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Gemini or google search? those are very different things.

And coal is mostly flat, while electricity demand is going up.

https://ember-energy.org/app/uploads/2026/09/China-Energy-Tr...

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> they have near infinite money and others have not

Given the very high margins on inference, once volume is large enough the other can also start printing enough money.

> In other news, evangelical christians ask scientists to stop publishing about evolution.

not sure it's comparable, but the issue is that for a lot of those mathematical results, they don't really have utility by themselves. The utility is the new branches/understanding that's being developped.

> And why would it get more traction than Mercurial?

There's no network effect headwinds, it's interoperable with git (I assume most people using jj have an upstream repo that's on git).

Also infrastructure costs might be billed differently between industrial vs retail.

(And the marginal cost on infrastructure isn't necessarily paid be the people increasing the demand)

> Air conditioning in buildings is likely viewed as a threat to gas providers as most modern cooling devices also have a heating mode that competes directly with gas heating.

Not sure it makes sense, most of those countries are already phasing out fuel/gas boilers.

IMO it's just cultural shift is slow to adjust (in those countries, a few decades ago AC would have been a wasteful luxury, summer temperature would be well below 30 except for a few days).

In some European countries government (and private entities) isn't allowed to collect ethnicity information.

I guess ITINs are already pretty cost to this.

Also wasn't giving them impossible tasks with ~unlimited tokens and unlimited compaction.

Patch was applied yesterday by Linus: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260804003708.49830-1-luto@kern...

From https://www.ft.com/content/61d41764-f2f7-4906-a112-ff3073972...

> The moves suggest that DeepMind will be absorbed into Google’s broader business. [...] > They added that while Google DeepMind would not become purely commercial, it was integrating further into Google’s business.

I guess might be quite a change (but writing was on the wall, the Deepmind -> Google Deepmind part was the first step)

Demis took Jeff former title. (Jeff became Chief Scientist when Brain was dissolved into deepmind)

I suspect the SVP/CEO leading Deepmind has a lot more sway over the rest of the company than someone with a title and no reports. :)

(Also the 20y+ of contributions and having built much of the base Google infra probably gave more influence to Jeff than the remaining title)

> To be honest, this feels more like a lifestyle business (aka hobby) than a startup

They're also incredibly productive and can build/deliver really good stuff, so who knows :)

Similar to how Sundar was promoted, isn't it more likely to be a promotion from existing leadership (one of the product leads/SVP).

Google is just an investor, it's not a subsidiary.

It usually isn't, Chairman doesn't involve day to day supervision and decision making.

When Eric Schmidt became chairman or Ruth Porat became president, this was more a transition towards less involvement than an increase of impact.

Jeff Dean became Chief Scientist when Demis took over his org.

It's still the typical title as a stepping stone towards something else (often outside).

> OpenAI and Anthropic are essentially offering Monopoly money in the hopes that one day you can exchange it for real money.

I thought employees have already had opportunities to cash out (there's enough funding rounds for that).

(Tho how much you can sell was limited, iirc to double digit millions...)

> Germany's output is almost irrelevant in this context: it amounts to a mere 1.4% of the global output.

Conveniently Germany is about 1% of the world population. You realize that if most countries use the same argument nothing ever change? (It's only 1% how can it make a difference)

At a minimum you'd also need to enable runtime bound checking for span/vector accesses (I think chrome did that).

Against corporate policy, it's against the law only if they trade on material non public information.

Once the lockup expire they'll be able to trade (sometimes there's trading window but some tech company don't have any for lower level employees), and they'll still be insiders.

Does it work better when using compiler based ecosystem (e.g. https://github.com/llvm/circt)

Depends on the countries, France has had low carbon electricity for a very long time.

That said F-gases would have been an issue, EU only recently banned them.

Also most of Europe truly didn't need AC for a long time, growing up temperature above 30C was exceptional and I didn't even know the term tropical night (nighttime temperature above 20C).

(Now that places are getting 10+ consecutive days above 30 with peaks close or above 40)

People don't typically get a nice severance package if they're fired for violating company policy.

(edit: not saying that was the case here, working on devrel usually makes it part of your job to publish code)

Not sure if there's more recent stats, but 2020 data: https://ourworldindata.org/co2-emissions-from-transport

I'd see a lot more "nuclear no thanks" stickers in swiss German side than Romandie.

I'd expect the strong anti movement from Germany to have some impact.

I assume taste was meant in term of coding. "taste" is still often the lacking trait that LLMs have when it comes to code design.

If the SVP says it, it must be true :) What's their sources? I'm sure they could find a couple of anecdotes, doesn't make it significant.

More surprising it didn't pass the "majority of cantons" either (both are required for initiatives like this), I would have expected it to pass (there are a lot of smaller/rural/alpine cantons which tends to vote more conservative).