Death Note: L, Anonymity and Eluding Entropy (2011)gwern.net93 points·by teej·5 months ago·23 comments
teej·4 months ago·discussPasskeys are auth garbage. Normal users do not benefit from overly complex auth.
teej·5 months ago·discussI’ve used AWS for almost 20 years and I can tell you it’s more stable than Azure
teej·6 months ago·discussThe food pyramid was published by the department of agriculture, it’s always been propaganda.
teej·7 months ago·discussEasier to skim 1000 flies from a single drum than 100 flies from 100 bowls of soup.
teej·7 months ago·discussIt doesn't sound like your firm does any diligence that would actually prevent you from buying a vendor that has security flaws.
teej·9 months ago·discusspg_ system tables aren’t built for direct consumption. You typically have to massage them quite a bit to measure whatever statistic you need.
teej·8 years ago·discussI always found this talk on the subject fascinating:Predicting a Billboard Music Hit with Shazam Data - Cait O'Riordan (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcTPvxo8SXY)
teej·10 years ago·discussAWS-cli only really got robust S3 support in the last 18 months or so. For a long time it couldn't handle multipart uploads and didn't support a bunch of corner cases (versioning, glacier, cross-account, etc)