It's really not all that hard. You know how in some small streams and fountains, bumps can form in the water? They're not really "there" because they are really caused by the underlying water streams colliding, rubbing, moving at different velocities; every time you interact with them, the water is completely different. And yet, in a certain sense they are there, because if you skipped a stone across the stream, and it hit one of these structures, it would bounce off. And would do so no matter how many times you did it. Physicists call these "quasi-particles".

These Hopfion's are quasiparticles. Except instead of being made of moving water, they're (typically) made of crystals made of Iron, Iridium, Platinum (just as one example) that have been excited by lasers. And like "real" particles, they can interact with each other (often in unique ways), making them able to do computation and store information.

However, despite the hype, doubt they'd be useful for any kind of long term storage. Typically systems depend on being energized by lasers constantly. Like bumps in the water when the stream dries up, they lose all their information when the lasers are turned off.

Invented the very concept of procedural generation.

This was the first major differentiator of computer games vs hardware-designed games. Pong, for instance, offered nothing at the time that was better than pinball machines. It's only novelty was "And it was done on a computer!"
Same thing for Zork - perform your own adventure books were already well known when it was written. It just automated the process of "If you enter the cave, go to page 39".

Rogue, on the other hand, was the first computer game that did things no other media could accomplish. Every game was unique. And even today, people speak of procedurally generated games as "Rogue-likes".

It certainly wasn't conveyed in the trailer. It more looked like yet another paint by the numbers "Magic Kung Fu" movie, where the entire plot consists of seeing the chosen-one MC beating up an ever higher power scaled set of opponents in one-off battles using battle moves they have to yell out for them to take effect. The dramatic tension coming when he almost loses a battle against the big boss. Before winning. The end.

At least he looks underaged, so I doubt there's the typical subplot of scantily clad girls all hanging around him in a virginal harem that he - like most Asian MCs - is somehow too clueless about romance to ever pursue.

It's basically the equivalent of US superhero TV shows. Not the darker superhero movies made in the '90s, but the "SuperFriends" and "He Man" ones made in the 1970s and played on Saturday Morning, where everything has the depth of a soap dish and the audience is presumed to be about seven years old.

Did SlashDot get a kickback to promote this?

It's the anticipation of AI making jobs obsolete that is causing CEOs to refuse to fill these positions, despite their obvious needs. That, and trying to fill senior level positions with inexperienced overseas junior developers (which has been going on forever).

The thing they miss, of course, is that AI can only answer questions. It really can't proactively figure out business needs. Further, most AI has only limited input prompts. Meaning, whatever its original output is (even if correct), must be understood by humans for further modifications to be made. There also still remains a large quality gap in what it produces. Much like what junior coders from overseas diploma mills churn out, the quality of AI code always needs to be double-checked by people capable of doing so.

But customers (meaning CEOs of technology companies) never get what they actually need, only what they think they want. So we are where we are until they learn another harsh lesson.

Quantum mechanics produces many results that are not correct on a macroscopic scale. We don't see superpositions, for example. Schrodinger's alive and dead cat is a classic thought experiment intended to illustrate the deficiencies in QM as a complete theory - not to imply that alive/dead cats are real.

And spinors, which you are describing are not even quantum! They are a characteristic of electrons, but have no "quantum leaps" in their states buried anywhere in their math. You might has well try to compare them to electromagnetism - and be equally incorrect.

QM is far from a complete Theory of Everything, which nearly every physicist will tell you if you ask them.

Oil companies aren't the ones providing hundreds of billions of dollars for energy. That's drivers, and boaters, people heating buildings, running their industrial equipment. And my oh my do consumers get angry if oil prices rise by even a penny a gallon. Entire governments fall when that happens.

But neo-communism-as-religion nutballs can't admit this, so instead they blame the vendors for the existence of the market.

That said, there is also corruption in the oil industry - especially around acquisition of new oil fields and the like. The environmental disasters in Nigeria come to mind. But that isn't what the Guardian is complaining about. Instead, they're trying to pretend to their readers that nobody other than oil companies are responsible for the public's voracious appetite for global warming emissions. Much like prostitution, they want to pretend that the real problem somehow isn't the demand, and that blaming the suppliers does something.

But they know the truth won't sell. So they never mention it. They're in the "news" industry, after all.

Just about every "I'm above voting - none of the candidates reach my lofty standards" non-voter, is really someone who is too lazy and content with society to do so. Just trying to hide it, and does so badly.

I mean it's not exactly evil to be too lazy to vote. But if you are one of those people, at least don't lie about it, or worse - put on airs about how superior you are to everyone else for not giving a shit.

Again, the Japanese Military was so bought into its ability to stave off America though a war of attrition, that when Emperor Hirohito decided to surrender, the so-called "Jewel Voice" broadcast of his surrender had to be smuggled out of the imperial palace.

As many as 1,000 officers and army soldiers raided the Imperial Palace on the evening of August 14, 1945 to destroy the recording. The rebels were confused by the layout of the palace and unable to find the recordings, which had been hidden in a pile of documents. The two phonographs were labelled original and copy and successfully smuggled out of the palace, the original in a lacquer box and the copy in a lunch bag. Major Kenji Hatanaka attempted to halt the broadcast at the NHK station, but was ordered to desist by the Eastern District Army.[2][3]

In trying to pretend that the US just dropped atomic bombs of Japan for fun, you are aping a long-ago debunked piece of Soviet Union agit-prop.

You're clearly attempting to be sarcastic, but judging by the increasingly unhinged attacks by Trumpster Fires on her, they clearly are trembling in fear about her. Considering yours, she is literally the most constitutionally active Vice President in the history of the United States, and indeed does have a long list of accomplishments.

They simply don't trust the public.

Imagine the political ad: "Minister Kraus voted against the kiddy-diddling act. Minister Kraus is in favor of kiddie diddling. Vote (fascist party of the specific nation)!"

Yes, the nuances of laws like this can be explained. But the old political truism: "If you're explaining, you're losing" applies. A lot of voters don't want to hear the truth.

I know some people want to think it's all a big conspiracy to view other people's foot-fetishes, but usually the truth is a lot simpler than that.

I dunno. The Chinese Communist Party's "deep state" seems to have no trouble at all controlling what information goes on TikTok. Right down to shadow-banning and tailoring comments to create a false-bandwagon effect.

Russia has lost ten times the number of soldiers in its invasion of Ukraine that Hamas and their human shields have lost in their war against Israel. Yet there's no "Russia is being genocided" messaging anywhere, not even from the Vatniks. Why is that?

When these pro-terrorist Jew-hating bigots say the word "genocide", they don't actually mean genocide. What they really mean is "Jews daring to fight back against rapists, murderers, and torturers".

I completely agree. Apple has done a ton of morally objectionable stuff, but they're one of the tech leaders in terms of privacy rights.

Completely off-topic, but that was the one plot hole in the Watchmen that I could not get past. Dr. Manhattan can rearrange molecules at a whim, and he can't cure cancer? He knows his own future, but he's surprised by the media ambush?

It makes absolutely no sense. Never did.