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eigenloss

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    Comment #21393947

    McIntyre or Griffiths' QM might be useful.

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    Comment #21393930

    I had the same experience; that's mostly what I'm referencing. Trying to use things like The Hacker's Dictionary (largely in-jokes, bad jargon, and obnoxious circular definitions) …

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    Comment #21379884

    Yeah, it's not like any programmers have ever come up with bizzare and useless names for abstractions.

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    Comment #21379822

    > Apparently this was a collaboration with Scott Aaronson: Gee, I wish they'd mentioned that in the literal first panel of the comic.

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    Comment #21378521

    At least they've made a new competitor to the linguistic mockery that is Carls Jr.

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    Comment #21378488

    "It doesn't matter how much garbage I produce, everyone else makes way more!"

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    Comment #21378282

    Having "quantum computing" in the title makes this genuine clickbait when the body lacks any explanation of what a state is or what a ket is. Energy or momentum or spin states are …

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    Comment #21378112

    It's basically a 90-year-old pun involving splitting the word "bracket" into "bra" and "ket".

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    Comment #21267109

    There's a really easy solution here: just use a device with a super shitty battery and only charge it once a day. Then, hide the cable. Now there's an incentive for them to learn e…

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    Comment #21267006

    Turkey is doing almost the exact same atrocities today under Erdogan that they did in the 1920s under Ataturk.

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    Comment #21267000

    jacquesm's really disagreeing with the person above you, probably just replied to the wrong comment.

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    Comment #21237342

    History matters. Where can anyone draw the line?

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    Comment #21176871

    Still counts as error!

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    Comment #21039707

    Sounds like Rust has come pretty far.

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    Comment #21039682

    Just type "undefined behavior" here. I'm sure you have the time.

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    Comment #21023539

    The second and third paragraphs of the above comment are bound to age poorly.

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    Comment #21019465

    Out him. You won't.

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    Comment #21019451

    Probably the exhaust/escape typo.

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    Comment #21012000

    Where's the privacy amendment again? Asking for a friend.

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    Comment #21011988

    Arrays are vectors.

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    Comment #21011977

    Adjusted for $ per Mbps-month, Coloradans under the Comcast monopoly pay ~100x what you do.