Quantum Computing’s Hard, Cold Reality Check - Researchers have been lately trying to figure out what types of problems quantum computers would in practice be useful for. It currently looks like even if big improvements in reliability and throughout are achieved, classical computers are good enough for the vaste majority of computations. If I understand correctly quantum computers are good at problems with small data sets who's complexity increases exponentially with scale. Perhaps we just need to try and find more of these types of systems, which have problems that actually need solving. spectrum.ieee.org #
Saturday, December 23, 2023
Bluesky makes web view public, login no longer required to read posts - That took a while, but at least you can view posts on the web now. For example here’s last week’s newsletter issue #146 announcement. bsky.app #
Huge 2TB microSD card is on the way - This is aimed at gamers. I don't do much gaming, but this stood out to me because...2TB on an SD card! That's insane. overkill.wtf #
Alternate Futures for "Web Components" - Carlana makes the case that though Web Components were released a decade ago and still haven't really made a big impact, the general idea of moving functionality into the browser is worthwhile pursuit. Based on how developers are currently building apps using 3rd party libraries, perhaps some primitives implementing reactivity, optimised DOM rendering, and self-sizing iframes would be better places to start. blog.carlana.net #
🚀 Latest Newsletter: Nutritious Tech (Issue #146) markjgsmith.com #
How Christmas pudding tried to 'save' the British Empire - It's been so many years since I had Christmas pudding. I distinctly remember hating it when I was young, but it's funny how your tastes change as you get older. Eventually it was one of my favorite things about Christmas. And of course mince pies too. bbc.com #