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We do what we can to make things better. AI has been doing a lot to find corner cases that get lost. At the scale Google payments operates, things sadly get missed.

And investigating a single issue can sometimes find a corner case we've missed, which is why we regularly do it.

Googler, opinions are my own. I work on payments.

Have you tried contacting payments or the related product support to ask? https://support.google.com/paymentscenter/?hl=en#topic=90175...

We do a lot to make sure credit cards work all around the world (like we kept supporting cards in India when Apple pulled out due to certain regulations). There could be some issue with your account or card. I could maybe look if you contacted me, but likely I couldn't reply at all.

hopefully it doesn't hurt. I've set it just incase.

Blaise Pascal: December 1656

"I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter"

("Je n’ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parce que je n’ai pas eu le loisir de la faire plus courte").

> I find it difficult to get invested in Gemini because nobody will have access to Carbon for a few months anyways.

I feel like you're being overly dramatic here. Argon was 13 - 15 days.

Argon was announced September 30, made available on October 13 to Ultra everywhere, and Pro in the Gemini App. Pro plans got Argon on October 15 in AGY.

This is the first time they've slow-rolled a model. Who knows how long they'll wait on Carbon.

The Ultra-lite plans ($99/month) get some pretty good quota where you can actually use Argon some more. Maybe Google shouldn't be grouping together plans, but it should also be noted that $20/month also gets you 5TB of storage on Drive. If you paid for Dropbox, you get 3TB for $18/month (without any AI model usage).

(googler, opinions are my own)

They don't seem to like AI.

https://codeberg.org/libreboot/lbmk/src/branch/master/AGENTS...

Is this something you've tried to figure out? I'd love to hear more from you here. Are you sure you're not just on a Plus plan? How much are you paying monthly? Are you sure it's the AI pro plan? What does Google One say? https://one.google.com/

If you use Chrome on Android, there is a "Listen to this page" option in the menu.

https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/14768725?hl=en

Agents.md is a thing, you can ask it to not do that (it follows that ask pretty well).

Workspace always gets things slower than normal Gmail accounts. They do a lot more to isolate data related to those accounts, so that's likely the cause here.

Anytime anything gets added to Workspace, I think Google has a lot more contractual obligations about keeping it around for X amount of time, so they tend to be more careful about adding things.

As long as you know the use cases of your fields, renaming is just fine. My team regularly does it. We also maintain our own serializer and deserializer json, XML, and fixed with formats. The json one we handle serialization using an annotation to say how it should be exported.

Matt Pocock has a great /wait-what skill for this: https://www.aihero.dev/skills-wait-what, which is an extremely short prompt of:

> Wait — I don't understand where you've got to here. Re-pitch that: give me a little bit of context, talk in ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English, and use the ubiquitous language from CONTEXT.md.

Piper only works with CitC. Which is effectively a virtual file system when mounted locally. And when you have a monorepo that big, standard tools that want to scan an entire directory will stop working. Every part of the developer tool chain has to change to deal with code base that big.

I agree that Google should have bought github. The tech they built to scale Google Code I think would have helped a ton with GitHub.

The problem with many of these tools is they are built on lots of other tech, like S3 dev called out: https://x.com/haipingfu/status/2084880266858995990

Piper is built on lots of other tech like spanner and chubby and many others. And some of those have specific hardware requirements that only exist in Google datacenters. Untangling that web of tech is neigh impossible (or not something worth the cost to leadership).

It's really the case that Git is terrible at scale. Honestly most source control is.

When you have teams of 10,000+ people working on code, if you wanted to shard it, it will be lots of little projects, then you're going to have dependency hell. The core in for teams will either have to spend most of their time upgrading everyone's packages, our other teams are going to have to deal with those upgrades.

The core infra teams are either supporting lots of versions all at once, or spending extra time on source control.

I don't know about Uber, but at Google the monorepo is absolutely amazing.

I will the one big issues that is really hard in a monorepo, if you want to upgrade some external library not built by Google, when that library has a large breaking API change, it will never get upgraded.

Have those leads that left said why they left? Could it just be money?

My general take is all of The GPU design efforts are going toward Enterprise / datacenter graphics cards. They are just skipping a generation or two of consumer.

It seems like this was entirely caused by Dario (and Anthropic as a whole)? When you run around marketing something as a "super weapon", the government may actually take you seriously?

We obviously can't A/B test this... but if Dario hadn't been doing that, would any of this been happening right now?

input latency. the time from pressing a key to showing on-screen is much lower with ghostty (I can't find exact number, but it seems to handle input 2-4x quicker. So around 15ms instead of 60ms).

Also just the general render pipeline is way faster in ghostty. There are things you just can't do in iTerm because it's so slow. Ghostty is attempting to improve the experience to allow for more things to be built in the terminal.

I think it's not just the answer you get, but using AI as a stochastic search engine over the rules to point you to potential answers.

It also locks up things for homeowners that want to DIY a solution fixing a house. Obviously people fix things without looking at the codes (and there are plenty of horror stories out there), but if we opened up house codes for people to actually look at and refer to, homeowners could potentially better find how to do things properly, especially with AI.

Construction codes are still pay walled.

NEC (electric) is $170: https://www.nfpa.org/product/nfpa-70-national-electrical-cod...

IPC (plumbing) is $130: https://webstore.ansi.org/standards/icc/iccipc2024

And there are many others.

(I will say the YC company https://up.codes/ makes these much more accessible, and deals with local variants to these regulations)

Store page: https://store.ui.com/us/en/category/network-storage/products...

$3999

JWT used to be bad due to libraries with poor defaults. Downgrade attacks were fairly common a number of years ago.

Since most of the common libraries across all languages have gotten more sane defaults, it actually is pretty secure nowadays.

Googler, opinions are my own.

My understanding is they're doing this in the name of security, though it obviously has some benefit to ads. this policy more closely aligns with what Safari does today. And it prevents add-ons from scraping information since they have to put in the block list ahead of time.

I've been using manifest v3 version of Adblock and it's worked just fine for me. But obviously is not perfect, but it fell into more towards security and privacy of the user against malicious extensions.

It's also nice that this has been solved for Blu-ray as well. You just have to buy the correct kind of Blu-ray drive, and there's custom firmware out there to flash on the drive and let you rip any Blu-ray.

The BCB in Brazil does very little to operate Pix. It's effectively a P2P system, where the BCB forces all the banks to interop with one-another (and all the banks directly call eachother). They can operate it that cheaply because they do close to nothing technically (they host the main discovery endopints). The only place the BCB actually ingests data is via their reporting mechanisms.

UPI is a bit more centralized, where the NPCI does the top-level routing between banks, so their operating budget is likely much higher than Pix. It also is drastically more simple to be a participant in UPI compared to Pix.

For Pix adoption: you can thank Covid for that. The Brazilian government said if you wanted to get free money from the government, you had to set up and use Pix.

US Financial Innovation: I'd say the hard thing here is that the government is extremely strict (lots of regulation) when you start looking like a bank. Lots of companies have tried to innovate here, but regulation makes it really hard to do. There's a lot of regulator capture going on.

Looks like the dude got suspended for being a bot: https://piunikaweb.com/2026/05/28/x-suspend-accounts-ai-repl...

(direct link: https://x.com/nikitabier/status/2059789636885790911 )

A point that can be made is that just throwing money at something that doesn't produce meaningful results can be good to cut. having a bunch of data for data sake doesn't make it useful.

Potentially predicated on anti-dumping rules.