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Yes, very frustrating for me as well. I consider now purchasing Gemini Advance with another Non-Workspace account. :-(

I also found this [1]: “ Important:

A chat can only use one model. If you switch between models in an existing chat, it automatically starts a new chat. If you’re using Gemini Apps with a work or school Google Account, you can’t switch between models. Learn more about using Gemini Apps with a work or school account.”

I have no idea why the workspace accounts are such restricted.

[1] https://support.google.com/gemini/answer/14517446?hl=en&co=G...

Hm. 4.6M „voters“, and I know a couple of persons who were not able to vote due to server issues. I also doubt that the way the voting was setup was safe against the most basic manipulations (e.g. voting multiple times).

I’d say that this was not a representative poll. ;)

They belong to the Holtzbrinck Group [1]. They also operate a VC [2] and own or are invested in a lot of startups.

[1] https://www.holtzbrinck.com/

[2] http://www.hvventures.com/

Unfortunately directly booking with the hotel has drawbacks as well. 6 months ago I booked The Pullman Hotel in London directly (they had the same pricing as the online agencies).

When I arrived late in the evening my room was not available: the (online, credit card backed) reservation I've made was "lost" and no more rooms available.

There was no way to sort it out easily so I booked another Hotel (higher price, and had no time to do some Tripadvisor/Rating research).

The exactly same thing happened when I booked a hotel in Czech last year via HRS. When I arrived I was told by the hotel guy that there was only 1 room available instead of the booked 2. I tried to sort it out directly with the hotel - no chance after 10 min. of discussions.

I then called the HRS hotline, the service agent put me on hold while he called the hotel. I saw the guy at the reception pick up the phone, a few seconds later he came to me and told me that 2 rooms were available. :/

That said: it seems that the OTAs (HRS, booking, expedia) have enough "arguments" (e.g. threaten with delisting etc) that as a customer you may also have benefits from this kind of oligopoly.

I think it's also about the ecosystem. With Elixir all third party packages etc. can be relied on having no side-effects / immutability.

If you try to code functional in an OOP language, you would have to make sure that no third party modules (or coworkers accidentally) write code that "misbehaves" in such aspects. Just like you currently have to make sure that the Ruby code you use is threadsafe.

With immutability you gain all those features baked into Erlang/OTP (scalability, reliability).

That's true for threads (although most of your threads should be blocked by IO, e. g. DB queries, and that means the GIL lock isn't a big issue).

But the beauty of HTTP is that you can scale simply by adding more "endpoints". That means you can add as many processes (workers) as necessary to utilize all CPUs, or even add as many servers as you can afford.

I'm not saying that Elixir does not do a better job with it's lean processes and built-in OTP stuff.

But it's not true that you can't utilize all CPUs with a Rails app.

I think that's not true. If you have e. g. 4 cores, and you start Puma with 4 workers (i. e. processes) it will utilize all cores.

I guess you're mixing up processes with Ruby threads.

You normally start as many Puma processes as your CPU/Core count with probably additional threads per workers.

Just today the author of the "merge-conflicts" package for Atom emphasized that his plugin is depcrecated because Atom 1.8 will have that feature included by default.

https://github.com/smashwilson/merge-conflicts/commit/f61950...

https://github.com/smashwilson/merge-conflicts/blob/master/d...

We have a grocery store in Krefeld, Germany, which uses e-ink price tags exclusively[1]. But I never noticed a real-time change when I was shopping there.

[1] http://www.lebensmittelzeitung.net/storechecks/Neues-Real-Ko... (e.g. pics 9, 20-24).

At a bar it's most probably voluntary. There are some toilets where you have to pay after your visit but normally they put a sign on it, if it's mandatory. I only know it if there is a funfair or some kind of it. Like this: http://www.kem-zelte.de/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/1-IMAG017...

I'd say it's a good habit to always throw 50 Ct on the table - except if the person is as agressive/unfriendly as you describe. ;)

In Germany you receive welfare no matter of your work history. True, you need to sell your assets, like your house, but I think that's understandable. Your 65 year old retiree would receive ~410€/mo. + costs for an apartment (incl. heating etc). Again, I'm not at all saying that makes a decent living. Just that no one is really FORCED to work there.

