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Building is fun, but deciding what to build can be difficult. "Maker ennui."

The forced upgrade from Gemini CLI which I liked as much, and as some ways better than Claude Code was bad. But them just sending out that email on Wednesday that basically said "Thanks for subscribing to Google One AI Pro, as of right now we're adding limits to your account. Tough shit you get nothing." left a REALLY bad taste in my mouth. I had previously praised the "AI Pro" subscription as a good value.

You might have been dreaming. I had a memory of the doctor saying "clamp down" and I bit down on the endoscope and he said "not you." I asked him if that happened and he said nothing like that happened at all and it was just a false memory/pseudo dream. Or he was lying to me.

I remember there was a lawsuit when a guy left his phone recording when they wheeled him in for a conscious sedation procedure and the doctors and nurses were making fun of him audibly how fat he was. Seems like they're confident enough in people not remembering for them to do that - or being able to dismiss it.

I had the same thoughts "but won't i feel it THEN?" when I was getting an upper endoscopy. The anesthesiologist said you're in such a trance, dreamlike state plus with the inability to form memories its like you're not your real "consciousness" but something different. Sort of like your brain is in "limp mode" and its not really _you._ This was both comforting and slightly terrifying in a different way.

The fact it went for vaporwave styling on its own is very telling.

The product photos that reveal about as much as a monster in a JJ Abrams movie is because I don't think they have "Google" production hardware it sounds like they'll be farming this out to the ASUSes and HPs of the world.

Just calling it a "Gbook" sounds infinitely cooler.

The number of times I've seen a configuration endless loop bring down anything are so few compared to the time wasted on DSLs and having to bend over backwards to do things a first-class programming language can do simply. Same with PCRE I've seen that maybe.. once.

The "you don't want a full programming language" trope I see repeated a lot but I think far more people end up wishing for a Turing complete language than wishing it _wasn't_ Turing complete.

>Again, what do you think it is?

I don't know what it is, thats why I asked. Is the assertion that you're trying to make that drugs and gambling being addictive is a result of hormone imbalance in the addicts, rather than the addictive nature of those things?

If its not a riddle or a metaphor, what is a "dopamine household" then?

Is that what you meant by "dopamine households?"

>Doesn't seem to curb demand though.

Because its an addictive product. See also: gambling.

"Its so bad..." Oh how right he was.

Certain no negative externalities from these shenanigans here, let people do what they want to do regardless of how it harms others.

Our zeitgeist is now "the grift is the goal."

Video game history is littered with cool peripherals that were only supported by less than a handful of games. NES R.O.B., SuperScope, etc.

I use Claude Code all day and use Gemini CLI for personal projects and I don't see the huge gap that other people seem to talk about a lot. Truthfully there are parts of Gemini CLI I like better than Claude Code.

Is the software that makes them so pleasant to use available on Linux?

Can you get TouchID to register multiple fingers and script the actions; maybe your middle finger unlocks touchID, but your index finger disables touchID until you enter your password.

Can you use it as your CarPlay assistant?

Most of the really cheap sanitizers I got smelled like bad tequila.

No going to the gas station and getting blitzed on ethanol fuel on a Saturday night.

As the parent comment said the people seemed to be enjoying the food otherwise so the LLM didn't create an unpalatable combination, and I can't think of any combination of edible and unharmful ingredients that might combine to something harmful (when consuming a reasonable amount)

Because I hope that someone who's hands were required to assemble the recipe didn't blindly add ingredients like "bleach" if the AI happened to hallucinate them.

>I've done tests where I ask Claude to turn a simple 1 line function which adds two numbers together into a 100 line function and when I asked it to simplify it down, it couldn't reduce it back to its original simple form after multiple attempts.

"Claude write a one-way function. Wait, no, not like that!"

Unless they get waivers, which I'm sure Larry has worked out with his buddy.

>Also if it works eventually the world will come to be ruled by the severely brain-damaged clones of whichever billionaires survived this process, or their children.

Or come to be ruled by the trillionaire who invented/controlled the process that had all the other billionaires give him their money to buy a few more years.

Man thats a beautiful looking map and shows datacenters and other infrastructure too. Very rad.

Or perhaps -2