This is pretty fun!

Not sure that throwing away plastic tubes with samples of plague bacteria is a good idea

Disposing of and throwing away are two different things. Throwing away is a subclass of 'disposing of' and there are many other such subclasses including safe destruction, for instance by incineration.

I'm pretty sure that it goes into a biohazard container that is then sterilized and probably incinerated.

That’s what the autoclave is for.

One can also ask why that is needed and how it will make product better. Is that the highest priority to move a border three pixels to the left?

Well, people caught in the Apple universe seem to be capable of going pretty berserk about a few pixels left or right.

I don't think anyone was ever able to talk reason into them.

Just do what you're paid to do codemonkey and stop arguing

Easy to reach doesn’t automatically mean “easy to see”.

Fable is available for a couple of months and even got an update on 1st of September. It’s really good, but since Opus 5.5 was released, there is not much point in using Fable anymore

Opus 5.5 just got nerfed, so Fable 5.1 is still there to rescue things!

Input token limit is 1M for Gemini models for a long time. Haven’t they been the first with 1M input?

Gemini 1.5 Pro claimed 10M input tokens before release.

And was 2M tokens IIRC after release.

There were also many rumors that Gemini 4 was going back to 2M. Just seems odd not to say what it is.

Batteries compete with peaker power plants, though.

Batteries compete with peaker plants for diurnal variance, but they can't replace peaker plants for seasonal variance. It's an interesting dynamic.

Are there peaker plants that come online for seasonal variance?

Is that a local question for Vermont, a nation question for the US, or a global question?

If the question is global, then yes, there are, although as renewable energy has increased globally so has the need for peaker plants to handle the variance in the grid, thus plants that historically has only been used for seasonal variance are now used all year round to handle weather variance. An example of that is the oil power plant in south of Sweden.

I think what he was saying is that with a peaker plant you have an extra source of power. So if you have a low wind/low irradiance period - you can rely on peaker to provide more power, but by this stage batteries are long gone.

There is a coal power plant near me which in recent years I saw it running only during winter.

Well you're probably right that this could reduce the amount of load coming from power plants during brownouts, but the article presents it as something that is going to protect against blackouts and I really can't imagine that working as a replacement for peaker plants. If you're in silicon valley or NYC you probably think of a blackout as something that happens once or twice a year for about 15 minutes but in a lot of the country blackouts are several hours or even days long and happen fairly frequently.

Where did you try it, how can you use it? I have nothing in my Workspace (I am admin), Gemini app, AI Studio. Only 3.6 Flash

Ohh, horizontal wheels. They’re about as good as I expected, models have pretty bad spatial awareness. I would expect Fable to be a bit better than old models, though.

It is dry heat, if you look at it from certain point of view. I once experienced smth like 27-28°C with fog, 100% humidity. Was almost as bad as 40°C with low humidity.

And if it would be 42°C/107°F with fog and 100% humidity, lots of people would be dead already. But it’s more like saying “at least this building is not on fire right now”. Or 1km wide meteor is not crashing down. It is not, and anything near 40°C is really unpleasant, regardless of burning homes and falling meteors.

42C and 100% would be a humidex of 81~ that would be every animal at that location instantly dying.

Or as we called it growing up in Missouri: “summer”.

I exaggerate. Slightly.