These are the people who constantly whiner about “NPCs” just following directions without thought, showing the same line of dialogue 6 years on lol

I commented on this issue a couple of days ago here and linked a study arguing that the current methods of “factoring” via QC are not scalable

https://lemmy.world/comment/23267756

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-11687-7

The issue at hand is that there’s a fundamental limit of what we can effectively do at the moment, and a lot of the hype is being driven by “factorization methods” that ultimately only twiddle a few LSBs in the number to cheat to solve it using something that’s not even remotely close to a real world example.

To use the Manhattan project analogy, this would be like saying “theoretically, if you smash enough radioactive stuff together into a critical mass it will fission, so we’re going to compress these bananas until we hit that point”.

I think they’re hoping that reaches more of a steady state

With how quickly tech advances and hardware degrades under heavy use, they’re going to be pushing that rock up a hill for a good while lol

Sure, papers about an abacus and a dog are funny and can make you look smart and contrarian on forums. But that’s not the job, and those arguments betray a lack of expertise. As Scott Aaronson said:

Once you understand quantum fault-tolerance, asking “so when are you going to factor 35 with Shor’s algorithm?” becomes sort of like asking the Manhattan Project physicists in 1943, “so when are you going to produce at least a small nuclear explosion?”

L. O. L.

I love that this dude just casually dismissed that QC hasn’t been able to factor anything larger that 21 in the last 14 years without cheating and using primes that are nothing close to real world grade primes used in crypto.

a general perception of modern media lazily inserting LGBT characters without integrating them more deeply into the setting or narrative.

And that complaint is an example of the issue. You’re effectively complaining about normalization of LGBT+ characters and relationships, so you see it as lazy, expecting them to be tokenized and making them some kind of not-just-a-normal-person character.

the word “woke” has taken on the role of terms like “social justice warrior” and “political correctness”

LOL, this is exactly what I’m talking about, because we agree to a point that woke replaced those words. But those words as well were just nice ways of complaining that minorities existed.

The “social justice warrior” moniker was only ever BRIEFLY your definition, because it was quickly picked up by rightoid chuds as a thought terminating epithet they could say without getting booted for saying slurs. Saying that’s what it means now is just carrying water for the people who use it as an epithet, because your definition does not match common usage. I watched the change happen from that side of the fence, and it was part of what woke me up to the reality of the situation, and see through the lies people pushed (that unsurprisingly sounded a lot like what I’m hearing in this conversation).

…why do you think he has to say he’s not “doing that woke shit” while doing nothing particularly different from “that woke shit”? He had to get on front of people who agree with him who were going to cry about a gay romance existing, but now they have a narrative to follow when it comes up.

In other words, “it’s different when we do it”

I think his comments refer to the implementation of the romance in the way that it doesn’t feel like it was put there so the studio could boast about how progressive they are.

Big “I’m doing the thing I complain about, but it’s different when I do it” energy from his statement.

In a lot of places, not just far-right assholes, the word “woke” has taken on the role of terms like “social justice warrior” and “political correctness” - i.e. in describing a self-righteous, superficial, performative and preachy kind of style.

LOL no, “woke” is anything that acknowledges LGBT+ individuals exist and have a right to live their lives as they want is woke. These fucking snowflakes cry about being asked to pick fucking pronouns, even when there is 0 impact on the game.

Crying ‘woke’ instantly tells me all I need to know about someone. The same goes for people who try to pretend it’s about preaching a message instead of acknowledging these people can and do exist.

What the man seems to me to be trying to say is that their goal was to do a medieval gay romance in a way that was not preachy or superficial – is that not good? Isn’t there a bit too much token representation and pinkwashing going on?

And you’re parroting the message loud and clear. Acknowledging their existence is always tOkEn RePrEsEnTaTiOn

included optional gay content

Claims to not be woke

Seriously tho, what in the actual fuck is this guy trying to say, other than trying to appeal to rightoids while doing the same thing the games he is bitching about do. They constantly cry about ThE wOkE aGeNdA when you can select pronouns that LITERALLY have 0 impact on gaming, but apparently including WoKe content in the actual game is ok if you’re on their side.

Completely not transparent or shameless, as is tradition.

Sure, but if the dev wants to patch out unintended behavior or mechanics, they can do that as well. If the player wants to play with broken mechanics, install mods like the rest of us.

Whaaah, the dev took away my ability to exploit a bug and balanced a boss, worse game ever, -100/10

• those children

Relevant paragraph:

PQC readiness “is mostly actuarial/risk management—even if the chance of building a CRQC by, say, 2030 is very low (say 5 percent), the downside risk is huge,” he explained. “Combine that with very long transition engineering times, and you should have started already.”

Also, relevant paragraph from the wiki page for integer factorization records:

The largest number reliably factored by Shor’s algorithm, rather than some other quantum method, is 21 which was factored in 2012.[26][27] The number 15 had previously been factored by several labs and subsequent attempts to factorise 35 failed.[27

And a relevant excerpt from this study looking at “factored” primes above 21

Large-scale fault-tolerant quantum computers capable of implementing Shor’s algorithm are not yet available, preventing relevant benchmarking experiments. Recently, several authors have attempted quantum factorizations via reductions to SAT or similar NP-hard problems. While this approach may shed light on algorithmic approaches for quantum solutions to NP-hard problems, in this paper we study and question its practicality. We find no evidence that this is a viable path toward factoring large numbers, even for scalable fault-tolerant quantum computers, as well as for various quantum annealing or other special purpose quantum hardware.

I’ll be concerned when we start seeing primes being factored when they’re not using compiled Shor algorithm primes. So far, most of the big “factorization records” cheat and use primes with only the LSBs differing, and aren’t remotely close to anything used in a real RSA prime. There was a good discussion of it on Security Now episode 1034 for those who are interested.

I had to explain to my partner a year ago that I’m going hate and bitch about any job I had after the fourth or fifth time I bitched about on call or something. Took them a bit to realize that even the best job will be full of bitching and moaning because even the greenest grass on the pasture is going to have a ton of shit to wade thru

No, you can make it even harder now that they’re going linux

And there are just as many, if not more, that are just using this to profit themselves. We’ve already had plenty of bets on these shitty fucking gambling sites that only could have been placed with insider knowledge.

How America got a MASSIVE gambling problem

Entirely unrelated, but when did xkcd add all those goofy modes in? I just spent more time playing with those modes than I have on their site in a hot minute

“Fixing” something means it has to pass inspection. You can slap shit in with duct tape but you’re gonna be out what you paid plus the 4x because your fix was sub par.

My sibling in Talos, did you really think these AR games weren’t going to include tracking user movements when the ENTIRE POINT of the game is to be in specific places and they go out of their way to make sure people aren’t spoofing gps?

Require them to fix AND pay a fine, or let the city fix it and pay 4x the cost AND still pay the fine. Shit will stop happening quick.