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Gemini now has its own app! Download from the App Store today, and be sure to check out Gemini Live, now available on iPhone for the first time.

(Disclosure: I’m a PM at Google working on the Gemini iPhone app. Would love to hear thoughts / feedback / idea for what you'd like to see next!)

Thanks for the report. Will pass on to the folks working on image gen!

Can you share which prompt you're seeing this with? A chat share would be amazing. (Disclaimer: I'm a PM on Gemini)

Thanks for the heads up -- which page was this from?

Image generation isn't available in Europe.

Thanks for flagging this. We're taking a look.

(I'm a PM on the Bard team)

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primarily yearly compilations of favorite books I've read, along with a few assorted essays

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Hurrah for personal home pages :) https://dominik.net/reviving-ye-olde-personal-home-page.html

Have written up my favorite books I've read each year for the past 6 years, most recent entry: https://dominik.net/favorite-books-read-in-2021.html

"In a way, the distributed nirvana foretold by the prophets of the blockchain is already here. It’s been here all along, with us all this time. The ancient powers lie latent. They wait for us to wield them again."

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Wrote a piece last summer that's much in line with this one :D https://dominik.net/reviving-ye-olde-personal-home-page.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21589711

https://transparencyreport.google.com/political-ads/home

Reeder (with Feedly as the backend)

Tangential, but I just finished reading _A Canticle for Leibowitz_. Amazing sci-fi book that deals with the aftermath of nuclear war.

Do you guys have a service for law firms so they can run their bill through your algorithm and get a list of bill entries clients are likely to flag? Could be useful for firms looking to maximize revenue and reduce client complaints.

Partners typically edit bills substantially before sending them out to clients, and I know a partner in my current job spends hours doing this every week for our practice group; I don't think he has much love for the process, so a way of automating it would be amazing, I'm sure.

Do to others as you would have them do to you?

Excellent essay. Good detail. I like the longer format.

Reminded me of, all people, Mother Teresa. She started in Calcutta in 1948. People mocked her: What difference do you think taking care of one poor person will make? But that was her focus: One person at a time. "Do small things with great love."

So too in the quite different field of technology startups.

In case anyone else changed their password to something absurdly long only to run into the same trouble I did:

Apple passwords have a max length of 32 characters.

Unfortunately, the change password page doesn't enforce this limit and will blissfully let you think you've changed your password to something that has 50 characters, but actually only stores 32.

Later, when you use a Password Manager that saved the full 50 characters, suddenly your password doesn't work.

Some Apple pages' login password fields cut off automatically at 32, which lets the pasted password work (as you can't paste more than 32), but this is not the case within iTunes itself or on the iPhone.

Solution: Apple needs to limit the new password entry fields on the My Apple ID -> Password and Security page to 32 characters. Or, alternatively, accept and store longer passwords. (as 32 characters is a bit tight if you're using a passphrase)

Out of curiosity, what reasons did come up?

(And also, is there a possibility that reported reasons are not actual reasons?)

Out of curiosity, how do I sign up for goodfil.ms without a Facebook or Twitter account?

How does this work for employees with families?

How do I turn this off?

My single largest complaint about the redesign?

When you search your messages, the buttons to go to the next page of search result are inexplicably only at the top of the results, not at the bottom.

Before I realized this design oversight, I spent a few minutes perplexedly scrolling to the bottom of search results, flabbergasted that those were all the results.

You can imagine my frustration at the design team when I finally realized: Oh, the pagination buttons are at the top...

Maybe for software startups.

But for hardware or biotech startups? Licensing patents is oftentimes a startup's business model. And licensing doesn't work if people can use technology without paying (which would be the case with a purely defensive patent).

I'm not sure they're that relaxing though; e.g. laddering in StarCraft is more of a stress-creator than a stress-reducer.

That said, it does require your entire focus.

Correction: This is a patent APPLICATION. It is not a patent. It hasn't been granted (let alone on the first try).

The Examiner hasn't even looked at the application yet.

This is not a patent.

This is a patent application.

It has not been granted. It hasn't even been reviewed by an Examiner yet. All that's happened thus far is that the application has been submitted to the Patent Office and published. That's it.

You're absolutely correct. It hasn't been examined yet, though the application has been published.

Looking at the prosecution history on the USPTO's PAIR, the patent was granted on the first try -- the Examiner didn't cite any reference against it and granted it right away. That's pretty rare (and weighs toward there being novelty here). Also, note this is a utility patent, not a design patent -- so 20 years of a right-to-exclude from the filing date.

The filing date (and priority date in this case) is April 8, 2010. i.e. that's the date someone would need to find prior art that reads on the claims of the patent. (Unless Twitter can establish an earlier invention date -- which would likely occur in the course of an actual lawsuit about the patent; e.g. a Git checkin of the first implementation, or a drawing in a notebook with a date on it).

As for the claims, the two independent claims are:

A method claim: 1. A method, comprising: displaying a content area; receiving input associated with a first command, the first command including a request to scroll the content area; and based on the first command, performing a second command, the second command being independent of the first command.

And a device claim: 20. A non-transitory computer-readable medium having computer-executable instructions stored thereon that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform a method, comprising: displaying a scrollable list of content items, the scrollable list of content items including a plurality of discrete content items arranged chronologically; receiving input associated with a scroll command, the input representing touch-based user input; based on the scroll command, displaying a scrollable refresh trigger configured to scroll with the scrollable list of content items; in response to determining that the scrollable refresh trigger is fully displayed, providing an instruction associated with activating the scrollable refresh trigger; in response to determining that the scroll command was completed while the scrollable refresh trigger was fully displayed, refreshing the scrollable list of content items; and in response to determining that the scrollable list of content items has been refreshed, automatically scrolling the scrollable list of content items such that the scrollable refresh trigger is not displayed.

Worth noting that the inventor has said that he won't enforce this patent. https://twitter.com/#!/lorenb/status/21684045608

(That said, as commenters below correctly point out, Twitter, not Loren, owns the patent and gets to decide whom to enforce it against).