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Comment #48210397
> There's a supercut of the event on YouTube which solely shows every mention of the term "AI." It's about a minute long and by the end you want to cover your ears to shut out this…
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Comment #48156750
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%27No_Way_to_Prevent_This,%27_... Which one?
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Comment #48128735
IntelliJ was unsupported ("community supported") when I joined in the summer of 2015. I built a new protobuf editor plugin during that period as a side project, mostly for myself, …
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Comment #48128662
The settings in the internal version are "Antigravity User Settings". Pretty sure they're the same.
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Comment #47954465
That's been Alphabet's site since the restructuring happened back in 2015. The site has barely changed in a decade.
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Comment #47532102
While all of that is certainly true, even the DU6900 has the "Start with Smart Hub Home" option that defaults to enabled but can be disabled according to its manual. I assume that'…
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Comment #47531492
What is the half-screen display? On my Samsung S90D (new within the last year or so), I can set it to skip the "home" screen and go directly to the last input on power on. It works…
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Comment #47277553
Back in my day, we didn't need AI to accidentally drop production databases.
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Comment #46328870
Feature request: put the original title in a tooltip (or similar).
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Comment #46211868
If you look at web traffic when making Gemini web requests, you'll see that Bard is still in the URL (so are LaMDA (pre-bard) and Assistant (pre-GenAI)): gemini.google.com/_/BardCh…
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Comment #46168112
Nano Banana 2 actually did generate a pretty good looking 5-legged dog for me. https://gemini.google.com/share/e7a8b902ff67 But it didn't actually think it had done so, aligning wi…
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Comment #46131517
In the Doom-era game Rise of the Triad, if you shrink the viewport all the way down to postage stamp size, it displays "Buy a 486!" underneath.
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Comment #46000074
Just search the r/bard or r/geminiai subreddits for Logan. He's very famously a Google employee these days.
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Comment #45806055
The process is somewhat archaic (often involving mailing around paper checks) and I imagine many people just don't want to deal. Rolling over pulls your money out of the market whi…
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Comment #45456813
I don't think Google was ever going to be the first to productize an LLM. LLMs say stupid shit - especially in the early days - and would've just attracted even more bad press if G…
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Comment #44625138
https://www.prepperdisk.com/ It's not a USB stick, though. Probably a raspberry pi.
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Comment #44615411
But if it were Perl, they'd be celebrating.
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Comment #44534481
https://www.google.com/search?q=%22amazon.dev%22 Looks like their customer support rep portal. Presumably there are not A/CNAME records at the top level, but na.headphones.whs.amaz…
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Comment #44334628
But it is now. And there's no contract, so it's easy to cancel if that ever changes.
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Comment #43399117
YouTube premium also includes ad-free YouTube Music. Yes there are still sponsorships in podcasts as usual, but no injected ads.
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Comment #42393284
> It's like Microsoft creating an AI tool and calling it Peertube. How is it like that? Gemini is a much more common word than Peertube. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemini
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Comment #42066883
Apparently Gerrit supports this with topics: https://gerrit-review.googlesource.com/Documentation/cross-r...
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Comment #41895427
This is what Waymo realized a decade ago and what helped define their rollout strategy: https://youtu.be/tiwVMrTLUWg?t=247&si=Twi_fQJC7whg3Oey
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Comment #41870613
Fire tablets haven't been called "Kindle Fire" since late 2014, so I doubt many people are confused.