That’s animal abuse.
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The article is talking about "feedback loops" in some handwavy business-marketing-whatever bullshit advice sense.
Wut? Every desktop GUI framework in widespread use is some variant of MVC (i.e. MVC, MVVM, MVP, whatever…).
Never underestimate what a team of overly enthusiastic junior engineers are capable of :-)
On the other hand, JBIG2 doesn’t actually do OCR. It only does template matching of similar-looking blocks of pixels. The compressor doesn’t try to understand which letter those pixels represent.
Assuming infinite precision, sure.
Interestingly however, there's a closely related color space called YCoCg, that actually does achieve lossless coversion to/from RGB (this lossless variant is often referred to as YCoCg-R, the R stands for "reversible"): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YCoCg#The_lifting-based_YCoCg-...
JBIG2 is a format for storing black and white documents in a highly compressed way. It works by detecting each letter in the document, and then replacing it with a pointer to the reference version of that letter, up to a certain threshold. Basically compression via OCR.
Of course, this means that when a distorted letter is too close to the reference version of another letter, it will get replaced with a clean version of that incorrect one. So even though a human could easily recognize that something was off with that letter in the original image, the JBIG2-compressed image has no such clue!
What’s really bad is that JBIG2 compression was built into certain Xerox machines that were used by archivists to digitize important documents for years until someone noticed the discrepancies. JBIG2 was promptly banned for archival purposes, but there might still be a ton of documents with these kind of invisible errors in our archives! :-)
You forgot to mention that it’s from the Highway of Death, where US forces bombed a retreating iraqi vehicle column to ashes. The death toll was zero on the US side versus 1000-2000 on the iraqi side.
Which is completely unrelated to the other language called D, also known as DLang. (which was released 4 years earlier than DTrace by the way)