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Edge device energy efficiency is unbelievably bad compared to backend data centers.

It isn't possible for Google to run a websearch query "without AI" and it hasn't been for over 10 years.

This is how you justify dragging around some 2.5kg diving board of a laptop all the time?

Yeah I just remote access my agent via cloud relay. There is no need in my experience for the laptop to have any oomph at all.

There are microkernel operating systems out there that run the network stack in isolated, unprivileged contexts. Some of them are even not written in C.

Google doesn't pay for transit. Their private glass was the whole reason the acquisition worked.

Workspace is under cloud but consumer stuff like Google 1 plans have their own line item.

It's absurd to say that Google did not develop YouTube. They acquired it at a point where it was a galaxy-scale cash incinerator and made it work economically using their superior platform.

There are relatively few ways to mask the fact that a car weighs 2000kg. One of the non-ways of solving that problem is to put ultra-low-profile tires on huge wheels to make it look cool online and ride like shit.

It's annoying that there is no way to just pay the marginal difference between Premium Lite and Premium for AI Pro subscribers. I have a bunch of interacting subsidies from Google Fi, Pixel phone purchases, and Google One AI Pro, but it's hard to keep them straight.

I am a big fan of WUFFS but some recent developments by people assisted by AIs writing format parsers in other languages has made me question whether it will be maintained or forgotten.

How many people judge their tools based on the AES key entropy?

Web search AI summary doesn't have "alignment" ... all it is doing is RAG on the docs from the first page of the SERP.

You'd have to be completely off your rocker to use a PDF tool written in C anyway.

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Everything at Google rolls out incrementally to different populations of users so no matter what feature they are announcing there is a good chance you can't see it yet. When they announced Gemini 4 Argon it was 2 days before I could use it.

Live state of IMEI corresponding to every cell would be technically easy. Most of the stuff that goofballs imagine the NSA doing are technically impractical or even thermodynamically impossible.

It isn't "fuckery" as such. There's just an industry of selling dossiers on individuals, groups, or populations that is way, way more intrusive than what people imagine about online advertising, and they have been doing it for decades. It's data on the open market.

99% of the dipshits in the executive branch are on male hormones, which is gender-affirming care.

Prompt: make a press release that isn't a slideshow on this company's own browser and hardware platform.

The article could have been interesting but by fundamentally misrepresenting the structure of the American federal government they made it impossible to take seriously.

Fission is unmatched in its ability to abandon projects after spending tens of billions of dollars. I don't see how any rational person can look at the history of nuclear and say "damn, this thing can drop electrons on short notice." That's just a ridiculous take.

Distributed solar is cute and it sometimes benefits some people but it is pointless for national policy to pursue it. As you pointed out, the cost structure of small distributed solar is dominated by office overhead, sales, management, insurance, litigation, etc etc.

Solar is fusion. It is optically coupled to a free resource that was on the map from the beginning of the first turn.

Perhaps they are planning to launch application features that require or benefit from the A20. Anyway it looks like the base model of the new iPad is using binned CPUs that were not quite good enough for the iPhone 18: 5 cores instead of 6, 1 neural engine instead of 2.

Polymarket isn't binary so you are understating how wrong they were. Polymaket gives outcomes as percentage odds and less than 12 hours ago they had Bolsonaro by 5-to-1.

We need to get to the bottom of why people believe stuff like that, and fix it.

"Data centers run flat out around the clock", a statement that is not true, has never been true, has been advanced by know-nothing writers in non-technical outlets, and I guess is now encoded in Claude or whatever slop cannon created this site.

There was an official 1394 card for the O2 that only supported DV (not the usual block device protocols).

SGI was super weird with 1394... the Origin 3400 I-brick had a 1394 port that it used for its internal CD-ROM via a 1394-to-IDE adapter, which is freak show stuff.

It definitely took me back when the presenter came within half a pixel of logging out instead of opening the application. That's why they made the O2 small enough to throw across the room.