Human folly for 02023-09-25

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• Hoares rebuttal bubble Sorts comeback (blog.reverberate.org):

  #performance of #quicksort on current hardware improves with, among other things, branchless bubble #sorting #algorithms instead of insertion sort, which is damned surprising

• Sorting network (en.wikipedia.org):

  #sorting 16 items by comparisons takes at least 55 comparisons and at least 9 stages of comparisons (which requires 60 comparisons)

• Authentication on meet JIT Si (jitsi.org):

  #Jitsi no longer allows anonymous meetings. “Starting on August 24th, we will no longer support the anonymous creation of rooms on meet.jit.si, and will require the use of an account (we will be supporting Google, GitHub and Facebook for starters but may modify the list later on.” #privacy #security