Yes, very frustrating for me as well. I consider now purchasing Gemini Advance with another Non-Workspace account. :-(
I also found this [1]: “ Important:
A chat can only use one model. If you switch between models in an existing chat, it automatically starts a new chat.
If you’re using Gemini Apps with a work or school Google Account, you can’t switch between models. Learn more about using Gemini Apps with a work or school account.”
I have no idea why the workspace accounts are such restricted.
Hm. 4.6M „voters“, and I know a couple of persons who were not able to vote due to server issues. I also doubt that the way the voting was setup was safe against the most basic manipulations (e.g. voting multiple times).
I’d say that this was not a representative poll. ;)
The top 3 countries by percentage of population voting were Germany (3.97%], Austria (2.94%) and Luxembourg (1.78%). Finland is 4th at 0.96%, the United Kingdom last at 0.02%.
Unfortunately directly booking with the hotel has drawbacks as well. 6 months ago I booked The Pullman Hotel in London directly (they had the same pricing as the online agencies).
When I arrived late in the evening my room was not available: the (online, credit card backed) reservation I've made was "lost" and no more rooms available.
There was no way to sort it out easily so I booked another Hotel (higher price, and had no time to do some Tripadvisor/Rating research).
The exactly same thing happened when I booked a hotel in Czech last year via HRS. When I arrived I was told by the hotel guy that there was only 1 room available instead of the booked 2. I tried to sort it out directly with the hotel - no chance after 10 min. of discussions.
I then called the HRS hotline, the service agent put me on hold while he called the hotel. I saw the guy at the reception pick up the phone, a few seconds later he came to me and told me that 2 rooms were available. :/
That said: it seems that the OTAs (HRS, booking, expedia) have enough "arguments" (e.g.
threaten with delisting etc) that as a customer you may also have benefits from this kind of oligopoly.
Booking actually helps in these situations, a friend of mine works as a customer service agent there and spends a fair share of his time resolving such issues. If I get it right, in such cases Booking should suggest the new property to a guest and reimburse the price from the first hotel.
I think it's also about the ecosystem. With Elixir all third party packages etc. can be relied on having no side-effects / immutability.
If you try to code functional in an OOP language, you would have to make sure that no third party modules (or coworkers accidentally) write code that "misbehaves" in such aspects. Just like you currently have to make sure that the Ruby code you use is threadsafe.
With immutability you gain all those features baked into Erlang/OTP (scalability, reliability).
Because of the GIL, Ruby threads will be run sequentially, within a single process, even thought they appear to be parallel. So, if a part of a program blocks the process, your CPU is being under-utilised.
Erlang, on the other hand, has a preemptive scheduler that is capable of keeping all cores hot.
That's true for threads (although most of your threads should be blocked by IO, e. g. DB queries, and that means the GIL lock isn't a big issue).
But the beauty of HTTP is that you can scale simply by adding more "endpoints". That means you can add as many processes (workers) as necessary to utilize all CPUs, or even add as many servers as you can afford.
I'm not saying that Elixir does not do a better job with it's lean processes and built-in OTP stuff.
But it's not true that you can't utilize all CPUs with a Rails app.
Just today the author of the "merge-conflicts" package for Atom emphasized that his plugin is depcrecated because Atom 1.8 will have that feature included by default.
We have a grocery store in Krefeld, Germany, which uses e-ink price tags exclusively[1]. But I never noticed a real-time change when I was shopping there.
> It is fine to force 70 year old pensioners to clean toilets
No one forces these 70 years olds to work there. I honestly believe that the people who do are happy to be able to earn some money (because they may not find a "better" job).
In Germany no one is really forced to accept a job because of the reasonable good-enough social benefits / welfare systems (not saying that you can live a good life with it though).
Anyway, you probably didn't want to discuss a real issue but rather spread your, umh, questionable ideas about the "army" of immigrants. :-/
In Germany it is not entirely 1:1. If you receive Hartz4 unemployment (€404) and have a so called €450-minijob (which is the cutoff for social security taxes etc), then €170 are additional income and €280 are offset with you unemployment, giving you €574 overall.
At least that's how I understood the mechanics just now, having never been forced to actually understand them.
One of the reasons you find the elderly employed doing small jobs in places like Japan and South Korea is that there is very little social safety net. The system is setup to assume that the elderly will simply live at home with their adult children. They usually receive a very small pension of some sort and various other discounts on public services (subsidized mass transit for example).
However, if they don't find themselves in a situation where they can live at home with their children, there's very little alternative for them.
Retirement age in Japan and Germany is around 65 years. Not everyone qualifies for social benefits (owns house, work history...). And regions like Bavaria are bloody expensive. So yes, some pensioners have to work even in Germany (but it was about Japan in reference to old people).
I would be happy to discus my "questionable ideas". I live in Athens and I actually tried to hire some of them for manual labor. Most of them had better shoes than me, were lazy as fuck, and all want to go to Germany.
To start a discussion, please post employment rates among migrants ;-)
In Germany you receive welfare no matter of your work history. True, you need to sell your assets, like your house, but I think that's understandable. Your 65 year old retiree would receive ~410€/mo. + costs for an apartment (incl. heating etc). Again, I'm not at all saying that makes a decent living. Just that no one is really FORCED to work there.
Greece has a 25% unemployment rate. Therefore if you did not find anyone wanting to do your job, it must have been a really bad one. Or - my guess - you just didn't offered to pay a reasonable amount.
I don't know the exact employment rate among migrants, but I guess it makes no sense to discuss it here. I'm just sure that, if the unemployment rate amongst the migrants would be low, you were crying about the bad migrants taking over our jobs.
But I found workers, we employ mostly Albanians, some Greeks and one Pakistani who is here for 10 years. It is manual labor in warehouse. But I would expect more interest from "poor refugees who barely escaped the war".
I also found this [1]: “ Important:
A chat can only use one model. If you switch between models in an existing chat, it automatically starts a new chat. If you’re using Gemini Apps with a work or school Google Account, you can’t switch between models. Learn more about using Gemini Apps with a work or school account.”
I have no idea why the workspace accounts are such restricted.
[1] https://support.google.com/gemini/answer/14517446?hl=en&co=G...