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> What are we going to do, run direct fiber from every computer to every other computer directly?

No, you don't have to do that. A quantum network would be a web of point-to-point quantum links, with paths formed by routers choosing links. Same as a classical network.

To be a bit more concrete what an operating quantum network would look like is a bunch of routers using links to build up entanglement with their neighbors. When an endpoint wants to send a message across the network, a path from source to destination would be determined and entanglement across the links of that path would be consumed to move the message across the network [1][2]. The reason it's done this way, instead of directly sending the message, is that entanglement can be cross-checked before using it [3] and quantum networks really don't like dropping packets due to the no-cloning theorem.

> We typically don't call them networks until we start linking them all together with simple routing logic

Yeah I agree that it would be more accurate for this press release to say they made a quantum link.

> To me these are all just signs that the whole scheme is/was and will forever be mostly crankery.

Don't confuse difficulty with crankery. It'll be awhile before anyone reports an experimental realization of a true quantum network, because it'll be awhile because anyone can make a quantum router. The issue is that a quantum router is for all intents and purposes a fault tolerant quantum computer, and that is its own hard challenge being worked on separately. In particular, a quantum router needs to be able to store qubits reliably for non-trivial amounts of time, and to perform reliable operations on those qubits in order to cross-check stored entanglement.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_teleportation

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_entanglement_swapping

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entanglement_distillation
I was looking at one of the cheaper minis, but between educational discount and wanting a bit of RAM (and cores) for some map tile rendering stuff I want to play with over winter, I nudged it up... I'm hoping for a lot-of-years life out of this, so another $1K or so really isn't that bad.

I looked into the display conversion idea, but that just felt kinda meh. I could sell the old computer for a bit less than $200, or pay about $300 to make a so-so display. While the panel would be nice, the cables just hanging out the back, coupled with the rather-meh controller board just felt kinda hacky.

Instead paying $800 for a purpose-built display that should be sleek and nice... I'm okay with that.
This seems to be a common trend everywhere. Instead of improving core functionality they add the latest buzzword tech, no matter it make sense or not. I am user of GaiaGPS to plan outdoors trips. Same there: the app is good but has some problems. Instead of fixing the problems they added social functionality which nobody really wants.
Germany to send out survey, mandatory for males, about willingness to fight
This is just so sad. It's not bad, it's to be such a great application and something which had endured the whole Microsoft enshittification. But I guess even that falls.
Several, I have enjoyed the content from https://www.youtube.com/@tomwayling
Work is for work stuff. It's someone else computer, someone else wants and needs. I don't mind if they want to feed all their data to Big Tech (On my previous work computer the only truly personal piece of data I had was my profile picture and ssh keys for my GitHub account). I don't even do web searches on work computers. If Windows is slow, I'd just bring it up to my manager and the IT dept.

On my personal computers, that's a different story.
Now Mozilla is an ad-tech company that spies on its users and sells data to marketers so what use is an advocacy team that spreads lies?
You posted this same comment[0] nearly word for word a month ago. Why is that? Not sure why, but “many on hacker news fantasize about fusion (not fission)” stuck in my head.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41677250
> If my village forms a union with your village and both our villages have 1000 inhabitants at the time I don't want your village to be able to dictate our common policy just because you have more children or more people died in my village 20 years from now.

> States gets electoral votes based on census and then they decide how to split them.

How is this any different than the original problem you cited before? The majority of a state deciding to allot the entirety of its votes to a single candidate based on a majority of the internal vote is pretty much exactly what you described. That makes sense for a state-wide office like a senator or governor, but there's absolutely no reason that it should work like that for a national election. The only possible argument I could imagine is that it's an attempt to make sure that people in each state have their priorities represented, but it does the _opposite_ of that by rendering what's usually over 40% of the votes in each state entirely meaningless, and that's not even mentioning the fact that states aren't monolithic entities with uniform concerns but populations of individuals who might care about different things.

There's no point in mincing words here; the electoral collage is a construct designed to give states the power at the expense of the individuals in the state. I'm sure there are people who would argue that's a good thing, but I'd argue it's an anachronism from a time when most people had far less access to education and far fewer concerns that ranged beyond their local area. Granted, at the time I'm writing this it's not clear which way the popular vote went in 2024, but that doesn't change the fact that in the presidential elections preceding this one, the "winner" lost the popular vote a third of the time across two decades, so this isn't a theoretical concern.
Lol. I should never edit before I have my coffee.
Not the person you're asking, but I found out about The Loose Handle Band[0] when they were rehearsing with a temporary bassist out by the boathouse on Jamaica Pond in Boston. I was entranced, and caught them that night at the show they played and two or three more shows before they quit playing.

