An interesting article, but rather undercut by the fact that he highlights quant...

Miraste on Jan 12, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Nothing like this will be built again (2002)

An interesting article, but rather undercut by the fact that he highlights quantum computers as the same situation. Twelve years later, they exist. They work. They have APIs! Yet the development process displayed all the negative symptoms he highlights. How can we be confident fusion is different?

_dain_ on Jan 13, 2022 [–]

they're still toys, you can't do anything useful with them.