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Re:Benchmarking C++ Allocators by pizlonator on Monday April 27, 2020 @05:21PM (#23000179)
I don’t consider appeals to authority when thinking about technical issues.
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Re:Benchmarking C++ Allocators by jlebar on Monday April 27, 2020 @05:31PM (#23000316)
This isn't an appeal to authority. It's a suggestion that we consider the possibility that they are not wasting their time on make-work.

This is Bayesian logic (our prior is that the systems engineers at Google are not incompetent), not an appeal to anything.

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Re:Benchmarking C++ Allocators by pizlonator on Monday April 27, 2020 @06:01PM (#23000622)
Just because someone isn’t incompetent doesn’t mean that we should assume they are right. Highly competent people are often wrong. Questioning things is good.
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Re:Benchmarking C++ Allocators by jlebar on Monday April 27, 2020 @07:12PM (#23001275)
> Questioning things is good.

HN could indeed use more epistemic uncertainty and gray (vs black-and-white) thinking.

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