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Re:The Tao of Backup on Monday October 05, 2026 @12:50PM (#49967308)
If you use multiple computers thats why.
Haha and not true. You would need to provide objectively more than your experience. And for an example clicking on Android Contacts would be instant vs load time in Windows 11 (the one i have).
>clarification on whether an IRS 501(c)(6) determination satisfies "tax exempt donations".

These donations aren't tax exempt. 501(c)(3) are tax exempt. If users are paying via Google pay these payments must be tax exempt to the *user*.

Really?! Did you read the announcement? C1 ultra cores are designed by ARM.

>The biggest cores on the the Xring O3 are the C1-Ultra. C1-Ultra really powerful cores. They support SME2 (Scalable Matrix Extension 2) for matrix/AI acceleration, SVE2 for data parallelism (SIMD).

>https://www.arm.com/products/silicon-ip-cpu/c1-ultra

Re:Pixel 11 Pro Fold feels like the end of an era on Thursday August 20, 2026 @12:05AM (#49370265)
>Comes out to about $1100 after trade-in and includes a free Pixel Watch 5.

Thats expensive :/

>And maybe also let off the rhetoric of "government sponsored" science, which is actually most science in many places.

Is it? Government science is usually very closely tied to politics, and that's so far from "science". I didn't see any real science in your post as well btw.

Re:Strait of Hormuz Live Traffic Tracking on Saturday August 15, 2026 @10:07AM (#49310713)
The same wiki prominently points out:

Iranian politician Ali Motahari said the fatwa only forbids the use of a nuclear weapon, not its creation.

https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/iran-news/article-705027

>Despite Iran's insistence that its nuclear activity is for peaceful purposes only, former Iranian MP Ali Motahari revealed on Sunday that Iran "from the very beginning" aimed to make a nuclear bomb, in an interview with the Iran Student Correspondents Association.

>late stage capitalism

That period is defined as starting about 100 years ago, after WW1. 100 years later the "late stage" capitalism outlived communism in USSR and China.

Re:Waymo โ€“ Dallas Open to All on Tuesday August 04, 2026 @08:39PM (#49177201)
huh, definitely will pay more for not having a driver to be constantly on the phone.
Re:Google News is just Forrest Gump's shrimp boat now on Saturday August 01, 2026 @04:31PM (#49138164)
Hard agree, 8 was peak trash.
Re:Tailscale didn't stop the Hugging Face intrusion on Friday July 31, 2026 @03:33PM (#49127610)
Read from the ENV variables of a container.
They don't need a warrant to seize the phone at the border. They were after the pin code, he should have just refused to give the pin. That's the 5th.

What they got him on, is that supposedly he destroyed evidence.

Re:Android May Soon Restrict On-Device ADB on Saturday July 25, 2026 @08:20AM (#49046980)
Looking what's this is about - Shizuku

https://github.com/thedjchi/Shizuku/wiki/setup

So it requires

* Enable Developer Options if not already enabled (Generally, this is done by going to Settings > About device and tapping Build number 7 times).

* Enable both USB debugging and Wireless debugging. Tap "Allow" if prompted to allow wireless debugging on the current network.

* Tap Pair device with pairing code.

* Downloadd other apps like ShizuCallRecorder

Or seems to be exactly what this user described.

https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=49046291&goto=item%3Fi...

Re:Dupes (product clones) took over the world on Sunday July 19, 2026 @10:22PM (#48973727)
Champagne isn't a trademark and it's *generic* in US. What happened that in 2006 US signed an agreement with EU. Obviously everything can change.

https://www.ttb.gov/system/files/images/pdfs/rulings/2008-1....

15 mins of walking or exercise. I did 2 hours of walking 15k steps and it's barely moved my required cardio load to 10 and I need over 200 weekly.
Re:Fired by Google for creating the Google workspace CLI on Tuesday June 23, 2026 @06:43PM (#48652542)
Did you have your launch approved? So did you follow the process?
Re:Fired by Google for creating the Google workspace CLI on Tuesday June 23, 2026 @05:08PM (#48651474)
His manager would the first line manager, and really not a decision maker at G. it possible that his manager would put him under a bus after getting called out by legal. Dunno.

But regardless once escalated by legal there have been a process to mitigate this, so either the director fired the OP or someone higher. The direct manger would be not really in the decision making here. There is a clear path to release open source at G, and it seems it wasnt followed. The OP claimed that its confusing, but it isn't - usual the launch tool to get the approval and you covered your bases. If the OP didnt have all launch approvals after 7 years at G, wow thats on him. If the OP actually had all the launch approvals then he has an actually big case against G.

Launch approvals are for all product - internal and external, it usually requires L8+ (Director) levels approvals.

Re:Fired by Google for creating the Google workspace CLI on Tuesday June 23, 2026 @03:46PM (#48650326)
2 months later, I think we can assume some kind of process behind that didnt go well for our friend here.
>Sure it's about politics, but it's also about tech.

Can you point me how was the tech used in this article about *tech* and politics. I didn't see anything.

>I claim there might be a pattern of supression.

Do you want to count how many times words like nazi, genocide, terrorists appears in comments section about Anthropic vs here? Do you see the difference?

But I am going to point to https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Blackcore isn't a startup. It was already covered everywhere in the news. So there is no need to post yet again.

>Sure someome will argue things here get flagged cause they are political, but I don't buy that.

Are you saying that this isn't political? It's literally about politics. The comments section will be predictable and it will be flagged for that.

Do you disagree?

Re:Federal judge blocks H1B visa $100K fee on Monday June 08, 2026 @08:59PM (#48454756)
I dont think an EO can do that, so at most just executive agencies. Meaning the 2 other branches can ignore it.
> Apache licensed models are already 1000x smarter than siri and strongly outperform anthropic, openai and google in the 8-128GiB of RAM range

smart is a weird term, gemma4 is an amazing omni model better than qwen3.6 for non coding tasks (as for all Gemini models). For Apple Intelligence gemma4 makes a lot more sense.

Re:GitHub Copilot App on Tuesday June 02, 2026 @05:00PM (#48376208)
That information is public https://api.github.com/users/<username>
Re:GitHub Copilot App on Tuesday June 02, 2026 @03:59PM (#48375424)
looks like google antigravity 2.0, a standalone app instead of a vscode plugin.
>Please enlighten us what other "due diligence" these people should have done for your point.

$20 filing with the state

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14ktgvoH4Mc

I don't have 5090, I have 395+ and I use for gpu assisted OCR, embeddings vector, speach to text and etc. I have a freedom of using a large library of various models and I can fit a lot in 128gb.

I don't use it for coding, I have $20 Gemini, $20 codex, etc.

But then I got the framework board for $1700, now it's $2700

Re:dotNET (OK, C#) gets union types on Saturday May 23, 2026 @09:25PM (#48253412)
I mean I haven't done much in c# recently, but few examples that c# ecosystem is the subpar in quality

Kafka client library sucks, I mean it was a nightmare to make it stable and there were a few of them.

Pdfbox library

And many other libraries. If you use c# Microsoft libraries only - then you are golden. outside of that its really bad.

At this point I switched to Rust.

Re:Googlebook on Tuesday May 12, 2026 @06:56PM (#48115680)
I dropped a screenshot and it worked great. Like a screenshot of sports practices.

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