I'm not a fan of Confluence by any stretch, mostly because I've been forced to use it in areas where it's really not the right tool for the job. But if what you want is a wiki that non-technical people can create a page and then write like it's MS Word, Confluence is hard to beat.

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You're thinking full-length adult novels. Short stories that back in the day might have been submitted to an anthology magazine like Asimov's might get published individually as "books" these days (because why not? there's no printing or distribution costs). I could also imagine writing more than 5 children's books per month.

Granted, they're not going to be quality works at that rate, but a human could certainly do it.

TFS claims "This isn't too surprising since the major consoles all use AMD processors and GPUs", which is true, but what any console other than XBox is doing is irrelevant, since this is an exclusive. A perfect example of why Microsoft's purchase of Bethesda should have been blocked under anti-trust legislation.

"exponential" has a precise meaning. Hint: it's not "a lot"

Multiple instances of questionable research from a single person are troubling. But it's not Stanford's job to identify and reject bad research. How did a paper that "had 'multiple problems' and 'fell below customary standards of scientific rigor and process'" make it through peer review?

There is not reason for companies to bother doing highly rigorous work and analysis if the journals will accept low quality submissions.

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Quantum computers are good at any problem where the size of the problem space scales exponentially with the size of the inputs.

More long-winded: when people talk about quantum computers, they always start with how each qubit can be in a superposition of 0 and 1 and then go into the Bloch sphere and woo! quantum! And it's all irrelevant. You can represent any number of isolated qubits states to arbitrary accuracy with a linear scaling to classical bits (e.g. to represent a single qubit state with double-precision floating point, you need 2 doubles = 128 bits). Since classical bits are approximately infinitely cheaper than qubits, you'd never bother with quantum.
What's important about quantum computing is entangling multiple qubits. The size of the state space of an arbitrarily-entangled set of qubits scales as 2^n. That means that representing ~50 arbitrarily-entangled qubits takes ~1 PB of classical memory.

The state-space scaling that entanglement gives you maps directly onto problem-space scaling. Factoring large numbers and many-body physics and chemistry problems both have in common that the possible solution space grows exponentially with the size of the inputs (how large a number you're trying to factor, or how many bodies in the n-body problem).

You're right that there aren't just a ton of problems that scale this way, but there are lots, and the dollar value of many of the applications are enormous (think designing new drugs with perfect fidelity).

Even if your comment is true (doubtful), you're talking about "mature" people. The article is about kids, who often don't have a solid self-image and are infinitely more vulnerable to this kind of stuff.

I'm a huge fan of Linux, have a few boxes at home and am administering half a dozen at work. But your post demonstrates total ignorance of the cost of business. Providing your workers with a familiar environment that they are comfortable using without training is worth the cost of software licenses 50 times over. Plus the Windows license is baked into the cost of a new PC purchase from any major supplier, so it's not like you can avoid paying that cost anyway.

you know even slashdot can handle links so I don't have to copy/paste the URL...

You know what I *love*? When I look for a recipe online, and have to scroll through six pages of stories about the history of the dish, how even the picky eater in their family loves it, and every anecdote the author/spam bot thought could be shoved in there before actually getting to the recipe itself. Now search engines are going to go the same way. Instead of a robotic dump of information (links) in a compact list format, we'll get a wall of uncanny valley prose to read while trying to tease out the information we want. Gotta love the future.

Did you actually see Infinity War? They lost, and they lost some more, and then they lost real bad, and then the movie ended.

that's nice. I moved 5 years ago, and gave my phone number to the post office in order to set up mail forwarding. The US Post Office! Immediately after that, I started getting 3-5 spam calls a day, and it hasn't stopped since.

Dental insurance in the US isn't really insurance, because most of them have *maximum* payout. So they don't fulfill the one actual purpose of insurance, which is to hedge against (hopefully) rare but large bills. Once you realize that the label is incorrect and treat it as the prepaid-discount club that it is, it's much easier to understand.