[TUHS] Death by bug [formerly The Unix shell: a 50-year view]

Jon Steinhart jon at fourwinds.com
Sun Jul 11 02:57:18 AEST 2021


Ralph Corderoy writes:
> Hi Henry,
>
> > I'm going to come right out ahead of any path to the contrary and say
> > that I'm in favor of the lockdowns that were enacted in the US.
>
> Death-by-bug is OT enough for TUHS to begin with, though ‘entertaining’.
> Can we try and keep the thread to that together with any argument for
> why a bug caused net deaths.
>
> -- 
> Cheers, Ralph.

C'mon folks, is it really that hard to have a relevant subject line?
Especially you Ralph, as I know that you're an nmh user so it's just
a text editor :-)

So while I agree with your example, I guess that I was contemplating
the sort of example that makes the public take notice.  Arguments
about statistical models are lost on 99% of the population.

Jon



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