Visual Basic for Quantum Computers
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@bb36e eat flaming death
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@bb36e said in Visual Basic for Quantum Computers:
ObOldJokeShitpost:
"Ken Thompson has an automobile which he helped design. Unlike most automobiles, it has neither speedometer, nor gas gauge, nor any of the other numerous idiot lights which plague the modern driver. Rather, if the driver makes a mistake, a giant “?” lights up in the center of the dashboard. “The experienced driver,” says Thompson, “will usually know what’s wrong.”"
Filed Under:ALL HAIL THE STANDARD EDITOR!
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So we have a couple of Quantum Computing threads. They were in an unknown resting state, and while investigating that state, one of them changed the unknown state to
known active
. As it behoofs for quantum systems.
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OK, so I want to shitpost a little about quantum computing. It is the future, It will arrive
SOON
.
Like nuclear fusion, it will always be about 10 years away. Or something like that.
With incredible amount of genius, a program could be produced which could find the prime factors of21
:3
and7
. Wow!
But42
is not only twice as much, it is still too far away. Perhaps 10 years...
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Actually, how did it come that I am "interested" in
Quantum
?
I found a job advertisment (it is written in English, so you may not need a moon language translator):
https://www.stepstone.de/stellenangebote--Software-Architect-m-f-d-Senior-Software-Architect-m-f-d-in-Quantum-Computing-Start-Up-Berlin-Kipu-Quantum-GmbH--10567146-inline.html
"build the world’s largest and most precise quantum computing platform"
and
"establishing a route to productize quantum algorithms" Wow! I am sold. That's the future!All the things required are rather "classical". But let me relate one to quantum:
"Proficiency in cloud computing platforms and services" As I have experienced myself, is a rather quantum system. Your resources are available or not. You don't know till you check them. Which changes their state...
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@BernieTheBernie Hmm... I scanned the linked page, and found a word I didn't know, "workation".
So I looked it up.
Apparently, it's not a ballsed-up spelling of "work
station".No, it's not that. It's touted as a great thing for employees, where you can work while on vacation.
Do not want.
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@Steve_The_Cynic It means that you are allowed to do your work in places where others spend their holidays.
But those pseudo-english words which are so much in fashion in germany may mislead english speaking people elsewhere.
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@BernieTheBernie At least one of the descriptions made it sound more like what I said. And the word is in use in the English-speaking world as well.
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@Steve_The_Cynic said in Visual Basic for Quantum Computers:
Do not want.
I don't want to work while on vacation, but I wouldn't mind taking a vacation while working. :glass-at-half-capacity:
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@Zecc I think (or rather, hope) that's the point they were trying to make:
where you can work while
on vacationat a vacation destination, instead of the office.It's just marketing speak for WFH.
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@Vault_Dweller said in Visual Basic for Quantum Computers:
@Zecc I think (or rather, hope) that's the point they were trying to make:
where you can work while
on vacationat a vacation destination, instead of the office.It's just marketing speak for WFH.
Sadly, no.
I'm allowed to WFH half the time, but I'm not allowed to do that from a different country (for tax reasons). And ymmv, but living in , my holiday destination is guaranteed to be in a different country .
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@robo2 said in Visual Basic for Quantum Computers:
I'm allowed to WFH half the time, but I'm not allowed to do that from a different country (for tax reasons).
If you're in another country temporarily but still resident in then I'd expect the tax authorities to be relaxed about where you're physically located. Without that, going on any sort of foreign travel for work reasons would be ridiculously hard for anyone to do and I've never noticed that to be so with colleagues on any EU project.
IOW, stop making up excuses! Don't work because you don't want to work!
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@dkf said in Visual Basic for Quantum Computers:
If you're in another country temporarily but still resident in then I'd expect the tax authorities to be relaxed about where you're physically located.
I think you might be surprised. I work in Switzerland but close to the French border, so we have loads of people who work in Switzerland (because higher salaries) but live in France (because lower cost of living). I know that during the COVID times there specifically was an exception negotiated between Switzerland and France to allow those "frontaliers" to work from home (in France) without running afoul of tax laws.
Without that exception, the folks who live in France are not allowed to work from home for more than some maximum amount of time (2 days per week or something?). I think it's something about income tax being collected by the municipality you work in and not the place of residence.
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@dkf true, but if it exceeds more than 4 weeks the "other" country wants a piece of tax as well (or so I have heard). And the company probably doesn't want me to "spend" those weeks on a workation so they can decide. .
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@robo2 said in Visual Basic for Quantum Computers:
if it exceeds more than 4 weeks the "other" country wants a piece of tax as well (or so I have heard)
If it exceeds that in a single country, then yes, but that's not a vacation. It might however be something that you can negotiate over; we've had employees who lived part of the year in other countries and it's worked fine. I suppose it does depend on the role you're in; some things it works better for than others.
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@robo2 said in Visual Basic for Quantum Computers:
@dkf true, but if it exceeds more than 4 weeks the "other" country wants a piece of tax as well (or so I have heard). And the company probably doesn't want me to "spend" those weeks on a workation so they can decide. .
AFAIK it's 3 months in the EU. Some colleagues have been doing some 10 weeks in Spain with official blessing.
On a different note, a friend of mine is American, married to a French, working in Africa for a German company, with a company health plan that's only valid outside of the EU (unless <3M) and now she's pregnant and planning to leave Africa for her maternity leave. Her German is pretty basic so she didn't want to stay there but it turns out being in literally any other country would mean either trouble with the tax office, no maternity benefits and/or no health insurance
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It's 2024 and Visual Basic isn't even deeply integrated into it's development environment.
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@slapout1 It's a small company, I'm sure they're doing their best.
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@BernieTheBernie said in Visual Basic for Quantum Computers:
Like nuclear fusion, it will always be about 10 years away. Or something like that.
Unlike nuclear fusion, it's actually working, it just doesn't scale very well. It's a whole 1 point better on the 6-point reality scale I just made up (theoretically possible, done in a lab, done and it's theoretically useful if scaled up, it's actually useful, it's commercially viable, it's commercially available).
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@dkf said in Visual Basic for Quantum Computers:
@robo2 said in Visual Basic for Quantum Computers:
I'm allowed to WFH half the time, but I'm not allowed to do that from a different country (for tax reasons).
If you're in another country temporarily but still resident in then I'd expect the tax authorities to be relaxed about where you're physically located.
I actually had the need to check the laws due to my cross-country situation, and the answer is that it all depends on the specific tax treaty between the countries involved. The usual - but not universal - rule is that your tax residency is the country you spent more than half of a year (183 days), and if there wasn't one, then your home country. In particular, this rule applies across all of EU. So it would be fine for @robo2 to work abroad, as long as they don't do it too much.
Please don't tell anyone I only spend 165 days in USA in 2020.