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Hey,
You could buy a Xbox Series X with $500+tax and have an entertainment appliance instead of buying a RTX 2080Ti. It's got a RDNA 2[^] and can do nearly as many teraflops as the 2080Ti. Plus it would be easy to locate potential friends on the XBL network. Would be easy to locate me just by searching for my gamer tag "David Delaune". Just don't be afraid of the employee badge, I am no longer on the Microsoft XBox team.
It might be difficult to find a Series X this time of year... there is a huge scalping problem in the market right now. Some people are paying $1000 to scalpers, it's such an ugly situation.
Best Wishes,
-David Delaune
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The $500 card I can flip for $1200 on ebay right now if I wanted to, as is.
I don't know if I'd get that kind of value from an XBox.
Besides, I make mods, and I use F4SE, which doesn't work on XBox.
Real programmers use butterflies
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I recently upgraded my Norton AV to the latest version.
Since then every couple of hours it starts a system scan, Full System scan.
It never seems to finish.
Has anyone else experienced this? Do you know what it is about. I looked in help but didn't find anything.
ed
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Windows Defender is now good enough that you can toss these products. One of the first things I'll do, when my new laptop arrives, is to uninstall McAfee. They shouldn't bundle it any longer; it's just bloatware. I do use Malwarebytes, however, because my understanding is that it catches other things.
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Quote: Windows Defender is now good enough that you can toss these products. One of the first things I'll do, when my new laptop arrives, is to uninstall McAfee.
I so totally agree with you! I am eagerly awaiting a new desktop. My first task will be to use Diskpart to totally clean the system drive and then to do a clean install of Windows 11. I believe it's the best way to get rid of bloatware, including McAfee that Dell ships with new systems.
Defender is totally all virus protection I need!
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Greg Utas wrote: uninstall McAfee
And then use the "McAfee Consumer Product Removal Tool" to actually uninstall McAfee.
Because making an "uninstall" option that actually uninstalls the product is apparently too hard. 
"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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Thanks for reminding me. I did it once before but had forgotten about that.
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Greg Utas wrote: I do use Malwarebytes, however, because my understanding is that it catches other things
Well...has it?
If it hasn't, then I don't see any reason to hang on to it as well.
From my perspective, if a system gets infected and Defender can't clean it up, that's when I'll consider using Malwarebytes...but so far it hasn't happened yet.
Or perhaps more accurately, the only time I've used it is when someone brought me a system that was so badly infected that, in the end, Malwarebytes couldn't figure it out either. So I have a hard time recommending it over anything else.
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Malwarebytes has caught other things, like trojans. Maybe Windows Defender would catch them as well, and it's just that Malwarebytes is first in line for intercepts. I'm not an expert in this, and it's hard to get trustworthy information because some review sites are owned by software vendors.
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I haven't used Norton AV since the last millennia.
But yes, I recognize the symptoms.
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I must admit: I am totally ignorant about quantum computers.
The only essential thing I have managed to pick up is that it has very little to do with traditional digital computers. Maybe as different from digital computers as the analog computers 40-50 years ago, those that you programmed by setting up a circuit on a plugboard, using Lego-like bricks that were integrators, derivators, adders, amplifiers/multipliers, ...
I guess that I will never get in touch with a real quantum computer. Yet I'd like to know what they are, at a far deeper level than provided by a single article. More like a college level textbook. One that doesn't require you to know in advance what it is, before you start reading. (I am not specifically referring to the Wikipedia article  .) I am curious about how you analyze a problem suitable for a quantum machine, and how you transfer that problem to a 'program' (if that is the term used with quantum computers). I'd like to learn which problems are suitable for quantum machines and which are not (and why they are not).
Does anyone know of a textbook on the subject, suitable for a reader with fairly thorough insight into traditional digital computers, but totally without a clue about quantum computers? Is quantum computing taught at tech universities as an engineering discipline? What textbooks do they use?
Or should I wait for another five or ten years before asking such questions?
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Have you turned it off-and-on ?
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There's this: Learn Quantum Computation using Qiskit
No quantum knowledge needed, but there's plenty of linear algebra and other math, and it's the real deal, not yet another inaccurate popscience description of quantum computing.
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I skimmed through the first couple chapters of this, and it looks great!
It starts at a rather elementary level: You could give this text to a high school kid, who would most likely follow it well. That is fine! The presentation is very pedagogical. Maybe, after having worked through all of this, I will ask for something that goes even deeper; then I will know a lot better what to ask for. Or maybe this is how far I can manage to follow it
Thanks a lot for the link. I will be forwarding it to others who want to learn the fundamentals of quantum computers.
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trønderen wrote: Or should I wait for another five or ten years before asking such questions?
I understood everything about quantum computers and my answer is yes and no.
GCS d--(d-) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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They can "test all solutions at the same time"; making me think of analog / functional computers. Since everything vibrates at some level, I think it's trying to tap into that.
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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I unwrap my keyboard coming with my DELL T5810 workstation and check around this heavy keyboard.
I notice there are two USB interfaces on the top side of this keyboard.
is there any special usage for these two USB interface? what is the advantage to put them on keyboard?
diligent hands rule....
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If the tower is under the desk, it's convenient to have USB ports up top. Many would have a USB hub on the desk, but...
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this make sense. I will put it into another room and connect it with Monitor by KVM device.
diligent hands rule....
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You can never have too many USB ports.
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No kidding. We have a 16 port USB hub on some of our machines.
Software Zen: delete this;
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