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by tomComb 3y ago
This is about early testing (on code) of Gemini 1.5, but presumably that will come to the Gemini consumer product in not too long so … I've put a complex codebase into a single 120K-token prompt, and asked 7 questions GPT-4 and Gemini
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by tomComb 3y ago
For starters, support the Ukraine.
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by tomComb 3y ago
Bill c-18 was such a harmful, corrupt, mess that it really demonstrated the risks of doing business in a country in an oligopoly. It pretended to be about journalism, but in the end was just a shake-down with most of the proceeds going to
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by tomComb 3y ago
Why do actions use VM’s instead of containers? And yet codespaces use containers.
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by tomComb 3y ago
> almost entirely Indian, all the way up. Only one of the trio that effectively run the company are Indian
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by tomComb 3y ago
The 800v is not relevant to “all the conductors within the car“. It is the move from 12 V to 48 V that allows them to reduce the thickness of all the wires within the car. That’s what the cybertruck introduced.
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by tomComb 3y ago
Yeah, I don’t judge people for pirating or ad blocking, but the ludicrous justifications do get me - quite the entitled mental gymnastics. They remind me of bitcoin people trying to explain how mining is good for the environment.
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by tomComb 3y ago
Ever tried to get from Italy to Northern Europe? They are now building a truly incredible tunnel to make it easier.
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by tomComb 3y ago
Windows has ads (and you pay for it), Chrome OS and android have never had ads, so it doesn’t follow that Waymo will have ads due to Google.
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by tomComb 3y ago
Once there is adequate competition, autonomous taxis should be much cheaper.
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by tomComb 3y ago
The amount and terms agreed upon are what Google originally offerred, so I've mostly seen it reported as the gov't caving. But I still agree with you - would rather have seen Google not give in to this sort of thing at all. It was
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by tomComb 3y ago
Translation is that the government engaged in a shakedown of Google, on behalf of Bell and Rogers: Bill c-18. It was disgusting and corrupt and I’m glad that Google and Facebook pushed back. This has recently been resolved though, with a co
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by tomComb 3y ago
> We run an open source Deno server for hosting Edge Functions called Supabase Edge Runtime. With full npm and node compatibility. Interesting.
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by tomComb 3y ago
A tax on links charges Google or Facebook for every time they send people to other sites (yes, that is the reverse of the normal). The final agreement involves a simple lump sum, recurring payment from Google to (mostly) Rogers and Bell. It
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by tomComb 3y ago
> text in place of the voice command as well That would be great for people with Mac mini who don't have a mic.
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by tomComb 3y ago
Not really - in the final agreement it no longer has the form of a link tax. Now it is simply a payment from Google going mostly to the big telecom companies. Their lobbyists are the ones who wrote the original bill and this was always sim
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by tomComb 3y ago
In Ontario Canada the dominant blood testing company lost (got hacked) the health records of millions of customers and almost nothing came of it. Even the civil suit on behalf of the people whose entire health records were lost was going t
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by tomComb 3y ago
Is Australia like Canada? Canada was involved in an ugly shake-down of Google on behalf of our telecom companies (Bill C-18) and Google was resisting. So, amongst other threats, Canada got rid of the independence of their Consumer protecti
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by tomComb 3y ago
But they are not in the exact same position - Apple has a much tighter grip on their App Store than Google, and they don’t even need to: they make money selling the devices.
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by tomComb 3y ago
You must have a very different definition of ‘crappy laptop’ than I do.
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by tomComb 3y ago
> That's a bit like saying FOSS is open source only if a copy of the programmers is applied with the code. Wait, what? You can build the FOSS app entirely from the source. You don’t need a copy of the programmer.
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by tomComb 3y ago
After paying for windows - that’s the part that really makes it sting.
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by tomComb 3y ago
Those PC's look like great value and availability and are clearly very popular - have squeezed out other options like Intel NUC. Very tempting. But I've heard that you pretty much never get a BIOS update and the quality of any su
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by tomComb 3y ago
It is most certainly not about news content - for which they already have arrangements - but links to news articles. Hence they call it the link tax, but that is not really apt as the money mostly goes to rogers and bell, not taxpayers.
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by tomComb 3y ago
The government is involved in a shakedown of Google for the benefit of bell and Rogers (whose lobbyists wrote it). I’m glad they are pushing back. There is a law professor at U of Ottawa who is generally considered the most expert and inde
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by tomComb 3y ago
Yes, those are conflicts , but that’s with board members which is a very different thing that having conflicts with the CEO.
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by tomComb 3y ago
The two most important pieces of android are the Linux kernel and the android app runtime. The article says that this new initiative from Amazon will use the Linux kernel and I would think they would have to maintain android app compatibili
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by tomComb 3y ago
Pixels have unlocked bootloaders so you can install whatever you want, including completely open source versions of android. You won’t be able to do mobile payment and some other things because the companies behind those other things will o
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by tomComb 3y ago
My Sony, which comes with Google TV, is no worse than Apple TV in its default configuration, and I've read about other people installing alternate home pages with no ads.
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by tomComb 3y ago
I doubt YouTube is going for zero. I suspect they only took action recently because ad blockers have become very common.

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