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If I, as a regular Google user ask in the search "is this search powered by Gemini?", the AI generated result is in the affirmative.

"Yes, this search is powered by a customized version of the Gemini model for its generative AI features."

Based on that, I'm not sure how it is reasonable to claim that Gemini App has a legal term that is exclusive of its use in search.

Amusingly, it refuses to answer if i ask "is this search powered by Gemini app?"

Re:Offgrid Electric Car on Tuesday April 22, 2025 @10:06PM (#43768056)
As someone who lives on grid, but barely... in that I lose power many times per year and have had week+ outage's.

I believe you are mostly right with the addition of * shift power consumption to summer months. * wood heat in the winter and electric air conditioning in the summer. * electric-expensive hobbies in the summer (e.g. welding) * with low winter consumption, multi day battery operation becomes feasible * small dual fuel generator and a propane tank to recharge the battery bank in emergencies and extended outages with little solar production

Linear typed are "use exactly once". In this case you consume "file" when you pass it into writeString and then it is (compile time) unavailable to be used with g, afterwards.
around 2010, we (Zynga at the time) used torrent to distribute the MafiaWars code/assets to all servers in a couple of data centers. Worked without much challenge.
Re:Getting Started with Category Theory on Wednesday December 04, 2024 @08:42AM (#42317335)
I've found the best layman's grounding for Category theory's relationship to axioms to be in Bartosz's post here:

https://www.quora.com/Are-there-any-axioms-for-category-theo...

Re:The Political Afterlife of Paradise Lost on Wednesday November 20, 2024 @02:06PM (#42197096)
"the main story was Satan's rebellion against God"

so Satan rebelling against being enslaved?

Re:Iumenta: A generic framework for animal digital twins on Tuesday November 19, 2024 @06:33AM (#42182320)
It generally means model running in parallel with the actual system. It is not just about being able to store data, but about being able to mirror (and sometimes predict/replicate) exactly what that system is doing.

In current software parlance, this is often used in stupidly trivial ways, but digital twins have a long and important history and function

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_twin

Re:Secret 3D Scans in the French Supreme Court on Friday October 18, 2024 @07:52AM (#41878523)
The article is long, but from TFA

The court ruled that the museum’s revenue, business model, and supposed threats from competition and counterfeiting are irrelevant to the public’s right to access its scans, a dramatic rejection of the museum’s position...

Re:UndefinedBehaviorSanitizer's Unexpected Behavior on Thursday October 17, 2024 @07:43AM (#41868688)
Rust is not (much?) further from the hardware than C++
Why the disbelief? You are literally describing the process of species extinction due to failure to adapt. This should not be a new concept.
I would interpret your statement of "the voices are real" as equivalent to the statement that "the voices are a real experienced phenomenon".

But you seem to be describing them as distinct entities. If they are distinct entities, what are they it what attributes do they have?

This is a political/conspiracy theory post and doesn't make any attempt at science.
Re:Rust for Filesystems on Monday July 15, 2024 @09:49AM (#40967883)
This is not a notable challenge in rust, nor relevant to the article.

The article is about finding ways of using rust to actually implement kernel fs drivers/etc. Note that any rust code in the kernel is necessarily consuming C interfaces.

Bindgen works quite well for the use case that you are thinking.

https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-bindgen

The summary text explicitly called out why that would be unethical in this case.
Re:EasyOS: An Experimental Linux Distribution on Thursday June 20, 2024 @09:36AM (#40738639)
I've been using Linux a lot longer than puppy has existed, and puppy never came across my radar. Don't assume differences from your own experience are due to age/newness.
Similar time frame. Slightly smaller capacity, Northfield Mountain was brought online to store power from the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant. Interestingly the pumped hydro facility is still functioning as a grid battery, even after the nuclear plant was decommissioned for no longer being cost effective.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northfield_Mountain_(hydroelec...

