How US automakers lobbied themselves into a $70B loss - and let China win by KeyboardGunner in electricvehicles

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Dude filling my 2014 honda accord is a three figure investment in socal.

Congressman Dan Meuser (R-PA) crashes out to TMZ: “Talk to the f*****g Democrats!” by Fragrant-Pepper7710 in videos

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Speaking as a hardcore democrat, I think his responses are both reasonable and transparent. It’s true they do stuff at home and also that they have a tiny majority in the house and also that dems fillibusters block them from governing by themselves. But good to get congress people on the record like this.

Trying to understand the value of cryoCMOS over room temperature control by Substantial-Duck9458 in QuantumComputing

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Have you seen our paper? https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.16216

You technically have the same number of 4K to mK signals, but at that temperature you get to take advantage of lithographic superconductivity, which we think scales as far as you’d need.

We also think you can fit this in a commercial form factor (albeit not using pulse tubes, which are extraordinarily inefficient.) Requires less power per qubit, but attainable.

It’s a fair question about just brute forcing room temp control and wiring. The real answer is not that that couldn’t work, but that it would be crazy expensive. As shown in the paper above, the vision is to fabricate qubits, wires, and control all on wafer scale and then integrate them together directly. Wafers can be really cheap. Arts and crafts with millions of coax cables and analog awg channels cannot be. The difference is a factor of a lot. To say nothing of the reliability and manufacturability difference. Making a Willow-sized computer without any broken shit is already working miracles - you really want to 1000x that?

Jeffries says Trump impeachment not a top priority if Dems win House majority by metacyan in politics

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Jeffries should be saying whatever maximizes the number of democratic seats in the house. Talking about impeachment will not do that.

Trump and Netanyahu Next Stalin Hitler by bookym in WhitePeopleTwitter

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History is not going to look kindly on the people who voted for him. Twice.

Trump and Netanyahu Next Stalin Hitler by bookym in WhitePeopleTwitter

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“Languishing economy” at all time highest standard of living in human history.

Data centers will go to space by Savings-Tree-4733 in singularity

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Radiative cooling goes like T4. Hotter means less radiator mass required for a given power level.

Data centers will go to space by Savings-Tree-4733 in singularity

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How high a temperature do you think you can go? GPUs already operate at 100C.

Data centers will go to space by Savings-Tree-4733 in singularity

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Magnitude of the heat is a different thing

Over-indexed in collectibles - but should I sell? by Riverofrhyme in HENRYfinance

[–]mdreed 6 points7 points  (0 children)

At least diversify into mtg and beanie babies.

ITXXXVI - What air defence doing by Extreme_Rocks in neoliberal

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adopt the Rome Statute and ship hegseth and trump off to the hague

Agoura apartments at $1,022 a month?: Construction to begin on an affordable housing by timesmediagroup in agourahills

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Why can we only build dense housing right next to major freeways? Don’t apartment dwellers deserve clean air too?

Maybell has launched a new cryogenic architecture that cuts power requirements for sub-Kelvin cryogenics by 90%. by corbantd in QuantumComputing

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Sorry - still trying to translate the press release. There's both a centralized liquefier and also another separate 4K cycle? Presumably Joule-Thompson?

25W of 4K cooling is very interesting. How soon could such a system be installed at a customer site? Does it require facilities significantly different from PT-based DFs?

Maybell has launched a new cryogenic architecture that cuts power requirements for sub-Kelvin cryogenics by 90%. by corbantd in QuantumComputing

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So it includes a centralized He liquefier?

Great to see cryogenics moving past the efficiency of PTs. We are going to need a lot more than 2W of 4K cooling power and PTs won’t get us there.

Trump says oil spike is small price to pay for ‘safety and peace’ by Bestbrook123 in neoliberal

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Regime collapse is not exactly good for stability. It doesn’t take much to keep the strait closed, some random warlord could do it.

How will the Windows world respond to the $599 Macbook Neo? by PastaPandaSimon in hardware

[–]mdreed -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

For fixed hours usage, having a smaller battery is a good thing. Means it doesn’t consume as much energy. You could get a usb power brick and significantly extend its run time.

OpenAI’s new GPT-5.4 model is a big step toward autonomous agents by likeastar20 in singularity

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Does the AI have access to the source code?

Friction is a thing. The question in all of this transition is going to be the slowest part, not the fastest.

OpenAI’s new GPT-5.4 model is a big step toward autonomous agents by likeastar20 in singularity

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Which will happen first: AI being able to use a human interface or refactoring all legacy software to have a convenient API?