There was also a guy who played blues guitar in Downtown Crossing, presumably as a busker with a permit. I waited a couple extra trains more than one evening to enjoy the music.

[0] Bandcamp: https://theloosehandleband.bandcamp.com/album/the-loose-hand...

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheLooseHandleBand
Apple wanted a unified format for all of their devices; you’re not going to run ZFS on a watch, phone, set top box or headset.
Four states reject ranked-choice voting, approved in District
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I think it’s got a unique, nerdy charm that stands out in the best way.
Laziness and TMC are fundamentally different from partial instantiation in that they are implementation details, mostly/wholly invisible to the language semantics themselves.

A key aspect of partial instantiation is that the "holes" may be filled in by a semantically unrelated piece of code, which is not the case for either laziness or TMC (wherein the contents data structure must be defined in one place, even if the implementation does not evaluate it immediately).

(I don't know Koka so I can't speak to that.)
Same. I live in a small/medium Canadian valley (about 76k spread between three towns in a rural district 3ish hours from anything that could be called a 'real city')

I regularly see live music accidentally just by showing up at various bars and breweries. We have several groups doing local theater. We have two multi-day music festivals in the summer, and at least a dozen more within a few hours drive.

There is plenty of live entertainment for those who want it. If I had to guess, I would say that there is maybe two nights per week where there isn't live music, but if you add in trivia nights, rec center activities, etc. You could easily fill your schedule any day of the week
> I still think he had a real shot of winning 2016, because people were ready to overturn the system and the Dems establishment didn't see it.

I wouldn't assume that it's that they didn't see it but that they're the system being overturned. The GOP did get turned over and it's unrecognizable compared to 2012, I can't even imagine being a long-time Republican senator trying to do right by people and suddenly have to gargle Trump's sweaty balls and betray a lot of what you believe in or be out of a job. I think it's a natural reaction to being cornered. Moderate Republicans are homeless right now boxed out of their own party and staring down their dwindling political and social capital. It's gotta hurt.

Don't get me wrong I would love to Feel the Bern, I don't agree with a whole lot of his pie-in-the-sky ideals but when he talks about actual concrete issues and policy changes to me it's clear he gets it.
Just carry a gun.

Self-defense is an absolute right unlike other places.
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You can achieve the same thing with a single commit that changes only a bunch of version pointers, or by moving that kind of thing into a space governed by feature flags--both of which are easier to write tests for.

How do you write a test for the rollbackability of a commit, if that test must be in the commit which it asserts can be rolled back? Does the test clone a second copy of the monorepo at the older version so that it has access to the "before" state? The hard parts of backwards compatibility have to do with accumulated state over time, they don't go away because you've bound some versions together.
> You can make radio waves by touching the poles of a battery together with a wire.

You can. But making radio waves does not imply a broadcast. At least not in the traditional sense. I'll grant you that colloquially we have sometimes come to refer to any radio transmission as a broadcast, but that is not the usage here.

> BUT, if you don't know you are making radio waves are you still a broadcaster?

If you didn't know a chicken emerged from an egg, is it still a chicken? My experience with young children who don't yet understand that process would say yes. No doubt there are career radio broadcasters out there who are not familiar with the science of radio.

It's not about not knowing of the existence of something, though. We know the chicken came from an egg. We just don't know what kind of egg it was. Was it a chicken egg or was it a flibberdoodle egg? If it was a chicken egg, how did the flibberdoodle lay a chicken egg? If it was a flibberdoodle egg, how did a chicken come out?
Are any facts knowable? Besides the fact that something exists, in some shape or form, at this particular moment, that allows the thought about this to happen.
This is not accurate, but it is a commonly pushed narrative by certain biased media.

That bill was negotiated in secret by three senators, including one Republican senator. When the text of the bill was finally released, the contents were much different than expected. You can listen to Republican senators talking about the bill as soon as the text was released: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zf4EzoWR944

And you can listen to the Speaker talking about it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ii0tl8d5G3g

It's not like this bill had wide support, and then Trump said something and everyone pulled back. That's just a fabrication meant to give the Democrats campaign talking points.

Also the House passed a border security bill in 2023, which has been blocked by the Democrat controlled Senate. [1]

[1] https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/2
Yeah, like I said, I'm not a lawyer, but I zeroed in on "you have no explicit nor implied rights to the indefinite use of Google Voice telephone numbers" in particular, for intent.

This is just a Reddit post and not a legal document, but the post is effectively the crowdsourced findings from a heck of a lot of Google's victims who have tried a number of different tactics.
> the endless need for ever-increasing profits is what kills any creative profession. You see this in Hollywood with ... Companies will happily kill an industry to increase short-term profits.

