Was that with Gemini 3 Pro or a different Gemini model?

I think the GP's point is that this requires a 12V-capable USB power supply.

I have converted pretty much everything I have to USB-C, from toothbrushes to old laptops, and am very happy with the results. My solution is to only own high-quality power supplies with good support for PD. Having done this, the question "Why isn't this thing charging?" doesn't really arise.

The common device that this doesn’t work well for is the Raspberry Pi 5. For full power mode it needs an unusual 5V/5A power supply, and that is quite unusual.

Specifically it needs a supply that offers 5V/5A as a basic profile outside of PPS (programmable power supply), because the Pi doesn't support PPS negotiations. That is what's so rare, much more than the actual ability to do 5V/5A.

It’s more than unusual, it violates the spec. However you only need that to have full power USB

I think this simply suggests the same (or very similar) training corpora.

Surely, they would throw current events, news articles, the latest snapshot of WikiPedia, etc...

I can't imagine it making sense to purposefully neglect to keep a model as up-to-date as possible!

Technically correct but somewhat misleading. The app in question only asked for the following Google account permissions:

   1. Manage your YouTube account
      View and manage your videos and playlists
      View and manage your YouTube activity, including posting public comments
   2. View and manage your [YouTube] rental and purchase history
      Your rental and purchase history may be displayed and accessible on this device.

Not the GP, but I have a TCL 65C845. I've removed all the crap from it and installed a third-party launcher. I LOVE the result, both in terms of picture quality and usability. The UI is clean, snappy, functional and there's zero crap on the screen that I didn't deliberately put there.

Here are my notes:

  Enable Android developer options.
  Work through various settings (developer and normal).
  Connect wired Ethernet (I use a USB dongle), enable RDNIS in USB port dev options. Disable WiFi.
  Turn on Google TV.  Log in.
  Disable auto-updates, work through permissions etc.

  Install ADB TV (PRO licence)

  Disable the following apps in ADB TV:
    AirPlayLaunchService
    AirplayAPK (two different APKs)
    BrowseHere
    Electronic card 5.0
    Gallery
    GameBar
    Google (com.google.android.katniss)
    Logkit
    MagiConnect
    Media Player
    Message Box
    Overseaeva
    Prime Video
    Rakuten TV
    Reminder
    T-Solo
    TCL Channel (two different APKs)
    TCL Home
    TCL Home Passive
    TCSCore
    T_IME
    User Center
    Works with Alexa
    com.tcl.iptv.App

  DO NOT DISABLE or you might have to start from scratch:
    TV (com.tcl.tv)
    TvInputService

Install FLauncher. Configure apps/panels/wallpaper. Using ADB TV (under “install”):

  $ adb shell pm disable-user --user 0 com.google.android.apps.tv.launcherx
  $ adb shell pm disable-user --user 0 com.google.android.tungsten.setupwraith

Install a screen saver (Aerial Views), TV streaming apps, Plex, SmartTubeNext, f-droid, Mullvad etc.

That's pretty much it. A bit fiddly but a one-time thing (I did this two years ago and have been using the TV daily). I keep auto-updates turned off and basically nothing ever breaks and there are no random regressions.

I previously did the same on an older TCL TV. The panel was not as nice and the CPU was slower but the result was also quite good (it was what convinced me to get the 65C845 with its larger screen, better panel and faster CPU).

I used to run a similar FLauncher-based setup on a NVidia Shield Pro, but the new setup is so nice that I don't use the Shield for TV anymore.

Another experiment I did was replicating this exact setup on a Chromecast (I think GA01919). That also worked well, though having a second device was a bit inconvenient in terms of remote controls and such.

P.S. Where I live I have FTTH; TV is delivered as MPEG transport streams over multicast. I don't have OTA broadcast TV or a cable box and so couldn't vouch for the ergonomics there.

In investment banking, VP is not a senior title (speaking from personal experience :)).

The exact level hierarchy varies from bank to bank, but typically runs something like

Analyst - Associate - (Associate VP) - VP - Director/Executive Director/Senior VP - Managing Director

I just finished the audiobook. Didn't have any particular expectations but couldn't put it down (so to speak).

The audiobook is narrated by the author, which adds an extra dimension to the story.

Would highly recommend.

It's a "great" read. However bad you assume their behavior was, it was (probably) so much worse. The executive suite was full of creeps and their inability to do any substantive moderation in Myanmar was horrifically negligent.

I read it and also highly recommend it. Knowing the book ends in 2017, the whole thing has something of a "Monster at the End of This Book" effect with both Trump and Myanmar.

The study you referred to sounded super interesting, so I looked it up to read later.

To save others a search, here is a blog post and the paper:

https://metr.org/blog/2025-07-10-early-2025-ai-experienced-o...

https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.09089

Thanks for mentioning it.

Managers with fewer than three direct reports were either let go or forced to find new roles (typically as individual contributors, given the overall push to have fewer layers of management).

FWIW I was L5 manager (on the SWE ladder) in two PAs. The L6 requirement did exist but in my experience was quite soft. All that my management had to do was justify to the VP that I was capable of doing the job and would soon be ready for promo to L6 (though the first org got nuked and the promo took a long time).

Interesting. Where I was I never saw an exception to the L6 rule.