Rakuten is a big mess of data tracking and advertisment but I’m glad to hear Kobo remains a good product.

Kobo was bought by Rakuten in 2012, Rakuten is the Japanese Amazon, except it failed to fully scale internationally.

Does not mix well with Tartar sauce. https://edition.cnn.com/2023/06/09/europe/crimean-tatar-soldier-ukraine-intl-cmd/index.html

Mine had 2000 inside for extra coolness.

The abstract of the scientific article

In the relentless pursuit of quantum computational advantage, we present a significant advancement with the development of Zuchongzhi 3.0. This superconducting quantum computer prototype, comprising 105 qubits, achieves high operational fidelities, with single-qubit gates, two-qubit gates, and readout fidelity at 99.90%, 99.62%, and 99.13%, respectively. Our experiments with an 83-qubit, 32-cycle random circuit sampling on the Zuchongzhi 3.0 highlight its superior performance, achieving 1×106 samples in just a few hundred seconds. This task is estimated to be infeasible on the most powerful classical supercomputers, Frontier, which would require approximately 5.9×109  yr to replicate the task. This leap in processing power places the classical simulation cost 6 orders of magnitude beyond Google’s SYC-67 and SYC-70 experiments [Morvan et al., Nature 634, 328 (2024)], firmly establishing a new benchmark in quantum computational advantage. Our work not only advances the frontiers of quantum computing but also lays the groundwork for a new era where quantum processors play an essential role in tackling sophisticated real-world challenges. https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.134.090601

Random circuit sampling is a problem designed to showcase quantum computing strength. Random circuit sampling is the simulation of the outcome of many randomly generated quantum circuits. So, having a computer based on quantum phenomenon, such as superposition and entanglement, is obviously a big help, as opposed to having to imperfectly simulate this on a classical computer. So much that classical super computer cannot simulate this problem in a reasonable human time anymore. They call this “quantum superiority”.
It’s like giving a math problem to a math professor and a philosophy professor, and then demonstrating how much better the math professor was at solving this problem.
But it’s a good benchmark to compare quantum computers between them.

Overall, it’s still useless to the average server or gamer.

The good old original “AI” made of trusty if conditions and for loops.

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Has any of that happened on the average Arch in the past years? The only thing I have seen is an email once or twice a year asking to run a manual operation to fix a package migration.

1. FBI makes political opponent sign a contract to never ever eat cereals anymore.
2. FBI uses chip to erase political opponent’s memory of signing the contract.
3. Next morning, political opponent chomp chomps.
4. Afternoon, straight to jail!

Terrifying.

An average full time office worker in France would get 7 weeks, more at big companies that want to attract talents with better benefits. I had a job with 11 weeks. I used them all.

I guess ISIS recruited by boasting better work-life balance than in the USA.

I’m not native and I discovered the word by reading a Lemmy community’s rules.

There’s also notable vitality in FOSS big data tools from China (Apache Doris, Kylin, Kyuubi etc.) that reminds of Hadoop in the USA 15 years ago while the USA data engineering now mostly turned to closed source cloud solutions.

Wasn’t it about ranking female students by attractiveness or something?

I can vouch for Mullvad working well on Android and Arch in the past years.

It’s some high judge so I think they are independent from the government but I don’t know their system well.

Brazil has at least some history of fighting against tech giant’s disrespect of regularions https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blocking_of_Twitter_in_Brazil

I’ve read it is still well valued because people will keep asking questions there when LLM can’t answer, so they remain a precious source of post LLM curated Q&A.

Because things are getting more worrying on a global scale (economical slow down, ecological crisis and wars) and the usual human reflexes are conservatism and blaming the people who are different. I think progressive ideas rather spread in times of peace and prosperity, or after catastrophic events like WW2.