Yes, it is old, many examples are outdated, but the main points still hold. Decades later his suggestions for making IPv6 succeed are still not implemented.
The article by Ory's Aeneas Rekkas perfectly describes OAuth / OIDC problems. The only thing it misses is the suggestion for the alternative protocol for first-party auth. It does suggest that it's preferable to use simpler systems like Ory Kratos. But OAuth / OIDC is a set of protocols, not an implementation. Is there an a effort to specify simple auth protocol, when third-party auth is not needed?
OAuth-based auth providers are nice, but they can have a weakness. When you have just one app, OAuth can be overkill: protocol is complex, and users suffer jarring redirects¹.
This is not surprising, because OAuth / OIDC is fundamentally designed for (at least) three parties that don't fully trust each other: user, account provider and an app². But in a single app there are only two parties: user and app itself. Auth and app can fully trust each other, protocol can be simpler, and redirects can be avoided.
As someone outside of the field I don't follow your argument. The author stated that the problem is not just in the analog nature of quantum computer, but in the impossibly large amount of analog parameters to process and also to correct errors in.
Interesting observation about the maximum lifetime of a bubble:
> I believe that, appearances to the contrary, the quantum computing fervor is nearing its end. That's because a few decades is the maximum lifetime of any big bubble in technology or science. After a certain period, too many unfulfilled promises have been made, and anyone who has been following the topic starts to get annoyed by further announcements of impending breakthroughs. What's more, by that time all the tenured faculty positions in the field are already occupied. The proponents have grown older and less zealous, while the younger generation seeks something completely new and more likely to succeed.
I find your reaction to be a positive sign. The sign that IEEE is willing to push envelope of knowledge (as of 2018). One can't push it without taking a risk of publishing something wrong, possibly very wrong.
I don't have any opinion on this topic, it's not my field of expertise. However, it's the first semi-technical article about quantum computing that I can follow along and understand.
I don't find it persuasive. First of all, people are not going to start writing and saying wildcards. Second, there is an established convention to say "2000s" and mean 2000-2009.
In the article Dyson retells the story from Pupin's autobiography. This 1923 Pulitzer-winning book is now out of copyright and freely available: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/66886
> If you buy an NVIDIA GPU, you do not get a document explaining the instruction set. It, and many other parts of the architecture, are secret. If you want to write code for it and don't want to use NVIDIA's toolchain, you are expected to generate PTX, which is a somewhat portable intermediate language that the NVIDIA drivers can consume. This means that NVIDIA can completely change the instruction set between GPU revisions without breaking your code. In contrast, an x86 CPU is expected to run the original PC DOS (assuming it has BIOS emulation in the firmware) and every OS and every piece of user-space software released for PC platforms since 1978.