Every other year the EU tries to pass another mass surveillance law - and the EU court of human rights rules it illegal.

Thank you for the explanation!

Could someone explain how paying a person not to publicly talk about what you did is illegal? If a company does this, it’s called NDA. Is it because prostitution is illegal in the US?

Pretty sure a court told them to.

Yeah, you’re technically right, but everyone just fully associates Pokémon with Nintendo.

Most of the time? Doesn’t it mainly lag when moving to a different region? It also looks really good.

Well, except Pokémon. But we don’t talk about Pokémon.

Wtf? I had a very buggy experience. Maybe it was because I was playing it in multiplayer, but I had glitches every 20 minutes and it crashed like every other hour.

Maybe I just mixed up the fact that proper industrial use is vastly overestimated/overhyped with that there is little use. I will do some research.

I don’t think I was talking about this, interesting. Because in the video I mentioned she was fine with trans athletes competing together with cis athletes, which seemed very progressive to me. But I’m happy to be proven wrong.

Thanks for this productive discourse, not ad hominem at all. You’re welcome to criticize my views and I’m happy to learn. And I am doing my physics masters, so I think I am no complete idiot. But this is also not productive.

Edit: I’m focusing on cosmology, I’m not claiming to be a quantum computing expert. That was just my last state of knowledge and I’m always happy to learn.

Are you talking about her video on trans athletes? I don’t remember it being transphobic.

She might have strong opinions on particle physics and I do take them with a grain of salt, but I don’t see objectively wrong things in there.

I am a physicist and truly appreciate the effect of quantum computing on our simulations, but with “real world” I meant proper industrial use. And for that, there are hardly any algorithms known except Shor’s. When the CEO of Deutsche Bank says he will do his bank transactions on a quantum computer, you know the topic is over-hyped.

Edit: A video that explains this by a theoretical physicist working on the foundations of quantum mechanics

Currently, there is basically only one real world application we really know: Factoring numbers into prime factors. And we can’t know for sure whether there will be more even.

Watch everyone forget that correlation doesn’t equal causation when it confirms their biases.

I think the main advantages over C are:

• better tooling
• modern syntax
• by default, pointers must be non-null. You have to specify if you want to use null pointers
• better exception handling using the functional style of exceptions-as-values

There are probably more, but those are the ones I remember.

It does: Light does not follow the path of minimal distance between two points, but the path of minimal time. This is called Fermat’s principle.
Because water has a higher refraction index than air, light is slower in it and therefore takes a longer time to travel through it. Thus, it takes less time to take a longer path that spends more time in the air.
Fun fact: The underlying law of this principle is the principle of least action. This is the most basic law of nature we know of and can be used to derive all of physics.