“Similarly, we refer to an abacus as “an abacus” rather than a digital computer, despite the fact that it relies on digital manipulation to effect its computations.
Finally, we refer to a dog as “a dog” because even the most strenuous mental gymnastics can’t really make it sound like it’s a computer.”
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HelloRoot@lemy.lol · 9 pts · 164d
why you don't need to be concerned with quantum computers hacking your encryption just yet:
https://eprint.iacr.org/2025/1237
assertnull@programming.dev · 7 pts · 164d
Such a fun read 😆 :
“Similarly, we refer to an abacus as “an abacus” rather than a digital computer, despite the fact that it relies on digital manipulation to effect its computations.
Finally, we refer to a dog as “a dog” because even the most strenuous mental gymnastics can’t really make it sound like it’s a computer.”
EDIT: Sorry, this was meant to be a reply to HelloRoot@lemy.lol