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Quote: The world's first commercial fault-tolerant quantum computer with "logical qubits" may be running before the year's end.
And I may be a fairy princess. Or something.
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To get a handle on this see here.
Specifically, the graph about halfway down. So classical cryptography broken in 10-20 years? If we assume that line doesn't hit an insurmountable plateau.
Kevin
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Quote: To break currently deployed cryptography, scientists estimate a quantum computer would require at least 1 billion qubits. But today’s quantum computers only have a few hundred.
First time I believe I've seen an estimate on this count. Interesting. And if they are mirroring cubits to reduce noise effects, does that '1 billion' turn into '5 billion' or more?
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David O'Neil wrote: First time I believe I've seen an estimate on this count.
Ditto. At least it's something. Microsoft has a roadmap for achieving various stages but you still get no feel for a timescale. But I expect it will be a case of every 5 years it will be 10 years away and then eventually it will happen seemingly all of a sudden. Just hard to predict exactly when.
AGI is likely similar. Though tbh I'd bet that practical QC will emerge before AGI, despite the hype.
Kevin
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That article said, "Experts estimate that the number of qubits needed for a useful quantum computer, one that could compete with your laptop in solving certain kinds of interesting problems, is between 1,000 and 100,000." I'm interested to know the difference between that and the '1 billion' number - is that just for crypto cracking? Or has the '1,000 to 100,000' number increased since 2018?
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The next version of Windows 11 will no longer boot on CPUs without the "POPCNT" instruction. Time to upgrade from that 386 then
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I guess that'll be the end of the line for my 18 year old Core 1 Duo laptop.
It shipped with Vista and I upgraded it to W7 and then W10 to serve as an emergency loaner for family members. It was ideal for this use because I didn't care if anything happened to it.
I was planning to wleven it in a year and a half just because; but I guess that won't be happening now. 
Actually I should see if it still turns on, it's probably been at least 2 years. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
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Dan Neely wrote: . It was ideal for this use because I didn't care if anything
And why shouold you install win 11 in it? leave as it is...
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Nelek wrote: Dan Neely wrote:. It was ideal for this use because I didn't care if anythingAnd why shouold you install win 11 in it? leave as it is...
Because a computer with an unpatched windows install shouldn't be allowed within 50 feet of an internet connection.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
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I see the point.
But with the increasing number of Zero-Days vulnerabilities... I know there is a difference, but is it such a big difference?
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The speedier computing cake is a lie... so we got software bloat instead It's almost like software that does more needs more code to do it
"Debian 12, for comparison, is 1,341,564,204 lines of code." <-- :boggle:
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That's what 20 hobbyists do. One dev would compress that a lot.
You get what you pay for, right? If you pay nothing, you get.. Debian.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: You get what you pay for, right?
I prefer the way: If you pay peanuts, do not complain if all what you get are monkeys 
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Monkeys is the only explanation for both Debian and Windows. And yes, I need to restart now again for another "important" update. I'm not reading why, it is prolly just an important update to MSPaint.exe and Calc.exe.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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PC Manager, Microsoft's official tool for optimizing and boosting performance in Windows 10 and 11, is now available in the Microsoft Store. The Official way to clean that c**p
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Meh... entirely possible something in that pre-fetch folder is corrupted and making stuff take longer. It's also likely to go right back in there if it needs to be there.
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Agreed. The prefetch folder can get stale, especially after multiple updates to applications. Clearing it out will allow Windows to identify the correct programs to load there.
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The best performance booster... upgrade back to windows 7
I know... I know... It was just a joke... wasn't it?
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No one was in Waymo’s driverless taxi as it was surrounded and set on fire in San Francisco’s Chinatown. Stopping the AI apocalypse before it starts
Or even gets out of the parking space
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Haha... "simmering tension"
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I am not really for some things, but... seriously?
Had it driven over a kid or something like that? or why the ![Elephant | [mastadon]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/elephant.gif) did they just do it?
Sometimes there are news that might recover a bit of faith in humanity but the rest of the days...
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Windows 11 is also getting a much better color management feature soon. So you'll be able to play Pong in ultra-high resolution!
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Kent Sharkey wrote: So you'll be able to play Pong in ultra-high resolution!
But... will it run DOOM? 
I'll take my coat
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It's all down to recommissioned kit, claim techies tasked with retrieving data from busted gear Back to floppies!
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