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Nano Banana Pro 8 months ago

This exists, the standard is called C2PA, Google added support for it in the Pixel 10. I was surprised and disappointed that Apple didn’t add support for it in the most recent iPhone! A few physical cameras are starting to support it too (https://yawnbox.eu/blog/c2pa-camera/)

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.

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.

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)

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.

Gemini 2.5 Flash 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).

All the time, it is incredibly useful to send a doc for comments, which can be attached to the relevant piece of text. I use shared editing less often, but I find it's especially useful in incident response where there may be multiple investigation workstreams, and the incident commander needs to be able to see all of them.

I don't disagree that disregarding the Supreme Court is essentially a type of coup. However, the power which is being contested here is a power that the Supreme Court invented for itself out of whole cloth: judicial review was born in 1803 when Chief Justice John Marshall ruled that an act of congress was unconstitutional. That's honestly a bigger coup than what is being suggested here, and is only perceived as legitimate because a) it's been around for a long time, and b) the Supreme Court has mostly backed down from its most unpopular opinions.

The biggest one is that Apple allows local storage to last longer than 7 days for webpages installed as apps on the home screen, but deletes local storage for ordinary websites 7 days after they are last opened.

I wish this had an API to be used via other weather apps. There are many native iOS weather apps whose interface I prefer to the Google Search app, and I'm sure the big ones (like Carrot Weather) would add this as a weather source if it were an option.

Using a third party app and capturing native raw photos helps avoid that mushy post processed look. It trades it off for more noise, but the trade off is worth it imo. Halide is my app of choice but there are a number of good ones.

Wavelength 3 years ago

I don't think it's being claimed that the privacy is better than Signals. But the threading model certainly is.

For me, who’s made the decision to live 1.1 miles from the office, my commute (either biking or walking) is a positive benefit. During Covid WFH I would try to get out for a similar length of walk in the morning, but it’s better for my brain to get into work mode by actually traveling to a different space.