Cybersecurity has degenerated from a niche arm of IT to the new "learn to code!" attracting the bird brained - like ants to a neglected pile of sugar in the pantry. Just buy an on-line course on IP address management tools that you'll never use in the field and you'll get a comfy office job making six figures!

The absolute garbage that the dimwitted are being forced through now that we've shipped away all of our nation's jobs for the mentally disabled to Guadeloupe. What's a 103 IQ white boy from South Carolina to do?

New paper shows coherence improvements of superconducting 2-D transmon qubits of up to 1.68 milliseconds via changes in the substrate to that of silicon; applicable to current architectures and gate schemes.

"Materials improvements are a powerful approach to reducing loss and decoherence in superconducting qubits because
such improvements can be readily translated to large scale processors. Recent work improved transmon coherence by
utilizing tantalum (Ta) as a base layer and sapphire as a substrate [1]. The losses in these devices are dominated by
two-level systems (TLSs) with comparable contributions from both the surface and bulk dielectrics [2], indicating that
both must be tackled to achieve major improvements in the state of the art. Here we show that replacing the substrate
with high-resistivity silicon (Si) dramatically decreases the bulk substrate loss, enabling 2D transmons with time-averaged
quality factors (𝑄) exceeding 1.5 × 107, reaching a maximum 𝑄 of 2.5 × 107, corresponding to a lifetime (𝑇1) of up to
1.68 ms. This low loss allows us to observe decoherence effects related to the Josephson junction, and we use improved,
low-contamination junction deposition to achieve Hahn echo coherence times (𝑇2E) exceeding 𝑇1. We achieve these material
improvements without any modifications to the qubit architecture, allowing us to readily incorporate standard quantum
control gates. We demonstrate single qubit gates with 99.994% fidelity. The Ta-on-Si platform comprises a simple
material stack that can potentially be fabricated at wafer scale, and therefore can be readily translated to large-scale
quantum processors."

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2503.14798

Curious if this can scale to multi-qubit CNOT operations in the future. It would make Steane Codes applicable for toy programs.

Essential reading:

1. https://guides.loc.gov/federalist-papers/full-text
2. https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/2352

I was a bit in shock over the unintentional maiming of a big, eight inch earthworm yesterday. I'm normally better than this, but I didn't see it in time before my bicycle tire tore the very tip of its head. It was bleeding really badly. Did you know worms bleed red? So much for humanism, but I say that because I feel bitter. I picked it up and placed it underneath a pine tree. I hate the feeling of causing needless harm. I'd jump right into defence of somebody's honor or their immediate physical protection if I understood the matters well and knew enough of those involved, but this situation really makes me feel low, and all for some stupid trekking across town to settle the insane municipal debts of the city, going to the post office.

No matter what though, I learned a while ago that I can't be fatalistic, such as people saying things and events are "random" or stuff "just happens", so, don't feel bad. Rather, I'm going to feel bad because I know what kind of behavior I am capable of and that while meaning does not need to be attributable to each and every little event in life, that does not preclude the presence of causes deeper than our immediate senses. I am looking forward to a world that will heal itself of the many ignorant and unintended consequences of so many.

I made it a priority to get back to that worm this morning, well, after showering and eating. It hadn't moved from that spot I left it. I figured it was already dead, but it started moving and crapping itself in the paper napkin I picked it up with and planned using to take it to the river. Worms must have a natural trick for stopping their own bleeding, but that didn't matter much because its face was torn nearly in half and it was prolapsing from the mouth. It could not dig into the soil and would starve while burning from solar radiation and the winds. I wet the napkin with water and enveloped it which I am sure was very relieving for it. So, I took it to the Reserve bridge above the Clark Fork and dropped it into the river with final respects. Funny, I don't believe I have ever seen a bird eating a worm but I do know fish do.

Neat and comprehensive list for RAC, thanks for sharing. There's a few I haven't heard, so will do some listening.

As for the more "regular" Oi!, I'd also add the following:

* The 4-Skins - three first EPs (the ones with Gary Hodges on vocals). Especially "One Law for Them" b/w "Brave New World" (1981).

Angelic Upstarts - We Gotta Get Out of This Place (1980)

Obligatory

Quote from: sub rosa on Dec 07, 2025, 12:43 PMAll of the three above and many more here: effects of the proliferation of proles.

And of prole behaviors. Also a focus on marriage as either (1) absurd romantic notions or (2) property ownership (incl. "femdom").