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[dead] 8 months ago

Limitless Pendant gets support for another year with existing customers getting full access without the need to continue paying for a subscription.

Rewind is being sunset.

Gemini 2.5 Flash 1 year ago

Google Pixel marketing is doing wonders for Gemini in young populations. I have been seeing a lot more of their phones in my generation's hands.

Gemini 2.5 Flash 1 year ago

Honestly, the best part about Gemini, especially as a consumer product, is their super lax, or lack thereof, ratelimits. They never have capacity issues, unlike Claude which always feels slow or sometimes outright rejects requests during peak hours. Gemini is constantly speedy and has extremely generous context window limits on the Gemini apps.

My company actually encourages the use of AI. My interview process was one relatively complex take home, an explanation of my solutions and thinking, then a live "onsite" (via zoom) where I had to code in front of a senior engineer while thinking aloud.

If I was incompetent, I could've shoved the problem into o1 on ChatGPT and probably solved the problems, but I wouldn't have been able to provide insight into why I made the design choices I made and how I optimized my solutions, and that would've ultimately gotten me thrown out of the candidate pool.

You're going to face a challenge of scalability. With so many results like Google, you can't fit every embeddings vector in memory. You'll need to work a database hybrid of in memory caching and disk persistent indices.

the repository description sums it up already: Effortlessly convert Spotify links to your preferred streaming service

If you are on the pay as you go model your data is exempted from training.

When you're using Paid Services, Google doesn't use your prompts (including associated system instructions, cached content, and files such as images, videos, or documents) or responses to improve our products, and will process your prompts and responses in accordance with the Data Processing Addendum for Products Where Google is a Data Processor. This data may be stored transiently or cached in any country in which Google or its agents maintain facilities.

https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/terms

True but the appeal for most developers is it's simple to implement. Virtually every language has a UUID library that works in one line or code.

Like in Go, it's just uuid.New().String() vs using crypto/rand to read random data, convert it into Base64 of hex... which will take more lines and effort.