Agreed. Problem isn’t timed rollout but lack of automated rollback. If you don’t have one don’t do this. The automated rollback should look for acceptable error rates, latency etc.
> This release increases the major version number to 5. This change does not mean anything and does not affect programs in any way, it just makes Linus happy.
Gotta bump it sometime, although the fact that the major version is now fairly arbitrary gives some credibility to what I like to call the "Chrome" versioning scheme. Next release, Linux 6, 7, 8, etc.
EDIT: I mean, at this point I guess you'd say it's just basically SemVer.
Those interested in How to Lie with Statistics may also enjoy Huff's other book, How to Lie with Smoking Statistics, commissioned by the tobacco industry in the 60s to fight the growing evidence that smoking causes cancer. It was never published, but I compiled the surviving manuscript and wrote about it: https://www.refsmmat.com/articles/smoking-statistics.html
I don't remember the attribution, but one of my favorite quotes goes something like: "There are lies, damned lies, and statistics." I think I first remember seeing it in the foreword of a chapter in the book "Against the Gods: the Remarkable Story of Risk" by Peter Bernstein
I'm fairly certain that most of my opening salvos in evaluating the quality of someone's charts come to me from people regurgitating Huff's book.
I'd put it in a class with Fred Brooks; dead obvious, but somehow needing to be constantly re-explained to a new group of people (or the same people at a later date).
There's a great book about this, Everything is Obvious (Once You Know The Answer) about how many scientific studies come up with obvious-seeming findings, but if they'd found the opposite, that would have seemed obvious to us too..
