My favourite type of Humeour

@chitgrrl.bsky.social see above correction.

Looks like the little gray square in the bottom-left of these diagrams hasn’t moved *at all* for 3 years now. I think we were supposed to be at like 1000+ qubits by now. I give it one more year then I’m calling it as done.

sam-jaques.appspot.com/quantum_land...

Do you actually want ECB or do you want the raw block cipher? I’m struggling to see how ECB is a useful primitive otherwise. (And if you want the raw block cipher isn’t CBC with a null IV ok, or does it always add padding in WebCrypto?)

Author is employed by Microsoft, but that just warrants a tiny “competing interests” note at the bottom.

This is how I find out that Bertrand Russell’s parents lived in a house on my road??!

Among yesterday's arrestees is Deborah Hinton, an 81-year old retired magistrate with an OBE.
That's Yvette Cooper's idea of a terrorist.
Language has been turned on its head.
The law has been turned on its head.
Murdering children is righteous.
Trying to stop it is terrorism.

Looking forward to reading source code with adverts in it.

At first. And then the reality of AI “peer review” hit me. God help us all.

If only he’d come to a suitably Dahlian end… Marooned in a sea of fake tan lotion perhaps?