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love the interior, not sure how i feel about that front end however. "The lowest drag coefficient in Ferrari history" is not what i would have guessed just seeing the picture alone…

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In the US (to start) there's now a flavor of Gemini 2.5 to power Search experiences like AI Mode and AI Overviews. Should be sufficiently good at this point. source: https://blog.g…

Dumb question, but how do they know it's not an escaped (or abandoned) pet? There are sadly many exotic pets on display on social media, particularly in this area of the world.

What about just plain old query() SQL i usually find the easiest vs. mucking around with pivot tables.

His work is always a good reminder the open web is still an amazing place!

requiring a telephone contact (SMS verification or code from robocall) would provide enough sufficiency in scaring the perps to probably solve 90%+ of these.

It seems pretty clear that's what you get when you use the campaign? https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answ... "After you make an app or game available for pr…

The challenge with that approach is the variation in both (a) queries and (b) other players. (a) There are a small % of queries that are knowable for you to target on exact, or you…

My partner made a lot of spelling mistakes, instant human tell :)

Would respectfully disagree. Matching a consumers query to an ad, and optimizing that outcome at a given return on investment threshold is a task best left to a computer to optimiz…

yes but "{person name} memo" is not the same as "Google Memo" (published and endorsed by the company)

I would agree with this, SWE is actually the easier role to replace with AI given the literal binary nature of the work. Dealing with humans is much more complicated, given they do…

Doesn't work very well - asked for dramas shot in Hawaii and got a bunch of good comedies

> Cause of death: https://twitter.com/bettersoma Why would any business set up shop in these conditions. Remote or not, plenty of safer & cleaner spots in America to do business.

+1..get a yubikey or similar device, problem solved.

this. the incentives are bound by the underlying tech.

good one :)

blog post Jan 27 mentions how they're prepping iOS apps: https://www.blog.google/products/ads-commerce/preparing-deve...

This including no results from Pinterest is a great combo

exactly the void Shopify fills

I know the community is generally very negative/skeptic on this (at least based on the 21 comments so far below), but this is an amazing technical & business accomplishment. Congra…

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Just curious - how do you know it's lifted from Wikipedia vs. the other way around? It's quite hard to trace the sources. E.g. did a quick search for Jerry Seinfeld, CNW is a lot m…

The reality is that it did. Do you distinctly forget having to go to a library to do research for a book report? Only getting the slice of news offered locally? The internet is ama…