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[–] oce@jlai.lu 14 points 4 hours ago

It was sold to Ebay in 2002. You can see it on their official website. https://about.pypl.com/who-we-are/history-and-facts/default.aspx

[–] oce@jlai.lu 30 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

I thought it would belong to one of those food industry behemoths but it's actually Independent, headquarters in Switzerland and majorly owned by themselves.

[–] oce@jlai.lu 14 points 2 days ago (2 children)

You would get more points if you manage to capture them and get them a fair trial that allows society to reflect on the issues that made them the way they are and maybe reduce the chance that more will appear in the future.

[–] oce@jlai.lu 3 points 5 days ago

Rakuten is a big mess of data tracking and advertisment but I'm glad to hear Kobo remains a good product.

[–] oce@jlai.lu 3 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Kobo was bought by Rakuten in 2012, Rakuten is the Japanese Amazon, except it failed to fully scale internationally.

[–] oce@jlai.lu 8 points 6 days ago

Mine had 2000 inside for extra coolness.

[–] oce@jlai.lu 29 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The abstract of the scientific article

In the relentless pursuit of quantum computational advantage, we present a significant advancement with the development of Zuchongzhi 3.0. This superconducting quantum computer prototype, comprising 105 qubits, achieves high operational fidelities, with single-qubit gates, two-qubit gates, and readout fidelity at 99.90%, 99.62%, and 99.13%, respectively. Our experiments with an 83-qubit, 32-cycle random circuit sampling on the Zuchongzhi 3.0 highlight its superior performance, achieving 1×106 samples in just a few hundred seconds. This task is estimated to be infeasible on the most powerful classical supercomputers, Frontier, which would require approximately 5.9×109  yr to replicate the task. This leap in processing power places the classical simulation cost 6 orders of magnitude beyond Google’s SYC-67 and SYC-70 experiments [Morvan et al., Nature 634, 328 (2024)], firmly establishing a new benchmark in quantum computational advantage. Our work not only advances the frontiers of quantum computing but also lays the groundwork for a new era where quantum processors play an essential role in tackling sophisticated real-world challenges. https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.134.090601

Random circuit sampling is a problem designed to showcase quantum computing strength. Random circuit sampling is the simulation of the outcome of many randomly generated quantum circuits. So, having a computer based on quantum phenomenon, such as superposition and entanglement, is obviously a big help, as opposed to having to imperfectly simulate this on a classical computer. So much that classical super computer cannot simulate this problem in a reasonable human time anymore. They call this "quantum superiority".
It's like giving a math problem to a math professor and a philosophy professor, and then demonstrating how much better the math professor was at solving this problem.
But it's a good benchmark to compare quantum computers between them.

Overall, it's still useless to the average server or gamer.

[–] oce@jlai.lu 5 points 1 week ago

There is already nsfw flag to avoid this kind of thing, so it's not a new concept on Lemmy. Except this content is usually not considered nsfw enough.

[–] oce@jlai.lu 3 points 1 week ago

Thanks for linking to this, it could indeed be a solution.

The RFC: https://github.com/Neshura87/rfcs/blob/main/0004-post-tags.md

TL;DR: a tag/flag system for posts is described in this RFC and being actively developed with a part 1 already merged and a part 2 in review. Tagging would only be possible for privileged users such as mods and admins so they can keep a sensical classification. So from there, we would need softcore communities' mods to agree to use a specific tag that we could filter out. That's still a lot of if, but it's a good step, with many other use cases.

[–] oce@jlai.lu 5 points 1 week ago (3 children)

How do I discover new communities without using all?

[–] oce@jlai.lu 11 points 1 week ago (6 children)

They appear in the all feed without subscribing. Only using the subscribed feed would mean I am missing on new communities that may interest me.

 

There's a constant influx of new communities with softcore sexualized characters, especially anime girls, that I could do without.
I don't mind anime and manga in general, so I would rather not block the instances that specialize in it, but blocking softcore communities one by one seems be a never ending task.
I also think it may be off-putting for new members.

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