  • Taking 89.3% men from your source at face value, and selecting 12 people at random, that gives a 12.2% chance (1 in 8) that the company of that size would be all male.
    Add in network effects, risk tolerance for startups, and the hiring practices of larger companies, and that number likely gets even larger.

    What’s the p-value for a news story? Unless this is some trend from other companies run by Musk, there doesn’t seem to be anything newsworthy here.









  • For microcontrollers, quite often. Mainly because visibility is quite poor, you’re often trying to do stupid things, problems tend to be localized, and JTAG is easier than a firmware upload.

    For other applications, rarely. Debuggers help when you don’t understand what’s going on at a micro level, which is more common with less experience or when the code is more complex due to other constraints.

    Applications running in full fledged operating systems often have plenty of log output, and it’s trivial to add more, formatted as you need. You can view a broad slice of the application with printouts, and iteratively tune those prints to what you need, vs a debugger which is better suited for observing a small slice of the application.