Greece has a 25% unemployment rate. Therefore if you did not find anyone wanting to do your job, it must have been a really bad one. Or - my guess - you just didn't offered to pay a reasonable amount.

I don't know the exact employment rate among migrants, but I guess it makes no sense to discuss it here. I'm just sure that, if the unemployment rate amongst the migrants would be low, you were crying about the bad migrants taking over our jobs.

> It is fine to force 70 year old pensioners to clean toilets

No one forces these 70 years olds to work there. I honestly believe that the people who do are happy to be able to earn some money (because they may not find a "better" job).

In Germany no one is really forced to accept a job because of the reasonable good-enough social benefits / welfare systems (not saying that you can live a good life with it though).

Anyway, you probably didn't want to discuss a real issue but rather spread your, umh, questionable ideas about the "army" of immigrants. :-/

A toilet in a mall is not considered public (= state-owned) in context of this article. The latter are usually really dirty and not nice to use.

Yes, you're right, I too think people would "tip" anyway. I just assumed that if you're participating in the program the cities may kind of forbid to ask for money.

I think the toilet business is only a good one on a large scale anyway: mostly due to fixed costs for paying the cleaning staff no matter if you operate a restroom with 1 or 20 seats.

BTW: I'm not sure about the neighbor. As I would only ask for a voluntary 50 Ct. there's no reason to prefer the other guys toilet. I assume my toilet would be preferred because it's cleaner (cause I'd pay more to my cleaning staff).

The cities pay 50-150€/mo to the owners [1]. I wouldn't participate if I would own a bar/restaurant.

Slightly OT: A shopping mall in germany, where paying for the use of the toilet is voluntary (50Ct / use) makes on avg. ~300€/day, during christmas season up to 8000€/day [2]. If I would own a venue at a highly frequented place I'd rather request 50Ct from the user. ;)

[1] https://www.welt.de/regionales/koeln/article13794805/Nette-T... (german)

[2] http://waz.m.derwesten.de/dw/staedte/oberhausen/gladbecker-f... (german)

It's not required in Germany either. The data protection law allows to "lock" data instead of really deleting it from all devices. And IMO that's the only sane solution to deletion requests.

Otherwise, any kind of backups would be unlawful for a company.

I'm similarly confused. Wasn't Netflix founded by Reed Hastings?

I'm not sure about the "Business as target market" thing.

In our 12-person company I introduced Macs and now everyone uses one instead of a PC. I'm not sure if businesses would have switched to Macs without some kind of endorsement from a "Hacker"-friend or employee.

If the common perception about Macs withings IT experts will change to "look nice but really not worth their money" I imagine in the long run that could hurt the sales to non-experts too.

Here is the recording of his speech with CC: http://youtu.be/RsgbBYrGgSo

That's happening to me often, too. But as I understand it, the habit of just starting applies to continue working on the unfinished work-in-progress project as well: starting a new project is your way of procrastination.

Slightly OT but rumors are Hetzner is working on a cloud offer: http://www.hetzner-cloud.de/ [german].

Although I doubt that they can compete with AWS, Azure, GCE & Co.

Interestingly in Germany UPS has a good reputation (niche premium carrier). And it really seems that they handle packages better than our local carriers DHL, Hermes, DPD et al.

Probably it's just impossible to find enough good employees (for the salary they are willing to pay), and once you reach a certain scale, you will always face such issues.

Last week a friend recommended http://www.dazn.com to me which aims to become "Netflix for Sports" (AFAIK available in Germany only).

At least in Germany I'd be careful to use your project because a declined applicant could sue the company for age discrimination [1].

EDIT: I'm not saying it's a bad idea. I just would think about rephrasing the wording on your website e.g that you are looking for "geeks with at least 15 years of experience". IANAL but I guess that could be ok from legal view.

[1] http://www.antidiskriminierungsstelle.de/SharedDocs/Download...

Care to explain? I really planned to buy a Pro instead of an iMac because of upgradeability. Why don't you recommend it?