Oh holy shit that isn’t satire

Yeah, having been in a surprise proper emergency (no power, water, limited roads, cell service, etc for over a week) having some emergency supplies and a radio (if you have a car, AM/FM radio in that is great) completely changes things

https://theonion.com/no-way-to-prevent-this-says-only-nation-where-this-r-1848971668/

Yup! I think it’s definitely a play on love (愛, pronounced あい/ai)

あいあいがさ

Aiaigasa

That’s fair, Shor’s algorithm would probably break a bunch of older encryption. It’s a little further out of reach, in terms of feasibility but who knows how fast it could speed up

That’s how it’s been explained to me by laymen many many times. Just casually (ish, I have a math degree) looking at the math, chatting with a friend who is a quantum physicist, being involved with computers, etc I find that Grover’s Algorithm is not at all capable of something like that. I’m not sure there’s anything better in terms of breaking encryption

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grover's_algorithm

Grover’s algorithm could brute-force a 128-bit symmetric cryptographic key in roughly 264 iterations, or a 256-bit key in roughly 2128 iterations. It may not be the case that Grover’s algorithm poses a significantly increased risk to encryption over existing classical algorithms, however.[4]

I am stoked for what it could do for protein folding, or other heavy simulation work, but in terms of proper encryption I don’t believe it actually will change much.

Nah I’d put money on it being quantum computing. I think quantum has some neat applications, and the tech is cool as hell. But I think it’ll be sold like “this is gonna instantly transform business overnight” and people will try to sell quantum computing power

Nope. Motherboard SPDIF to (“dumb”) speakers. Can’t get the mobo SPDIF out to work in Mint.

I’m certain if I sink enough hours in I can figure something out but like 6 hours into troubleshooting this I decided I didn’t have the bandwidth to take 100% of my fun time away to do what feels like my job to me.

Man i wish Mint worked out of the box as well as virtually everyone on here says it does.

I am a former software engineer, and don’t want my home PC to be a hobby. I’m like 6 hours into trying to make my (simple) audio setup work on Mint Cinnamon and it’s intermittent at best. Never have even thought about it on Windows.

It is plug and play compared to Linux of old, it’s clearly come a long way. But it’s nowhere near as easy as Windows still, for anyone who isn’t trying to make this a hobby

It would be a pleasant surprise if that’s the worst thing the device did

I was just jokingly rederiving a train instead. I think automated cars is mostly really silly

The safety systems would work perfectly if the cars could communicate, or more robustly if they could be mechanically linked together for the “easy” (highway) portion of the drive. Imagine a lane with nose to tail cars all doing exactly the same thing. At exits (predefined stops) you could get off to change or stay on the same one. Put a little station there with bathrooms and food.

Maybe we could even replace that highway lane with steel tracks and the tires with steel wheels for lower friction.

Damn you just always re-derive the train

Looks like a fun festival! It’s a weird juxtaposition to see, I like it. I’ll find an æbleskiver stand eventually (more common in the winter) and snap a pic for comparison 🥳

Æbleskiver is plural, æbleskive would be singular. No s needed (but those look great!)

Oh Italian is going to be a bit easier with your Portuguese knowledge

What’s really neat about this problem is that the 3D example, a bird in a cage, was solved sooner and is much simpler

Just like how when flight was invented people couldn’t figure how to utilize it for a long time.

Or how when the cell phone or iphone came around no one could even find a good use case for a few decades.

Oh, people had thousands of uses for them lined up before the tech was even there? Hm. Surely we can brainstorm and force our way out of AI being a waste of money

Okay, I’ll ask the obvious. Why?

Our US one when we lived there: 1960s

Our Danish one now: 17… 50s? 60s? It’s hard to know