Once again, misunderstood physics makes its rounds

Getting back from SC25, Quantum Computing was one of many topics discussed in depth. It is nice to see it getting attention, though there are some fictional elements running about that betray a

Updating infrastructure

Decades ago, I had relied upon firewall devices which offered multi-wan capabilities, reasonable configuration complexity, and reasonable performance for the internet of the day. The day job had, at that time, a 100Mb

ROCm 7 fix for rocm-core on linux mint

So ROCm 7 just dropped and I encountered a bug on my linux mint machines. The short version is that the postinst script has == rather than =~ comparisons, which fail for linux mint, but

Stateful vs Stateless systems

Long ago, back when we banged desktop/deskside computers together for HPC clusters, I was a firm believer in stateful systems. That is, systems with an OS installed directly on the unit, where