I once built a fully functional iPad 2 from totally scrap parts meant to be thrown away at the repair shop I used to work for. Then sold it for $100, as if I'd ever use anything from Apple!
Yes, that's how wasteful our current system is. There were enough spare parts to literally build an entire functional device, but I was told to take those parts out to the dumpster.
I was like fuck that, I'm keeping these particular parts at least. And no, the logic board wasn't iCloud locked. After cleanup and assembly, it was just as good as an iPad that might have only been used for around 2 months.
Dumpster parts or usable parts? Welp, $100 for me, from junk parts restored to perfectly working condition. WINNING!
Edit: Screw Apple and their extravagantly overpriced shit, and especially screw the whole planned obsolescence era!
I dunno, are the Christmas tree dicks circumcised?
Sounds like the government wants to hoard most of the dildos to go fuck themselves. 🍆
They litetally escorted me out of the hospital, the elevators were restricted to authorized personnel and accepted patients.
They looked at my X-rays and claimed they didn't see anything wrong (except likely the fact I didn't have insurance), so they didn't admit me as a formal accepted patient.
Healthcare in the USA for ya...
At least I managed to slip that damn disc back in place on my own, it only rarely mildly bothers me when it gets cold or happen to sleep wrong or something.
Edit: Driving was no problem, I had practically no problem looking side to side, I just couldn't look up, or hardly sleep unless I was sitting up in a recliner.
Looks more like a sperm delivery system of some sort, but I'm no war expert.. 🤷
Ask a quantum chip how to cure a disease? Sure, let's accept that as a possible future...
You really think the chips actually understand diseases? We're gonna end up with a whole new generation of people that have no clue how the shit works to begin with.
Eventually it'll be like "How do I trim my toenails?", while the 'intelligent' system responds to cut your appendages off.
Granted that AI and quantum computing aren't quite the same thing. Does it matter? Future generations will have the ability to just ask a computer how to generate cure a disease..
The machine gives no fucks about us, it'll just as easily destroy us if someone asks the wrong question or enters the wrong formula.
You're forgetting the difference between processing and memory. The posted article is about memory.
If the memory sucks compared to standards of half a century ago, then they just suck.
Okay, you have a good day too.
I'm not about to create an account with miscellaneous sites that require my email.
Why do we humans even think we need to solve these extravagantly over-complicated formulas in the first place? Shit, we're in a world today where kids are forgetting how to spell and do basic math on their own, no thanks to modern technology.
Don't get me wrong, human curiosity is an amazing thing. But that's a two edged sword, especially when we're augmenting genuine human intelligence with the processing power of modern technology and algorithms.
Just because we can, doesn't necessarily mean we should. We're gonna end up with a new generation of kids growing up half dumb as a stump, expecting the computers to give us all the right answers.
Smart technology for dumb people...
Your first link is paywalled, fuck that.
Pulling a serious comment from your third link only reinforces practically everything I've been getting at..
"The problem of showing a 'hello world' of quantum computing is that we're basically still as far from quantum computers as Leibnitz or Babbage were from your current computer. While we know how they should operate theoretically, there is no standard way of actually building a physical quantum computer. A side-effect of that is that there is no single programming model of quantum computing. Textbooks such as Nielsen et al. will show you a 'quantum circuit' diagram, but those are far from formal programming languages: they get a little 'hand-waving' on the details such as classical control or dealing with input/output/measurement results."
Well riddle me this, if a computer of any sort has to constantly keep correcting itself, whether in processing or memory, well doesn't that seem unreliable to you?
Hell, with quantum computers, if the temperature ain't right and you fart in the wrong direction, the computations get corrupted. Even when you introduce error correction, if it only lasts an hour, that still doesn't sound very reliable to me.
On the other hand, I have ECC ChipKill RAM in my computer, I can literally destroy a memory chip while the computer is still running, and the system is literally designed to keep running with no memory corruption as if nothing happened.
That sort of RAM ain't exactly cheap either, but it's way cheaper than a super expensive quantum computer with still unreliable memory.
Core memory is also designed to accomodate for that and almost instantly rewrite the data back to memory. That in itself might be a crude form of 'error' correction, but it still lasts way longer than an hour.
Granted that quantum computers are a different beast of their own, how much digital data does a qbit actually store? And how does that stack up in price per bit comparison?
If they already know quantum computers are more prone to memory errors, why not just use reliable conventional RAM to store the intermediate data and just let the quantum side of things just be the 'CPU', or QPU if you like?
I dunno, it just makes absolutely no sense to me to utilitze any sort of memory technology that even with error correction still manages to lose information faster than a jumping spider's memory?
Ya know, as much hype as there has been for the idea of quantum computing, I haven't even so much as seen a snippet of source code for it to even say Hello World.
Even if that's not exactly what these machines are meant for, seriously, where's even a snippet of code for people to even get a clue how (and if) they even work as they're hyped to be?
Indeed, you're very correct. It can also remember those results for over an hour. Hell, a jumping spider has better memory than that.
Nah, core memory is alright in my book, considering the era of technology anyways. I would have been shitting on the William's Tube CRT Memory system..
https://youtube.com/watch?v=SpqayTc_Gcw
Though in all fairness, at the time even that was something of progress.
