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I've noticed recently that my Windows 11 start menu isn't a 50% gray empty blob anymore. I always disable "recommended apps" (eg. ad supported app suggestions), so 50% of the space in my start menu was unused, yet it was still there of course. Kind of refreshing to have a somewhat normal looking start menu again with something as revolutionary as a list of apps right when you open it. Let's see how long it takes before they mess it up again.

The fund owns about 1.26% of Microsoft (data seems to be for 2025), which according to Gemini is about $37.5b in today's value. Stock value of Microsoft changed about 5.23% over the last year, which comes down to about $1.96b, so you're not far off...

https://www.nbim.no/no/investeringene/investeringsoversikt/#...


What about including dividends? The price of MSFT also dropped like a stone recently.

But anyway if you guys could stop forcing Microsoft on everybody that would be great.


Limits are so low that I cancelled after about two weeks on my initial $0 trial. I tried making a change to a tiny code base with Claude Sonnet (which they offer in Antigravity). It couldn't even finish the change before my weekly limit was used up, reset in 7 days.


to be fair you shouldn't expect them to subsidize Anthropic models. what about limits for gemini?


I tried the Anthropic models because gemini-pro had already been rate limited with a 5 day wait. I got some actual usage out of the Google model, but laughably little compared to what I got with ChatGPT Plus. This is definitely not an imagined thing from my side, you just have to look at the Antigravity forums:

https://discuss.ai.google.dev/new


There used to be a lot more of that, but a system was put in place where you have to identify yourself with electronic ID to access the information, and the information is logged so the other party can see it.

Nowadays I think mostly journalists use it to pull up information about politicians and other people that are in the public spotlight. There are of course the yearly "richest people in Norway" lists in various categories.


> There used to be a lot more of that, but a system was put in place where you have to identify yourself with electronic ID to access the information, and the information is logged so the other party can see it.

Yeah, kind of a fake solution, request it via Ratsit or whatever and all they get to see is that someone used Ratsit, but not who actually requested it.

Same goes for criminal cases, using Krimfup or whatever just leads to the service's name "leaking", while you can use fake details to sign up for both Ratsit and Krimfup.


I don't think there's anything like ratsit in Norway which would let you do this query anonymously.


We're so open, we even leak our government source code _ourselves_ https://github.com/navikt


Uff, COBOL written in Norwegian, talk about a narrow target to hit for hiring :)


I see mostly Java/Kotlin and Maven.

Pretty modern stack. I would start a government service using those today.


He is probably talking about this repo: https://github.com/navikt/DSF

Description translated:

> This system was one of the oldest IT systems in NAV, and ran in production for 51 years, from when the National Insurance Scheme was introduced in 1967. In January 2018, Presys was put into production, which together with Pesys became the successor to DSF. At that point, DSF was also shut down. The system is written in PL/I.

It's like the Apollo 11 code, but for social services.


Mostly PL/I but a few files of COBOL too, e.g. https://github.com/navikt/DSF/blob/main/src/GML/FO04D1X1.cob...


Who needs a Jones Act when you can have processes like these?


I switched from ChatGPT Plus to Gemini Pro instead of Claude, since I'm a hobbyist and appreciate having more than just text chat and coding assist with my subscription (image gen, video gen, etc are all nice to have).

At first I found the Gemini Code Assist to be absolutely terrible, bordering on unusable. It would mess up parameter order for function calls in simple 200 line Python. But then I found out about the "model router" which is a layer on top which dynamically routes requests between the flash and pro model. Disabling it and always using the pro model did wonders for my results.

There are however some pretty aggressive rate limits that reset every 24 hours. For me it's okay though. As a hobbyist I only use it about 2-3 hours per day at most anyway.


With Claude you just tell it to set up whatever it needs and you have a smooth access to everything. Mine uses Nanobanana for image generation, Sora for video, Gemini for supplementary image processing and so on. Setting up each one was 5-10 min of Claude’s work


With Gemini Pro on Antigravity you get a quota reset every 5 hours and access to Claude Opus 4.6. That's what I use at home and don't need anything else.


Didn't they tighten that quota WAY down though since everyone caught on to the AG/Opus game?


Did you leave OpenAI because of the current backlash? If so, is Google even better?


Laws that can be changed on a whim by "executive orders", or laws that apparently can be ignored completely, like international law.


Like by an administration who is constantly ignoring and violating both domestic and international law?

Like by an administration that likes to act extra judiciously and ignore habeas corups?

I wonder where we'd find such a government. Probably shouldn't give them the power to "do anything legal NOR 'consistent with operational requirements'". That's the power to do anything they want


No, executive orders can't change law and international law, unless ratified by congress, is not democratically legitimized and applicable law in the US to begin with


You mean like the tariffs congress didn't approve?

Dictators rarely gain power legitimately, and always keep it with violence.


There's a stark difference between de jure and de facto here. Executive orders will brazen, tyrannical effects and are often reined in late or never.


We just started a war with Iran without congressional approval or briefing, so I'm not sure if law has meaning anymore.


War Powers Resolution. Obviously, there’s a law of which multiple presidents have used. Congress can change this law but there is a law that does give the POTUS this authority.


Nope, the War Powers Resolution gives the president broad authority to respond to an active attack on the United States (which makes sense). But it does not allow the President to unilaterally start an aggressive war against some random country without Congressional approval.

Not that we live in country where laws or the Constitution matter much right now. It's theoretically possible that some people might someday be prosecuted for breaking laws or violating people's Constitutional rights. But even there, I world expect that many of the law breakers will simply be pardoned.


What about the argument that Congress has always gone along with this in the past?

I mean it isn't quite that stark, but the last president that actually asked congress for and got a declaration of war was Roosevelt. The last president that asked for and got permission for the use of military force was George Bush (junior) after 9/11 (obv. he meant against the Taliban).

Which means all US conflicts are "based on" George Bush's approval for use of military force, about 1 per presidential term: military intervention in Lybia, the campaign against ISIS, campaign against Syria and Iraq militias/continuation against ISIS, and now Iran. Iran is a different scale I guess, but ...


LOL. you really believe that?


They do note that their contract language specifically references the laws as they exist today.

Presumably if the laws become less restrictive, that does not impact OpenAI's contract with them (nothing would change) but if the laws become more restrictive (eg certain loopholes in processing American's data get closed) then OpenAI and the DoD should presumably^ not break the new laws.

^ we all get to decide how much work this presumably is doing


> They do note that their contract language specifically references the laws as they exist today.

Where?

> The system shall also not be used for domestic law-enforcement activities except as permitted by the Posse Comitatus Act and other applicable law.

Sounds like it's worded to specifically apply to whatever law is currently applicable, no?


Does legal include international law, which the US has broken numerous times the last two days?


> This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding.

https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/article-6/


And one of those segments is about 50% of the US population, and the other is about 50% of the US population + the rest of the world.

Source: A Norwegian that just cancelled his ChatGPT plus subscription and will consider Gemini or Claude instead.


I just cancelled as well. Time to test out the competition that have some morals left.


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