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Cities are also never perfectly efficient because they are always evolving in function and use
(Raskin left before even the original macintosh he helped lead. He also opposed the use of the mouse)
This is basically undercutting KimiK3 and Grok 4.6 where previously utilised gad soke advantages but was a step more expensive
The selling point for gemini continues to be speed and particularly end-to-end response time.
Would you like me to respond in a more naturalistic way for hackernews denizens?
The solution of a global arms race of state vs state with integrated statist corporations as the best outcome for end users sure is a choice though
Fwiw there are worse delays from second tier providers like moonshot's kimik2.5 that are also popular for agentic use.
You can of course also use h3 in postgis directly as well as r trees. Its helps significantly for heatmap creation and sometimes for neighbourhood searches.
For the wider tech world - I would say postgres suffers from being "old tech" and somewhat "monolithic". There have been a lot of trends against it (e.g. nosql, fleeing the monolith, data lakes). But also more practically for a lot of businesses geospatial is not their primary focus - they bring other tech stacks so something like postgis can seem like duplication if they already use another database, data storage format or data processing pipeline. Also some of the proliferation of other software and file formats have made some uses cases easier without postgis.
Really Id say the most common path ive seen for people who dont have an explicit geospatial background who are starting to implement it is to avoid postgis until it becomes absolutely clear that they need it.
They may well be using some data storage where spatial indexing is not possible or standard. Geoparquet is a common one now - a great format in many ways but spatial indexing isnt there.
Postgres may be out of fashion but still an old fashioned postgis server is the simplest solution sometimes.
I generally agree with parent commenter - some of this will be helped by the ban but theres a serious risk a small number will go through fringe social media even less policed or normalised than the big American ones and have much higher risk on some of these issues than before.