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by ahelwer 5y ago
Convince me why I should want to contribute 10% of the money I earn every year to keep these countries I've never visited from being controlled by a different (in Ukraine, very slightly different) set of people. Also, as a bonus, for
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The military brass is never going to argue that the world is a safer place and they have no need of their obscene budget, come on. They happily manufacture whatever villains are necessary to get the goods.
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Our objective is to support the most humans with the least environmental impact, so yeah it does matter - unless you believe certain lives worldwide have more of a right to exist than others?
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Ah yes Russia, a state with an economy half the size of California, would dominate the world were it not for the US military incinerating a significant chunk of the world's fossil fuels. The USSR split up 30 years ago, time to update y
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You're defining "good" here to mean "effective at manipulating me to spend money", which is strange! I'd rather not be manipulated into buying things I didn't realize would finally fill the gaping hole ins
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It helps that that's where the money comes from.
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This problem is solved by learning the language of mathematics. The limits of our language are the limits of our world. When we learn the language of vectors obeying the 2-norm manipulated by unitary matrices and collapsing probabilisticall
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What a researcher prefers is different from how quantum programming languages are structured and how the mathematical model is taught: you have a state vector in superposition that is collapsed probabilistically to classical values on measu
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Glad you enjoyed! I do think the Deutsch Oracle problem is the closest thing to a "hello world" problem in quantum computing, or maybe more analogous to the "sum every value in a list of integers" problem in GPU programm
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It's possible some new paradigm will come along which makes the mathematical model of quantum computation obsolete and renders irrelevant the question of interpretation (QC uses naive Copenhagen by convention) but I wouldn't hold
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I made a lecture aimed at such people (I was such a person!), which has proven popular: https://youtu.be/F_Riqjdh2oM With a follow-up blog post focusing on entanglement: https://ahelwer.ca/post/2018-12-
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Quantum computing is difficult to explain because you have to learn a mathematical model to understand it. You cannot make use of metaphors & analogies to familiar references. Why? Because our language developed in a classical world. It
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How do you feel about 7zip's AES encryption functionality for files or sets of files?
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There is no strong separation between 3/4 of your categories. People freely move from financial misfortune to mental illness to drug abuse. I'm sure you have the empathy to imagine the toll being homeless takes on your mental heal
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Property-based testing requires you to define the condition of success or failure (the "property" you're testing for) too, right? Whereas fuzzing just looks for crashes?
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After lastpass's recent policy changes around free multi-device use, I finally decided to switch password management services. I don't really mind spending like $10/year for password management but lastpass was slow/bugg
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I have no idea why people believe NPR to be progressive. The joke name "Nice Polite Republicans" exists for a reason. Liberal news coverage of homeless issues rarely takes a progressive framing, anyway.
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Somewhat off-topic but I recently learned that people in the rust community call themselves rustaceans. I don't know the origin of that, but seems like a missed opportunity to call themselves rustlers: the old name for people who steal
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by ahelwer 5y ago
Not currently into mountain biking (I like the current structural integrity of my collarbones tyvm) - have ebikes revolutionized the sport? Seems like they'd increase accessibility by making the hard part (long arduous biking uphill to
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by ahelwer 5y ago
I don't have a thinkpad, but I like OpenHardwareMonitor for my computers: https://openhardwaremonitor.org/
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Absolutely. Corporations do things like this all the time. Amazon orders a crash-halt to office building construction projects whenever Seattle threatens to tax them, for example. As I said in my original comment - corporations can afford t
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Yes, that's what they said. There is no way to verify that. Punishing certain communities by withdrawing service to scare off future such wage increases is another explanation.
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This is quite common. Corporations know the long game and are willing to pay in the short term to get it. Another example is those grocery stores that closed last year after hazard pay was mandated at the height of the pandemic, citing unpr
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Smart business decisions driven by profit considerations are virtue signaling now I guess?
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This has always been obvious to anyone who spent the smallest amount of time working in consumer retail. Customer comes in and wants to buy a patio set they saw in the catalog. You check the database - says there are two in the back. You go
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by ahelwer 5y ago
Oh yes I got that one! It really does work as a sort of DDOS attack against new businesses, you're trying to get all this stuff sorted out and the scammers know how easy it is to sneak in one more form to be filled out & fee paid.
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I fell prey to this. Might have been the exact same website, too. Had had a drink with dinner, thought heck why not file for my EIN for an independent consulting LLC I was creating? Was using a fresh OS install where I hadn't yet insta
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Here's a well-known one: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/joe-biden-no-empathy/ You'd have to be pretty biased to call a literal quote unchanged by context a "mixture" of truth.
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You can accomplish the same thing with a PRNG initialized to the same seed.
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There is absolutely no way to understand quantum mechanics without learning the math. All metaphors are faulty and will lead you to incorrect conclusions. Fortunately the advent of quantum computing has made the math quite easy - it's

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