a list of known games and tested "well-behaving" codes

the really fun part was exploring building your own codes and how/why they worked or didn't

can they at least fix the interstate highway exits it thinks are splits? why do I need to be told to keep left at random exits?

double-check it on openstreetmap.org

It’s correct on there (and if it weren’t, I could fix it).

hundreds of people in my city-county really think they live in a city in the next county over just because of the "city" label on their zip code

the rule for FG/XP attempts is for the safety of the long snapper, not the kicker

Right, but if the kicker needs to move further back in response, the tactic doesn't work anymore so the snapper is safe as well.

I've had this happen when booking directly with an IHG hotel. My reservation in their system said I had a 2x queen room, but the hotel's end showed 1x king.

> Batteries included.

this is the Python standard library motto

we've been searching for blood biomarkers for cancer for decades -- I'm sure we've found several by now

32 whistleblowers in the last 3 years

That’s a lot of assassinations! I bet Boeing gets a volume discount.

I assume he meant there were 32, of which those two died, not 32 died.

If 32 died, ok, they're killing people. If 2/32 died, that's within the realm of possibility.

Yes, it is 2 dead out of 32 total [1].

We can ballpark these odds relatively easily. Dean was 45 and Barnett was 62. Let's assume they are somewhat representative of the average whistleblower and the average whistleblower is in average health. Let's use the standard government actuarial tables[2] and assume the average age is 56 just to make the math easier since the odds of a single 56 year old dying in a given year is roughly 1%. The odds of at least 1 of the 32 dying would be 28% and the odds of 2 dying would be 4%. Unlikely enough to be suspicious, but not unlikely enough to be anything close to the smoking gun that some are suggesting.

[1] - https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2024/4/19/boeing-subject-o...

[2] - https://www.ssa.gov/oact/STATS/table4c6.html

Wouldn't it be fair to distinguish between the baseline probability of any death, and the baseline probability of a death that could plausibly be suspicious, such as gunshot suicide?

Sure, this was back of the napkin math and there will be plenty of ways to improve it. The problem is that the more details you add, the more difficult it will be to find actual numbers to put on these things as opposed to using the above actuarial tables if we lump all deaths together.

And for what it is worth, one of these deaths would be in the "suspicious" category and one wouldn't.

Usually below 5% chance is considered statistically significant.

I always love people who actually do the math.

I think that would be a statistical mistake to cherry-pick the cutoff like that. What would be the argument for ignoring the X months/years beforehand in which no one died?

If I asked you for the odds of the next three coin tosses being heads, you don't start counting on the first heads. The first toss being tails is a possible outcome that can't be ignored.

That is an excellent point. Maybe the math has to be using the average length of time the whistleblowers have been 'out' as it were. That could plausibly end up being several years, which pushes the 1:32 number a lot closer to 'certain' and the 2:32 number way up into entirely plausible.

Thank you!

> If 2/32 died

Also his isn't quite correct. John Barnett (first death) left Boeing in 2017 and his whistle blowing did not occur within the last 3 years. The 32 complaints stat is for the last 3 years.

Also it's not even clear if the most recent death (Josh Dean) would be included in those stats. He worked for Spirit and claims that he reported improperly drilled holes in the 737 Max fuselage and that nothing was done. The claim would probably be against Spirit not Boeing. It's being reported in the media as Boeing, but in paperwork it would probably be against Spirit.

People should stop and do some very serious investigation about a company that has 32 whistleblowers just in the last 3 years....

Stop what? The very serious investigations that are happening?

Out of how many wistleblowers? How does that compare to other people with the same demographics?

(I can't edit or delete anymore but see the sibling comments. 32 is the total, not the dead.)

Where did you get that number?

Where did you get that number from? Do you have links?

the government still uses them