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Cake day: June 21st, 2023

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  • without any advantage over them

    This is a direct quote. Taken at face value, this sentence is saying “everything cars can do, SUVs can also do but SUVs are limited to exactly those capabilities and nothing else.” If we take a logical step, it’s reasonable to go from the quote and it’s breakdown to “SUVs have no real use” because they merely duplicate the capabilities of a car and having a redundant yet unique style of vehicle with no advantages of it’s own makes it pretty not useful.

    This is the longer quote

    SUVs also use more resources to run and be produced then small cars, without any advantage over them.

    How are you getting from

    without any advantage over them

    to

    assertion isn’t that no SUV is useful

    ? Cause I see nothing that directly supports that claim and implication + the internet is a pretty bad combo given the general lack of subtlety of blank text on a screen.

    Edit:

    You are attempting to refute data with an anecdote

    I reread this, yes I’m using personal experience to refute a point. I won’t deny that, but neither will I deny the validity of this statement. "I was hauling gear that was simply too much for a sedan to handle. I own and haul a Pelican 1660 which is measured at 31.59 x 22.99 x 19.48 in (80.2 x 58.4 x 49.5 cm). That thing wasn’t fitting in a honda civic’s backdoor, let alone safely into the backseat. Then add a folding table 2 plastic tote boxes and my stagelighting bag? No way.











  • Appreciate the info!

    The big unknown is how powerful quantum computers will get. It’s going to take a lot of qubits to break public key crypto. It may be completely unfeasible to juggle that many qubits in superposition. It’s also possible it will only barely do it, in which case we can also increase the key size and call it a day. But post-quantum crypto is being worked on, just in case.

    That’s absolutely the point I’m driving to. We basically have the eniacs of quantum sure we have an idea of what they can do now but 5-10 years down the road are solid mystery. In the spirit of that, to me, ‘post quantum’ is kinda of meaningless vaporware when we only just started with quantum computing. Maybe I’m being a dick about it but that’s my mindset for better or worse.

    Zoom is still bullshit. Their software has had all sorts of problems that don’t need QC to exploit.

    Agreed, fuck zoom.