[1]: I imagine this includes things like mental heath help, housing, and other related social safety nets.

This is far from true. On the experimental side, gate fidelities and physical qubit numbers have increased significantly (a couple of orders of magnitude). On the theory side, error correction techniques have improved astronomically -- overhead to of error corrections has dropped by many orders of magnitude. On the error correction side progress has been feverish over the last 4 years in particular.

That does not seem to be all that related to the original post I was answering to. An average person / citizen / visitor has way less to worry about around (trained) Chinese police than they have to worry about around an (gangster) American ICE agent.

Maybe the mass of the kids at the first round were what you describe, but very quickly the focus turned to the top 20% who were very much "reputation laundering" and "CV padding" internships at labs, not actual curiosity driven independent exploration

I concur it is different from what you call vibecoding.

E.g. I use these tools to clean up or reorganize old tests (with coverage and diff viewers checking of things I might miss), update documentation with cross links (with documentation linters checking for errors I miss), convert tests into benchmarks running as part of CI, make log file visualizers, and many more.

These tools are amazing for dealing with the long tail of boring issues that you never get to, and when used in this fashion they actually abruptly increase the quality of the codebase.

Now I am building a screen-less alternative for myself to take the place of my phone and my laptop (I use my laptop only when I am on the train/airplane or in the passenger seat of a car, otherwise I use desktops).

What I am building is an SBC attached to my belt, a bit bigger than an N900 with:

- no screen - usb cell modem (internet only, no phone) - a Pebble watch for most phone-like IO - earbuds for phone/signal calls - optionally Xreal glasses and a foldable keyboard when I need laptop functionality - VNC to an android phone at home for all the privacy intrusive bank apps / SMS / phone calls / insecure 2FA / etc - SSH to a desktop for the occasional dev work on the train/airplane - A local browser for "office work" on the goal

I have a lot of trouble finding an SBC that I can buy.

I need >=8GB ram, USB C with Display capabilities, and mainline(ish) kernel support. I want to run a linux distro on it, android is a no-go on ideological grounds. Slight preference for the AMD64 architecture.

Does such a thing exist?

I have found a few Ryzen SBC but none of them are sold to individuals. There are the Raspberry Pi clones, but they are <1GB of RAM or do not have USB C Display port. And there are all the android devices that do not run normal linux distros.

Maybe Valve will sell replacement parts for the Steam Frame -- that would be perfect. The Steam Deck mainboard is a bit too big.

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Most of the time open source tools are a labor of love. If the tool is not for you, move on. But self-aggrandizing "this tool is not good enough for me" posts, when you have not contributed, and when you disregard the fact that the tool has been immensely helpful to many others (who might have even started contributing back) just creates negativity in the world for no good reason. Nothing good is created in posts like that (and no, such posts are not constructive critique).

And then there are "the language is dying" complaints -- I consider these the worst of all. A tool does not need to be the most popular tool to be useful. Let's stop chasing hockey-stick curves in all human endeavors.

(to prevent claims of sour grapes: I am not a Scala user, I just find this type of posts distasteful, no matter the target)

Shor's algorithm starts with the qubits in a superposition of all possible bitstrings. That is the only place we have exponentially small amplitudes at the start (in a particular choice of a basis), and there is no entanglement in that state to begin with.

We do get interesting entangled states after the oracle step, that is true. And it is fair to have a vague sense that entanglement is weird. I just want to be clear that your last point (forgetting about amplitudes, and focusing on the weirdness of entangled qubits) is a gut feeling, not something based in the mathematics that has proven to be a correct description of nature over many orders of magnitude.

Of course, it would be great if it turns out that quantum mechanics is wrong in some parameter regime -- that would be the most exciting thing in Physics in a century. There is just not much hope it is wrong in this particular way.