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points by viraptor 7 hours ago | 0 comments
Author's comments are dead unfortunately so I'll repost w fragment from them here:

> It's not about memory safety per se. It's about not losing an hour of analysis because a malformed .sav file or a zero-variance sample triggered a segfault or silent wrong output. SPSS crashes on bad data.

[–] solyin 7 hours ago
Why not [vouch] the dead comment?
[–] viraptor 7 hours ago
I've done some without any effect. I'm guessing there may be some sneaky moderation in play. I did email the mods though.