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Is he running for office in November?

Had to read it twice lol. The syllable that is stressed makes a huge difference in some words.

Judging by other comments here this model has been available internally for a few weeks. So the public release is likely imminent. The timing of the announcement might have to do with end of quarter for some obscure reason.

Jevon's paradox is the most likely answer. Tons of stuff to do.

They are playing a longer-term and more enterprise-oriented game.

I don't live in Romania so I don't know the details but that probably makes me more objective. I think the situation is better for the future than it was in the 90s. In hindsight, back then it took many years for things to get better. Whereas now with so much upheaval in the world Romania is well-positioned to keep growing.

> I lived through the 1990s here in Romania, the future does not look bright in the slightest.

Why? Inflation was much higher then. There were almost no highways. Very little foreign tourism. Towns were ugly. Industry was barely functioning. Etc. Things are way better now. Just because Romania has high debt is no reason to be pessimistic. Everybody has high debt.

A cultured bureaucrat.

Based on the large selection of no-alcohol beers I'm seeing I would say yes.

That was my question too. 2025 is really old in AI-company time. But I'm suspecting the "leak" was on purpose so they can now come and show how much better (but still not great) the first half of 2026 was.

Wow, funny and informative that video.

The salient bit: The Prague escalators were made by the Soviets and ran at 0.9m/s (aka very fast) so it's likely the ones I rode in Moscow were similar. They are "illegal" now and being replaced.

I remember taking the escalators in Moscow in the 80s and thinking they were freakishly fast. According to this article they are not that fast. I wonder if they lowered the speed or it was just my lack of familiarity with long escalators.

> On the other hand any large improve in batteries may gradually bring Toyota into EV world

A relatively fast and large improvement in battery cost would bankrupt Toyota. Everybody will just buy BEVs.

> Indeed. Toyota's days are numbered.

> BYD is selling EVs for US$14K in Australia.

It's not even about BYD. All of Europe is now buying EVs like crazy. How many of these are Toyota? One 40k€ model basically.

This recent post form Waymo suggests they already use large general models: https://waymo.com/blog/2026/08/10ailessons/

Ads on Maps were inevitable. Google does it too. Those services just cost a ton of money to run. (I know the article talks about other ads too.)

Pics or it didn't happen.

“If you have a massive cloud formation, the rooftop PV production can drop by so much that it looks like you have lost basically almost a nuclear power station.”

A good problem to have but still a problem. Who would have thought weather forecasting would be critical to grid maintenance.

FNAC/Darty/Boulanger still sell it for 969. Maybe I should pull the trigger soon.

The 17 is 969 euros. The 18 Pro is 1479 euros. How can I justify the difference? I'm on 13 now and I wanted to get an 18 but since there is no such thing I will probably end up with the 17.

I do. But sometimes I just start on the Chrome bar.

The most upsetting change for me was the missing link to Google Maps when searching directly from Google (the victim of an earlier decision from EU). So I asked a chatbot to make me a browser extension that adds it back to the top bar of the search results page. I use it almost every day. Mentioning it in case others miss it too.

Yes they tried to increase it a few years ago and failed. Farmers came with tractors to Paris..

It's interesting that diesel is taxed more than gas in the US. It's the other way around in France.

I said nothing about the drought. My comment was on timing, which affects the optics of those who read it. Imagine going on vacation for 2 months, as they do, then coming back and reading this article while seeing heavy rain outside. With all the fake news you can see how some folks would be skeptical.

Yeah they still have restrictions in my area but I don't know how to find out the real situation. I am close to the Seine and I've seen it quite high the other day, but that's probably not a good indication of the general state.

The timing of this article is a bit unfortunate. It's been raining here (France) every day for the past week, sometimes heavily.

Still it was an interesting read. I didn't know many of those things.

One could test this manually with a whip, right? Attach the ball at the end and try to crack it.

I for one want to live longer and better than the hunter gatherers of yore.