Turning the right thing off and on again is the key. When you only have one router and a handful of other things like most have at home this isn't a big deal. When you have millions of things it can take weeks just to find the right thing in the mess.
this post was submitted on 09 Jan 2025
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Hospital IT: yes I hear you are having trouble with your TV not working, let me just grabs ventilator plug
Patient: flailing
IT: relax, I know what I'm doing
I wasn't expecting to see a reference to one of my favorite anime of all time. Thank you for reminding me why it's peak.
Until quantum comes around for everybody because then it can be zero or one at the same time. And you don't know until you observe it.
Not really.
Quantum computing is about literally solving it exponentially faster.
Think of it like brute forcing a password.
Binary it can change one character and it has to go thru all of them.
Actual quantum computing goes down multiple paths at once, so the bigger the password the more gain there is from quantum. It doesn't have to actually try every single possible combination.
It's not just going from 2 to 3 states, because that third state is quantum superposition and by no means just a 50% increase. That superposition is how it goes down multiple "paths" at once.
But the observer effect isn't coming into play.
Quantum computing will never come around for everyone. It's entirely different technology, and what we have works quite well for what we need. A good analogy from this Cleo Abrams video is it would be like saying we no longer need cars because we invented boats
And nobody will ever need more than 128 kilobytes of RAM.
Yea, that's pretty much why turning it a machine off and on again works.