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Re:Gemini 3.8 Flash on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @12:44PM (#49538932)
"The new Gemini model isn't available in Gemini, the Gemini App Gemini model is two versions behind and marked as new and the actual new model is in AI Studio" is the kind of problem only Google has though.
These are usually called LSVs; the number of these is low but growing because in dense urban areas or planned developments (golf courses, parks, senior communities) they're far more cost effective.
Re:An Introduction to Obsidian on Monday April 13, 2026 @05:03PM (#47757791)
I've tried obsidian so many times and want to love it but the sync situation - either the expensive official one, the approved options for mixed iOS/Windows clients (icloud) and third party tools like obsidain-livesync - were all way too issue-prone for me to ever trust it. I hope they figure this out
the dollar cost he's talking about does not include the large dollar cost the externalities burning gas creates
Flightly is really popular on iOS, there's not really a comparable android version. Gentler Streak and a lot of fitness app also don't have comparable android versions - most of the examples I can think of are apps that focus (and charge for) good design
There's many iOS only apps that either don't have anything comparable on android or the alternative is just nowhere near as good (a lot of it is more creative-focused stuff)
Re:The New Right-Wing Tech Intelligentsia on Friday December 19, 2025 @04:09PM (#46330960)
A lot of people question the "effective" part of effective altruism, and simply saying "we support more effective giving" is not convincing, especially when the most public figurehead of the movement is/was a convicted fraudster.
Re:My Beancount books are 95% automatic after 3 years (2024) on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @12:32PM (#43269630)
I don't use beancount but if you're already in sheets, Tiller might be easier to switch to to get lots of built-in dashboards/metrics
1) technically? yes, absolutely- apps like explorer or photo viewer should only use public APIs so other companies can make comparable apps on the OS with 90% market share 2) these are all OS utilities, not workplace apps - there's a big difference between Adobe/Microsoft Office/Google bundling their apps where there's a very clear, very powerful disincentive to compete vs something like explorer.
It shouldn't be! Forcing big companies to unbundle product pricing would give new entrants to the market a fighting change at success.
multiple people at previous jobs joked about how using FMLA would get you fired or at minimum banned from promotion
Re:Bossware is a big legal risk on Thursday May 16, 2024 @10:45AM (#40379096)
If your company is even halfway legitimate they will have what they collect / monitor in your employee handbook or a privacy policy somewhere.
Re:New way to have complex discussions on Monday May 06, 2024 @04:17PM (#40279009)
Zulip is more of a Slack-like instant chat system with threading as a first class citizen; CQ2 looks like threads only exist in the context of one "root" document vs a channel in zulip where threads can intermingle.
$24 a year is too much?
There are downsides to over-medicating, even if your personal budget for health is ~unlimited. Nobody wants to be a false positive.
Re:Stable Diffusion 3 on Thursday February 22, 2024 @11:24AM (#39469394)
no AI company wants to be the one generating pornographic deepfakes of someone and getting in legal / PR hot water
Re:Holepunch Unveils P2P Platform "Pear Runtime" on Wednesday February 14, 2024 @05:28PM (#39376462)
Open-source projects where all the developers work for one company tend not to do too well when that company dies, especially if there isn't a large ecosystem around the software yet.
It breaks a lot of websites, I used NextDNS for about two years but got tired of the headaches.
Re:I [Cory Doctorow] Got Scammed on Monday February 05, 2024 @12:41PM (#39263999)
They do, he says so in the article.
Re:Chrome experimental AI features on Tuesday January 23, 2024 @02:20PM (#39108261)
AI theme generation really seems like a solution looking for a problem
I use Tiller, which ingests my transactions but doesn't categorize them for me (except by a rule set that I manually defined)
sure, but when there's a dozen apps that will do it automatically, why?
The iCloud file syncing on Windows destroyed my files twice and I never touched it again.
Re:PainStation on Tuesday December 12, 2023 @08:28PM (#38621480)
I played this a few years ago, it was awesome
Re:DIY Home EV Charger on Monday December 04, 2023 @03:31PM (#38522627)
> It's funny how we reach a society where you need government as a babysitter and tell what you can do and whatnot.

every code regulation is written is blood. the inconvenience is designed to prevent people burning their house down or worse.

Re:Roundcube open-source webmail software merges with Nextcloud on Wednesday November 29, 2023 @10:57AM (#38461037)
There is no FOSS file sharing solution that gets close to being as usable, especially for sharing, as dropbox/drive.
yeah, I see tons of models on aliexpress but the software support isn't there yet. an IKEA version would be great.
Re:Why do people still use VBA? on Wednesday November 15, 2023 @11:14AM (#38278321)
When I started work at a higher-level IT job where I can start saying yes or no like this, I wanted to say yes to everyone and never be that guy blocking people. I still end up saying no very frequently because people will not want to think about anything not relevant to their specific use case at all (how are you authenticating/who controls the app/what happens when you/the owner leave?/is there a project plan?).

I can't count the number of integrations/projects I've already dropped because I asked a few follow-up questions and never got a response. Any business that actually wants to follow the law and reduce the risk of massive data loss or other embarrassing cyber event needs to screen things, ask questions, and sometimes prevent one very smart person from setting up an undocumented rube goldberg machine that will drag down an entire team if they leave and it breaks.

Re:Ask HN: PG's 'Do Things That Don't Scale' Manual Examples on Thursday October 26, 2023 @02:31PM (#38029810)
I believe that for the surface line, but I mainly deal with the O365 folks.
Re:Ask HN: PG's 'Do Things That Don't Scale' Manual Examples on Wednesday October 25, 2023 @05:13PM (#38018465)
Apple is only good compared to the total garbage fire of MS/Google, and Amazon's support has been horrible for years now. If they don't have an automated answer to your problem you're SOL.I had them ship me the wrong item with the correct item's SKU taped on it and they argued with me for quite awhile before just refunding me.

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