Rooibos is just an inferior version of honeybush.

Change my mind.

I started down the path to atheism when I tried proving that my faith was the correct one and got stuck when I realized that all the other religions also think that they are the correct one and the greatest predictor of what you believe is simply what your parents believe, so what exactly made me so sure that I was the right one?

It only does not have a significant adverse effect because enough people actually do pay for the media that they are able to make a profit off of it. If no one paid for it then they would lose all of their revenue from selling copies, which would definitely be a significant adverse effect on their profits.

I mean, maybe you don't consider that to be a problem. Maybe you think that copying media should be free and that instead of making money selling copies people should live off of the money they make from performances and/or patronage, even if this means that there is less money available to create media so in practice there is less of it around. I don't agree with this position, but I also don't think it is an inherently unreasonable one as long as you are being honest about it.

The point is, though, that whatever moral position you take on piracy, you cannot justify it with a claim that only holds as long as other people act differently from you.

Reddit wasn’t always the shining beacon of communities you think it currently is.

You are putting words into my mouth that I did not speak nor do I think; I have only pointed out that there are communities on Reddit that do not have a strong presence here whose absence I miss.

People move and adapt.

While I hope you are correct in this case, this is not always true. Sometimes good things are simply lost.

Activity Pub is a clear improvement over Reddit, and separating from Spez’s incompetence is a bonus.

I agree, which is why I have shifted the vast majority of the time I spent on Reddit here instead.

Edit: Ah, lovely, a downvote without a reply. Glad to see that the Lemmy community is such a dramatic improvement over the Reddit community. :-)

I don't know much about Void Linux. What is it's selling point that makes it unique?

Agreed. I might be an information technology aficionado, but I couldn't care less about how my car works as long as it does its job, so it'd be a bit hypocritical of me to judge the person I pay to fix my car for not being knowledgeable about computers.

The home page for it is here. It's based on a result known as the Gottesman-Knill Theorem which shows (constructively, i.e. providing a concrete algorithm) that quantum circuits consisting solely of Clifford gates (that is, CNOT + Hadamard + Phase, hence CHP) can be simulated efficiently classically.

Or, alternatively, since they are already making the (reasonable) compromise of working with a restricted gate set, they could expand their gate set to the Clifford group and then use the CHP algorithm to scale to much larger systems.

Cute, but the set of quantum gates is so limited that simulating them is trivial, and in particular you don't need to sample multiple iterations to estimate the probability distribution because you already know it exactly.

So, I know that this doesn't quite have the same nostalgia feel of the original, but there is a group of fans who have been creating free remasters of the games in the King's Quest and Quest for Glory series.

Huh, interesting, that page says that vegan diets "reduced food costs by up to one third [emphasis mine]", which I guess is nothing to scoff at but on the other hand doesn't seem that large; I would have expected the relative cost of including meat in your diet to increase food costs by much more given how resource-intensive it is to produce meat compared to producing vegetables.