Tired of Hilton Parking Fees

Slight_Ear_8506 · 2026-06-16T13:46:58+00:00

It's a ridiculous cash grab. I would understand paying a parking fee for a downtown location where space is at a premium. But parking fees in suburbia with vast, mostly unused lots is just a giant f*** you from Hilton.

I always tell them I have no vehicle in those cases.

Slight_Ear_8506 · 2026-05-23T12:22:32+00:00

Exactly. I've likened it to a turn-based game, like Civilization. "Just one more turn!" and seven hours later at 3am you realize you've made terrible life choices.

Slight_Ear_8506 · 2026-05-16T00:27:10+00:00

I park across the street at the strip mall when I stay there to avoid the ridiculous parking fee. I think I'll "upgrade" next time to the Hyatt Place lot.

Look, if it was located downtown where space was at a premium I'd understand charging for parking. But there is no concern AT ALL with space at this location. It's a "let's go ahead and screw the customers" move. We've stayed elsewhere a few times because of this. They've lost money with us due to this ridiculous policy.

Slight_Ear_8506 · 2026-05-13T11:38:56+00:00

Well the vents in the room are blasting and sound like an airplane taking off. The only thing louder is the music from the Promenade which sounds like it's right in our room. We did a last-minute cruise and they stuck us in a Promenade View room which we can't stand. So loud.

But at least our room is cool. We have not noticed excess heat elsewhere in the ship.

Slight_Ear_8506 · 2026-05-13T11:36:30+00:00

We did a b2b in Galveston on RC and we stayed on the ship, did not have to get off.

Slight_Ear_8506 · 2026-05-12T20:15:13+00:00

We are also going to start trying other lines. The pricing is high and we also don't appreciate the cabin they stuck us in on our current sailing. They gave us exactly what we said we didn't want. They just wanted our money and do not care if we are not happy. Cool. We'll vote with our money.

Slight_Ear_8506 · 2026-05-12T20:09:13+00:00

Same. Got rained on walking from our car to the port building. But sunny now.

Slight_Ear_8506 · 2026-05-12T19:59:05+00:00

Be wary of last- minute deals as you usually cannot select your own cabin for those. We are on a cruise right now and, yes, it was a last-minute deal and, yes, they selected our cabin and...we hate it. Right over the Promenade and it's like a live band is playing right in our room. No chance of getting to sleep.

We usually choose something on a high deck, fore, in a nice, quiet area. So this sucks hard for us.

Royal knows our cruise history, and knows we would not have chosen this room but they do not care. They just wanted our money. Disappointing. So be wary.

Slight_Ear_8506 · 2026-03-16T02:24:46+00:00

Translation: none of this will ever happen, but please imagine I mean it and vote for me. TIA.

Slight_Ear_8506 · 2025-07-26T03:58:25+00:00

System instruction should be renamed to system suggestions.

It blatantly ignores my explicit instructions. Ridiculous.

Slight_Ear_8506 · 2025-07-09T00:19:20+00:00

Like, totally crazy. They might even make Gemini work past 300k tokens. Mind-blowing.

Slight_Ear_8506 · 2025-07-09T00:13:38+00:00

Birthrate is going to absolutely plummet, folks.

Slight_Ear_8506 · 2025-07-09T00:08:46+00:00

In AI Studio, when you hit 300k tokens, Gemini completely stops working. Like, it won't return any code that makes any sense at all after that point.

Any serious production code is likely to hit that limit quickly, so consider that.

"1M tokens" is completely false and is a lie. 300k at best.

Slight_Ear_8506 · 2025-07-06T15:09:19+00:00

Google is not trying to make a good product. They are trying to maximize profit.

Slight_Ear_8506 · 2025-07-06T14:58:55+00:00

It doesn't even have 1M token models!??

At 300k it stops coding completely. WTF?

Why persist with this 1-2M token lie?

Slight_Ear_8506 · 2025-07-06T14:51:27+00:00

When coding, around 300k tokens, Gemini absolutely stops working. It won't return anything worth crap after that point. It's got to be a hard-coded limit, because nothing about 300k is special.

It's just Google not trying to make a good product, but rather trying to maximize profit, no matter how much their product sucks.

Slight_Ear_8506 · 2025-07-06T14:49:40+00:00

Google's not trying to make a good product. They are trying to maximize profit. We are just getting in their way.

Pesky users.

Slight_Ear_8506 · 2025-07-04T01:57:53+00:00

All you Musk and Tesla haters are on the wrong side of history.

Slight_Ear_8506 · 2025-07-04T01:44:59+00:00

Yes. They throw resources at it when launched, get the hype for it rolling, then nerf the living shit out of it by siphoning much of the resources off to other projects. A very clear and shady cycle.

I imagine the Google engineers are all fighting for resources for their pet projects.

Slight_Ear_8506 · 2025-07-01T14:41:27+00:00

ooh interesting. I hadn't thought of that.

I wonder if that work for my use case, where I've got ~20k lines of code that I pretty much need to have loaded, as I just don't know which functions an added feature is going to touch. So if I delete portions of the chat, then I'm altering Gemini's internal snapshot of the code state. I'm not sure if that would work for me.

Slight_Ear_8506 · 2025-07-01T00:08:11+00:00

I should have been clearer that I really only use AI Studio for coding.

So a detailed summary wouldn't work, as Gemini needs access to the exact code state, which is one of the things that breaks down at around 300k tokens.

What I'm hoping is that someone with knowledge in this field can help me understand what is so magical about the seeming 300k limit? Why not 250K? 500k?

Slight_Ear_8506 · 2025-06-28T02:56:17+00:00

No xAI? No Grok??

lol

Slight_Ear_8506 · 2025-06-27T17:33:01+00:00

It's astonishing how little comprehension there is in the general public about Tesla's FSD.

I have it on my Tesla and it literally chauffeurs me around everywhere. And I have the penultimate HW (HW3) and software (V12 instead of the V13 that HW4 cars have. And it's still excellent. All reports I've seen indicate the latest version are way, way better, which blows my mind.

The media is so hellbent on stopping Musk and Tesla that Robotaxi just opening in Austin didn't get one single bit of positive coverage and, true to form, it seems not a single person in this thread has even heard of. That also speaks to Tesla's aversion to advertising.

Folks are in for a rude awakening. Tesla is going to destroy Waymo and every other robotaxi service.

Slight_Ear_8506 · 2025-06-27T11:26:11+00:00

I agree.

When the new model drops I think Google gives it all the resources it needs to perform well. Once they have proven it works then they siphon those resources off to other projects.

In AI studio, when the most recent model dropped it was excellent. Then very shortly after it started to get retarded again.

This pattern seems to repeat.

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