From my understanding Hollywood is being killed by the outsiders - TikTok et al influencers taking viewers away from Hollywood. The corporate owners are cutting costs, but it's primarily to survive. And the reason that TikTok influencers would be killing Hollywood is simply because Hollywood has (had) the money, fame, and influence, and the TikTok crowd wanted it. It's creator-on-creator violence in a fight for status.
Is it actually better than homes built by other methods?

The most expensive part of home is general the land it's built on.
Actually this could be a really good analogy on many levels.

For example: Comparing the THC levels of the 60s to the THC levels today, and the potency social media of the 90s to the social media today seems appropriate. I mean one can only do so much social media over a slow modem on a home that has a single shared phone line.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2396976-is-cannabis-tod...
Are many people going to buy a home 3D printer? It's not a profitable business.
> most of my friends are on WhatsApp, but I use iMessage to talk to my wife [...] apart from one or two friends who aren't o ln WhatsApp [...]

As shown in a more visual way: https://xkcd.com/1810/
> These days I can't even use pidgin for xmpp, because the omemo plugin is too wonky. Now someone I'm sure will say I'm just holding it wrong and that may be so.. but I doesn't work for me despite trying for a reasonable amount of time to get it working.

The libpurple (library behind Pidgin) support for xmpp is quite mediocre so it's not that you're holding it wrong.

Dino is great on Linux. There's an unofficial windows build that might or might not work. If it doesn't, then Gajim is "fine." Conversations is great on Android. I think Monal is the current best on iPhone, but I don't own an iPhone.

And the need for the existence of the above paragraph is, IMO, a big part of why XMPP isn't used. Nobody knows which clients to use, and the experience if you use an out-of-date client is terrible (seriously, emojis don't work between Psi (which is still listed on xmpp.org as a client, and was a great client 15 years ago) and Dino.
> You are using Opus on most VoIP/call providers.

No. Opus support in the PSTN is still unfortunately almost non-existent. Adoption is growing but the pace is very slow. Source: me, working in the European telecommunications industry for over a decade, specializing in telephony and SMS.
How would you define a cyclic data structure?
Building a Sync Engine in Clojure [video]
Was there ever really a time when people didn't sit at home for entertainment?

I think before radio, sitting around and reading a book was pretty normal. Back then a lot of people lived in places where visiting the neighbors was a lot harder than it is now.
Or it might be, you know, their actual lived experience seeing people "say nice things" to someone and then treat them in a way that makes it clear that it was all just a veneer of politeness.
He means just regular 3D printers used at home. But yeah, the title is confusing.
Thats least of your problem imo. Neutron corrosion is bigger problem. There is trick to use Lithium shielding, with create Tritium needed for Fussion. But not sure how effective it is, especially for long term reactor lifetime. Those reactors are very expensive, not sure if its worth to shut it down every year and replace entire Li shielding...
Thats what we're trying to do. I'm not one of those people, but golly they seem overworked.
Bernie, while being Vermont's Senator, has secured the democratic party primary every time he's run. He has pushed hard for policies that align with democratic voters and he's been extremely consistent. He's also fundraised for the DSCC and other democratic aligned organizations.

If you're familiar with his political stances it's bizarre to not classify him (in our two party system) as a democrat.
That is incorrect. Recent advances using attosecond lasers enable new tricks and fusion conditions to be realized tabletop. Search also for plasmonics. Using nano antennas and intense lasers to accelerate protons and electrons in a tabletop device (previously required large machines).
Yes! The fused deposition modeling (additive printing) patents expired in 2009, which triggered the wave of innovation and home 3d printing.

https://futurism.com/expiring-patents-set-to-improve-3d-worl...
Not that I am aware of. The mobile story with emacs is pretty painful. I use dropbox + beorg (iOS). If I have to deal with attachments off spelunking through the dropbox folders I go.

Realistically, I dont see the mobile experience improving much. Given Emacs' utility though I dont mind it.
I equally want to support but I have a problem with recurring payments. Aside from strictly necessary bills I want to have no recurring payments at all.
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I don;t think anybody was really doing FDM/FFF until the 90s and it didn't really take off until the 2000s. It was quite expensive, required a high level of expertise in both mech E and CS, and existing subtractive methods (like CNC and lathe) were very effective.
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You can always go with a Roman sports drink. Salt, water and some red wine vinegar (apple cider vinegar works too)
Which, to be fair, is something like tens of millions of Linux desktops. Several orders of magnitude less than the other types of Linux-powered computers out there though.

No one cares what the relative numbers are. As long as there is enough absolute users to justify the effort.
One thing to think about is you'd need quite a beefy machine to even properly render the gcode in the 70s and 80s. In this age of printers computers often didn't even have fonts, they were ROM cartridges your printer would take. And even into the 90s there were accelerator cards for printing documents and talking to the printer in alternative ways than parallel ports.

