They’ll be fine as long as nobody pees on them again

No one has given a real answer yet, and I’ve worked with these before, so I’ll explain. The short answer is it has to do with the logistics of cooling something to near absolute zero.

The main component of a quantum computer is a tiny microchip, maybe a few centimeters across. The big chandelier is for cooling and interacting with the quantum computer. (Compare to a desktop computer which has a small CPU chip but most of the computer is for cooling, powering, or otherwise supporting that CPU).

Towards the center of the chandelier thing there is a mechanism called a “dilution refrigerator” which uses weird properties of liquid helium to cool the quantum chip to about 15mK above absolute zero. There are often other refrigeration techniques at work and the dilution fridge does the last step of cooling.

The twisting golden tubes are microwave waveguides. Essentially they are wires that carry signals to and from the quantum computing chip. The twists are there because there is a lot of thermal contraction that happens when cooling from room temperature to near absolute zero, and the loops give the tubes some slack to contract.

Not shown in pictures as often because it’s less exciting, but the whole chandelier thing is put in a big metal cylinder, and that cylinder is within another cylinder, like a Russian nesting doll. Sometimes there may even be a 3rd layer. The are gets pumped out of the cylinders so it’s a vacuum inside. The multiple layers of cylinders are needed because the black body radiation from the outermost layer (which will be at room temperature) would be too much incoming energy to keep the qubit cold enough.

Also not shown is this whole thing is connected to an elaborate system of vacuum pumps, other refrigeration machines, usually a box of electronics for signal generation, and a classical computer (a standard desktop computer) used to control everything.

Note that not all quantum computer types use this kind of chandelier thing, only ones that need the near-absolute-zero temperature, such as superconducting qubits (trapped ion, neutral atom, and photonic quantum computers use very different setups).

Apparently that’s how some people are taught to read. Just kinda guess the word without actually reading it.

I’m pretty sure I’d have a better time having a beer with Biden, even if he’s asleep, than Trump.

Incorrect, because statements the president makes to the public cannot be used as evidence of his acts being unofficial.

(This was part of the ruling too)

The court didn’t grant him more powers to do things like this list, it only grants him immunity from committing crimes.

Try editing your own contact from the Contacts app.

Why do you think the headset doesn’t work as described or advertised?

Its price is the main complaint I’ve seen.

This is a good approach, but for this example I break it up as:

7+6=7+3+3=10+3=13

The noveau drivers don’t work with Nvidia cards on x11 either.

It’s exaggerated but it gets the point across: I too would like to know if AI tools were used to make even part of the image.

There’s a reason any editing is banned from many photography contests.

If they want to make a distinction between “made using AI” and “entirely AI generated”, sure. But “made using AI” completely accurately describes an image that used AI to generate parts of the image that were inconvenient in the original photo.

It’s just marketing.

It’s like how a 7 or 8 out of 10 movie should mean it’s really great, but actually means it was just “ok”.

We like the idea that we are getting something above average, which ends up with a skewed idea of what average is.

They did something similar with Apple Watch and Apple TV and Home Pod and jt worked out well enough for them.

Honestly, if it’s just a small, personal project, just use common sense and take some basic precautions (e.g. use a firewall, use NGINX instead of serving Wordpress directly, etc.).

Note that CloudFlare doesn’t protect you from everything either - it only provides some very specific services. A rudimentary level of caching images being the most common one a free account level would be able to use.

So Disney and Nintendo can keep doing what they are doing but also the same companies can steal the work of smaller artists almost immediately?

No thanks.

Control screen customization I guess? Maybe the hiking thing? (But like there are already decent 3rd party apps for that…)

It’s hard to figure out exactly what’s the damage when the contamination is so widespread.

A study to find the effects of the microplastics might be to find some amount of men with microplastics and some without, and follow up with those men overtime to see if the ones without microplastics have less reproductive issues, cancer rates, etc. instead they find everyone is contaminated so there’s no one we can make a comparison to.

Most Nintendo Switch games do this. I think part of why is you might be using a pair of Joy-cons or a Nintendo brand controller with the Nintendo ABXY layout, 3rd party controller with the Xbox ABXY layout, a sideways joycon with ABXY buttons but rotated 90 degrees including the labels, or a sideways joycon with unlabeled buttons.

There’s no way for the game to consistently the way your controller is labeled, but it can know which of the 4 buttons needs to be pressed based on location.