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Re: Ask HN: What's a strong tech opinion you have that few agree with you on?

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Post by mikewarot »

Quantum annealing is the only truly useful quantum computing architecture to date.

I further believe that someone will figure out an algorithm that runs on classical computers to match the speed of quantum annealing, thus the Quantum Annealing machines, while currently useful, have a limited shelf life.

Shor's algorithm, which runs on Quantum Computers, requires the use of many repeated cycles of small rotations of qubits in the complex plane of the Bloch sphere. These are analog operations that accumulate phase error. It's not possible to use error correction with these operations, as those techniques necessarily sacrifice information in the complex component plane, leaving the real component "corrected".

Re: Ask HN: What's a strong tech opinion you have that few agree with you on?

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Post by solardev »

thefz wrote: post #19
solardev wrote: post #8

The future of gaming is streaming, and home PC gaming hardware will eventually go the way of DVD players. GeForce Now is succeeding where OnLive and Stadia failed (20+ million users now, apparently). Offloading rendering to the cloud means much improved thermals, graphics, and battery life -- especially for laptop users and Mac owners. Apple Silicon is cool, but it's not going to beat a 4080 for pure graphics perform…

You are assuming ubiquitous fast and low latency internet connection,which does not exist

It's easier for more people to afford broadband than a 4080 though. It only needs like 30 megabits or so.

Re: Ask HN: What's a strong tech opinion you have that few agree with you on?

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Post by sweatypalmer »

efortis wrote: post #18

Monospace fonts slow you down. https://x.com/efortis/status/1501988964198191113

What a terrible alternative though

Is the goal to read text or code? I need to be able to tell what's a space between variables and what is camelCase

Re: Ask HN: What's a strong tech opinion you have that few agree with you on?

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Post by ipaddr »

thefz wrote: post #20

VR is a solution in search of a problem and will pass.

It could solve the fantasy girlfriend problem. In todays age you are stuck buying expensive gifts off of an only fans page waiting for the next status update. VR could take over this market.

VR isn't going to steal the video game market or business conference. If VR was as open ended as second life I think people would find cool ways to interact. Fan expos, social clubs, esports, concerts and sex are natural fits

Re: Ask HN: What's a strong tech opinion you have that few agree with you on?

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Post by meheleventyone »

solardev wrote: post #23
thefz wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You are assuming ubiquitous fast and low latency internet connection,which does not exist

It's easier for more people to afford broadband than a 4080 though. It only needs like 30 megabits or so.

Most gaming also doesn’t need a 4080 either though!

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Post by [deleted] »

solardev wrote: post #8

The future of gaming is streaming, and home PC gaming hardware will eventually go the way of DVD players. GeForce Now is succeeding where OnLive and Stadia failed (20+ million users now, apparently). Offloading rendering to the cloud means much improved thermals, graphics, and battery life -- especially for laptop users and Mac owners. Apple Silicon is cool, but it's not going to beat a 4080 for pure graphics perform…

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Re: Ask HN: What's a strong tech opinion you have that few agree with you on?

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Post by efortis »

nairboon wrote: post #22
efortis wrote: post #18

Monospace fonts slow you down. https://x.com/efortis/status/1501988964198191113

What's up with the whitespaces in the second font. How can you tell what is even a whitespace there.

Uppercase letters have left padding, which is 1/3 of a whitespace char. I got used to it within a few minutes.

That padding is for helping with camelCase, but another opinion is that snake_case is better than camel. Better yet, some languages allow them in identifiers.

Re: Ask HN: What's a strong tech opinion you have that few agree with you on?

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Post by ipaddr »

russellbeattie wrote: post #6

Heh. This thread is like an invitation to get downvoted. I'll bite: Using const for all variables in JavaScript is moronic. It's a trend that should have been killed with prejudice in the crib. If you want type safety, use another language. Use let for variables and const for actual constants. Words have meanings. The const statement wasn't created so developers could litter their code with it to show how cool they a…

I'm a fan of let. When you use it all possibilities are still alive when you are declaring. It could stay null or hold an object. The skies the limit. When we use const it limits the variable to whatever wishes I had during declaring but never leaving me room to change my mind. I can't reuse and recycle I always need something new. Pencils have erasers. No one likes liquid paper.
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