Thanks for writing that out.

This does make sense and it's roughly what I've read previously.

What I don't understand is why is there even something called a qubit that have stops working if you observe it. This does not make sense to me.

I also don't really get the model of how qubits are programmed and quantum commands (???) are executed.

Cheers, will check it out.

It can also double as a weapon/shield combo if needed. Not the best option, but better than nothing.

I guess that would depend on your interpretation of Moore's law.

Improvement in semiconductor performance is clearly not dead.

But "[relatively] easy automatic wins" from moving to a new node are starting to become less common. Prices for new nodes are not getting cheaper (even on a standardized basis), performance/efficiency/size gains are becoming more modest and ramp-up/deployment times are becoming longer and longer.

I get the joke, but honestly I still don't fully understand how quantum computing works and I've read multiple primers on the topic.

"Classic" computing may be complicated, but the base principle are actually somewhat straightforward.

I don't believe SMIC has commercially viable 5 nm.

Arguably Moore's law is indeed dead. But that doesn't mean we can't get improvements from other areas like advanced packaging, chip power supply and so on...

I have yet to try a foldable (currently too expensive for my budget), so this just based on what I've read.

To my my understanding, the crease is always visible in any current products, but it has become less annoying in the latest iterations where people don't notice them.

Depends on what kind of games you play. Economic strategy games (tycoons, city-builders, large scale simulation games) can easily bring even a modern CPU to it's knees.

I am on a 3080 (with a 1440 monitor). I am considering a monitor upgrade (current one is 75 Hz max), but I have no interest in a new GPU or moving to 4K (for now).

I had a Xiaomi Mi A1, one of my favourite phones to this day.

I like Xiaomi hardware/prices, I can't stand MIUI (I am assuming HyperOS is continuation of MIUI).

Cheers, been looking for something like this (used pushbullet back in the day, but stopped after they changed their policies).

It seems that the ~$3.7 billion revenue figure is from this NYT article.

Some interesting background:

Roughly 10 million ChatGPT users pay the company a $20 monthly fee, according to the documents. OpenAI expects to raise that price by $2 by the end of the year, and will aggressively raise it to $44 over the next five years, the documents said.

It will be interesting to see if their predictions turn out to be true. $44 a month seems steep for a LLM, not to mention there will likely be a lot of competition both from cloud LLM providers and local LLM initiatives.

His involvement in the infamous WorldCoin provides useful insight into his character.

An oligarch and a degenerate (outside the US many oligarchs have a more or less sober understanding of who they are, although degeneracy among oligarchs is a global issue).

We are all waiting. If they don't come up with proven revenue opportunities in the next ~18 months, it's going to be difficult to justify the astronomical capex spend.

A solid option if your country doesn't support 6 GHz and you live in an apartment.

Tim Apple:

"Fucktard, do you not see the Apple logo on the device? You'll buy it, pay the astronomical price and recommend it to your friends as the next thing in computing! And if you don't, I will call my buddy Xi and we will send you to the Apple labour camp in Xinjiang! Get ready to be castrated so you can focus on our iPhone 16 rampup!"

I was curious about their methodology for counting "internet shutdowns".

I live in Ukraine and I have not experienced government run internet shutdowns since the full scale russian invasion. We do block russian resources (pretty easy to overcome via VPN), but that's understandable as they spread genocidal propaganda.

The internet does go down for some providers when there are longer brownouts, but that's related to the russians targeting the energy infrastructure. To my knowledge even frontline towns (i.e. 10km to the front) still have internet if there is capability to provide it. I believe towns ~20 km from the frontline are actually exempt from planned power shutdowns when there is too much load on the system (due to russians destroying ~60% of our electricity production capacity).

So I looked into their dataset (direct google sheets link).

And low and behold, this is what I found:

They do explicitly state that "Shutdowns were imposed by external parties in Palestine and Ukraine", but it seems strange to include such cases considering this is different from the approach used in India.

Committed fans.

They'll ship at least several hundred thousand units no matter what.