Nuclear is statistically either the cheapest or the second-cheapest form of production in my home country of Finland, and yes that statistic does take into account the construction costs of our massive 1.6 GW reactor that was finished 13 years behind schedule and ran several billion euros over budget becoming the 8th most expensive construction project ever.
In terms of cleanness it is also incredibly clean. Even if you include Chernobyl and Fukushima (the latter of which leaked barely anything anyway), nuclear has emitted orders of magnitude less radiation than coal. Indeed even thinking that radiation has anything to do with nuclear's emissions betrays your lack of understanding of the topic -- the main emissions concern are the construction and fuel extraction emissions, not because they're radiological hazards but because they're not free in terms of carbon emissions. Accounting for those it's still pretty much the cleanest energy we have though.
There was a paper recently about a stable 6100-qubit system, so the trajectory is plausible. If 1399 qubits is needed for 2048-bit Shor's, this would already meet that by a wide margin -- though obviously this is a research system that AFAIK cannot do actual computations.
Nature doesn't care about anything. It is not a conscious thing. The size of the Earth, however, is a natural phenomenon, just like the speed of light. It just isn't a universal constant, relatively unchanging though it may be.
A multiplier is obviously going to be necessary whatever the base measure, because there's no universal constant that happens to be of a useful, human scale. Or I guess you could use something like the wavelength of the hydrogen line -- about 21.1 cm, a fairly useful length -- but that isn't really inherently a special wavelength, it just happens to be useful in radio astronomy.
True, but it was the 18th century. They could measure earthly things well enough, not so much photons.
It's a bit of a shame it wasn't redefined as 1/300,000,000th of the distance light travels in a second when it was redefined, but the redefinition was about 50 years too late for that to happen. A difference of 0.07% in the base unit of measurement used by all science would've been far too much for 2019, given all the precision measurements we do these days.
The Dems in 2025 are the people who lost the presidency to the most incompetent man in the world. Twice. I do not think it's smart to trust them to be the stewards of what seems to be shaping up to be the primary resistance movement.
The article here doesn't look to me to be advocating dividing people up, but rather making sure the movement is not controlled by the Democrats. Democrats should be part of it, not in charge of it.
The meter isn't really arbitrary, even when you ignore the redefinition posted by @jumperalex. It was originally defined as 1/10,000,000th the distance from Earth's pole to the equator, which is a pretty reasonable basis to use by 1791 standards.
The tyre deflation thing is from a court case where a man who was on trial for harassing a woman had deflated the woman's bike tyres while she was in the shop. She came back to find the tyres deflated and had no pump so she rode the bike back to her house with deflated tyres, which damaged the rims. Seeking compensation for the damaged rims was part of her claim, but the court denied the claim because deflating the tyres was not what damaged them, but rather riding back on deflated tyres.
Of course Finnish court system does not work on precedent, so there's no guarantee the same logic would apply to cars, or the sacred steel cow as they are known as here, so it's best to not get caught.
Green lentils. Open the valve cap, put one in, and screw it back on. If you don't screw it too tight the tyre will deflate slowly and by the time anyone notices it's empty, you'll be long gone.
Also, deflating tyres without damaging them actually might not be illegal in many jurisdictions. In Finland a court ruled that deflating bicycle tyres is not illegal -- the only thing it could fall under was vandalism, but it doesn't cause any damage so it couldn't be vandalism.
The reason there isn't always another product is because the industry is full of anticompetitive practices like proprietary file formats and collaboration (read: cloud) features. Ironically MS Office is one of the less anticompetitive ones. Stuff like CAD software is full of this nonsense.
The reason people say that Arch is unstable is that you are expected to read the news on the website before every update or else your system is liable to be broken -- and sometimes it will break in spite of that. Oh, and the expectation is that you'll be updating multiple times per week, and if you don't, you will soon be in a situation where to install any package you must update your entire system.
Most other distros place no such expectations on the user.
Nuclear is statistically either the cheapest or the second-cheapest form of production in my home country of Finland, and yes that statistic does take into account the construction costs of our massive 1.6 GW reactor that was finished 13 years behind schedule and ran several billion euros over budget becoming the 8th most expensive construction project ever.
In terms of cleanness it is also incredibly clean. Even if you include Chernobyl and Fukushima (the latter of which leaked barely anything anyway), nuclear has emitted orders of magnitude less radiation than coal. Indeed even thinking that radiation has anything to do with nuclear's emissions betrays your lack of understanding of the topic -- the main emissions concern are the construction and fuel extraction emissions, not because they're radiological hazards but because they're not free in terms of carbon emissions. Accounting for those it's still pretty much the cleanest energy we have though.