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Google gets an error-corrected quantum bit to be stable for an hour (arstechnica.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by misk@sopuli.xyz to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] over_clox@lemmy.world -4 points 2 weeks ago

Yes, I'm aware. ~50 years is a little over ~438,000 hours of service time, with no ability to even perform physical hands on maintenance.

How is a pathetic one hour memory of any sort somehow progress? By the time it cures cancer or whatever, the data is still that much more likely to be corrupt by the time they check it and try to save it.

1 hour < 438,290 hours