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McTossOut

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    Depends on the day

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    I got a fancy hourglass for this reason. Incense is also exciting, especially since most smells phones make aren't good.

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    Comment #27755185

    You forgot the colon

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    Comment #27640822

    How does a $2 Trillion company continue to whiff on things like this, AND CONTINUE GETTING FUNDING FROM BANKS, INVESTORS, THE FEDERAL AND STATE GOVERNMENTS, AND CORPORATE PARTNERS?…

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    No, investigation or questions are probably merited given the scale of this thing. Random fragments of what sounds like an investigation getting immediately published is the proble…

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    Lol, like it's literally just 3 times 7, just approximate the square root and literally count up.

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    Quantum authentication will give you a button to unauthorized changes. Oh, you've decided to wipe the database after 2^24 Ms without receiving a payroll check? Boop. Rolled back.

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    Comment #27086651

    In other news, Tesla.

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    Comment #27061323

    Different sandbox, syscalls, attack surface. You could root an iPhone from a web page back in 2012. That's what you call a disaster now.

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    Is this the same thing as Wolfram fundamental physics project? This seems like the same thing as that.

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    Comment #26884349

    inflation? loss of value over time?

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    / irony I guess it took to the middle of the thread.

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    Comment #24141577

    Distributed computing of today is like the dial up of computer networking, or worse. We're doomed to repeat those mistakes if we don't know the history.

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    I think I accidentally engaged intuition here; integers are subject to signal processing using the primes factorization as an orthonormal basis? e: they use base 10 as a basis If t…

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    Those swiffer dusters with a bit of scent on them so as you navigate around you can feel where you've dusted better.

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    Purpose-built hardware makes sense for battery performance, and battery performance makes sense for 2020. x86 is a trainwreck.

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    Not really. If the system is too efficient, it just informs Apple which functionalities they should resorb and provide as their own service.

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    It's a nice part of the modern ecosystems, but I'm not sure the slight convenience of centralizing my subscription options would save me that much. If the fee is for Apple to curat…

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    It's not that it's necessarily hard and necessarily involves sophisticated concepts, but that current literature is based on pretty hard math. Getting into Quantum Computing in thi…