After abandoning all my reddit accounts [1] (some back into the aughties), I eventually found hackernews. Here is now the only place online which I write publicly.
Still, I love sharing tips for navigating reddit (you can do these without logging in):
1) old.reddit.com allows you to use Reddit's built-in link shortener,
Doing this again, now (well into adulthood): recently gifted a "broken" 2013 MacPro[0], and have set it up as my retro CS4 workhorse (decades old software on a decade old machine). Hosts/PiHole ready, blocking "*adobe*" entirely.
Only problem now is I cannot find four's `FCKGW-RHQQ2-`... my oldmanfish surfs onwards, Santiago remaining uncertain. For now I just don't quit and never shut down (fresh install allows limited launches).
[0] RAM slot was jamming, not allowing proper seating
As an electrician currently self-stopped (for both non-payment & absenteeism, two months no contact, so far) I'm not budging. When you didn't show up for our last two on-site meetups (and still haven't contacted), I thought about filing a lien... but decided to just keep you from having tenants (by not finishing AC/water/electric). You'll get around to it..?
When I told this LLC/owner "you obviously aren't in a rush because you obviously aren't visiting the jobsite/me" I sort of expected him to show within a few days. Then a few weeks. And now we're entering a few months.
You have weeks of my punchlists (unresolved to do), I have weeks of questions (what do you want?) and you won't even do simple things like turning on power/water.
I'm actually going to tap the sign, here, whichever mod 2nd-chanced this (reposted) — this fluffpiece is a few fiscal quarters late for any attempt at moraleboost (read the room: Oracle's recent 30k axe; <http://www.layoffs.fyi>; obliteration of translation/transcription industries). We are tired, ridden, put away wet.
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I have been saying this since first using GPT-2, years ago, then with only a few tokens at a time (mostly to responses of laughter):
genAI will soon make at least one of two things necessary (&/or):
1) the necessity for some minimal Universal Basic Income
2) the necessity for many young men to die in pointle$$ war$ of di$traction
History, rhyming...
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Please don't resuscitate this tone-deaf WSB article for thrice.
Well, #2 is something that historically has regularly been required by the powers that be, so the addition of #1 as another option is actually an improvement.
My mid-sized US city (Chattanooga) has recently announced a partnership with Vanderbilt and EPB (local govt-owned fiber ISP) which creates a Quantum Computing Research Facility [$,$$$,$$$,$$$] [1].
As locals are covering this news, I keep having this thought that nobody (perhaps less than a few?) even knows what those words mean (certainly not me). You speak confidently and clearly enough that I'm incline to believe it's kind of real.
So thanks for sharing your P[0]V with this dumbass (former data center) electrician (me). All the "Quantum"-phrasing represents to me is more local job opportunities.
>>@3m27s: "Quantum computing is basically trying to treat some isolated piece of the universe to behave slightly less randomly, for a very brief timeframe, so that it is useful to you when you try to solve some problem."
>>@20m: [simple flow-chart of interacting with Quantum Processing Unit]
>>@final.words: [paraphrasing] "Right now you buy a quantum computer simply to research quantum computers. Ours is $14MM"
The meme refers to the notion where an observation (i.e. interaction) collapses the wave function to a single value. As in, prior to observation, a system in a quantum superposition is said to be "in multiple states at the same time", and after the obsevation only one state exists, while all other possibilities are gone (or exist in other worlds, according to one of the interpretations of quantum mechanics [0]).
So, in that meme, the guy looks at one girl (the observed state) and "ignores" all other girls (all other possible states).
Which was recommended from the top_commenter's link to his own professional QPU programming presentation. I remain interested in learning more about this pure magic.
Ya'lls words both seem to represent worlds which I doubt even more words could help me into ever understanding(s).
I definitely understand being "in multiple states at the same time" — — —
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