Thanks, I'll have to try that. I've only had mediocre success with Jules using it for a couple weeks after launch but I always felt like it may have been running one of the smaller models.
you can bring your google api key to try it out, and google used to give $300 free when signing up for billing and creating a key.
when i signed up for billing via cloud console and entered my credit card, i got $300 "free credits".
i haven't thrown a difficult problem at gemini 3 pro it yet, but i'm sure i got to see it in some of the A/B tests in aistudio for a while. i could not tell which model was clearly better, one was always more succinct and i liked its "style" but they usually offered about the same solution.
It seems like most buyers are with you, but for me I'm not going back to a daily-driven ICE vehicle unless I have to. I do wonder though if part of the problem is that EVs are priced/sold at a premium, and even often only as luxury vehicles. The Model 3/Y and Model S/X sales split is like 10:1 or even 20:1 afair.
Even with our exorbitant energy prices, I pay about 1/3 for the cost of energy per mile (off-peak). I have to go in for service 3 times less often (and just that is worth a pot of gold to me). I no longer need to detour to gas stations once or twice a week as I can just plug in the car at night. And then EVs are also more enjoyable to drive imo.
Beat Q4'24 by 0.3% in the quarter that EV tax credits ran out and EV buyers used their last chance to pocket it. Most other EV models had 50%+ sales lift that quarter.
That does also basically erase any connection to the last owner - so you can't try to infer if they took care of the car or not. On top of that, afaik many second-hand dealers buy cars at auction and then often only do basic (bandaid-type?) fixes to get the car ready for sale.
This is nothing new - Germany has always had pretty "strict" libel laws. Eg there have been "200,827 investigated cases as of 2009" [1].
I think this post comes in light of Europe being seen as curtailing free speech recently. Europe and the US have always had different ideas on the limits of free speech.
>This is nothing new - Germany has always had pretty "strict" libel laws.
If the police are involved, then this isn't even libel in the way that people from the United States tend to think of it. In the US, libel is strictly a tort, and while you might get zinged for some large sum, only lawyers are involved and not the cops. Hell, the standard's pretty high too, has to be both damaging and a statement of fact that the libeler knew to be untrue.
Well, Germany has no idea about free speech and freedom. They only know the moral high ground, and they see their citizen as property that must be controlled and can't be trusted.
In the US it is otherwise around. The founding fathers thought, that the government can't be trusted. The result is that the US Constitution is 250 years old and Germany has one failed state after another. Also, the current German state will fail. Likely within the next 10 years.
Unfortunately I have to agree with this take. This plus the anti-innovation and risk-averse culture is what drove me out of the country. Living in the United States now and enjoying the environment much more.
(source: born and raised in Germany, lived there for 30 years)
Regarding free speech: How many arrests happen in the U.S. at town halls, school assemblies etc. because someone says something the board or mayor doesn't like? How often do police officers arrest people for filming them and so on? The courts typically side with you, however let's not pretend there aren't any consequences. Be it jail or police brutality.
Regarding the U.S. constitution: It is worthless. If the president can ignore it without consequence and the supreme court and congress doesn't care, what is the point?
It may very well be that the state might fail, but let's be honest not before the U.S. will.
Well, we had German Empire, Weimar Republic, 3rd Reich, BRD and DDR and now "Germany", I consider it a new state after the reunification. It will likely implode in the next 10 years.
The US Constitution still stands, after 250 years....
> I think this post comes in light of Europe being seen as curtailing free speech recently.
Which is motivated by foreign need of influence.
I mean, the blog linked here is most certainly associated with an American thinktank, even if registered in the UK, judging by their curious selection of articles and lack of identifying information. Rather unlikely, some intrinsically motivated individuals got the time to write several articles per day, but mostly concerned with European matters "hostile" to American social media influence, and advertising for American right-wing influencers and Trump's politics.
Fun fact: Registered On 2018-08-08, Expires On 2033-08-08. Conspiracy isn't my vice, so I won't hold that as evidence of anything, but it sure as hell is a hilarious coincidence for a political bias.
Not to dismiss the topic in the article here, although I think stylizing personal insults as a pillar of democracy and freedom is a bit silly.
By the way, is it legal in the UK, or the US to accept donations and sell merch, disclosing nothing but an domain-bound email address? Seems like this would allow liability evasion, tax fraud and money laundering.
Considering it is basically the only over-the-counter pain med allowed during pregnancy, I think we will learn that this government doesn't understand the difference between causation and correlation.
Interesting, I find the exact opposite. Although to a much lesser extent (maybe 50% boost).
I ended shoehorned into backend dev in Ruby/Py/Java and don't find it improves my day to day a lot.
Specifically in C, it can bang out complicated but mostly common data-structures without fault where I would surely do one-off errors. I guess since I do C for hobby I tend to solve more interesting and complicated problems like generating a whole array of dynamic C-dispatchers from a UI-library spec in JSON that allows parsing and rendering a UI specified in YAML. Gemini pro even spat out a YAML-dialect parser after a few attempts/fixes.
Maybe it's a function of familiarity and problems you end using the AI for.
>it seems to be best at problems that you’re unfamiliar with
Yes.
>in domains where you have trouble judging the quality
Sure, possibly. Kind of like how you think the news is accurate until you read a story that's in your field.
But not necessarily. Might just be more "I don't know how do to <basic task> in <domain that I don't spend a lot of time in>", and LLMs are good at doing basic tasks.
