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WheatMillington commented on GPT-5.2   openai.com/index/introduc... · Posted by u/atgctg
tenpoundhammer · 4 days ago
I have been using chatGPT a ton over the last months and paying the subscription. Used it for coding, news, stock analysis, daily problems, and a whatever I could think of. I decided to give Gemini a go when version three came out to great reviews. Gemini handles every single one of my uses cases much better and consistently gives better answers. This is especially true for situations were searching the web for current information is important, makes sense that google would be better. Also OCR is phenomenal chatgpt can't read my bad hand writing but Gemini can easily. Only downsides are in the polish department, there are more app bugs and I usually have to leave the happen or the session terminates. There are bugs with uploading photos. The biggest complaint is that all links get inserted into google search and then I have to manipulate them when they should go directly to the chosen website, this has to be some kind of internal org KPI nonsense. Overall, my conclusion is that ChatGPT has lost and won't catch up because of the search integration strength.
WheatMillington · 4 days ago
I generate fun images for my kids - turn photos into a new style, create colouring pages from pictures, etc. I lost interest in chatGPT because it throws vague TOS errors constantly. Gemini handles all of this without complaint.
WheatMillington commented on Helldivers 2 on-disk size 85% reduction   store.steampowered.com/ne... · Posted by u/SergeAx
reactordev · 4 days ago
Size of team has no bearing in this argument. Saying they were small so they get a pass at preventing obscene download sizes is like saying “Napster was created by one man, surely he shouldn’t be accountable” but he was.

When making a game, once you have something playable, is to figure out how to package it. This is included in that effort. Determining which assets to compress, package, and ship. Sometimes this is done by the engine. Sometimes this is done by the art director.

WheatMillington · 4 days ago
Amount of resources absolutely has a bearing on how resources can be allocated.
WheatMillington commented on Google unkills JPEG XL?   tonisagrista.com/blog/202... · Posted by u/speckx
palmotea · 14 days ago
>> 100M+ is a bit more than i would expect for an image format. have i not been paying attention

> So at least if GP was talking about libjxl "100K+" would be more accurate.

M can mean thousands and I think it's common to use it used that way in finance and finance-adjacent areas: https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/qanda/data/faq/topics/A...:

> A. You’ve identified two commonly used conventions in finance, one derived from Greek and the other from Latin, but neither one is standard.

Starting with the second convention, M is used for amounts in the thousands and MM for amounts in the millions (usually without a space between the number and the abbreviation—e.g., $150M for $150,000 and $150MM for $150 million). This convention overlaps with the conventions for writing roman numerals, according to which a thousand is represented by M (from mille, the Latin word for “thousand”). Any similarity with roman numerals ends there, however, because MM in roman numerals means two thousand, not a thousand thousands, or one million, as in financial contexts...

https://www.accountingcoach.com/blog/what-does-m-and-mm-stan...:

> An expense of $60,000 could be written as $60M. Internet advertisers are familiar with CPM which is the cost per thousand impressions.

> The letter k is also used represent one thousand. For example, an annual salary of $60,000 might appear as $60k instead of $60M.

WheatMillington · 14 days ago
I assume this is regional... I work in accounting and finance in New Zealand (generally following ordinary Western/Commonwealth standards) and I've never heard of using M for thousands. If I used that I would confuse the hell out of everyone around me.
WheatMillington commented on Tesla's European sales tumble nearly 50% in October   finance.yahoo.com/news/te... · Posted by u/doener
m463 · 19 days ago
I would mention a few non-political things:

- their cars keep on "deprecating" controls, such as turn signal and drive select stalks, mechanical door releases, defog, dashboard and other critical controls. unsafe and a cheapo move.

- the model y looks ugly now, especially lighting. the older version looks nice, and was a best-seller.

- cybertruck

all of this just hands market share over to the competition, which has appeared.

WheatMillington · 19 days ago
Tesla's stale line-up is extremely boring compared to the competition. Americans don't have access to the broad market of EV's due to their extreme market protectionism.
WheatMillington commented on The Tesla Model Y Just Scored the Worst Reliability Rating in a Decade   autoblog.com/news/the-bes... · Posted by u/whynotmaybe
mephitix · 19 days ago
Had my Model Y for 4 years with no issue!

Funny enough, my 2007 BMW had so many issues and cost so much to maintain i used to call it a “wallet burning machine”

WheatMillington · 19 days ago
So your 19 year old car has more trouble than your 4 year old car? Weird.
WheatMillington commented on The Tesla Model Y Just Scored the Worst Reliability Rating in a Decade   autoblog.com/news/the-bes... · Posted by u/whynotmaybe
AmVess · 19 days ago
I have to laugh at the absurdity of a German company evaluating quality and reliability of vehicles.
WheatMillington · 19 days ago
American cars, such as Tesla, have a MUCH worse reliability record than German.
WheatMillington commented on The Tesla Model Y Just Scored the Worst Reliability Rating in a Decade   autoblog.com/news/the-bes... · Posted by u/whynotmaybe
WheatMillington · 19 days ago
Imagine seeing an article backed by statistics and facts and describing it as an anti-Elon hit piece.
WheatMillington commented on Bring bathroom doors back to hotels   bringbackdoors.com/... · Posted by u/bariumbitmap
citizenpaul · 19 days ago
How do you complain and go to another hotel if every single hotel is owned by four companies that are colluding together to do the same thing. This ignores the very obvious fact that you may not want to search for a hotel at 2AM in a strange city when you are exhausted. Keep making excuses for your masters though, this is the world you live in.

Marriot,Hilton,IGT,Hyatt own almost all hotels in any area you want to go to.

Enshittification is not just for apps anymore.

WheatMillington · 19 days ago
It's hard to understand what you want here... No one is making excuses for the hotels? Literally "don't stay there, go somewhere else, and tell everyone you know" is as much power as an individual can possibly muster in this situation. Why do you think this is "making excuses for your masters"? What is your solution?

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WheatMillington commented on Apple to focus on 'quality and underlying performance' with iOS 27 next year   9to5mac.com/2025/11/23/ap... · Posted by u/jb1991
ChrisMarshallNY · 22 days ago
Good.

Mac OS has become a richly productive bug farm, lately.

I wonder if they'll ever get around to actually reading their bug reports, though...

WheatMillington · 22 days ago
This article is about iOS?

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