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From: William Josephson <jkw@eecs.harvard.edu>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] the futility of #plan9 on irc
Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 12:43:15 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050524164315.GA7530@mero.morphisms.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <32a656c2050524093932165200@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 01:39:12AM +0900, Vester Thacker wrote:
> It's a fact of life that people make mistakes. If we hit an 
> 85 percent accuracy rate then we are doing great. Most 
> weather forecasters don't do that well.

The thing is, if one doesn't know the answer, one
shouldn't make it up.  It doesn't take complicated
statistical models to figure out which kernels have
SCSI and which don't.


  reply	other threads:[~2005-05-24 16:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-05-23 11:27 Russ Cox
2005-05-23 12:18 ` Vester Thacker
2005-05-23 17:44   ` Bruce Ellis
2005-05-23 17:46     ` Rob Pike
2005-05-23 18:43       ` Tim Newsham
2005-05-24  4:41     ` Dan Cross
2005-05-23 12:22 ` Uriel
2005-05-23 15:55   ` jmk
2005-05-24  0:54   ` Country Joe
2005-05-23 23:33 ` Chris Collins
2005-05-23 23:57   ` andrey mirtchovski
2005-05-24  0:03     ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2005-05-24  0:12       ` andrey mirtchovski
2005-05-24  4:29       ` Tim Newsham
2005-05-24 15:19         ` Russ Cox
2005-05-24 16:39           ` Vester Thacker
2005-05-24 16:43             ` William Josephson [this message]
2005-05-24 17:08               ` Vester Thacker
2005-05-26  4:02               ` McLone
2005-06-19 11:41             ` Vester Thacker
2005-06-19 11:43               ` Vester Thacker
2005-05-24 21:07           ` Chris Collins
2005-05-24 21:18             ` Russ Cox
2005-05-25 16:42               ` David Leimbach
2005-05-25 16:58                 ` Bruce Ellis
2005-05-26  9:17                 ` Abhey Shah
2005-05-24 21:20             ` Dan Cross
2005-05-24 21:31               ` Jack Johnson
2005-05-24 21:54                 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2005-05-26  4:04               ` McLone
2005-05-26  4:19                 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2005-05-26  4:29                 ` Dan Cross
2005-05-24  4:46       ` Dan Cross
2005-05-24  5:29         ` Lucio De Re
2005-05-24  0:14   ` Skip Tavakkolian

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