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austhrow743 commented on GPT-5.2   openai.com/index/introduc... · Posted by u/atgctg
nullbound · 3 days ago
I will say that it is wild, if not somewhat problematic that two users have such disparate views of seemingly the same product. I say that, but then I remember my own experience just from few days ago. I don't pay for gemini, but I have paid chatgpt sub. I tested both for the same product with seemingly same prompt and subbed chatgpt subjectively beat gemini in terms of scope, options and links with current decent deals.

It seems ( only seems, because I have not gotten around to test it in any systematic way ) that some variables like context and what the model knows about you may actually influence quality ( or lack thereof ) of the response.

austhrow743 · 2 days ago
We've been having trouble telling if people are using the same product ever since Chat GPT first got popular. The had a free model and a paid model, that was it, no other competitors or naming schemes to worry about, and discussions were still full of people talking about current capabilities without saying what model they were using.

For me, "gemini" currently means using this model in the llm.datasette.io cli tool.

openrouter/google/gemini-3-pro-preview

For what anyone else means? If they're equivalent? If Google does something different when you use "Gemini 3" in their browser app vs their cli app vs plans vs api users vs third party api users? No idea to any of the above.

I hate naming in the llm space.

austhrow743 commented on 30 Year Anniversary of WarCraft II: Tides of Darkness   jorsys.org/archive/decemb... · Posted by u/sjoblomj
ericmcer · 4 days ago
All the RTS games are underplayed nowadays. Starcraft 2 is maybe the most active still and has been all but abandoned by Blizzard.

A good RTS has an extremely harsh learning curve and is not super monetizable. Someone would have to rethink the genre: make it easier for casual players and figure out how to get the addicting money making patterns in. Otherwise big companies are gonna have no interest.

Sucks, I love Starcraft 2, but it is legitimately the most mentally demanding game I have ever played. Sometimes I procrastinate getting into a match because 1v1 is so stressful. I totally get why it has limited appeal.

austhrow743 · 4 days ago
World in Conflict was an interesting take on making RTS easier for casuals. Basically took the resource gathering part out of it. You got a constant drip of points you could spend on units instead.

Potentially that simplification hurts the genre too much though because then you don't have hardcore players sticking with it for years and years.

Maybe a game could have that as a "simple mode" that players can opt in to.

The potential addictive money making pattern is the same as other games imo. Skins. The units being smaller mean the developer is probably going to have to go to more effort to shove them in to peoples faces. Maybe a screen before/after the match where all the players units in their skins can be clear seen in a more zoomed in manner. Have them marching around the border of the end scoresheet or doing a little dance while waiting for players to load.

austhrow743 commented on How private equity is changing housing   theatlantic.com/ideas/202... · Posted by u/harambae
austhrow743 · 5 days ago
The reasons for high housing prices generally come down to "government restriction of supply, as supported by a large amount of voters".

There's no other expense where we talk about it as a market, at least in general layman focused new and discussions. People aren't concerned about the fuel market or the grocery market. They're concerned about fuel prices. Grocery prices.

Housing is an exception due to catastrophic historical policy choices to encourage it as an investment. Government restrictions on housing supply will exist for as long as a significant number of people not only have their net worth wrapped up in housing, but who actually leverage themselves and go in to extreme debt to achieve it. Not to mention the attached cultural issues of then wanting "buying a house" to mean "buying an area staying the same".

Concentration of residential real estate among fewer owners is the only path that doesn't lead to the future being housing based feudalism where your station in life is determined by if you inherited somewhere to live, and how desirable it is.

austhrow743 commented on I ignore the spotlight as a staff engineer   lalitm.com/software-engin... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
WhyOhWhyQ · 10 days ago
It is a large amount of luck, obviously. You didn't hard-work your way out of brain damage at birth. You didn't hard-work your way into your geographic location which gave you access to the resources that lead you to where you are, which are unavailable most places in the world. You didn't hard-work your way out of avoiding a draft for a war where you got killed at age 18.
austhrow743 · 10 days ago
Sure, if a butterfly flew past one of our parents on the day of our conception, causing them to spend a second glancing at it, then they may have had sex slightly differently that night and we wouldn't exist. We're all lottery winners in a billion different ways.

What is the practical application of bringing that to mind when considering what actions to take for career advancement?

austhrow743 commented on Ghostty is now non-profit   mitchellh.com/writing/gho... · Posted by u/vrnvu
throwaway2037 · 10 days ago
Is DHH (David Heinemeier Hansson) worth 100M USD? Google results say he is worth about 50M USD... so "only" two commas.
austhrow743 · 10 days ago
Three comma club is for billionaires.
austhrow743 commented on The AI boom is based on a fundamental mistake   theverge.com/ai-artificia... · Posted by u/Anon84
austhrow743 · 17 days ago
Article makes the claim that LLMs are not the path to AGI and provides some information on the topic.

I can’t find where they try to determine how much investment, purchasing, or use is fuelled by claims that AGI is coming though. Absent that, the title seems unrelated to the article content.

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austhrow743 commented on The AirPods Pro 3 flight problem   basicappleguy.com/basicap... · Posted by u/andrem
falkensmaize · 2 months ago
Yes actually. That was one of my biggest annoyances with non-Apple earbuds in the past, but these actually do seamlessly connect to all my Apple devices and switch quickly and reliably to the active device.
austhrow743 · 2 months ago
Which model did you get btw?
austhrow743 commented on The AirPods Pro 3 flight problem   basicappleguy.com/basicap... · Posted by u/andrem
falkensmaize · 2 months ago
Yes actually. That was one of my biggest annoyances with non-Apple earbuds in the past, but these actually do seamlessly connect to all my Apple devices and switch quickly and reliably to the active device.
austhrow743 · 2 months ago
Thanks and same, the ones I'd tried previously were very annoying to get and stay connected when I wanted them to and not when I didn't want them to.

I actually ordered the airpod pro 3s the day before seeing this thread. If they don't blow me away I'll be returning them and getting these.

Although I don't know how I'm going to test the flight problem. I don't have any coming up in the next couple weeks. Might have to return even if they do blow me away :/

austhrow743 commented on The AirPods Pro 3 flight problem   basicappleguy.com/basicap... · Posted by u/andrem
falkensmaize · 2 months ago
This is not an ad, just personal experience, but I went through two pairs of AirPod Pro 2s in the last couple of years and both developed problems outside of warranty. I bought a pair of Earfuns from Amazon and they’re honestly pretty great. 95% of the sound quality and functionality of AirPod pros for about 25% of the price.
austhrow743 · 2 months ago
>and functionality of AirPod pros

Is the automatic connection and switching between devices equivalent?

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