TootSweet @ TootSweet @lemmy.world

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Imagine this conversation in the IT department at a large bank:

IT Manager: It's what?!

Security Engineer: Gone. It's all gone. Every red cent this bank held in every account has been transferred by malicious actors to anonymous Swiss accounts.

IT Manager: How could we have let this happen?

Security Engineer: The hackers got approval to install PuTTY. There was nothing we could do.

Reality has a well-known liberal bias.

• Stephen Colbert

I always liked rtorrent back in the day. It was a looooong time ago that I last used it, though. I'm not sure if it supports magnets, or that it's even still maintained.

When you lose small mind you free your life.

I can think of specific instances where I've done each of these roles in my software engineering job:

• Tech support
• Sysadmin
• DevOps
• QA (oh do I have a story about this one)
• Management
• Release management
• Agile coach
• Security engineer/pen tester
• Compliance
• Custodian

As well as customer relations. I don't know that I've ever done much product management, though.

They were marketing The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (though not by name, because it didn't have a name yet) before the WiiU was released. And they strung everybody along until after the Switch was released.

Fuckers! I was an early adopter of the WiiU because "well, I'll for sure want one when the WiiU exclusive Zelda title comes out."

Not always. Just usually.

That's what "they go low, we go high" translates to from Hillary's native tongue.

Watch out for scams

...such as Bitcoin.

I wonder how it tastes with concentrated virus sample topping.

TIL Linus is capable of decency. Occasionally.

Ok, I'll be the first to ask.

• Does your phobia of nudity extend to others being nude? If so, does that include people not in person? (People you're on the phone with or texting with? Recordings or photographs of strangers in the nude like artistic nudes and such?)
• Do you consider yourself to be on the asexual spectrum?
• Do you bathe/shower regularly?

You're a wonderful, valid, entire person who can't be well described by just this one thing. But it's interesting to get a peek into what's unique and different about folks' internal experience of the world. Also, don't feel like you have to answer anything you don't want to.

Legally, at least in the U.S. (though I hear not in Japan?), if you're sued on a defamation case (slander or libel), if you can prove that what you said was true, that's an ironclad defense.

I think it's fair to say that you can't necessarily know if something you've said about something was ethically acceptable until it's certain whether what you said was true or not. If you say something about someone that you aren't 100% sure is true, then whether it's ok for you to have said that can't really be known until the truth or falsehood of the assertion is certain.

You've heard of hot yoga...

Who are you?

But the bonus to AC is so nice...

Assuming they ever even sell a million of them before ending production.

You don't think there's anything magical about the number "a million", though, correct? Just "enough to form a sufficiently good sample size" (whatever your threshold might be.)

Are you a fan of Tesla?

I’m a fan of rational thought processes and statistics...

I can't help but notice you dodged my question.

So, Wikipedia says the Ford Pinto sold 3,173,491 units. This article says there were 27 Ford Pinto fatalities. The article also says the Cybertruck sold 34,000 units and there have been 5 fatalities.

Your point 2 aside, you're not trying to argue that (5/34,000) / (27/3,173,491) isn't approximately 17, right?

(Again, point 2 aside) is your point that 5 deaths (or rather 4 deaths if you don't count the guy from point 2) out of 34,000 units isn't a big enough sample size to draw conclusions and that you think it's likely that as more units are sold, the rate won't stay that high and over time the data will average out to a fatality rate less than that of the Ford Pinto?

One more question if I may. Are you a fan of Tesla?

a fatality rate of 14.5 percent per 100,000 units.

Tell me you don't understand statistics without telling me you don't understand statistics.

It's clear they meant "14.5 per 100,000 units" because later they call that "17 times" the Ford Pinto's fatality rate of "0.85 per 100,000 units". 14.5 divided by 0.85 is 17.06, so very close to "17 times."

But that "percent" is just randomly thrown in there and is largely meaningless.

(Taking it as literally as it could possibly be taken, one could say it meant "0.145 per 100,000 units". But again, from the context in the rest of the article, it's clear that's not what they meant as that's not "17 times" 0.85.)

Somehow reminds me of this Zalgo comic: