Death Note: L, Anonymity and Eluding Entropy (2011)gwern.net93 points·by teej·hace 5 meses·23 comments
teej·hace 4 meses·discussPasskeys are auth garbage. Normal users do not benefit from overly complex auth.
teej·hace 5 meses·discussI’ve used AWS for almost 20 years and I can tell you it’s more stable than Azure
teej·hace 6 meses·discussThe food pyramid was published by the department of agriculture, it’s always been propaganda.
teej·hace 7 meses·discussEasier to skim 1000 flies from a single drum than 100 flies from 100 bowls of soup.
teej·hace 7 meses·discussIt doesn't sound like your firm does any diligence that would actually prevent you from buying a vendor that has security flaws.
teej·hace 9 meses·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·hace 8 años·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·hace 10 años·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)