> Not only were people with two copies of the APOE4 gene much more likely to develop the biological changes that lead to Alzheimer’s disease, similar to people with the other genetic forms of the disease, they were almost assured the diagnosis: Nearly 95% of the people in the studies with two copies of the APOE4 gene had the biology of Alzheimer’s disease by the time they were 82 years old.
They haven't ruled out epigenetics causes, but they are talking about a very specific gene (APOE4) with an extremely strong correlation with Alzheimer's when two copies of the gene are present.
Re:Not all Graphs are Trees on Wednesday May 01, 2024 @08:20PM (#40231291)
The article talks about them on the progressive journey to generalized graphs.
Re:Rust data structures with circular references (2021) on Tuesday March 26, 2024 @03:48PM (#39832052)
Your comment is about rust, but not at all related to the article.
Butcher paper is a thing since the 1880s. Can be waxed or unwaxed and is FDA approved for meat and other foods.
Re:After 20 Years as a Prosecutor in Illinois, I Quit on Friday May 12, 2023 @09:13AM (#35915749)
Challenge accepted. This article is an emotional rant (true or false) is not well grounded in facts and causality. There fundamental claim is that

> The simple fact is that this State and County have set themselves on a course to disaster. And the worst part is that the agency for whom I work has backed literally every policy change that had the predictable, and predicted, outcome of more crime and more people getting hurt.

So the claim is that his state, county, and agency are all backing policies that predictably lead to more crime.

Those policies are then characterized as:

* bond/bail reform * reduced parole and sentences in some cases * "malicious" prosecution of law officers * not prosecuting some crimes that are on the books

Unfortunately the author makes zero references, citations, or arguments for why these policies are harmful, as enacted, and why they might have led to the negative experiences of their family.

So it's an emotional content (nearly) free emotional rant that doesn't move the discussion forward in any helpful way.

Analysis that showed even correlation would be interesting/useful. This is not.

Re:AVR-GCC Compiler Makes Questionable Code on Saturday December 17, 2022 @04:22PM (#34032377)
Pretty much all of it. Rust has immutable variables but also has mutable ones, and is not "designed around immutable variables". Additionally, immutable variables don't generally need to be "copied all over the place" . Rust is not particularly memory inefficient compared with C++.
Re:This to That on Saturday December 10, 2022 @11:21AM (#33933853)
From a brand popularity and professional use point of view, you are 100% correct. The various Titebond formulations are, I believe, the most widely used by carpenters in the US. However, all PVA glues are going to have extremely similar strength and overall properties, and they do have an excellent summary here:

https://www.thistothat.com/glue/pva.shtml

"Be wary of over priced PVAs that claim to be for a specific use. There is very little difference from one PVA to the other, and nothing that should increase the cost."

Titebond does have range of products, well described here:

https://thewoodwhisperer.com/articles/differences-between-ti...

but Titebond original would be considered to be nearly identical to the Elmers that they recommend

Re:Rust 2024 the Year of Everywhere? on Thursday September 22, 2022 @11:25PM (#32947661)
Your comment has nothing to do with the blog post, which is about when rust features can be used (in combination with each other).

> Up until now, Rust has had a lot of nice features, but they only work sometimes. By the time 2024 rolls around, they’re going to work everywhere that you want to use them, and I think that’s going to make a big difference in how Rust feels.

Re:Algebraic Semiotics (2020) on Thursday August 18, 2022 @04:30PM (#32514497)
If you look at the couple of semiotics related pages that ncatlab had, they all moved offsite, so it's just that ncatlab doesn't address semiotics, not that they don't address the algebraic interpretation of it.

https://oeis.org/wiki/Sign_relation#Semiotic_equivalence_rel...

https://ncatlab.org/nlab/search?query=SEMIOTIC

Re:Testing the strength of different wood species on Saturday December 18, 2021 @09:06PM (#29610697)
https://woodidentification.net/about/

"Identifying wood is not easy for a number of reasons. First, there are hundreds of different species of trees in North America. Second, the wood of many species looks very similar, if not identical."

I think there's a very big future in adding more (optical and other) feedback mechanisms to CNC machines, but 0.3mm resolution is really only good enough for the crudest of devices.

For comparison, a typical ball screw, has positioning accuracy/resolution of around .02mm

Re:Is the world economy entering a wage-price spiral? on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @03:26AM (#28927781)
Software engineer and total compensation, respectively.
Re:A Brief, Fascinating History of Ambergris on Saturday September 04, 2021 @05:32PM (#28419450)
I had the exact same experience.

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