There’s a good 3blue1brown video that walks through the actual math they can perform, which does a lot to temper expectations about what they can accomplish and how much of an improvement they would be over digital computers for certain types of problems.
Here’s the YouTube link, or search for “But What Is Quantum Computing? (Grover’s Algorithm)” on your preferred front-end: https://youtu.be/RQWpF2Gb-gU
Every other genus: “We don’t want her either.”
Their best and brightest were fired or retired.
One thing I’ve learned as a socialist is that there is always a purity test by people who consider themselves purer socialists.
Karl Marx himself could post on here and people would accuse him of being a neoliberal stooge.
The images are being generated by editing photos of real children. It’s not fictional characters. This is discussed in the article and has been widely reported as this issue has been in the news.
You can also set a group policy to allow no updates at all except when you approve and download them manually.
Ridiculous that you need the group policy manager for the basic setting of “don’t put shit on my PC without asking,” but here we are.
Moore’s New Law: The price doubles and the stock halves
The third line of a haiku is traditionally meant to show a turn or a surprise element, so this is a fine haiku indeed.
U.S. law enforcement is out of control with this animorphs shit.
He sold a money-losing business with massive untapped potential to be a psyop to someone with infinite money and a desire for a psyop.
Fucking great deal for both of them. Fucked in the ass for the rest of us.
Pay for it all over again every 365 days, because now everything is a subscription and you’re not allowed to own even a permanent license to your software, let alone the software itself.
I would note that every single time I’ve tried to reactivate windows after a mobo or CPU upgrade, it has failed.
I guess it’s supposed to work better if you sign into your Microsoft account ever, which I don’t, because I see literally no reason they would need me to expect to advance spyware and adware.
The phone activation is the only thing that has worked. Good thing I’ve been dual booting a Ubuntu fork for the past six months. I guess after my next hardware upgrade I’ll be Linux only.
It’s a shit ouroboros, Randy!
I just had a little magnetic clip for my air vent where I could attach my phone and put up a map.
I’d sooner go back to doing that than use a “Gemini-based AI assistant” in my fucking car.
Holy shit, yes. You can watch leftist content for years, but heaven forbid you watch one gaming-related video and it assumes you’re an alt-right racist gamergate incel.
I have 16 GB in my 2014 laptop that still serves as my daily driver. 8 GB twelve years later is a joke.
Have you ever tried it? It sounds like a ping nightmare, especially for multiplayer. You gotta wait first for the game server lag and then again while you wait for Nvidia to remotely render your draw call?
I know this service exists but it has always sounded absolutely terrible to me.
And this is combined with cutting Blackwell production by 40% and exacerbating a market already dominated by scalpers and AI data centers. Everything is getting enshittified, subscription just one component of it.
I’ve always held out for PCMR but these companies are making it near impossible - or just prohibitively expensive - to be a PC gamer.
What do you have against the British overseas territory of Anguilla? Ultra-specific geographical prejudice.