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google will say anything to distract you from reality.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: I "may" make contact with an alien civilization 
We already have, for thousands of years. They landed in Egypt with their flying saucer, and quickly proceeded to have some temples built for them, let their behinds be put on cushions and only got up to eat or go hunting for sports. And now we build quantum computers to post more pictures and videos of them.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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CodeWraith wrote: They landed in Egypt with their flying saucer
CodeWraith wrote: all of them were cats
Software Zen: delete this;
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interesting read...thanks
Give me coffee to change the things I can and wine to accept the things I cannot!
JaxCoder.com
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I'm not a quantum expert..
It changes because, if you work with it at a low level, you would have to think in terms of complex probability amplitudes and unitary transformations and such, instead of pure bits and arbitrary boolean operations. Mere mortals will probably just be invoking higher level algorithms that use some quantum subroutines deep inside of them.
I feel like the article oversells QC a little. RSA will indeed be in trouble, but then I see this:
For any given number of qubits n in a quantum processor, they do the same work or hold the same amount of data as 2n classical bits
But that's pretty misleading. It would take exponentially more storage to describe those quantum states, but they are not exponentially more powerful. It's not the case that you can just take any old classical algorithm, apply QC magic, and have it be exponentially faster - which I think they are indirectly implying, though they didn't quite come out and say it. Simulating quantum computers and other quantum systems does get exponentially easier, but are you doing that? Many search and optimization problems can be dramatically improved (though not exponentially) and that is quite general, but not universal.
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I always thought that they were going for something different, more like a normal processor, but with its complete internal registers and states built with QC magic. With n superimposed sets of states it would behave like a multicore processor with n cores. If they get this to work and if they can really raise the number of superimposed quantum states to such astronomical levels, this would mean supercomputers on a single chip.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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It doesn't work comparably to parallelism, despite such claims in popular science. You only get one result out per "run". Prior to measurement you can have some massive superposition of all states, but only one of them will be the actual output, selected randomly from the possibilities, with probability proportional to the square of its amplitude. If those amplitudes are not carefully controlled with a clever algorithm that specifically targets quantum computing, you would just get one of the results with no particular control over which result.
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...how Microsoft makes it so hard to do simple stuff in Visual Studio. My current pain point is creating project templatse, especiily with multiple projects in a solution. I've found some sketchy docs, but nothing yet to the depth of info I think I need... They've had almost 20 years to get it right, and still we knock around, having to dicovere sh*t on our own...
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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I don't think a lot of shops/devs create custom project templates much. I could be wrong. However, if I am correct, that would explain why it still doesn't work...I think.
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We are using our own project templates - it was a PITA to create them, and now a PITA to maintain them across the versions of VS... The real problem is that there is no real documentation about it, like Microsoft says it is not your job to create templates - we did all of it for you...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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It's not too much of a pain if your solution has one project.
Fortunately, VS2015 and VS2017 are compatible in terms of templates, but I have read that Microsoft has realized they made it somewhat more palatable than usual, and intentionally broke compatibility again in VS2019.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Would be great to see this harvested for Tips/Tricks
«Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?» T. S. Elliot
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Except that would be plagiarism, unless Elizabeth Andrews joined and submitted it herself. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Are we (all) not already standing on the shoulders of giants ?
«Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?» T. S. Elliot
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I've never been called a giant before.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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John, you're a GIANT!
Software Zen: delete this;
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That's big of you.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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What on Earth are you talking about?!?
An ms VS template = ".sln file + other stuff"!
What more could you possibly need?!?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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don't get me started on their embedded <not> support.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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Is there a way to automatically hide or block posts made by certain members? Or should I post to the bug/suggestion forum?
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Better men than you have tried to block me...
Actually, there is no current mechanism for doing so.
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DAMMMIT!!!
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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