The art has more of a SMBC vibe than peanuts imo

Relevant paragraph:

PQC readiness “is mostly actuarial/risk management—even if the chance of building a CRQC by, say, 2030 is very low (say 5 percent), the downside risk is huge,” he explained. “Combine that with very long transition engineering times, and you should have started already.”

Also, relevant paragraph from the wiki page for integer factorization records:

The largest number reliably factored by Shor’s algorithm, rather than some other quantum method, is 21 which was factored in 2012.[26][27] The number 15 had previously been factored by several labs and subsequent attempts to factorise 35 failed.[27

And a relevant excerpt from this study looking at “factored” primes above 21

Large-scale fault-tolerant quantum computers capable of implementing Shor’s algorithm are not yet available, preventing relevant benchmarking experiments. Recently, several authors have attempted quantum factorizations via reductions to SAT or similar NP-hard problems. While this approach may shed light on algorithmic approaches for quantum solutions to NP-hard problems, in this paper we study and question its practicality. We find no evidence that this is a viable path toward factoring large numbers, even for scalable fault-tolerant quantum computers, as well as for various quantum annealing or other special purpose quantum hardware.

I’ll be concerned when we start seeing primes being factored when they’re not using compiled Shor algorithm primes. So far, most of the big “factorization records” cheat and use primes with only the LSBs differing, and aren’t remotely close to anything used in a real RSA prime. There was a good discussion of it on Security Now episode 1034 for those who are interested.

purity test" implies attention to detail which is the opposite of what i’m arguing. i’m advocating for a “stink test.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distinction_without_a_difference

regardless of if the comics were fine, later in life he was a jackass so who cares?

I see a big difference between an artist that posts derogatory art and artists who are shitheads in real life. There’s an argument to be made about separating the art from the artist when the overall corpus of the art is not offensive that doesn’t exist for offensive art.

I’m all for banning offensive art, but you’re advocating for purity tests for the artists, which is too far imo

posting it today platforms who he is today.

A corpse? /j

But on topic, I don’t recall the dilbert comics being offensive, even if adams was a fucking loon. Willing to be proved wrong since I stopped caring when PHB became the main focus of the strip.

There’s nothing to be gained by forcing people to act in ways that they do not wish to act, or to think in ways that they do not wish to think.

In context of the conversation, you’re saying there’s nothing to be gained by banning comics from racist artists.

The way you’re using that quote is basically saying, “Agree with me, and think the way I tell you to think, or you’re a bad person”.

You sure? Because in response to your statement saying you don’t have an opinion (ie, you’re doing nothing), it means that you’re allowing bad to happen due to apathy (that’s assuming you see yourself as a good person, if you’re not, disregard).

That is evil, and people of good conscience should not agree with you.

One of these days I’m going to create /c/selfawarewolves…

Twist yourself up like a pretzel all you want, but at least listen to what you’re saying and think about it for more than 5 seconds. Because you’re supporting people who spread bigotry by arguing against banning them, and trying to take the moral high ground.

Apathy is an oppressor’s greatest weapon.

You may not think you’re supporting them, but silence is complicity. And if you’re complicit with it, you tacitly support it, otherwise you’d have an opinion on it.

And Congress can impeach the president. Just because they can doesn’t mean they will or have any desire to, unfortunately.

Unfortunately America wouldn’t let an American appear at The Hague. Like I’m sure they’d send special forces to recover them before that.

Gdub signed the Hague Invasion Act back in 2002, so we’ve already got laws on the books to do it.

It’s cute you think we wouldn’t send the military to stop it. Gdub signed the Hague Invasion Act back in 2002

Oh, don’t worry. Gdub signed the Hague Invasion Act back in 2002, so we already have a legal justification to invade the Hague if they get uppity and checks notes hold these evil fucks accountable for their crimes.

So I feel like Epstein is the one thing that could actually get through to many in MAGA cult.

Too bad the majority will find a way to justify it rather than admit they supported everything they hated. Calling it now, “Trump had to rape those kids, how else could he have gotten in with those people to take them down?”

That would require the repubilcan party to have a spine, and they gave that up a decade ago to better lick trumps “boots”

No, you can make it even harder now that they’re going linux

Yeah, that’s my only explanation for that kind of a name for a black person. Whether or not it was intentional, I have to assume she’s massively racist, as are all of her editors/publisher. Too many people has the opportunity to say ‘what the fuck, lady’, and it still went to print.

No, you need to have an open mind to their opinion, they don’t need to give you the same benefit

The art isn’t the problem

Yeah, it’s not like you have anything like

• Two Indian characters named after the region they’re supposed to be from
• Stereotypically named Irish character obsessed with blowing stuff up and making alcohol
• An Asian character named “cho chang”
• Bankers that are barely disguised anti-Semitic tropes
• Literally a tweet saying only “Anthony Goldstein, Ravenclaw, Jewish wizard.” in response to accusations of no Jewish wizards
• Naming the black adult “Shacklebolt”

Entirely unrelated, but when did xkcd add all those goofy modes in? I just spent more time playing with those modes than I have on their site in a hot minute

“Fixing” something means it has to pass inspection. You can slap shit in with duct tape but you’re gonna be out what you paid plus the 4x because your fix was sub par.

My sibling in Talos, did you really think these AR games weren’t going to include tracking user movements when the ENTIRE POINT of the game is to be in specific places and they go out of their way to make sure people aren’t spoofing gps?