I noticed a rash of these in my spam box a few days ago. The email bodies had lots of fixed content that made it pretty clear that some support system was getting abused, but it wasn't obvious exactly what the cause was.

https://algassert.com/post/250... addresses the case of 21.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1903.007... seems to be the paper about 35, although it says that noise meant that "the algorithm fails to factor N = 35" (and didn't do a great job for 21 either).

More specifically, digital quantum computers have factored 15, 21 and 35 -- but 15 is a near-trivial special case, and the circuits for the other two used shortcuts that were associated with knowledge of what the factors (of 21 and 35) are. The circuit for 35 can't factor 21.

Almost all US healthcare spending is by the government. And the US government spends more per person on health care than any other country spends government+private. By a lot.

https://www.statista.com/stati...

A large majority of that government spending is direct spending on Medicare and Medicaid, not subsidies for insurance. So when you complain that the US "doesn't even have a functioning healthcare system", the most obvious reason is because our governments have broken the system.

slivergrunt: Was it over when the estheticians bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no!
Otter: [to Boon] Estheticians?
Boon: Forget it, he's rolling.

Isn't that why they make phones with 256+ GB storage? "The cloud" (aka "someone else's computer") might be convenient in various ways, but it's inherently slower than what is already on your phone, and it doesn't work so well from the top of a mountain[1], the bottom of a parking garage, or other places with lousy mobile coverage.

[1]- I was surprised that Mount Fuji had mobile good coverage all the way up, but I guess Japanese people also want to Snapchat/SNS from there.

Why would anyone bother to point out you saying yet another retarded thing?

Russia and China thank you for making the cables much easier to snag with anchors.

Occasionally you get meter-plus slips, even far from the epicenter, and those could strain the cable pretty severely even with a tether to provide slack.

It's an even dumber take to insist that things can only be done if they are done perfectly.

... if you trust pseudonymous Internet randos over the US intelligence community and DoD, at least.

https://www.nextgov.com/modern...
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/12/0...

These clouds have multiple layers of security, several of which reduce the likelihood that someone will install an interposer in a server undetected. (Or, in the case of the Wiretap photo, job up a logic analyzer to a compromised server.) Cloud vendors are also likely to have moved quicker to DDR5, which isn't vulnerable to either of these attacks.

That's a dumb take. The US has been writing cloud computing contracts for TOP SECRET content for years, to say nothing of public web sites. Australia and New Zealand have specific infosec guidance (their Information Security Manuals) that not only recommend particular controls when using cloud vendors, but that encourage use of cloud vendors, CDNs, and similar services to improve availability of government-provided information and services.

Everyone should have contingency plans and fallback capabilities, but there are lots of places that cloud services make sense.

Amazon cares, apparently. But without sideloading, and with apologies to the typo in the headline here... what happens on Vega, stays in Vega.

If you type 12,000 lines that do pretty much the expected thing, and it takes you roughly 30 hours, sure you're better than Claude.

As much as we love to ding LLMs, productivity over time is a big factor in software development.

What ECI do you or your employer put in your payroll system?

This is atrocious behavior by the landlords, but they want access to pay records, not the employer's IT system. Most employers have outsourced all the payroll handling for decades now, so the payroll systems cannot touch information that is proprietary or export-controlled or whatever else.

"I honestly beleave it iz better tew know nothing than two know what ainâ(TM)t so." - Josh Billings (which may have been the genesis of the modern quote that is incorrectly attributed to Mark Twain, "It ainâ(TM)t what you donâ(TM)t know that gets you into trouble. Itâ(TM)s what you know for sure that just ainâ(TM)t so.")