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  • j4k3@lemmy.worldtoWikipedia@lemmy.worldTowers of Bologna
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    Between the 12th and the 13th century, Bologna was a city full of towers. Almost all the towers were tall (the highest being 97 metres (318.2 ft)), defensive stone towers. Besides the towers, there are still some fortified gateways (torresotti) that correspond to the gates of the 12th-century city wall (Mura dei torresotti or Cerchia dei Mille), which itself has been almost completely destroyed.

    The reasons for the construction of so many towers are not clear. One hypothesis is that the richest families used them for offensive/defensive purposes during the period of the Investiture Controversy.

    In the 13th century, many towers were taken down or demolished, and others simply collapsed.

    Seems right about the time that the canon became a real thing capable of taking down walls doesn’t it? That would make towers a liability instead of an asset.











  • Expert in the field said they are nowhere close in a YT comment on the announcement. Looks like all BS hype to me.

    Chip hype is always garbage IMO. Real hardware takes 10 years from napkin idea to first delivery of a any product. There is no fast track here. The cutting edge nodes are extremely expensive to design for and you’re largely doing so based on the future node that doesn’t fully exist yet to be relevant.

    So what do they have. Where was the tech 10 years ago, and why is that relevant now. The only thing I see that is relevant is that the market is all over Nvidia and there are a lot of fools playing that stock. So a hyped chip is an easy scam to bait the fools at the moment.

    Nothing in quantum is relevant at all anyways. The only thing it can do with value is break encryption. It has no other real application outside of potential military communications. That is the only reason it is funded IMO. The funding for quantum compute is a tiny fraction of AI because AI solves most of the same potential problems.