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I wonder if in the future the author will investigate Anycast. This is the big feature that competes with the big CDN.

I wish anycast was easier to use without owning your own set of ips. I've done something similar to the author, and ended up also relying on another provider for geo dns.

If I could have my own anycast ip to share on all my servers, that'd be really cool.


I didn't see anything in the article about battery capacity or the density. This (with the other info in the article) would tell us if this is groundbreaking or not.

It is not true that Ollama doesn't use llama.cpp anymore. They built their own library, which is the default, but also really far from being feature complete. If a model is not supported by their library, they fall back to llama.cpp. For example, there is a group of people trying to get the new IBM models working with Ollama [1]. Their quick/short term solution is to bump the version of llama.cpp included with Ollama to a newer version that has support. And then at a later time, add support in Ollama's library.

1) https://github.com/ollama/ollama/issues/10557


This is the first in a series of posts exploring how to build a smartwatch in 2025!


Not always true! Your statement is only true when the running clock's speed is the same as time. Thus, regular time and the clock's time will never meet.

If the clock is running faster than regular time, it will at point catch up to regular time and thus be correct for a split second. If the clock is slower than regular time, regular time will catch up to the clock and the clock will be right for a split second.


If we are being pedantic, running clocks never run exactly the same as time. So they'll be right (very) much more seldom than the stopped clock, which is right twice a day.


If the clock is running backwards at very high speed, it would be right infinitely many times but the proportion of the time that it is right would approach some finite constant.


My girlfriend's microwave-clock runs faster than normal.

Somehow this thing manages to accumulate an error of ~15 minutes in a month.


And we haven't even touched on the issue of 24-hour format digital clocks, which can at most be right once per day if stopped!


A lot of things presented in this article reminded me of the same things that were in Joe Celko's “Trees and Hierarchies in SQL” book https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/joe-celkos-trees/978155...


This product seems similar to Ngrok and some other solutions. How does this product differentiate itself from everyone else?


Hi, I make detailed comparison on excel about this question

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1BzvPRA2ZK5ekSaTV5vyr...

basically ngrok's traffic inspection is only available by last month, right, they are old player but pretty late on shipping things.

also, we had an AI Assistant.


Please share this information in a non Google, non Microsoft format. Perhaps make it a plain HTML page or PDF and link it directly from your primary website.


I see, thank you for your suggestion

Here I made temporary image version (basically screenshotting the google sheet)

https://download.lokal.so/vendor-comparison.png


Having a .local suffix doesn't really seem like a feature. Also, I still don't see why this is better than ngrok. If anything, I'd turn it down because there's functionality (an AI assistant) that I don't want.


Thanks.


Just last week I was looking into OptaPlanner [1] and MiniZinc [2]. OptaPlanner even has a real-time/continuous optimization mode. There are a whole bunch of other solutions, but these were the most interesting to me.

I wonder why Google didn't just go with an off the shelf solution and integrate it instead of building their own solution?

[1] https://www.optaplanner.org/ [2] https://www.minizinc.org/


There is also the Timfold project [1], which continues OptaPlanner and offers ongoing support and further innovation [2]. You can find the documentation here [3] and some helpful examples here [4].

[1] - https://timefold.ai/ [2] - https://timefold.ai/blog/red-hat-optaplanner-end-of-life-not... [3] - https://docs.timefold.ai/timefold-solver/latest/quickstart/o... [4] - https://github.com/TimefoldAI/timefold-quickstarts/


Googler here, but not working anywhere related to optimization problems.

Google developed its solver a while ago [1] and it has been open sourced more recently. Additionally, it is also a supported solver for Minizinc [2] so you can use it with a well known tool/syntax without having to rely on the python/C++ libraries. However, those give you access to some of the solvers specific features that can help you speed up solving time.

[1] https://developers.google.com/optimization/ [2] https://www.minizinc.org/doc-2.4.3/en/solvers.html#or-tools


MiniZinc is a high-level CP language and tool chain, not a solver. Google has been developing their suite of OR tools for 15+ years, it's not like they built something from scratch just for this


I hate articles that talk negatively about GPS when they really mean navigation software. GPS allows you to determine where you are. Navigation software tells you where to go.

Two examples: GPS does not spy on you and tracks your every movement. But the navigation software might. GPS doesn’t tell you to go down the wrong road. But the navigation software might. Etc.


GPS is a colloquial synonym for navigation, as in "I'd like to rent a car with GPS".

When GPS is trash talked, nobody understands that to be the satellite system.

And you can trash talk that all you want; it is immune to bad PR because it has no competition.


There are multiple competitors to GPS, though many receivers will receive signals from all of them.

GPS is the American system, operated by the US Space Force. There are also GLONASS, BeiDou, Galileo, QZSS, and NavIC, operated by Russia, China, the EU, Japan, and India, respectively. Though QZSS and NavIC only have regional coverage.


Yes, but GPS is a colloquial synonym for GNSS systems such as these :)


Gp never said it wasn’t used colloquially, he was just stating gps does have competition. Read more carefully :)


My brother-in-law works in the construction business and has a CDL and speaks quite harshly of the quality of tractor trailer drivers in the Binghamton area, particularly on the Rt I-81 corridor. He says a semi gets wedged in the Tompkins Street Bridge about once a month despite prominent warning signs.


If it happens once, it's the fault of the driver. If it happens once a month, it's the fault of the engineers.


Seen that way they should tear down the bridge and build one with high clearance.


A quick search shows truck specific navigation apps for Android Google play. Quite a few actually.


I was thinking the same thing, that they got their information from Jeff



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