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prof-dr-ir
·5 месяцев назад·discuss
I agree that this behavior is insane and should be fixed.

Do however note that it is possible to install another keyboard on iOS, which may alleviate your suffering before you switch to Android in about 120 days.

Personally I rely on Gboard [0] every day for the simple reason that it auto-detects several (more than two) languages, and of course it has the added benefit of not having this crazy bug. Gboard is google software however, so it does come with huge privacy issues, and others will hopefully point out better alternatives.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gboard
prof-dr-ir
·6 месяцев назад·discuss
Yes, and RFK Jr. says certain vaccines have never worked.

I guess what I want to convey is how sad your comment makes me. What went wrong that makes you, and anyone really, trust that man's opinion on physics?

Here is a cynical but overall rather accurate takedown of Mr. Weinstein:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUr4Tb8uy-Q
prof-dr-ir
·6 месяцев назад·discuss
Among theoretical physicists there is little doubt that Edward Witten is currently the greatest living theoretical physicist. Here is an interview with him from a few weeks ago:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAbP0magTVY

I think it is a great watch for anyone with an interest in the field.
prof-dr-ir
·6 месяцев назад·discuss
> I really miss Google Inbox

I very much agree. Also really miss the ability to quickly group related emails.

(And no, that was not the same as adding a label; for one, the whole group simply appeared as one "bigger" email in the Inbox. It was a bit like a thread that you can manually add emails to.)

When everybody got kicked out of Inbox I happened to have a group of about ten emails related to an upcoming trip. Those ten emails got de-grouped and scattered all around in the ordinary gmail interface. I would have appreciated a smoother transition...
prof-dr-ir
·6 месяцев назад·discuss
The article is just generally sloppy.

> .. my recent trip from Abu Dhabi to LA. 24 hours door-to-door. We have the technology to reduce that to under 10.

The direct flight (by Emirates) takes 16h15 mins, so that leaves 7h45 mins not in flight. If we want to bring that down to 10 hours just by making the flight supersonic then that would require a flight time of 2h15, corresponding to a (ridiculous) speed well over Mach 4.
prof-dr-ir
·6 месяцев назад·discuss
good train > plane > bad train
prof-dr-ir
·7 месяцев назад·discuss
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prof-dr-ir
·7 месяцев назад·discuss
> Factoring becoming a reasonable benchmark is strongly related to quantum computing becoming useful.

Either this relation is not that strong, or factoring should "imminently" become a reasonable benchmark, or useful quantum computing cannot be "imminent". So which one is it?

I think you are the author of the blogpost I linked to? Did I maybe interpret it too negatively, and was it not meant to suggest that the second option is still quite some time away?
prof-dr-ir
·7 месяцев назад·discuss
I am confused, since even factoring 21 is apparently so difficult that it "isn’t yet a good benchmark for tracking the progress of quantum computers." [0]

So the "useful quantum computing" that is "imminent" is not the kind of quantum computing that involves the factorization of nearly prime numbers?

[0] https://algassert.com/post/2500
prof-dr-ir
·7 месяцев назад·discuss
> what is this new style of writing

Congratulation, you are now able to recognize an AI-generated text.

(As of December 2025 at least, who knows what they will look like next month.)
prof-dr-ir
·7 месяцев назад·discuss
Since May 2024 he isn't actively trying anything at all.
prof-dr-ir
·10 месяцев назад·discuss
I made a related comment about two years ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38255476
prof-dr-ir
·10 месяцев назад·discuss
Frankly I am so tired of this whole branch of research where people try to be foundational about "quantum theory" but at the same time boil it down to qubits, gates, bell tests and, well, two-by-two matrices.

Here is my viewpoint, which somehow some people find controversial: quantum theory is first and foremost a description of individual particles. To describe their time evolution, we use the Schrodinger equation:

i d_t Psi = H Psi

What is that "i" there? Oh right, the imaginary unit. So... quantum theory uses complex numbers.

Now you are free to search for another theory without the "i", and perhaps even find something that is somehow mathematically consistent. But that theory either describes experiments just as well as ordinary quantum theory, in which case it is physically equivalent and of no advantage (except to those with strong allergies to complex numbers), or it does not, and then it is wrong.

Of course the last logical possibility is that your theory might do better than quantum theory... but that is the dream only of those who do not known quantum field theory.

/rant, with apologies
prof-dr-ir
·10 месяцев назад·discuss
> Paris' Mordor: Châtelet.

"Worst of all, the air was full of fumes; breathing was painful and difficult, and a dizziness came on them, so that they staggered and often fell. And yet their wills did not yield, and they struggled on."
prof-dr-ir
·10 месяцев назад·discuss
I think you misread my comment. Did the CEOs of Google or Microsoft hire former ministers from India as strategic advisors, or make unprecedented and eyebrow-raising investments in Indian startups?
prof-dr-ir
·10 месяцев назад·discuss
I agree that a relocation might not happen, but the increasing Frenchification of ASML after their CEO became French does smell a little off.
prof-dr-ir
·10 месяцев назад·discuss
Yes, and the footnote also says that "this metric is age-standardized". I did not easily find an explanation of what that means, which made me distrustful of the data.

Fortunately, good old Wikipedia has what we are both looking for:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-r...

For me the upshot is that UK still comes out quite good amongst its European peers, but the difference appears to be smaller.
prof-dr-ir
·11 месяцев назад·discuss
I am very interested in moving my photos and data to a self-hosted solution but am a little anxious about backups.

Do you simply trust hetzner to not lose the data on your 1TB storage box?

(I am aware that I am currently trusting google and dropbox to do just that.)
prof-dr-ir
·в прошлом году·discuss
Did you notice that you are replying to a top-level post which accuses the twice elected president of the USA of acting against American interests?

"Having a democratic mandate" is either a valid counterargument or it is not. But it is simply not consistent to apply it only to Netanyahu and not to Trump.
prof-dr-ir
·в прошлом году·discuss
Bibi's interests != Israeli interests