skells @skells@qoto.org

@ins0mniak @7 why would you spread such a rumour

@7 @ins0mniak great reset monday

@ins0mniak @7 seems like something is going on, quite how one gets to Xi under house arrest

with Iran and everything else going crazy, you get the sense that we're at an historical hinge point, who knows

is there any source for this Xi house arrest thing, can't find anything on regular news

@NBS "Paradise is under the shadow of swords"

there's enough bad actions and motivations on all sides for us to drop the moral posturing and have a frank discussion

feel free to strike a moral pose, just prepare to get shitposted into the stone age

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=JSukN8GsC8A

some of those that work forces
are the same that push vaxxes

@MartinJJ @mrman @Krez it's not marketing bullshit, it's perfectly consistent science although I agree absolute zero is likely impossible, there's problems such as vacuum energy and it boils down to how you define it

a friend's lab can actually cool atoms to negative values of absolute zero, but it's just a quirk of how you define it as temperature is meant to describe large numbers of molecules in a given container - this loses its meaning when you have only a few atoms bopping about in a vacuum

what is bullshit is the idea that a system like this can scale up to millions of qubits - even if you could do that in the near term (the bigger you make them, the more heat up and the harder they are to cool) the fact remains that the nature of quantum systems means you need huge error correction - like hundreds of qubits to a make a reliable qubit to run calculations on

it's like claiming you'll soon have millions of employees but fail to mention that the employees are in fact highly trained mice that require several hundred to run a human sized robot

and with that I'd like to thank you for your courage and have dinner

@mrman @Krez and outer space is actually relatively warm in these situations, about 2.7K

100,000 times cooler would be 0.000027K or 27nK (I think...) which is about the limit of state of the art

@mrman @Krez 0.001K is 100x colder than 0.1K where 0K = -273C

going from "microKelvin" to "nanoKelvin"

also, the way that temperature gets defined in systems like this can get a little wiggy

@sim @11112011 @oxblood if you have an activity in common it makes it easier, if there's a local climbing club or something people are always organising trips etc

@harblinger @NBS he's a bit much but he's winning me over

@sim I know, just giving you a nudge

was sat on my arse last time, had to go out and eat some of my own cooking, so to speak

@sim I think just doing things that scare you tbh, fear is a general response and if you can conquer it in one situation you can conquer it in many

@sim unlikely they would have been chatting about it over fedi