Monday, December 09
Daily News Stuff 9 December 2019
The O(n2) Is Not Enough Edition
The Egon's grandkids rumour was accurate, it appears.
The O(n2) Is Not Enough Edition
Tech News
- Ugh. Closed my entire browser window by mistake. Fortunately it's a slow news day and I only had two items written.
- Dawson's First Law of Computing. (Random ASCII)
O(n2) is the sweet spot of badly scaling algorithms: fast enough to make it into production, but slow enough to make things fall down once it gets there.
- Verizon has suspended the accounts of volunteer archivists working to preserve Yahoo Groups. (ZDNet)
That's just petty.
- Twenty small VPS providers are coincidentally shutting down all at once. (ZDNet)
This is why I back all our data up to a different server at a different company on a different continent. If you can't do that, choose Amazon. They're not going anywhere, and they have virtual servers starting at $3.50 per month.
- Speaking of O(n2): Donald Knuth has completed work on section one of volume 4B of The Art of Computer Programming. (InformIT)
This section by itself is 400 pages.
- Which group will Twitter ban next? Looks like sex workers have filled in their bingo card for January 1. (The Next Web)
Twitter isn't banning adult content. They're just banning accounts dedicated to adult content - "if the majority of your activity on Twitter is sharing sensitive media".
I can see a simple solution to that.
- Meanwhile free-speech absolutists Gab have gone full Northern Conservative Fundamentalist Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1912. It has to be seen to be believed.
Video of the Day
The Egon's grandkids rumour was accurate, it appears.
Bonus Video of the Day
(Hat tip Brickmuppet.)
Disclaimer: Doggone-it, Roy Gene! How many times do I have to 'splain it to you? When I tell you to put a rock under the wheel, I mean a rock! Now look at that, what you have there is no bigger'n a grapefruit.
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Yeehah! I'm visible at least twice in that movie trailer!
Posted by: Kayle at Tuesday, December 10 2019 03:29 AM (magRz)
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Currently twitter is hiding all my analytics, and claiming it's some kind of error.
Two days ago I was running into their latest form of censorship, not allowing comments on any other tweets in a thread.
Two days ago I was running into their latest form of censorship, not allowing comments on any other tweets in a thread.
Posted by: Mauser at Tuesday, December 10 2019 01:33 PM (Ix1l6)
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