I've actually programmed quantum computers, and I have to admit this is correct. We have access to more qubits now than we can effectively use because of the rapid accumulation of noise and decoherence in quantum processing. No one seems to have achieved much with Quantum Error Correction, and schemes to get it to work better (like Cat qubits) remain theoretical.

There might be a breakthrough someday, and when it happens everyone will know quickly, but there is still a lot of work to do to get there. Or there may never be a breakthrough.

I just asked Google in AI mode "qiskit bell state" and it gave me the code.

from qiskit import QuantumCircuit
from qiskit.quantum_info import Statevector
from qiskit.visualization import plot_histogram

# 1. Create a quantum circuit with 2 qubits and 2 classical bits
qc = QuantumCircuit(2, 2)

# 2. Apply a Hadamard gate to qubit 0 to create a superposition
qc.h(0)

# 3. Apply a CNOT gate with qubit 0 as control and qubit 1 as target
qc.cx(0, 1)

# 4. (Optional) View the ideal quantum statevector before measurement
state = Statevector.from_instruction(qc)
print("Statevector:\n", state)

# 5. Measure both qubits into the classical bits
qc.measure([0, 1], [0, 1])

# 6. Draw the circuit text representation
print("\nCircuit Diagram:")
print(qc.draw(output="text"))

You can go run it on IBM Quantum Platform or AWS Braket

Meanwhile, that CAFE standards put in place by Bush and Obama mandated ever larger trucks and SUVs, created the crossover market and eliminated the small and midsized truck market as well as the large but low car segment in the US.

"I want to use claude code to run 10 unattended Chrome beta testers [more info about what is being tested and specifics]. Write me one or more md files to execute and give me instructions for enabling Chrome mcp, then give me an sh script to launch 10 separate Chrome instances on macos."

I wrote that exact prompt, more or less, a month or two ago, and then other iterations since then, and it's been working very well.

Using LLMs to create prompts for LLMs to use was a good realization.

This makes me laugh! I see classes at universities and colleges on using AI. Not just in the tech arena either, I'm talking liberal arts--med school, law school, you name.

As best as I can tell, "how to use AI" is more or less "don't be a dumbass."

To be succesful with AI, you need the same skills you need to be successful otherwise. Analyze problems, test solutions, think critically, etc. Unattended vibe coding or turning in of AI slop is the same as people who cribbed essays, copied and pasted from Wikipedia, etc.

IMHO, you still need to be a developer to be able to use AI effectively. If you start with a really solid schema, or an existing framework, AI is great at building on top of that. If you give it specific guidance for what and how you want it to develop code, it can do a good job. It is NOT just "lol write me a network utility lol" -- that is a path to disaster.

I've also had good luck with updating and modernizing older code, migrating to a new frameework, and refactoring.

If i'm using claude code, my steps go something like this.

1. Using plan mode, analyze the code base, create a thorough plan and testing strategy for XYZ (Or I provide SQL schema, or I provide a thorough plan of what I want to do, etc.)
2. Refine Claude plan mlutiple times until I'm happy with it
3. Start with writing a set of unit tests to confirm current behavior
4. Implement the first part of the project (this is not coding the whole thing in one shot)
5. Run unit tests, check for regressions.\
6. Rinse and repeat..

Steps 1 and 2 -- with no code being written -- are probably the most important parts.

I should also add that, imo, this will be a relatively short moment in time. I've seen people who are spinning up dozens of agents at the same time -- backend designer, frontend designer, security consultant, css specialist, etc -- that all work together and iterate amongst themselves.

We've been running a beta test of some new software, and one beta tester out of ~30 people hit an error. We could not reproduce it. Claude took ~5 hours, but using Claude to remote control Chrome, in conjunction with analyzing the state of the backend database, and auditing the codebase, Claude was able to reproduce the error and suggest a fix. In this case, we disagreed with the fix (rather, we went for a bigger logical change as opposed to a bandaid), but we've had really great luck with using Claude Chrome mcp as a beta tester.

From what I can tell, this was patched months ago. Why is it a big splashy deal starting yesterday?

It wasn't solely a winterization issue. Had the entire state been running on natgas, the outages would have been near to nonexistent. It was the poor winterization combined with the massive drop in pressure along the natgas lines dropping the internal temperature of the lines precipitously as every available turbine spooled up to try and compensate for wind and solar power shitting the bed during the event.

The DDoS method of problems solving is the only way to beat multiple PaC adventure games without a walkthough.

tl;dr it seems like it's been different things at different times, officially, and that NeXTSTEP has been used for a long time.

From the Wikipedia page, this 0.9 release doc lists "NextStep" as a registered trademark.

https://vtda.org/docs/computing/NeXT/NeXT%200.9-1.0%20Release%20Description.pdf

Some CD images show all caps:

https://auctions.c.yimg.jp/images.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/image/dr000/auc0403/users/dec444a55bdd461a83b1b7c3f2c8e7fa3a731b8b/i-img1000x901-1678086322oe8huf16.jpg

Some show mixed:

https://wagtail.cds.tohoku.ac.jp/coda/topics/nextstep/index.html

1.0 manual goes with "NEXTSTEP":

https://dn710300.ca.archive.org/0/items/NeXTSTEP_User_Guide_1994/NeXTSTEP_User_Guide_1994.pdf

1993 book uses "NeXTSTEP"

https://simson.net/ref/1993/NeXTSTEP3.0.pdf

This marketing flyer uses "NeXTSTEP"

http://www.kevra.org/TheBestOfNext/NeXTProducts/NeXTSoftware/NS-Release3/files/page625_1.pdf

Any place not access controlled by the entity attempting to control X is considered a public forum for purposes of legal issues which may arise from their control of the intellectual property and associated contracts in question. If any specifics of game development beyond work hours and conditions were discussed on said forum which union organizers who were not employees of R* had access too, R* was within their rights to fire the employees participating in the forum. Which since most people can't compartmentalize for shit without extensive training was almost certainly the case.

It's clear the original trilogy was lightning in a bottle for many reasons, and it's clear that Marcia Lucas and other skilled editors had an absolutely huge impact. But can you really say the editor is the "more talented" Lucas? Seems to me that for a time, whatever partnership George and Marcia had personally and working together, worked really well.

After the split, neither one of them ever created something as on target as the originals.

Then again, Star Wars is almost unique for the cultural impact it's had. Hard to do a repeat.

Just shows how sometimes connotations and visceral impacts of words change over time.

I learned about that movie from The Wall..

My kids call me a boomer when that happens to me. And yeah, it happens.

Though to be fair, I actually really like the side button -- the one on the lower right that is touch sensitive. I use it for activating and using the camera. I just ALSO sometimes activate it when reading in landscape mode. Oops.

You do realize this is for NEW reactors right?