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[-] Narauko@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

Another way to look at it is comparing water to electricity itself. No one is complaining that going from the electric light bulb to vacuum tube logic gates to semiconducter logic gates to q-bit logic gates is just "using physics to direct electrons again".

Boiling water is just the layer 1 physical transport, all the cool stuff is happening at layers 2-7. The real mind blowing breakthrough would be if they finally did something to fix layer 8, but I ain't holding my breath.

[-] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

semiconducter logic gates to q-bit logic gates is just “using physics to direct electrons again”.

I mean, even if they start getting quantum programming off the ground, no one is going to be able to afford the fucking computers. We can't even afford non quantum computers anymore.

Boiling water is just the layer 1 physical transport, all the cool stuff is happening at layers 2-7. The real mind blowing breakthrough would be if they finally did something to fix layer 8

I don't understand this layer stuff

[-] flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works 1 points 42 minutes ago

Computer networking has the OSI model which I think is the analogy: https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSI_model

I had no idea there was a simple Wikipedia! I love these guys and am glad I'd donated when asked those times...

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