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I tried a 1000 IU vitamin D pills to no avail. Bumped it up to 5000 IU and still saw very marginal bumps in my blood tests

I think I might try daily 10000IU after showing my doctor how little it's moving the needle for me


I was put on prescription vitamin D2 50000 IU and it caused a bunch of side effects for me including heart palpitations for over a week and then a paradoxical reaction to magnesium causing them to be even more intense.

Proceed with caution and listen to your body. Doctors were accusing every other thing than accepting whatever it did to my calcium / other electrolytes bothered my heart.


Interesting, my levels have always been chronically low and I feel no effects from daily 5000IU


That's still 15000 IU under my weekly dose so maybe you just haven't hit the threshold I hit.


It's expensive in the US because one company has exclusive sales here (patent protection?), but you could try calcefidiol, weekly dose and is supposed to get levels up rapidly. Apparently it's the common form to take in Spain, and it's further down the metabolic pathway vs cholecalciferol. (I take but still have to get levels checked)


thank you, will have to check this out


Not really, this is just effectively a new supply side platform for advertisers. Retail companies will just allocate a percentage of their marketing budget to OAI instead of Google/Meta


Yep, in some ways it's good to be the price sensitive side of the transaction. Can't really take more of the money people don't have.


I am still surprised many people trust him. The board's (justified) decision to fire him was so awfully executed that it lead to him having even more slack


I've heard it's only on mobile? I was using gemini for work on desktop for at least 6 hours yesterday (definitely over 100 back and forths) for work and did not get hit with any rate limits

Either way, Google's transparency with this is very poor - I saw the limits from a VP's tweet


I'm afraid they're going to lower the limits once Ultra is available. I use Gemini Pro everyday for at least 2 hours but never hit the limit


I have the same concerns. To push people to the ultra tier and get their bonuses their going to use dark patterns.

The only reason I maintain Claude and OpenAi subscriptions is because I expect Google to pull the rug on what has been their competitive advantage since Gemini 2.5.

Have you also noticed a degradation in quality over long chat sessions? I've noticed it in NotebookLM specifically, but not Gemini 2.5. I anticipate this to become the standard, your chat degrades subtly over time.


They're in a tough spot where the CEO does just enough to stay, but they need someone better.

They lagged in AI, but the new Gemini 2.5 Pro is incredible. They built an incredible tool in NotebookLM but failed to market it


I’d say give it time. NotebooksLM probably gets rereleased with a new name. Simultaneous iOS release, giant press storm. Not attempting to do so is a mistake.

But yes, absolutely need new leadership. Nest/Pixel/etc are such a wasted opportunity tight now. The software layer is so disconnected between each component. As a dumb example im pretty sure you still can’t talk out of a hub max or tv remote into a nest cam, but can through the home app. The “it works in one place, but not another” prevents so much usability discovery for normal people.


Agreed. Sundar seems like a peacetime CEO that got pulled into war and seems like he's struggling. But with Larry and Sergei having all voting control it seems unlikely he'll get fired.


I thought Stadia was incredibly well-engineered, had good performance playing modern games with a Thinkpad. But none of my friends had any idea what Stadia was, the ad campaign was atrocious. Time and time again, Google builds great products and then shelves them a year or two later.


Google is not alone. Intel halfheartedly develops GPUs. It doesn't work without strategy.


Then take a look at how Nvidia markets a similar product (GeForce Now). It not only works way better (much better GPU) but also is growing by leaps and bounds every year and adding hundreds of games. And it uses your existing steam library for cross saves and cross plays. It was around before Stadia and survived long after Stadia.

Google has a bunch of amazing engineers and finance people but apparently they just can't productize anything.


Only works if you have a very stable internet connection


I tried using notebookLLM many many times and it's just not good. On the other hand I'm writing proofs using chatgpt and they look really good.


That's a separate problem which affects small to large players alike (e.g. ScarJo).

Small companies interests are aligned with Meta as they are now on an equal footing with large incumbent players. They can now compete with a similarly sized team at a big tech company instead of that team + dozens of AI scientists


Vegas is the best destination for business conferences, but yes I agree with your point.

The line connecting NorCal to SoCal is so much more productive that any other line being prioritized is crazy to me.


Trucking - lots of agriculture and other transport shipped through 99


So it's an important commercial route but with no passenger demand? What a geographic oddity! I bet you'd be hard-pressed to find any other examples of that, anywhere.


Not really. Cargo uses very different routes than people commonly. How many people travel from Shenzhen to the port of Oakland? Now how many cargo containers?


Wow you got me there. I'm cancelling my Oakland-Shenzen train project right now.


Every engineer of a company of this size says the same exact thing.

IMO more about growth of the engineering teams that lead to any specific culture deteriorating.


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