mwest217

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Comment · 5 months ago
That's one of its strongest features, imo, as it makes notebooks reproducible on other machines, rather than tying them to your system environment.
Comment · 10 months ago
Vim, neovim, and helix all handle multiple-GB files fine!
Comment · 11 months ago
Comment · 1 year ago
Gemini 3.0 isn't broadly available inside Google. There's are "Gemini for Google" fine-tuned versions of 2.5 Pro and 2.5 Flash, but there's been no broad availability of any 3.0 models yet.

Source: I work at Google (on payments, not any AI teams). Opinions mine not Google's.

Comment · 1 year ago
Both possible and trivially easy. Just don’t sign into an Apple account.
Comment · 1 year ago
ChatGPT and Claude are mistaken if they think it is incorrect. The parallelism in verb tenses is between "continuing to deliver" and "improving the efficiency". It's a bit wordy, but definitely not wrong.
Comment · 1 year ago
For high level endurance athletes, eating enough can be a difficult task. I wouldn’t quite categorize diets like the one described in https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/23/sports/olympics/cross-cou... as “a bad diet”, but it’s certainly a quantity and density of calories that would make it a bad diet for most people with a normal energy expenditure.

An anecdote from my experience with long trail hiking is that essentially everybody loses weight hiking long trails for months. Turns out when you’re hiking 25-30 miles / day, it’s awfully hard to not be in a calorie deficit (especially when you’re also trying to optimize for lightweight food)

Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
Disclaimer: I work at Google but not on cloud. Opinions my own.

I think the reason this doesn’t get prioritized is that large customers don’t actually want a “stop serving if I pass this limit” amount. If there’s a spike in traffic, they probably would rather pay the money to serve it. The customers that would want this feature are small-dollar customers, and from an economic perspective it makes less sense to prioritize this feature, since they’re not spending very much relative to customers who wouldn’t want this feature.

Maybe if there weren’t more feature requests to get prioritized this might happen, but the reality is that there are always more feature requests than time to implement them, and a feature request used almost exclusively by the smallest dollar customers will always lose to a feature for big-dollar customers.

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Comment · 1 year ago
Gemini has had 4 families of models, in order of decreasing size:

- Ultra

- Pro

- Flash

- Flash-Lite

Versions with `-Preview` at the end haven't had their "official release" and are technically in some form of "early access" (though I'm not totally clear on exactly what that means given that they're fully available and as of 2.5 Pro Preview, have pricing attached to them - earlier versions were free during Preview but had pretty strict rate limiting but now it seems that Preview models are more or less fully usable).

Comment · 1 year ago
Import to another country then the US?
Comment · 1 year ago
It has DRM and there is no way to read books from there except on their iOS and android apps and maybe the website (ereaders are excluded entirely at least for now - i think they’re hoping to add Kobo support eventually)
Comment · 1 year ago
Strongly disagree that Facebook games were the peak. To me that was classic flash games like nitrome.com

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