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you pick a frequency you want, represent that as a fraction, and modulo on user id, and your 80% of the way there

This gives you a distribution unrelated to active use, puts users in the same bucket (with the same number you’re going to have the same users in the first 10%) and links combinations together.

Often problems are more complex than they seem at first sight and I have found it’s a good approach to think “what am I missing” rather than “lots of people must be making very obviously bad decisions” and reach the latter conclusion only after more work. Usually I’ve missed something.


> This gives you a distribution unrelated to active use

Is that a problem?

> puts users in the same bucket (with the same number you’re going to have the same users in the first 10%) and links combinations together.

Are you trying to do a bunch of separate staged rollouts at the same time?

> Often problems are more complex than they seem at first sight and I have found it’s a good approach to think “what am I missing” rather than “lots of people must be making very obviously bad decisions” and reach the latter conclusion only after more work. Usually I’ve missed something.

They said it gets you 80% of the way there, and that seems fitting with the replies they got.


> Is that a problem?

Yes! Are you totally missing some countries, did you set it to try and hit 20% but it’s actually 60% of traffic, does it happen to include some VIP type users, how does it impact the thing you’re trying to measure while you do this?

Do you give qa user ids in the right ranges to get applied and non applied views?

Even then you’re not able to get specific combinations.

> Are you trying to do a bunch of separate staged rollouts at the same time?

That would be very common yes, otherwise a staged rollout can be a big blocker.

But more than that it means there’s one user who always gets the beta testing of everything for example.

I think it’s a lot below 80%, really.


This just tells me you haven’t worked on a big/complex enough system.

If it were that easy people would not be paying for it.


Assuming you want a random distribution and don't want to take any other attributes into account.

We're a small company but new feature release for big features is typically targeted at low risk users/customers first. That usually means a few attributes are taken into account (age, customer value, customer sentiment, which features they use)


I would argue that is a net positive, it is valuable to know if a language model was involved enough to be committing itself.


+1, it definitely changes the way I interact, and the amount of suspicion I would have for the code.


This is real. I do not have access to the path of reasoning, this ran through the GitHub copilot app which does not grant you access to the chain of thought.


I don't know how Raycast could run on the GitHub servers, but a third option could be dataset poisoning. Hostile raycast advertising campaign


funny enough I have a page just for tracking this also https://notes.zachmanson.com/microsoft-product-names/


Sometimes writing can both contain information and be beautiful? This article is charming and thoughtful. Its style may not be for everyone, but for me it really hit, I am thoroughly enjoying reading it. Its style gives me no problem calling it prose.

A person writing an essay on their own site doesn't need to have the information density of bus timetable.


The quality difference between Andor and The Mandalorian is so stark that I don't even think they are comparable. The Convert is a fine episode I guess, but next to Andor it's amateur.

Andor is prestige TV. The Mandolorian feels like a childrens show by comparison.

If you think The Convert was good, please, please watch Andor.


This is hilariously weak. "over a dozen have become active cases" is so low it made me laugh given how much insider trading happens on these platforms. This post is actually pathetic


Its not about the format its about the audience


I'll do this on my projects when US sites start doing this on theirs


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