Curious to know how this possibly made it to the front of HN.
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johnnyballgame commented on NIST ion clock sets new record for most accurate clock nist.gov/news-events/news... · Posted by u/voxadam
Nope, it is not.
A single measurement cannot be precise. Precision is a measure of how close multiple measurements are to one another. Accuracy is how close a single measurement is to its true value.
A clock that can measure a point in time to 19 decimal places with respect to its true value is accurate.
What is that true value? And was it accurate?
johnnyballgame commented on NIST ion clock sets new record for most accurate clock nist.gov/news-events/news... · Posted by u/voxadam
Does it come with a snooze button?
johnnyballgame commented on How to Delete Your 23andMe Data eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03... · Posted by u/hn_acker
I just can't understand who in their right mind, and is even remotely concerned about the privacy of their personal information, would upload their own DNA to a business. An internet-based one at that. Lemmings, I tell ya.
johnnyballgame commented on The 8-Bit Era's Weird Uncle: The TI-99/4A bumbershootsoft.wordpress... · Posted by u/rbanffy
I loved my little TI-99/4A...
I used to lay down in the living room and transcribe BASIC from COMPUTE! magazine into it, and customize them, and that's how I learned to program.
Same here. I specifically remember staying home "sick" from school just so I could transfer those COMPUTE! programs from paper to screen and eventually to cassette tape! Still have the entire setup except for the 13" Montgomery Ward TV it was connected to. I owe my entire tech career to my parents buying me that little TI from Shopko in 1983.
johnnyballgame commented on How about trailing commas in SQL? peter.eisentraut.org/blog... · Posted by u/ingve
Trailing commas are stupid no matter what language they are in.
johnnyballgame commented on Red Hat and Microsoft Bringing RHEL to WSL phoronix.com/news/Red-Hat... · Posted by u/mikece
That's nice. What about Slackware?