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9to5google.com 1y ago

Gemini Advanced rolling out first agentic feature: 'Deep Research'

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www.kuow.org 2y ago

BNSF ordered to pay $395M after years of trespassing on Swinomish land

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www.cnn.com 2y ago

US Government sues to block Kroger and Albertsons' $25B mega-merger

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protobuf.dev 2y ago

Protobuf Text Format Specification

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blog.cloudflare.com 2y ago

Private Access Tokens: Eliminating CAPTCHAs on iPhones and Macs (2022)

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9to5google.com 3y ago

Google Messages to support MLS protocol for interoperable E2E encryption

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www.youtube.com 3y ago

Marques Brownlee reacts to Google's Project Starline

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sfdlive.com 3y ago

Seattle Fire Department real-time 911

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www.youtube.com 3y ago

What Is a Hump Yard?

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9to5google.com 3y ago

Google Messages starts rolling out end-to-end encryption for RCS group chats

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www.q13fox.com 3y ago

WA court blocks $4B payout in planned Albertsons, Kroger merger

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earthly.dev 3y ago

When to use Bazel?

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www.geekwire.com 4y ago

Beanless coffee startup Atomo raises $40M, begins online sales

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historylink.org 4y ago

West Point Treatment Plant in Seattle suffers major failure on February 9, 2017

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thestreamable.com 4y ago

YouTube TV Sends Ominous Email Ahead of NBC Drop-Dead Date

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www.theverge.com 5y ago

Amnesty International calls for Google to halt cloud business in Saudi Arabia

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www.geekwire.com 6y ago

Univ. of Washington ramps up Covid-19 antibody test

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www.cnn.com 6y ago

CDC expected to announce first US case of Wuhan coronavirus in Washington State

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arstechnica.com 8y ago

Waymo makes history testing on public roads with no one at the wheel

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kuow.org 9y ago

King County's (WA) incredibly cheap answer to the EpiPen

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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, which suddenly became used by thousands of Googlers when IntelliJ became the supported IDE again in ~2016?

I eventually handed it over to JetBrains and I think it ships by default with IntelliJ now.

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 with your observations. The last bits of its thinking were pretty sad (for it):

Analyzing Missing Anomaly

I'm focusing on the discrepancy - the persistent absence of the fifth leg in the generated images. Despite multiple attempts, the output consistently depicts a four-legged dog, contrary to the explicit requirement. This ongoing failure necessitates a shift in approach.

Acknowledge Leg Omission

I've made a final check, and unfortunately, the image still lacks the anomaly. The consistent absence of the fifth leg necessitates admitting my limitation. I'll provide the best image I could generate, clearly stating the missing feature.

Nano Banana Pro 8 months ago

Just search the r/bard or r/geminiai subreddits for Logan. He's very famously a Google employee these days.

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 which means you could miss a good day (or a bad day).

I left a trail of 3-4 accounts until just recently, when I rolled them all over to my current Vanguard 401k. They were all invested in the same Vanguard fund so there's not much change other than simplicity.

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 Google had been the front runner. OpenAI came along as a small, move-fast-and-break-things entity and introduced this tech to the public, and Google (and others) was able to join the fray after that seal was broken.

My Instagram account was banned. I was never an active user, and I'm not sure I actually had a single post, so I have no idea why they found it necessary to disable my account. I tried the ID verification process but got nowhere.

I had no problem creating a new account. All of the accounts are linked together with my Facebook account, so it's not like they weren't aware. I didn't care until Threads came along, and now my preferred handle is unavailable.

A monorepo doesn't require multiple programming languages or Bazel. But once multiple programming languages are involved, the complexity exists regardless of the chosen tooling. With multiple repos, that complexity is just pushed elsewhere like the CI system.