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by billti 3y ago
Last time I tried Babylon even for something minimal my bundles (with esbuild) were just too big compared to alternatives. I don’t see any mention of size optimizations in the blog post. Anyone have any knowledge on this they can share (els
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by billti 3y ago
Right. And I run Windows for ARM64 (WoA64) in Parallels on my M3 Mac, and install VS in it (ARM64 version) and runs fine.
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by billti 3y ago
Shameless plug: But these types of areas of research (what types of problems can quantum computers solve and when) has been a big focus of our open-source Q# effort lately. You can see our last two blog posts ( https://devblogs.mi
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by billti 3y ago
He covers this in a couple places in the post. There is no requirement under MIT to redistribute the source for any changes you make or anything you build with it. If they redistribute the source then yes, but that’s not the concern in the
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by billti 3y ago
Open your maps app and go into satellite view. North of the main area most of Hong Kong is surprisingly green and unpopulated (until you hit the border with Shenzen). I spent some time in India years ago and remember being amazed that a cou
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by billti 3y ago
Yeah, we took a bet that writing our compiler, simulator, etc. in Rust and architecting correctly so it could compile to native and WASM would let us run native and in the browser too, and we’re pretty thrilled with how it turned out. We ju
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by billti 3y ago
Likewise. GE dishwasher got a fault after a couple years and spewed water everywhere. Got a Bosch and never had a problem in about 8 years now. It cleans way better too. Simple, reliable, looks and works great.
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by billti 3y ago
Engineering manager for the team here. Happy to answer any questions that I can.
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Azure Quantum Development Kit 1.0(devblogs.microsoft.com)
6 points by billti 3y ago|1 comments
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by billti 3y ago
There’s a page at https://quantum.microsoft.com/en-us/experience/quantum-crypt... designed to explore some of the resource needs and concepts on this topic you may find interesting. Disclaimer: I work on the quant
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by billti 3y ago
I think a common error is taking this view in isolation on each bug. Fact is, if you ship enough 'low probability' bugs in your product, your probabilities still add up to a point where many customers are going to hit several of t
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by billti 3y ago
You seem to be getting downvoted, but I agree with you to a large extent. He does say a ton of stuff I disagree with, sometimes strongly, but I also know if most other CEOs were as public and unfiltered they'd probably fair even worse
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by billti 3y ago
> children can not be reasonable when they are in a tantrum Are you supposed to grow out of that? I’m 51 and I still notice this about myself at times! (Only half joking here. It is amazing how hard it can be to snap out of a “sulky mood
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by billti 3y ago
I think by now it should be pretty apparent that people are different, and some prefer working from home, some prefer coming to the office, some prefer open spaces and some prefer personal spaces. Most people are somewhere on a spectrum and
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by billti 3y ago
This recently released page might be of a lot of interest to this discussion regarding crypto algorithms and the size of the quantum hardware needed. (Disclaimer, I work on the Azure Quantum team that builds this). https://quantu
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by billti 3y ago
It blew my mind when I learned that even if you could hand wire conceptually perfect switches and wires, once your board was over a few inches, the laws of physics (e.g., the speed of light) would mean you still couldn’t beat a modern CPU f
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New quantum dev kit compiled to WASM from Rust and runs in the browser(devblogs.microsoft.com)
6 points by billti 3y ago|0 comments
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by billti 3y ago
Steve Jobs is practically an example of WHY top CEOs get paid so much. Apple was basically in its death throes when he came back. A few years later they had the iPod. A few years after that the iPhone. When he died in 2011 they were well on
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by billti 3y ago
It credits Rustlings at the end of the page linked to ( https://github.com/EmNudge/watlings#credits ).
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by billti 3y ago
I find the Vim extension for VS Code has macro support that is good enough for most of my use cases (if you’re a fan of Vim key bindings - obviously). https://github.com/VSCodeVim/Vim/blob/master/ROADMAP.
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by billti 3y ago
Or even the different scales of your own waste. Whenever I'm worrying about which bin to put my coffee stirrer in, I sometimes think about the shear volume of landfill that got hauled from our house when we did a major renovation. I&#x
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by billti 3y ago
We bought our outdoor furniture from this company in the U.S. ( https://lolldesigns.com/pages/sustainability ), which states on that page "All Loll outdoor furniture is made with recycled high-density polyethylene (
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by billti 3y ago
(disclaimer: I work on the team developing Q# and its tooling) That's part of the goal of Q#. It's designed to be a language which allows you to build up from quantum gates, efficiently work with quantum concepts such as 'adj
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by billti 3y ago
I don't think many people are worried that what we have now is a major risk. The major concern is the implications of the trajectory we are now on. If you look at what ChatGPT and Midjourney and the like can do now compared to just a c
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by billti 3y ago
I thought China and India were still increasing quite rapidly (I could be wrong). Unless they start going the other way, that 7% will be less than the growth from others, so no closer to 0 globally.
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by billti 3y ago
Unless China and India cut emissions drastically it’s a drop in the ocean. There should be tariffs on the biggest emitters to the point where they can’t afford to NOT cut emissions if they want to trade good and services.
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by billti 3y ago
Portability, minimal size, and speed are all priorities. Building with Rust allowed us to really focus on all of these for both WebAssembly and OS binaries. For example, if you go to the playground that we publish on every push to main ( ht
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by billti 3y ago
Disclaimer: engineering manager for the team building it Yes, targeting WebAssembly, and the ability to then run in the browser, was a big part of it. WebAssembly (will) also enable our language service extension to run in VS Code for the W
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Microsoft AI copilots for quantum and chemistry(quantum.microsoft.com)
2 points by billti 3y ago|0 comments
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by billti 3y ago
You do recall that when the iPhone came out we already had Blackberry, HTC, Windows Mobile, Nokia already making smart phones with touch screens and apps right? Sure the experience was terrible, but that's the same play here. Apple gen

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