Given the rate of "progress" with QC doing prime factorization of arbitrary compound numbers, not only will I be dead by then, everyone who will have known me in my life will be dead. And if you add the criterion that QC must be cheap enough to make it worthwhile to crack my secret messages, there's a fair chance that everyone who would have known anyone who knew me in life in life will also be dead by then.

And no, I do not believe in doomsday prophesies.

Meanwiile, without any form of cheating, a 6th grader will be a lot faster than a quantum computer, and they'll do it for rewards that cost way less than the operating cost of the QC.

Practical quantum prime factorization is all the way up to (some) 2 digit numbers and it only took 20 years. Lately, scaling of quantum computers seems to have hit a wall. MS's meetoo quantum chip turned out to be a mock-up, Google's imminant announcement of the largest QC yet is now a year overdue and silence from the hype machine is ominous.

So I guess this is Aptiv trying to cash in (or perhaps cash out) before the bust.

Good point. An army that sees all others as subhuman and sees only the next death is one that has to keep fighting. It has no choice. It's the only thing it knows. It can keep conquering more territory outwards, or it can slaughter its own government inwards. History shows those are your two options.

Whether or not Russia conquers Ukraine, it will attack other countries - vast numbers of bored, underpaid soldiers would seek entertainment elsewhere if they didn't.

This is what I'm going by:

The report said that in December 2018, the US Federal Aviation Administration issued a special airworthiness information bulletin based on reports from operators of model 737 planes that the fuel control switches were installed with the locking feature disengaged.

The airworthiness concern was not considered an unsafe condition that would warrant an airworthiness directive – a legally enforceable regulation to correct unsafe conditions.

The same switch design is used in Boeing 787-8 aircraft, including Air India’s VT-ANB, which crashed. The report added: “As per the information from Air India, the suggested inspections were not carried out as the SAIB was advisory and not mandatory.”

https://www.theguardian.com/wo...

1. Were the safety guards, which were optional, installed?

2. We know investigators are looking into the computer system, does this mean the computer can also set the switch settings?

If the answers are "no" and "no" respectively, it was likely an accidental bump.

If the answers are "yes" and "no", then one of the pilots lied.

If the answer to the second one is yes, then regardless of the answer to the first, I'd hope the investigation thoroughly checks whether the software can be triggered into doing so through faulty data or the existence of software defects.

What about LONG term income and price changes?

Wages haven't kept up with inflation for decades. Various social norms pressuring people to have kids have been eroding the whole time due to the simple impracticality of it.

OK, open the hanger, here comes the airplaaaaaane!>/p>

His name is Paul Yura. I'm pretty sure Nick Bannon is not rsilvergun IRL.

Now finish those nummy strained peas.

Quote:

"NOTE: The operatorâ(TM)s average FTTP build rate is currently 81,000 premises per week (c. 1 million per quarter) and their network has a take-up rate of 35%. Openreach has so far covered almost 17m UK premises."

"theyâ(TM)ve also expressed an ambition to reach up to 30m by 2030"

So you have only 35% of 17m premises actually using it - and they will cover less than half the country by 2030. Don't forget that "premises" is a rather odd definition too, because that treats HMO's and flats etc. very differently.

Two thirds of places aren't using these FTTP products even when they are available, and half the country still won't even have the possibility to use them before 2030.

Plus, just becuase an FTTP product exists does not mean it's sensible.

e.g. BT Wholesale Exchange Checker tells me I can only have "FTTP on Demand". Which is basically a poor-man's leased-line product.

- field survey charge of £325.00 + VAT is payable in advance and is non-refundable.
- BT connection charge of £495.00 + VAT will apply to each order.
- A connection charge of £545.00 + VAT will apply to each order.
- 900Mbps : £108.00 Monthly
- Minimum contract 2 years

Which is why the take-up rate is so poor - often that's you're only choice. £1,638 just to get the connection, and then £3,110.40 committment over two years. That's basically ten times what I'm paying for VDSL for the first two years.

https://www.ispreview.co.uk/in...

It's right here in the comments.

The person who would have coordinated the alert with local authorities is gone. His position has not been filled because a lateral move would make the new guy "probationary" (and we know what happens to those under Trump).

But in this particular case, with the chain of cause to effect well established, the names of each of those kids should be tattooed on his face in blood red ink, mirror imaged so he can be reminded every morning when he gets up.

The alerts are supposed to be localized to the area where they can do some good. When I get an alert about something on the other side of the state at 3 A.M. It has missed the mark, unless that ever so rare silver or possibly white Honda drives through my bedroom window (which can't happen for at least 3 hours given how far away it is), there's zero chance I will see it.

Now, if they displayed the alert on the signs over the interstate, they would better target people who might actually see it.

You need to read the fine print on that CD sleeve.

"Not for public performance".

Same on DVDs.

"Not for use on oil rigs, in schools, ..."

Your alleged "ownership" of that CD means nothing when it comes to copyright, any more than photocopying books and handing them out to everyone for free.

Dumb paywall, but for reference, "full fibre" is not fully fibre still.

FTTC for the most part. 80+-year-old telephone lines for the rest.

It's a statistical engine and it hasn't been trained that "Don't Know" is the correct answer when its statistics fail it (that would require training it to answer Don't Know more than anything else, and for every possible question it hasn't got data for, which is why it hasn't happened).

Instead it hallucinates based on some spurious things being tiny fractions of a percent "more likely" by some statistical correlation.

These things are just statistical boxes, it has no way to do anything else. And it's inability to know when it doesn't know, and just say that, is one of its biggest problems, because instead it confidently spouts nonsense in those instances.