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Too little, too late. Will anyone miss Vercel?

It seemed appropriate to use Gemini to make sure my answers were ideal for getting access to the preview.

This is supposed to be awesome: https://www.diyjointpainrelief.com/

Vercel never uses its "open-source" framework funnel to lock folks into opaque, five-figure Enterprise deals for basic features (like security), right?

- Stripe CFO joined Vercel's board. - V0 turned out just to be off-the-shelf Claude 3.7. - Vercel Fluid was launched without fanfare. - Their $250 million Series E round was all preferred stock. …

Gemini 2.0 Experimental 02-05 sees this as "only" 107K tokens. Handy if you want help breaking this down. https://aistudio.google.com 'Laplace Approximation is a "quick…

King VRthur.

His genie in Shelly Duval's Fairy Tail Theater: Aladdin (directed by Tim Burton) was terrifying and brilliant! https://youtube.com/watch?v=_hDTxK4xfCA …

Parallel streaming video ingestion of live events, chunking up the video, sending it to Gemini Pro to get get the context/narrative/transcription/sentiment, and alerting for various thi…

To be fair, even the National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Mushrooms tells you that if you follow it without knowing what you're doing your going to get poisoned. Not necessarily…

I dunno 'bout that: "Was Cocaine once an ingredient in Coca-cola? No, there’s never been any cocaine added in Coca‑Cola and there never will be." https://www.coca-cola.com&#x…

I had never heard of Clear Air Turbulence until last month when I finally read the first Culture novel by Ian M. Banks: Consider Phlebas. Now I know that it's the perfect name for a space pirate …

Am I the only one that cringes at "10x fewer?" How do I multiply positive numbers and get something smaller? Is "1/10th" or "90% less" not better arithmetic? Maybe I…

Those Japanese Air conditioned suits are starting to sound practical.

Due to a series of silly events, my balance is negative $900 for the last six years. I assume they'll just eat it. Thanks, Google!

Also reads like it was pasted from ChatGPT.

Does this maybe help alleviate Google having to deal with warrants for tracking suspects or not really?

I seem to recall targeted advertisements for breakfast cereals and toys. Was it atrocious? Maybe, but it was old way before I was born. I'm shocked that people are shocked.

Is it /usr/locally grown and single .'ed? How quickly can they mv it to my ~?

This is not a hoax. But won't we soon have a real fake moon landing? What a world.

It's Forbes. And the person that shared "a report" only shared this same Forbes article.

From the app: "The Google Messages app creates suggestions with technology that’s built into your device. This way, your conversations stay in the Google Messages app. They aren’t sent to the Go…

Except for every single person I encounter parroting back whatever happens to be in the news like automatons?

You aren't suggesting that something random should be predictable, right?

They must have had incredible patience to wait millions of years until that mountain finally lined up with that cathedral.

I learned about the Woodpecker Method from HN, bought it through the Forward Chess app so I could plough (plow?) through it on my phone. You won't feel like you're getting better with this m…

Chuck Berry recorded Roll Over Beethoven in 1956 with Chess Records. We'd have been fine without Elvis and Sun Records.

I bet it's more accurate than if Caesar wrote it. Caesar's account of the Gallic Wars is considered "prone to exaggeration" at best.