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  • Zozano@lemy.loltolinuxmemes@lemmy.worldBackdoors
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    6 months ago

    For the uninitiated, this is a representation of the Survivorship Bias.

    Essentially, the red dots represent bullet holes from aircraft which returned from battle.

    If you were to ask someone which places should be reinforced with armour, someone who has the Survivorship Bias would say “where the red dots are”, whereas people who know anything about engineering would say “everywhere else!”

    It’s like saying: “why are you wearing a helmet? I’ve met hundreds of soldiers and none of them have ever been shot in the head, helmets are a waste of good armour.”

    A true fact: Did you know wearing a helmet increases your chances of dying of cancer.



  • Most people in this thread don’t get it.

    You know how some people compete to see who can get Doom to run on the craziest platforms, like a calculator?

    Installing Arch with the fewest packages is like that. There’s something oddly satisfying about stripping everything back to the most basic level - to make things work for you within the most constrictive environment you enforce for yourself.

    It’s like eating a spicy shellfish dinner and super gluing your asshole closed.