Awesome site.

What’s one thing most people get wrong about k8s that makes learning unnecessarily difficult?

Thinking that the range of capabilities is a setup todo list.

Particularly storage.

Check out privacy.com, you can make your own cards. One per service if you want.

Visited the site and the first thing it wanted me to do was accept optional cookies. Privacy.com wants to track me because of course it does.

Been doing this for a while now for ebay and other stuff. I'm always shocked at how many people have no idea this exists.

Because people use credit cards for the rewards (cash, mileage, whatever) or because they don’t actually have the money now. They don’t want to pay for a unique number for every transaction (which doesn’t actually preserve privacy since most of the stuff you’re buying online needs a shipping address) nor do they want the money immediately pulled from their bank account.

Credit cards give rewards which can be significant, reduce or eliminate the need to keep liquid cash around and frees it up for investments which compounds on top of the rewards, and it dramatically simplifies the number of annoying bills from N to one.

How did you solve the Minecraft issue?

He found a sideloadable JIT server + VPN setup. It seems super sketchy honestly, and it's a shame that people have to go through this to enable a feature that should just be available. There is no legitimate reason to block access to JIT.

> There is no legitimate reason to block access to JIT.

Source:

Show me the reasons why you can't safely deploy JIT. If it's a security concern, properly sandbox it.

At a certain point cash isn’t an incentive. Autonomy, Mastery and Purpose become much bigger rewards. Check out Drive by Daniel Pink.

Good thing AI is taking away two of those at the least. Now companies can just focus on Purpose.

Any idea where those could be located on the us side of the border in Detroit?

Aka “crispin” if that helps. Every apple farmer around here in NW NJ grows them, never seen them in a store. Also my favorite.

Farmer’s market. Grocery store that isn’t a big chain. They’re here.

Given that it's a Japanese cultivar, I assume they're all over the place, you just have find a market where someone growing them has them for sale.

Ther are plenty of well documented uses for quantum computers, the hardware is just too nascent to fully accommodate them. The most powerful quantum computers today still only have just over 1,000 qbits.

I don't think this is totally accurate.

If you have significantly better quantum computers, you can solve realistic problems, yes.

But what's not being spelled out here is that as far as we know classical computers will still totally smoke them unless you allow a large probability of inaccurate results.

And if you are fine with inaccurate results, classical randomized algorithms make it a much more difficult deadline to beat.

What is the benchmark to have something useful for real-world use in number of qbits?

20 million physical qubits to break RSA 2048: https://quantum-journal.org/papers/q-2021-04-15-433/.

Physicist here. It highly depends on a bunch of factors (the type of qubits, the error correcting code, the error rate, the algorithm…), but a ballpark number for practical usefulness is 1 million physical qubits.

Keep in mind that qubit requirements keep tumbling down as people work hard to squeeze out as much as possible from a limited number of qubits.

Assuming what the public knows about is the state of the art, of course, which I doubt is a good assumption to make. I'm sure major governments have been funneling billions for years into secret projects to be the first to be able to break the (non-post-quantum) communications of everyone else.

Id like to contribute to a large project like Linux or python by writing docs, testing or some other non development activity. Is that possible or needed? How would I go about doing that?

A “No network required” insignia is in order.

I don't think Apple predicts the future as much as it drives the future. Just my opinion.

Every product a company makes is a prediction that the product will succeed (if they didn't think it would succeed, they wouldn't make it).

This applies to Apple just as to every other company. It's not like Apple hasn't had product failures, after all.

When the iPad came out I thought to myself "Who needs a big iPhone? also, god what a dumb name, 'iPad'. Apple really missed the mark on that one." Welp, I was wrong then. I don't personally see myself using this but that doesn't mean it is not going to be successful. I'll just wait and see.