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Yes, I actually found that painful to listen to. Interesting to see where it goes, but for this erstwhile musician it’s like fingers in a chalk board.

Catching “will smith eating spaghetti” vibes.

Given the massive difference between GPT-3.5 and 4, it really needs to be stated up front what the basis of comparison is.

Never thought of it that way, good philosophy!

I don’t know about you but I’d not want to spend one day in federal, or any, prison.

There are very steep legal penalties for lying about it, and it’s not available in China, so on balance I think it’s a reasonable risk, especially since Android makes no such promises.

AFAIK it’s totally separate teams. Internally it’s well known that most Google apps work better on iPhone than Pixel.

I don’t think it’s intentional, it’s just harder to provide a consistent bug-free experience on Android, even for Google’s own flagship device.

I have an SE, two 13 minis, and a Pixel 7. The SE is by far the best deal, no contest. I’ve also owned pixel 6, 5, and 4a.

Not with ADP enabled, which is new.

That’s the entire point of ADP, you don’t need Apple to side sorb or against you, they don’t have the keys. Google doesn’t offer that and Graphene isn’t a photo hosting service.

At $329 the entry level iPad is a great deal. I agree this would be a killer at $350 as it includes a stand…but $500 gets you an iPad and $170 left in your pocket for accessories

And Google duly thanks the Irish for not enforcing days protection laws!

“Brexit means Brexit”

I actually do prefer 3.5-turbo over 4 for many tasks.

Apple offers full photo encryption as if this year, whereas Google can - and will - give your local gestapo your photo roll, mysteriously delete your account for taking pictures of your kids, and do god knows what with them for data mining.

The iPhone SE is highly cost competitive with Android and has double or more support timeline, higher resale value (even for a trade in from Google store!), and better build quality and processor.

Safari does have content blocking integration in addition to ITP whereas chrome on android has no means to disable ads and provided a virtually unlimited tracking surface.

I use both platforms, and they have strengths and weaknesses, but for the average user Android is going to provide a massively worse web privacy experience.

Google shit the bed on messaging so badly it became an evergreen meme internally.

This is 100% self inflected damage and they should have stuck with the original open/source based gchat. They went propriety and played themselves.

Also, most Googlers in the US use iPhone for personal and corp.

Google’s biggest existential risk is Apple changes the default search engine. As long as Google Search and apps are deeply wired into iOS Google isn’t much worse off when people defect from Android.

But if Apple goes their own way with search (they’ve started taking baby steps), decides to take Microsoft’s money for default placement (more likely now that Bing isn’t dogshit), or is forbidden by the DOJ to take payouts (highly likely), Google is in a world of hurt.

“POC or GTFO” as the security people say. :-)

Yes, but physics trumps economics.

For me I’d say speed trumps all else. It’s impossible to truly reach scale with the glacial response times you get from current API.

I’m a hacker at heart who exclusively works with lawyers on highly specific technical data protection issues, so yeah, same. :-)

It’s cool dude, no worries.

If that were the case you’d be too busy fighting over head count, trying to hit the VP rung, and internal empire building to do any actual work.

They’ve shut down and/or changed prices on APIs so many times as long as it isn’t 100x lower performance than an alternative I can’t see myself investing building a stack that relies on it.

Appeal to authority as a logical fallacy or rhetorical weakness refers to saying something is true by virtue of an authority figure saying it.

Saying the king is wearing a crown is a statement of fact, not an appeal to authority. Saying Google paid a fine is a fact, not an appeal to authority.

It’s a really good intern.

I am very familiar with rhetoric, and logical fallacies. You apparently are not. I am not saying it is true because do and so says, I’m saying it is true because Google paid the CNIL a large fine and similar legislation is being drafted around the world.

They never figured out how to diversify away from targeted ads. All that AI prowess was mainly to figure out how to manipulate people to click on the steadily increasing number of ads.

Meanwhile they gamified display ads to the point that the web slowly turned into pure clickbait so there’s nothing even left to search for - 99% of content from the last decade is dogshit.

With ChatGPT my web searches are down by at least 50% and more than 80% of the ones I still do are on DuckDuckGo.