HyperCube

Going into it I wasn’t sure about a school-based Star Trek, but I was pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed the first two episodes. It helps that the characters are a little older than I thought they were going to be (university instead of high school), but there was also some enjoyable writing in there that kept me interested and made me laugh a few times. Shout out to SAM, I was concerned at first because these fish-out-of-water characters are easy to make annoying but I ended up quite liking her.

I did have a few issues (I still don’t love the burn as a plot device), but overall I’m interested to see what happens in the next episode.

Also, yay Prodigy references!

I went through much of the same process while applying for a role at Canonical. They asked me the same 38 questions for a junior position (straight out of uni but with co-op experience), which I still found strange even at my level because I’ve graduated from university, so why do you care that much about my high school? It took a super long time to hear back about anything, and I dipped out before doing the the technical interview because I got another offer from a company that wasn’t jerking me around.

I took a course on quantum computing in university. It’s a really neat technology and it can absolutely do things inconceivable by classical computing, but classical computers still do most stuff way better. In a rational world these chips would be developed and then used for their niche purposes, but I’m definitely concerned that this will be another technology indiscriminately shoved in our faces to try to capitalize on a bubble.