It’s the same reason that facial recognition has more false positives for people with more melanin in their skin.

This is not the real reason. It’s because camera tech from more than 10 years ago was worse than today and had trouble with anything less than ideal lighting conditions. Darker textures reflect less light, so the darker someone’s skin the less details a camera can see.

However we’re still talking about a 0.001 FMR for white men to a 0.002 FMR for black men. That’s “2x more false matches” but it’s a 0.001 difference.

With modern cameras and recent facial recognition tech, the issue in differences of skin colour is virtually non-existent. Yes, I know of the news stories about false arrests in recent years, but no tech is perfect and you’re talking about a few instances out of billions.

No, I’m not defending the use of the tech, just pointing out facts.

I read your comment. You basically repeated back what I said.

As for “not actually anything extra reliability”, that’s not true. This is literally the definition of all your eggs in one basket. If all these services were instead spread out amongst smaller providers, there wouldn’t have even been any news about it because it would have affected just a few services. But instead half the internet went down.

Even one of the applications I manage was down because of a single RTE npm dependency used on the forms. This is when we discovered that the npm module wasn’t bundling the whole thing but in fact dynamically pulling the js from a CDN hosted on AWS, because our prod instances kept erroring out for everyone (No, I did not write this application and I’m already replacing the dependency).

The argument isn’t about spending thousands for a lateral shift in reliability, the argument is to decouple everything from a single failure point.

NM, I had it in my head that absolute zero is -253.15, but it’s -273.15

Did you read my entire comment? I know it’s more than one sentence, but your entire comment would be irrelevant if you read the whole thing.

How many R’s in strawberry?

That would break physics (assuming you’re using Celsius)

Can you name a more reliable alternative?

Stop using hyperscalers. Then when an outage does occur, it doesn’t take down half the internet, and instead only affects a much smaller subset of services.

How many people in your city know what self-hosting even is, though?

WAAAAAY more than you’re giving credit for

I’ve decided people need to learn the hard way

Bold of you to assume people will learn. Didn’t you hear about that couple whose kids died from measles and they said afterwards that they still feel their decision to not vaccinate the kid was right.

Then it’ll only be available on enterprise editions pretty soon. Home and Professional will have it removed.

They’re tech entertainers, and Linus is the clown jester.

There’s an actual prayer at the end of that article.

Edit: nm, it was quoting a prayer from one of the farmers at the meeting

Too bad they ended funding for suicide hotlines.

I forgot about that. IIRC, Canada had setup some new hotline to help Americans or something along those lines.

so it’s not like a stopped clock being almost right makes up for his bullshit.

Nice try, Jessica

Where did I show any hatred for China? Are you confusing criticism of the “Dear Leader” with hatred towards the country and its people? Maybe that implication was deliberate on your part.

Xi doesn’t hold a monopoly on corruption

to avoid the state from falling into corrupt hands

That’s decades too late

I don’t think that’s necessarily a bad idea.

No, this is a bad idea. It’s a terrible idea.

What you said is like saying “well, I need surgery, having the monkey from the forest come at me with a knife is better than nothing.”

Microsoft has proven themselves over and over to be the last company you should trust with your data. Even recently they’ve been responsible for losing a life’s worth of data because of OneDrive

They’re already uploading people’s data off of their computers to OneDrive without consent, then deleting the local copies.

Plus their tech work culture is lacking. When they screwed something up with Office 365 and Outlook wasn’t available for over 18 hours (for basically the whole world), their response was a tweet that it’s fixed.

Whereas CloudFlare messed up something for only an hour, they released a comprehensive breakdown on their blog of what happened, what the root cause was, and what they’re going to do to prevent it from happening again.

Which company seems reliable to you?

My simple rule is that if it uses a neural network model of some kind, then it can be accurately called AI.

Ya, I knew there were analogue “upscalers”, but I’m not familiar enough with them to confidently call them an upscaler vs a signal converter.