I like the term "hallucination", because with AI it now describes something made up because of a lack of understanding.

Now you are hallucinating. The exact opposite is true. All scaling in QCs has been sub-linear and very likely inverse (!) exponential. Incidentally, factoring 21 is the current, actual, not-outdated-at-all record for a real quantum calculation.

If you want, I can also call you "delusional" instead of "hallucinating". Would fit about as well with what you just claimed.

You have to be utterly blind (or a cult member) to not see how much worse this one is. Well, there are both utterly blind people and cult members in abundance. I guess you are just one of them.

So, the Trump fans are now pivoting from "Everything is excellent with out great beloved leader in power!" to "Yes, we and our leader are complete fuckups, but so is everybody else!" ? Is that what you are saying?

I agree. The thing is that nuclear cannot be safe and economically viable at the same time. The only question is how different countries chose to make this impossible trade-off. The only rational version is, clearly, not to play this stupid game at all, but irrationality, greed and delusions are strong forces.

I also like the morons that claim nuclear is always available. These idiots do not even know the basics of a power-grid. For example, nuclear is not suitable as regulation energy at all and a grid with more nuclear than 70% cannot be made stable. The rest needs to be fast regulation energy because when a nuke SCRAMs, it begins to draw quite a bit of power for a long time and does so with no warning. Nuclear is about the most stupid, most limited, most unreliable and most expensive form of generating electricity.

Ah, sorry. I get confused about the number, because it does not really matter, only that it is exceptionally small. You are right, it was 21.

That just means you have no clue what you are talking about...

The Trash 80s? Had a Commodore PET 3032. A whole 1 megahertz. On the other hand, the IEEE 488 meant that I could send a command to one disk drive to transfer to a second disk drive, whilst printing, with the computer then totally free to actually do other stuff. SCSI it wasn't, but for the time, it was an ingenious solution to a lot of problems.

Sheer luxury, lad! Sheer luxury!

We had to make our own bits and push them uphill! Both ways! In the snow!

Pah, youngsters.

However, some of you might be old enough to remember the April 1st when the front page turned pink and a link to Cute Overload caused absolute chaos. Did CmdrTaco ever get a pony, btw?

At this time, this is the only rational stance left. There is no indication that QCs can ever scale to useful size, but a ton of indicators that they likely will not. There is not even solid proof that QCs work at all, because the longest, most complex complex calculation ever done successfully is apparently factoring 29 with a specialized algorithm for 29. That is easily in range for a conventional analog computation by non-quantum mechanisms. Hence while I think it is unlikely, the computation mechanisms that QCs rely on may still turn out to be hallucinations. Also note that even very, very, very minor deviations from the theory (and we _always_ had those in the past as soon as we had equipment to verify theory against reality precisely enough) would completely kill the QC idea. The precision required to do, say, a 128 bit calculation precisely, is unimaginable and a digital computer only reaches it by extreme measures.

You should read the accident report some time.

Sweden is a very interesting case. I think what they have is a result of mindless enthusiasm and not thinking things through colliding with reality. Reality always wins out in the end, but it can take some time.

Ok, crime-financing, money-laundering, and other unsavory uses may be a valid application scenario. Or not. Because, you know, the designers may have known about this little problem and taken it into account.

Oh, and look, that has happened: https://paytechlaw.com/en/digi...
Funny how doing some minimal actual research (30 seconds in my case) yields better insights than mindless belief.

Pretty much. The US has had several really bad nuclear accidents and close-to accidents by now, including a reactor pressure vessel that very nearly blew up in operation. I guess a catastrophe with some larger land-area becoming uninhabitable is needed before the nuclear dimwits begin to understand something.

No idea why they fetishize this outdated and failed technology so much.

"Good things"? Where? The choice is between completely unproven designs that rest on the fragile hope of mass-production, and outdated, inefficient, overpriced and likely unsafe designs. I do not see any "good things" there, but a ton of abject stupidity and wishful thinking.