turdas

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[–] turdas@suppo.fi 37 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

I hope you're right, but on the other hand let's not forget that Hitler started out by wooing the working class with socialist rhetoric, but got in bed with bankers and industry moguls as soon as enough of the working class was tricked into supporting him.

This is, in many ways, exactly what Trump has done too. His rhetoric was never socialist, but then the American working class has gone through 50 years of conditioning to ensure that capitalist rhetoric of a certain kind appeals to them more than socialist rhetoric.

[–] turdas@suppo.fi 13 points 4 weeks ago (7 children)

The teeth regrowth thing was only two years ago.

[–] turdas@suppo.fi 2 points 1 month ago

That makes sense, though I'd still be concerned about the nails breaking when having to manipulate wet (and therefore quite heavy) clothes.

[–] turdas@suppo.fi 29 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I'm supposed to believe they were somehow wearing gloves and dyeing clothes with those nails?

[–] turdas@suppo.fi 6 points 1 month ago

I mean, the number of logical qubits has gone from basically zero not too long ago to what it is now. The whole error correction thing has really only taken off in the past ~5 years. That Microsoft computer you mentioned that got 4 logical qubits out of 30 physical qubits represents a 3-fold increase over the apparently previous best of 12 logical qubits to 288 physical ones (published earlier the same year), which undoubtedly was a big improvement over whatever they had before.

And then the question is FOR WHAT? Dead people cant make use of quantum computers and dead people is what we will be if we dont figure out solutions to some much more imminent, catastrophic problems in the next 10 years.

Strange thing to say. There's enough people on the planet to work on more than one problem at a time. Useful quantum computing will probably help solve many problems in the future too.

[–] turdas@suppo.fi 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Even if it's 8 physical qubits to 1 logical qubit, 6100 qubits would get you 762 logical cubits.

All I'm saying is that the technology seems to be on a trajectory of the number of qubits improving by an order of magnitude every few years, and as such it's plausible that in another 5-10 years it could have the necessary thousands of logical qubits to start doing useful computations. Mere 5 years ago the most physical qubits in a quantum computer was still measured in the tens rather than the hundreds, and 10 years ago I'm pretty sure they hadn't even broken ten.

[–] turdas@suppo.fi 3 points 1 month ago (3 children)

We can only hope that Bitcoin gets pwned by quantum computers. It would be absolutely glorious.

[–] turdas@suppo.fi 12 points 1 month ago (4 children)

There was a paper recently about a stable 6100-qubit system, so the trajectory is plausible. If 1399 qubits is needed for 2048-bit Shor's, this would already meet that by a wide margin -- though obviously this is a research system that AFAIK cannot do actual computations.

https://www.livescience.com/technology/computing/quantum-record-smashed-as-scientists-build-mammoth-6-000-qubit-system-and-it-works-at-room-temperature

[–] turdas@suppo.fi 12 points 1 month ago (4 children)

The Dems in 2025 are the people who lost the presidency to the most incompetent man in the world. Twice. I do not think it's smart to trust them to be the stewards of what seems to be shaping up to be the primary resistance movement.

[–] turdas@suppo.fi 23 points 1 month ago (3 children)

The article here doesn't look to me to be advocating dividing people up, but rather making sure the movement is not controlled by the Democrats. Democrats should be part of it, not in charge of it.

[–] turdas@suppo.fi 24 points 1 month ago (28 children)

The Democrats are a rich people party too. They're not your friends, they're just the lesser evil.

[–] turdas@suppo.fi 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I don't know what TTY7 is, but if I had to guess I'd say Plymouth, which is the graphical loading screen that covers the boot messages.

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