So really, for an average hobbyist the idea of a 3D printer controllable from a home PC wouldn't really be possible until like the mid 90s. So you really need to start your look at why it wasn't a thing at some point in history I'd start the digging there, not the 1970s.
You can block and ignore people and phrases on X.

Reddit might be more your speed.
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I'm trying to think of a way to add some value other than anecdotal disagreement, but I am just shocked at this statement because I can't think of a single piece of software I think Element is "better" than.
Micro-stepping controller chips.

Before that, the precision available without gearing and feedback wasn't sufficient. There were systems but they were order of magnitude more complicated and several orders more expensive.
I totally agree, but I was really addressing just having to put up with the OS rather than privacy issues specifically. My employer can take whatever privacy risks they want.
Thanks! Give it a try and let us know any feedback :)
Yes, we want to use the approach like you described! We'll likely wait until enough changes are accumulated by using 2 configurable thresholds: time (like 30s) and size (like 100MB)
Surely - but with kids, an XBOX also offered the ability to share the experience a little easier.
Or you could just operate your resin printer with the required active ventilation.
All good! That was me 5 years ago :)

- Yes and no. The photons emitted and sent through the fiber are entangled with their electron counterparts. So we send simultaneously a photon state (entangled with electron) from Delft, and a photon state (entangled with electron) from Den Haag. Those states interfere in the midpoint (Rijswijk), and upon measurement of one photon (photon now is absorbed/measured/gone) we know that the _electrons_ of the nodes in Delft and Den Haag are entangled.

- The above also answers this question: yes!

- No. They can be used to transfer a quantum state from one place to the other, for example, which _consumes_ the entanglement (one-time use only, per pair of entangled particles). However, still classical feedback signals need to propagate for that to happen, so we still need _a_ link, preferably optical (for speed and distance). Wiki has actually a great page on teleportation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_teleportation

I'll answer to a different question on repeaters later in another comment, so check back :) Indeed, multi-node quantum network was an awesome experiment. This takes it to the next level of being able to distribute entanglement over large distances and between quantum nodes that are self-sufficient (no sharing of hardware resources between nodes).
Fair enough; I didn't read your comment very closely, I guess. Terrestrial radio seems a lot less expensive in areas with population. When you get out beyond rural and more into wilderness, satellite is likely cost competitive, because having a LEO constellation cover the wilderness comes at no additional cost, and having radio coverage in the wilderness involves setting up base stations with low usage --- you can do some things with longer range / larger cells, but it depends on terrain and maybe protocol limits? GSM had a concept of 'timing advance' that effectively limited the maximum cell size, but I don't know if that's a limitation if you're not using TDMA.
Is that more than or less than the level of incompetence that you'd expect from republicans? Not everything has to be partisan, does it?
As you say yourself, those things are typically bullshit anyway (mostly targeted at disenfranchising minorities), and they're definitely not something that can substantially and continuously influence a presidential election in a single direction in a country of 400millions.
What came first, AGI or Fusion?
And for vacuuming up personal data, because why not both.
I hate how politically jaded I have become reading anything related to modern archeology.

When first introducing Ephesus (why not add '(a Greek founded and speaking city)'. I mean they are talking about Roman cultural introduction to the existing culture, saying 'Anatolia' doesn't give me context of the culture being introduced to Roman ways. There was no 'Anatolian' culture.

Why say 'Greek-style athletic contests' when they were just actual greek athletic contests held largely in Greek founded, Greek speaking cities? With so much modern agenda filtering archaeology I can't help but see erasure that much of Anatolia was Greek or greek founded. I just see a misleading implication that these cities hosting 'greek style contests' weren't, you know, culturally Greeks. It is crazy that there are 14 instances of Anatolia and the only time Greek occurs is 'Greek style'.
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No, N+1 is still linear.
Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?

A single restriction is enough to ruin everything.
You were so close and nearly got there. It's not about fear of China controlling the narrative, it's about not being able to control the narrative on Tiktok like they are doing on other (American) platforms.
That's true to an extent, but it's also quite a bit more expensive than the $300 (CAD) I paid for an XBOX with 2 controllers, and I had the side benefit of being able to easily play with the kids (who find it easy to use).
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Ya I've updated the title to consumer to be clearer
I'm more of a "stick everything in Dropbox/OneNote" kind of person myself, as it gives seamless syncing of my Org files between multiple devices. For various reasons I've been relying on that much less recently, so I'll reconsider the git approach.
Forks of firefox? LibreWolf seems nice but it remains to be seen how long they'd last if firefox stopped being developed by Mozilla