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tl;dr:
The standard model of coin flipping was extended by Persi Diaconis [12] who proposed that when people flip a ordinary coin, they introduce a small degree of ‘precession’ or wobble—a change in the direction of the axis of rotation throughout the coin’s trajectory. According to the Diaconis model, precession causes the coin to spend more time in the air with the initial side facing up. Consequently, the coin has a higher chance of landing on the same side as it started (i.e., ‘same-side bias’).
"Higher chance" being 50.77% to land on the same side it started from. But this varies by person; apparently some people introduce more precession than others. But even if you could figure out how to do it reliably, I wouldn't bet the farm on it.
"Funding: my mom gave me the coins out of her car cupholder"
It's not, but it gets clicks.
If anything, vxworks is the secret one. Huge numbers of embedded devices run vxworks, but the only people who work with it are embedded systems developers.
Yeah I think so, but they've stopped providing security updates for it.
sites will have to verify the age of visitors, either by asking for government-issued documents or using biometric data, such as face scans, to estimate their age
Yeah, most sites are just going to block UK users. Dealing with personal data like that is a nightmare.
*protable
No, patent trolling is when you patent a bunch of stuff and make money by suing people instead of actually producing that product.
Filing complaints on behalf of someone you don't legally represent is fraud.
Yeah. Just because a tech company does something, that doesn't make it technology news. Call me when there's actual technologic development coming out.
It's not clickbait, it's just intentionally misleading at best, and factually wrong at worst. It's not ditching the minimal option, it's making it the default.
Usage data is important for developers to know how people use their software, so I'm okay with it. But given Red Hat's recent direction, I'm not sure I trust them to slowly increase the data being collected.
But I don't use Fedora and I've already moved off Red Hat/CentOS, so I don't have a horse in this race ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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wmassingham
joined 1 year ago
It's in the article: