Pivoting

Eric S. Raymond esr at thyrsus.com
Tue Apr 25 21:52:38 UTC 2017


Hal Murray <hmurray at megapathdsl.net>:
> 
> esr at thyrsus.com said:
> > Huh?  Why would it not be discarded as a falseticker?
> > Isn't this one of the cases outlier filtering is for? 
> 
> Because it's a 18 year old system and 3 out of 4 of the servers it was 
> configured with have been retired.  :)

We can't fix *that*, either.  All we can do is add a warning to the man pages
for NMEA-related drivers that if your GPS is older than 1024 weeks you may be
cruising for a bruising.  I think I'll go do that.
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