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mimermeon The Yin and Yang of Programming

Iteration is not the Yang it is bloat. There is no such thing as iteration, only head and tail recursion. May we pray to God for forgiveness from our sins.

mimermeon 0-click deanonymization attack targeting Signal, Discord, other platforms

very impressive findings

mimermeon Ross Ulbricht granted a full pardon

private intelligence still has a few ways to go before whistleblowers don't have all their rights stripped by the state

mimermeon Facial recognition: It’s time for action

Enabling third-party testing and comparisons.New laws should also require that providers of commercial facial recognition services enable third parties engaged in independent testing to conduct and publish reasonable tests of their facial recognition services for accuracy and unfair bias. A sensible approach is to require tech companies that make their facial recognition services accessible using the internet also make available an application programming interface or other technical capability suitable for this purpose.

Does anyone else find this interesting? Is Microsoft trying to keep their facial recognition algorithm on top by comparing their's to others'?

mimermeon SEC Sues Musk and Seeks Ban for His Tweets on Go-Private Deal

Does anyone else find it amazing that these days social media posts are becoming official government documentation? Who would've thought that the very platforms where we once just shared pictures of cats are starting to run our our elections and stock markets.

mimermeon Beam – The World’s Most Advanced Router

Which of their claims are valid and which ones are pure marketing bs? It seems like their just shoving a VPN and HTTPS into a router

mimermeon TIC-80, a fantasy computer to learn programming

I've played around with the TIC-80 and I gotta say that the development environment is something that is enjoyable for small projects but larger projects are a headache.

mimermeon Vitalik Buterin Has Left VC Firm Fenbushi Capital

It's mentioned in the BTC whitepaper.

https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf

Scroll to section 7 "Reclaiming Disk Space"

mimermeon Netflix: What Happens When You Press Play?

I think this is another case of "your not really supposed to...but it works ¯\_(ツ)_/¯"

For your first point, I think it depends on your usage scenario. With a big company that requires good performance to satisfy their users, like Netflix, having multiple regions is a given. But what the article probably missed is that they also most likely use AZs within the same region to mitigate failures, but since they have multiple regions at hand why not use them to mitigate failures as well? And their monthly tests are a simulation of a worst case scenario if an entire region goes down.

As for autoscaling I also think that people think of it as a magic solution. More users? Autoscale. Zone down? Autoscale. But the problem arises when they think that it's instant because it isn't. Things have to happen behind the scenes, but for many people, they only care about what happens on stage, so for them configuring autoscale is just better because it's easier than load balancing on 3 different AZs.