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Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 02:08:34 +0900
From: Vester Thacker <vester.thacker@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] the futility of #plan9 on irc
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On 5/25/05, William Josephson <jkw@eecs.harvard.edu> wrote:
> 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.
>=20
> 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.

But the question really is then, is the service worth the risk?

-vester