I totally get you there, yes no one person should have over half a billion dollars while so many others plus the environment are suffering.
As far as scientific advancement, I think humanity is already reaching the peak of that mountain. Sure there's still more to be discovered, but at what cost?
How much does it cost in research and design, manufacturing and programming a quantum computer? I dunno what their finances look like, but if I had to spot a wild guess, that already sounds like over half a billion dollars...
Yes, as far as memory integrity goes anyways. Hell, even without an abacus, the wet noodle in my head still has better memory integrity.
My custom made 13 spike watchband, just finished today
Obviously I didn't make the watch itself, but I have a different style to me, so of course I needed to make a custom band.
Don't ask how much it costed me, too much, but plenty of extra material.
My custom made 13 spike watchband, just finished today
Obviously I didn't make the watch itself, but I have a different style to me, so of course I needed to make a custom band.
Don't ask how much it costed me, too much, but plenty of extra material.
Cubing Question: Are there other notations for cube moves that include middle layer rotations and/or using different colors as top/right/front?
No picture today, just a question. Like, my brain doesn't work well when I gotta keep the center squares fixed in place, I'm almost always rotating the cube around.
Adding dice dots to it totally throws off the conventional algorithms, but in a good way. Often I'll use green or blue as my top side, but other times I'll use white or yellow as my top side. It just depends on the puzzle.
And yes I'm a wrist turner.
Previous post reference:
https://lemmy.world/post/22597387
Rubik's Cube Dice Study 2
Update on my modded Rubik's Cube Dice Studies
Since there is apparently no algorithm out there (that I know of) that incorporates dice dot patterns on a Rubik’s Cube, I’ve been on my own to study the interesting patterns that I’ve discovered.
Your cube does not necessarily need the dots to accomplish these patterns, but it’s definitely fun playing with my modded cube!
If you have any suggestions or additions, or happen to spot any errors or even possible duplicates, by all means please let me know.
Previous post references:
https://lemmy.world/post/22558418
https://lemmy.world/post/21009190
https://lemmy.world/post/21879626
Rubik's Cube Dice Study
Since there is apparently no algorithm out there (that I know of) that incorporates dice dot patterns on a Rubik's Cube, I've been on my own to study the interesting patterns that I've discovered.
Your cube does not necessarily need the dots to accomplish these patterns, but it's definitely fun playing with my modded cube!
If you have any suggestions, or happen to spot any errors, by all means please let me know, and happy Cubesgiving!
Edit: The two left columns are all proper dice, where all dot patterns 1 through 6 are there, and opposing side dots add up to 7. The right column is what I call 5/5/5 patterns, or the Trypophobic sequence of patterns.
Previous post references:
https://lemmy.world/post/21009190
https://lemmy.world/post/21879626
The Atmos Clock - It has the power to wind itself!
Yes, I know this is a clock and not a watch, but the only Clocks communities I could find are pretty dead right now.
It's a crazy awesome mechanical clock that doesn't need batteries or manual winding, it winds itself using bellows and air temperature changes.
Springfield Shopper (Actual Print)
Reference: https://simpsonswiki.com/wiki/Springfield_Shopper_(comic)
Source: Came with a case of my dad's Busch beer in the early 90s. It took 16 scans on a 300dpi scanner stitched together plus lots of filtering to get it this legible, so please forgive 'potato' quality, this was scanned in long ago.
Edit: Of course you'll need to zoom in to read it.
Sorry I no longer have the original paper to rescan.
Question: What's the best way to clean and lube a speed cube?
Mine has worn in enough to start jamming up, but I've mitigated that by pressure washing it at our water park almost every day. That helps a lot, but I've been reluctant to actually lubricate it, not like I want oil on my hands every time I tinker with it..
Advice very welcome, as the puzzle you see above, I can solve it blind and single handed, but the thing keeps jamming up..
Update: I figured out where the main wear and tear is coming from. I used a cloth wipe to clean all the crevices of plastic dust. Then I noticed circular grooves worn into pretty much every piece internally.
Turns out, it was caused by plastic burrs from the clips on the covers of the center pieces. If I had realized that to begin with, I would have flattened those out and cleaned them up when I first had it disassembled.
Anyways, now it's already pretty well worn in, no reason to bother now. Still, if I knew in advance, I would have trimmed, smoothed out, and lubricated those manufactured plastic burrs before even using it much.
Lemmy introduce you to the Trypophobic Rubik's Die..
Based on my modified Rubik's Cube/Die.
Yes obviously it's not a proper die as far as the dot pattern goes, but it's fun figuring out patterns like this.
Reference post..
https://lemmy.world/post/21009190
Are there any PC emulators for x86 that can be configured to emulate hardware flaws such as the faulty original Pentium FDIV instruction?
I know this would basically be a useless feature, except for scientific curiousity. I think it could be interesting to some people to see first hand what sort of errors that old faulty CPUs would produce.
Emulators for other faulty platforms might be interesting too. Not like I'd expect any programmers out there to deliberately write faulty instructions though, except as stated, something of a scientific exercise.
Just curious honestly.
Hypothetical: Can a person "citizen's arrest" themself? And if so, how (and why) would that even work?
Yes, totally random silly question 😂