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the funny thing is that nobody will ever do that. The moment someone uses quantum computing or any other technology to crack bitcoin in a visible way, the coins they just gave to themselves become worthless because confidence collapses.

In the 60's we actually had extremely capable, fully-developed computers. Advanced systems like the IBM System360 and CDC 6600.

Quantum computing is currently stuck somewhere in the 1800's, when a lot of the theory was still being worked out and few functional devices had even been constructed.

tbh they could just be pushing for people to adopt newer, less-tested, weaker algorithms. switch from something battle-hardened to the QuantResist2000 algorithm which they've figured out how to break with lattice reduction and a couple of GPUs like those minecraft guys did.

I will never get used to ECC meaning "Error Correcting Code" or "Elliptic Curve Cryptography." That said, this isn't unique to quantum expectations. Faster classical computers or better classical techniques could make various problems easier in the future.

It's also possible that any such enunciation is being hallucinated from the text by the speech model.

AI models exist to make up bullshit that fills a gap. When you have a conversation with any LLM it's merely autocompleting the next few lines of what it thinks is a movie script.

"There is now a bullet hole in your foot."

You'd have no idea that it isn't Linux. You don't run code on this OS, you run code on VMs that it provides.

This isn't NetBSD. NetBSD broke off loooooooong after the release of BSD that Sun used to build this OS.

The reasoning of this case rests on the intentions of the FSF when they wrote the licence. If the person who wrote the licence didn't intend you to be able to get benefits, you can't.

afaik there has always been the option to install alongside during the installer. It might not even be possible to do otherwise if you're installing from macOS itself.

The page has per-machine lists of available and unsupported features. The only mac that doesn't have audio right now are the M1 imacs, due to their speakers working differently than the laptops. They're not that different though, so I expect they'll be working in a couple of months.

It wasn't the technical side that caused the schedule slips. It was constant competition with other aspects of the business, especially the VAX lineup. The VAX 9000 in particular was a $3 billion money pit that didn't make back even 25% of it's development costs and was repeatedly chosen over development of prism and later alpha. Even when it came down to the embarrassingly fast NVAX chip vs the even faster Alhpa, DEC still couldn't get the story straight and lost valuable VAX customers when they could have offered a faster VAX and an upgrade path to Alpha.

It wasn't the cost of alpha. It was the bleeding all through the rest of the company.

DEC's terminals? killed by PCs. The VAX lineup? killed by RISC chips, and the VAX 9000 consumed a huge chunk of their cash reserves before embarrassingly being rendered obsolete by their own NVAX.

This was a time of change from minicomputers to microcomputers and DEC made costly decision after costly decision. They kept selling off profitable "non-core" portions of the business that in the process incurred a loss.