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  • Being kind is its own reward. Life is generally better if you try to make life better for others. Not like life will be perfect, but better than it would be otherwise.

    Like, when I used to work shitty part-time jobs, if I went in with a good attitude and was as kind to those around me as I could be, I had a better day than if I was grumpy and did the bare minimum. Got paid the same shitty wage either way, but my life was better when I was kinder. Sure some people take advantage of that kindness, but most will reflect it back to you.

    There can be ways that hard work and kindness lead to material rewards. But in general it is worth being kind simply because you’ll enjoy life more.

    (Also, I wouldn’t have married my wife if I hadn’t been kind and befriended someone a lot of other people thought was frustrating or annoying. I had met my wife previously, but only knew her in passing. Years later, we re-met at that friend’s birthday party. Started dating a few months later, and now we’re married! That mutual friend can still sometimes be frustrating or annoying, but we always try to be kind to her because that’s what brought us together.)





  • TheRealKuni@lemmy.worldtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldNo one showed up to his party
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    22 hours ago

    I appreciate your concern but I’m not looking to hear some kind of abstinence lecture.

    Not that I have any horse in this race, but for the record there’s a profound difference between abstinence and moderation, and if you don’t think there are gradations between “alcoholic levels of ethanol consumption” and “no alcohol consumption,” then perhaps they have a point.

    Be good to yourself, my friend.








  • 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.