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Comment Re:whatever the opposite of rolling coal is (Score 3, Informative) 194

You read a headline, which was written by a reporter, who gets paid when people get emotional about his article.

Reporter's write headlines, scientists write studies.

In print news generally editors write headlines not reporters/journalists. How the publication in question does it or how online only publications generally do I don't know.

Submission + - 'Rosetta stone' of code allows scientists to run core quantum computing operatio (phys.org)

alternative_right writes: Now, for the first time, quantum scientists at the Quantum Control Laboratory at the University of Sydney Nano Institute have demonstrated a type of quantum logic gate that drastically reduces the number of physical qubits needed for its operation.

To do this, they built an entangling logic gate on a single atom using an error-correcting code nicknamed the "Rosetta stone" of quantum computing. It earns that name because it translates smooth, continuous quantum oscillations into clean, digital-like discrete states, making errors easier to spot and fix, and importantly, allowing a highly compact way to encode logical qubits.

Submission + - Debian 13 trixie arrives with RISC-V support and updated Linux kernel (nerds.xyz)

BrianFagioli writes: After more than two years (wow!) of development, Debian 13 âoetrixieâ has officially been released. The new stable version will receive five years of support from the Debian Security team and the Long Term Support team, continuing the projectâ(TM)s tradition of reliability.

This release includes updated desktop environments such as GNOME 48, KDE Plasma 6.3, LXDE 13, LXQt 2.1.0, and Xfce 4.20. There are over 14,100 new packages, more than 44,000 updated ones, and around 8,800 that have been removed as obsolete. The codebase now spans more than 1.46 billion lines.

Key software updates include the Linux kernel 6.12 LTS, LibreOffice 25.2, GCC 14.2, OpenJDK 21, PostgreSQL 17, PHP 8.4, Python 3.13, LLVM/Clang 19, GIMP 3.0.4, Apache 2.4.64, Nginx 1.26, MariaDB 11.8, and systemd 257.

A major change in this release is the official addition of riscv64 support, making it possible to run Debian on 64-bit RISC-V hardware. Debian 13 supports seven architectures in total. However, this release also ends i386 as a standard architecture and is the last version to support armel.

The Debian team has continued to improve reproducible builds, added 64-bit time_t support for dates beyond 2038, and optimized cloud images for Amazon EC2, Microsoft Azure, OpenStack, and PlainVM. For those who want to try it before installing, live images are available for amd64 and arm64 in multiple desktop environments.

Comment Re:AI = absolute worst idea for investing (Score 1) 12

This is a good idea, but:

1) It ignores the question of which index fund. Dow, S&P, Nasdaq etc. all differ substantially. #2 is manage your risk appropriately = picking which index to invest in.

2) This is, to a large extent, an example of #3 - doing the exact opposite of what the Mob does.

The idea of index fund investing (Bogle et al.) as the parent suggest is to not take a position against the market as a whole.

Comment Re:Couple of possibilities (Score 5, Informative) 70

Lithium may be an essential micronutrient, needed in minute dose for vitamin b12 and folate transport and uptake https://www.jpands.org/vol20no....

I just skipped to the exciting bit at the end:

Timothy M. Marshall, Ph.D., is a holistic neurospecialist/pharmacologist
and professor of chemistry and pharmacology in Tucson, Ariz. Contact:
tmarshall73@gmail.com.
Disclosure: Dr. Marshall willl be marketing products containing lithium as a
nutritional supplement.

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