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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:
- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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- The entire showerthought must be in the title
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- If your topic is in a grey area, please phrase it to emphasize the fascinating aspects, not the dramatic aspects. You can do this by avoiding overly politicized terms such as "capitalism" and "communism". If you must make comparisons, you can say something is different without saying something is better/worse.
- A good place for politics is c/politicaldiscussion
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Your analogy is wrong.
Here's a silly example to highlight why.
Let's both stand together on the equator. You walk forward all the way around the earth and stop five feet behind me. You claim that it'll take me just as much energy to meet you there. But it doesn't, I just turn around and walk five feet.
Quantum computers, when when brute forcing, do it differently. They take a different path. That's why they're so much better at it.
I don't think I used any analogy at all. Point is, when you have to reduce entropy in one place you have to increase it elsewhere. There's no shortcut. It's thermodynamic 101
That's not the point. Literally doing anything increases entropy. That's called heat. And it has literally nothing to do with the efficiency of specific approach to breaking encryption.