yRetsyM's comments

On: Apple reports fourth quarter results

[yRetsyM]

Interesting that Google and Apple matched their quarterly earnings in revenue .

On: GPT-5

[yRetsyM]

Still only 256k input tokens/context. Do they not see utility in larger context?

[cbg0 → yRetsyM]

This says 400K context window: https://platform.openai.com/docs/models/compare?model=gpt-5

[xpl → cbg0]

They say:

In the API, all GPT‑5 models can accept a maximum of 272,000 input tokens and emit a maximum of 128,000 reasoning & output tokens, for a total context length of 400,000 tokens.

So it's only 270k for input and 400k in total considering reasoning & output tokens.

[0x457 → yRetsyM]

They do, but if you look at the graphs...what is the point of the large context window if accuracy drops off waaaaay before context window is maxed?

On: DeskHog, an open-source developer toy

[yRetsyM]

Something like this https://www.mylocalbytes.com/products/localdeck?

On: Gemini 1.5 Pro Now Available in 180+ Countries

[yRetsyM]

Not available in the UK - this seems quite common with Google lately, why is that?

[sunaookami → yRetsyM]

They are working on EU access: https://twitter.com/OfficialLoganK/status/177774057510767461...

>For those asking about EU access, work is underway, expect more updates in the coming weeks!

I think this will include UK too.

[SushiHippie → yRetsyM]

It's also not available in th EU, likely because of the GDPR. And IIRC the UK implemented something similar to the GDPR after the Brexit. Maybe that's why.

On: High Efficiency Image File Format (HEIF/.heic)

[yRetsyM]

What is the patent situation for JPEG XL vs AVIF?

[shmerl → yRetsyM]

Both officially are free, but AVIF possibly has stronger defensive backing given it's defended from patent aggressors by AOM.

On: Cloudflare Experiencing Latency Issues

[yRetsyM]

I'm impressed they've updated their status page so quickly, unlike some of their cloud competitors

[jgrahamc → yRetsyM]

It's part of our process. Here's the internal timeline

    T+0 Automatic comms thread created
    T+1 XXX Is this a P0, do we need a status page?
            @YYY
    T+1 YYY Eyes on
    T+4 ZZZ Yes
            let's get super-generic status page up
            @XXX / @YYY - you have one handy?
            I see it now thx

[ethbr0 → jgrahamc]

It's definitely a differentiator. cough

On: Old CSS, New CSS (2020)

[yRetsyM]

Side note: the comments in this are all almost as valuable as the content itself. Remember when comments were a way people used to enhance content rather than attack or degrade it?

[geektips → yRetsyM]

Thank you for the reminder, I went back to read the comment section.

On: Many of the root certificates on Windows are not needed

[yRetsyM]

You do trust one company with thousands of employees though, there's layers/levels of trust on this

On: TikTok has recently traded at valuations of $105-110B on private markets

[yRetsyM]

Wasn't the same said about Facebook?

On: Gitlab was down

[yRetsyM]

There has been a theme of instability with Gitlab.com over the last week or two. I'm not sure if it's growth related (they've seen a steady increase of users/traffic) and they've reached a scaling peak. OR if it's technically related - they've been doing a number of different infrastructure changes over the last few weeks which make a material difference to the main layers of the service.

For me the real test here is how they respond to this. As a paying customer I want to understand the issue, the efforts to prevent this in future and how they communicate this.

[appkate → yRetsyM]

Suffering the same instability issue and switched back to Github as that's what a paying customer would do.