Oh, I see.

Yup. If I had better things to do, would I be posting here?

Curiosity kills this cat. I’ll go with being rich but miserable.

Food staples. I know cans are old technology, but they fucking work. They’ll last at least literally forever, and depending on the item come surprisingly close in quality to the fresh or homemade item. Dried beans and pasta are also a great deal.

I can attest to this for older models. It’s really hard to know if standards have slipped in their luxury product era, though.

The MacBook I’m typing on (in Linux) is closer to 15.

Fun fact, aside from the fluoride, you actually don’t need a paste at all. Just the friction does the important part.

Wait, what? They’re not putting diamonds in there. Charcoal is softer than graphite, which is a soft mineral to start with.

Really? I would have thought that by the easy-to-deal-with metric, anything RISC would win.

That’s good of you. I can’t imagine every accountant is so flexible. Lawyers straight up have to charge most of the time, I think.

It could also be a technical expert, or the government (in which case, refer to the lawyer).

I haven’t seen gourmet yet.

TBH if that was the tagline I’d be impressed.

Anybody could be a bastard, but that takes a very rich bastard.

The irony is that there’s two kinds of consumers here. Either it’s a rich yoga lady buying from an influencer, or it’s, like, an African person buying from another African person. Anyone in the middle just enjoys the wonders of industry.

Yeah, the euphemism treadmill has gotten that one. Now you want select, legacy, platinum or some jumble of similar words.

Yeah, when I’ve heard that my immediate thought is “welp, guess I’m on my own”.

Ah. Yeah, that’s not a sure thing, but progress has been very, very encouraging lately, and there’s no obvious fundamental limit, either. Advancement in the error correcting codes has even happened, which was unexpected when the big push to build a QC began.

(FWIW, Grover’s search algorithm is more of a toy than anything. You’re getting a quadratic speedup on exponentially hard problems, which leaves them still exponentially hard)

There is a tendency for some people to think anyone who’s not exactly like them is bad. If they’re saying that about centrists, it probably extends to anyone actually on their side of center but not in the right way, as well.

Depends what you’re ascribing to it.

Will it break encryption? Yes. That’s been well understood since the 90’s.

Will it help solve certain specific physics problems, including practical ones? Also yes.

Will it do literally anything else? Maybe, maybe not. Honestly, even calling it a “computer” is misleading unless you’re an expert. For layman purposes it’s more like an electron microscope or ultracentrifuge. Very useful for a very narrow set of tasks.

I’m answering this as a science question. If that wasn’t the point, my apologies.

Aerodynamics fix the wing to body ratio of a creature pretty tightly. If you want a wasp-like ratio, it’s going to be a wasp-sized creature. To reach ball-sized, they’re going to need to have eagle-size wings folded up around them, not cute little things on their back.

I guess for imagery sake, imagine you had a roommate that was one, so you have to take their size into account for things like cooking and cleaning.

An entire human-size dwelling would be very expensive taste for a pixie, even with a roommate. I think they could only be in charge of cleaning an area realistic for their size, but pretty much nothing else in the way of typical unskilled labour.

If something breaks they’d make a hell of a repair person, though, since they could reach all kinds of things inside a machine, and they’d be able to process food in ways that are just too picky for humans to bother with. The Inuit have a delicacy called mouse food, where lemmings collect the tiny edible bits of otherwise unpalatable arctic plants, and then they loot the burrows until there’s enough for a person.

Maybe an entire colony of pixies would be a more realistic co-occupant. I’d really worry about one of them peeping at me, though, since a tiny creature can hide anywhere. Safety would also be a concern; there’d have to be ground rules about what surfaces are to be ordinarily kept clear of anything or anyone that could be crushed, and regarding which containers I can handle and how.

Would they be able to lift/carry human-size objects?

No, they’d be able to lift around as much as a similar-sized flying animal. So, a little bit of pollen, a drop of fluid, maybe a small insect in a tiny cage.

Quantum computing will eventually make specifically Bitcoin worthless. Eth at least gets upgrades.