It’s not too complicated to build, but it does cost a lot of iron.

I’ve built a system where you dump all your junk in one chest and it gets sorted into your warehouse

diagnostic

I think it is useful to send crash reports, but the user should have power over it (see: when macOS generates a crash report, it asks the user if they would like to send it)

engagement measuring

That is your data they are taking to make money off of without your consent, and I consider that malicious. There are ways to do that with consent. See: Steam’s annual hardware survey

Honestly it largely is.

Personally I like sharing crash reports, but even then, the user should be able to turn that off if you like.

Telemetry should be 100% opt-in.

I have these battery packs that magnetically stick to the back of my phone and charge it. Just slap it on and forget about it.

It makes my phone hot and wastes a lot of power (I can also charge from the same battery packs using a cable, and I get noticeably more charge).

But it’s real convenient when you don’t want to worry about it. I use them at conventions or when I’m out hiking or skiing.

LLMs are curve fitting the function of “input text” to “expected output text”.

So when you give it an input text, it generates an output text interpolated from the expected outputs for similar inputs.

That means it’s often right for very common prompts and often wrong for prompts that are subtly different from common prompts.

She’s super creepy looking IMO

If the ISP doesn’t provide V6 though it’s time to switch ISPs.

cries in USA

I got a huge reduction in random login attempts when I changed my ssh port away from the default.

(Of course I also have actual security measures like log in by key only)

I went ahead and read the article. I know a bit about quantum computing. Here’s my summary of it:

Entanglement is a useful resource for quantum networking, enabling things like quantum-secure communication and distributed quantum computing.

TLDR The paper describes algorithms to more efficiently create a form of entanglement that’s useful from the error-prone “dirty” entanglement you get from entanglement-generating hardware.

When you make entanglement, it often doesn’t come out perfect, and you need a technique to “distill” “good” entangled states out of a collection of “dirty” entangled states.

The typical “rules” for this involve two parties that create dirty shared entanglement (shared entanglement means a pair of entangled qubits, but each party has one of the qubits). They can then do whatever they like with their qubits individually and can communicate (over classical channels e.g. the internet) but they can’t do anything “quantum” between the two of them.

This paper analyzes the case where there is a 3rd party that follows these same rules but has been previously set up as an “entanglement battery”, which means preparing it in a special state from which entanglement can be “borrowed” or “returned” to the battery using only local operations and classical communication.

In particular it’s looking for “reversible” (meaning no loss in total entanglement over the process) “entanglement manipulation” (changing the entanglement from one form into another, presumably more useful form). It goes into a lot of analysis as to what the limits on this process are, and makes analogies to how engines work in thermodynamics.

This sounds like someone learning. It’s incredibly hard to admit you were wrong and do better. Don’t shame her for it.

I think I have had an instructor put a mirror in the pool before lol

I doubt someone who has only ever read about swimming could do it in deep, cold water. But they are talking about taking it to a swimming pool to practice. I think they’ll be fine.

Probably. Take it to the shallow part of a pool (where you can stand up if you need to) and practice until you are comfortable trying more.

Also, watch some videos. I think it’s easier to learn something like swimming by watching others than by reading about it.

You should have to fill it in by climbing a big tower

I live in a bigger US city that does have a metro. It’s not bad for doing longer trips in certain directions, when it’s working. But it breaks down at least a few times a year, and if you have to make a transfer to another train to make it to your destination, it’s often literally faster to walk.

Considering each chair is built for that specific member, I think you have to take each chair owner’s anatomy into account.

Coffee

I spent a few $1000 on the computer, I’ll spend $100 more to make it look fancy

Private servers are not always a viable alternative option for players as the protections we put in place to secure players’ data, remove illegal content, and combat unsafe community content would not exist and would leave rights holders liable.

Then it sounds like the legislation enforcing leaving private servers on the table should also move the liability to whoever is hosting the servers. I’d be surprised if it doesn’t work that way already tbh.

Supporters seem to be under the impression that companies have a “sever.exe” file they purposefully don’t provide players because they’re evil and hate you.

There is some truth to this

They could also be contracting out matchmaking services to a third party and don’t actually do it in-house. Software development is complex and building something that will be used by 100,000 people simultaneously isn’t easy.

There is some truth to this too.

Making an MMO maintainable by the userbase might be complicated. But way more common are games that could easily have LAN based multiplayer but the company decides not to add it, or even singleplayer games that require an internet connection, just so the company can put limits on how and when the game is played.