> how much longer does oracle have and at what point does a hostile takeover make sense

Oracle is heavily tied to the government and as a result is a 'too big to fail' company. They will never be taken over or go bankrupt.

Apple as a company that does not pay taxes should at least invest in the country they are located in. *Designed in Cupertino, Taxes paid no where, profit leveraged in the US

Couldn't this have been vibe coded into a native app that is more performant?

> vibe coded

> more performant

I found the problem.

I mean, we both know it couldn't, but the company claims it can be done so why don't they do it?

I suppose because generating tokens is slow. It is a limitation of the technology. And when data is coming in slowly, you don't need a super high performance client.

Do you really need an incredibly slow client though?

...I think a vibe-coded Cocoa app could absolutely be more performant than a run-of-the-mill Electron app. It probably wouldn't beat something heavily optimized like VS Code, but most Electron apps aren't like that.

I think yComb is showing its age in terms of venture and new products/industry/ and ultimately profit not reading the room, and now that free money is gone hopefully you need an actual new product vs undercutting and existing market. IMHO

> The intent of the law was to reduce the number of children killed by being backed over because the driver couldn't see them behind the car.

Wish they would do that for all the trucks with 5ft high hoods with no cameras.

This isn't news it's be known for decades?

Yea it’s on the oatmeal boxes even. Part of what’s interesting about this study though is they claim this two day intensive(300g per day) oatmeal diet showed microbiome changes which persist for months.

Yeah for reference 54 grams is about 200 kcal, so this is 1200 kcal or so of just oats. That leaves 600-800 kcal for other food if you’re targeting 1800-2000 kcal/day which is a reasonable calorie restriction. So this isn’t really a sustainable diet in the long term.

Two days isn't long term though.

Oatmeal is fine, but has nothing on hulled barley.

Oats are for horses. Mankind basically co-evolved with Barley.

Barley was the preferred food for cavalry horses alongside oats since antiquity so “oats are for horses” is a medieval European quirk.

Hulled barley gives me the worst stomach ache of my life. I’m a horse I guess.

This comment actually had me 'laughing out load', haha. I've never tried Hulled Barley, and I guess now I'm put off from even trying :)

People go too hard, you really just need to drink 1 tsp ground up and boiled in a drink. It aggressively gels with water so it's best consumed like it was historically as a "small beer", with lot's of water.

> Oats are for horses

ANZAC Cookies are the greatest foods on THE PLANET

300g of oatmeal is about 3.3 cups (US measure).

I would consider a normal bowl of oatmeal for breakfast to be about half a cup, so this is quite a bit more.

Which is why they are spreading the 300g out over an entire day, and it's the entire diet for 2 days.

The study is not suggesting this is a long-term diet. They're saying "eat oats for all your food for two days, and your cholesterol lowers by ~10% and then stays low for ~6 weeks due to changes in your gut biome".

They're not saying eat 300g for breakfast and then eat as normal. They're not saying do this every day.

They're saying 2 days, this is what you eat, spread out to replace all your meals across those 2 days, then go back to normal.

Yeah... a large (1" tall) canister of oatmeal is 1.2kg so imagine eating 2 big ass cans of oatmeal a week.

I think you are mixing up oats and oatmeal. And I think (but am not positive) that the study is referring to 300g of prepared oatmeal.

That wouldn't really make sense since amount of water could vary. Anyway the article says "Each oat meal comprised 100 × g of rolled oat flakes... boiled in water."

Isn't their internal chat bots provided by grok or Oracle AI?

dot is self hosting several openai and Claude models on chat.dot.gov it's awesome

Straw man argument.

Still relies on an actual driver.

“The event occurred when the pedestrian suddenly entered the roadway from behind a tall SUV, moving directly into our vehicle's path. Our technology immediately detected the individual as soon as they began to emerge from behind the stopped vehicle. The Waymo Driver braked hard, reducing speed from approximately 17 mph to under six mph before contact was made,” a statement from Waymo explains.

"Waymo Driver" is their term for their self driving software.

Though given the situation a human driver would not have been going 17 mph in a school zone during drop-off near double parked vehicles

1. I often see signs in such areas that flash when people exceed the limit. I’d urge you to pull over and see how often humans drive above the limit. 2. I’d urge you to also pull over and watch for how many drivers are not consistently looking at the road, such as using their phones, looking down at climate/entertainment/vehicle controls, looking at a passenger, etc

lol I wanted hood of a car flow. This is cool, but not that cool

I always thought these hoods were for sucking away germs or fumes so they didn’t get out into the room. Nope. That’s backwards. Trying to keep the sample clean here.

Yeah intern contaminated by samples is easier to replace than the samples ;)

Grad students are more plentiful, and come prepaid and pretrained.

There's extraction hoods that are aiming to do the opposite, it depends on what you're more concerned about. (doing both, is of course, much more annoying)