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  • Traditional bits only have to be 0 or 1. Not a coherent superposition.

    Managing to maintain a stable qubit for a meaningful amount of time is an important step. The final output from quantum computation is likely going to end up being traditional bits, stored traditionally, but superpositions allow qubits to be much more powerful during computation.

    Being able to maintain a cached superposition seems like it would be an important step.

    (Note: I am not even a quantum computer novice.)


  • the thing is, most people don’t. Movie buffs are a minority, the casual viewers flock to what they know, which is exactly why there are only sequels and reboots. It wouldn’t be like that if it wasn’t making them tons of money.

    False. Star Wars viewing drove off a cliff when their sequels sucked.

    There is a 1-2 sequel movies buffer until the drop off starts when the quality is consistently bad.

    That doesn’t make anything they said false. What you said just means that quality still matters, eventually.







  • Sometimes I feel like I do nothing.

    My productivity is pretty low since I got promoted to one of our “lead developers.” So much of my time is spent looking at other people’s code, answering questions, mentoring, etc. Task switching becomes a huge issue, where even if I have time I’ve been pulled back and forth and it takes me like an hour to get back into whatever I was doing. It can take weeks for me to close tickets sometimes. And sometimes even when I have busy days, I come away feeling like I did nothing.

    It’s definitely giving me Peter Principle vibes sometimes. And though my manager always tells me I’m doing good work, I feel like he’s too disconnected from my day-to-day, and that surely my Scrum Master and Product Owner are trying to get me replaced.

    It’s…not a great state of mind, even if I know it’s bullshit. They wouldn’t be giving me raises if they didn’t think I was worth it. But…still. I’ve never stayed at the same job this long, and part of me keeps waiting for the other shoe to drop.

    Imposter syndrome is a bitch.