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New comment by BrtByte in "Governments, companies, nonprofits should invest in free, open source AI [pdf]"

BrtByte — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 09:02:06 +0000

I would not count on the market alone. Like customers do not always choose the technically best or cheapest option

New comment by BrtByte in "Governments, companies, nonprofits should invest in free, open source AI [pdf]"

BrtByte — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 07:22:28 +0000

Yeah, I suspect the $200K check would be the cheapest line item in the whole thing

New comment by BrtByte in "Governments, companies, nonprofits should invest in free, open source AI [pdf]"

BrtByte — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 07:15:39 +0000

I would just add a reproducibility requirement and avoid keeping the exact same benchmarks for too long

New comment by BrtByte in "Governments, companies, nonprofits should invest in free, open source AI [pdf]"

BrtByte — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 07:12:10 +0000

The library analogy works (for me), but the uncomfortable part is that most "open" models are closer to receiving a compiled binary than receiving the library

New comment by BrtByte in "Meta reuses old RAM in new servers with custom bridge chip"

BrtByte — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 17:51:45 +0000

Funny how the idea only seems to become practical once you have a literal warehouse problem worth of old RAM

New comment by BrtByte in "Meta reuses old RAM in new servers with custom bridge chip"

BrtByte — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 17:50:03 +0000

The funny part is that a 1000x increase in RAM somehow doesn't make a modern computer feel 1000x more luxurious

New comment by BrtByte in "Meta reuses old RAM in new servers with custom bridge chip"

BrtByte — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 17:47:54 +0000

The impressive part is not really reusing old RAM, its making the economics work despite the extra chip, software support and operational complexity

New comment by BrtByte in "Medical students are using popular research tool to pump out misleading studies"

BrtByte — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 08:11:54 +0000

I think this is the right distinction

New comment by BrtByte in "Medical students are using popular research tool to pump out misleading studies"

BrtByte — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 08:10:02 +0000

A med student can absolutely contribute useful work, especially with good supervision. The issue is more that inexperienced authors plus publication pressure plus easy tooling is a bad combination

New comment by BrtByte in "Medical students are using popular research tool to pump out misleading studies"

BrtByte — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 08:08:18 +0000

Feels like the minimum standard should be sharing the exact query/design choices and being very explicit about what biases the analysis can and cannot address

New comment by BrtByte in "How we made hit video game Prince of Persia"

BrtByte — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 11:57:21 +0000

That is excellent playground wisdom

New comment by BrtByte in "How we made hit video game Prince of Persia"

BrtByte — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 11:55:41 +0000

There's something very of-the-era about fixing a virus-ridden PC and then "improving" it by installing Prince of Persia

New comment by BrtByte in "How we made hit video game Prince of Persia"

BrtByte — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 11:53:02 +0000

I don't think it was only because you were a kid. The game really did punish hesitation in a way that feels pretty unusual now

New comment by BrtByte in "How we made hit video game Prince of Persia"

BrtByte — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 11:50:47 +0000

A lot of games have time limits, but Prince of Persia made it feel less like an arcade score mechanic and more like part of the story

New comment by BrtByte in "How we made hit video game Prince of Persia"

BrtByte — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 11:49:37 +0000

Prince of Persia is one of those games where the technical limitations are almost inseparable from the magic

New comment by BrtByte in "Apple rejected my dictation app for using the accessibility API"

BrtByte — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 14:26:35 +0000

Interesting idea. It would basically turn the App Store version into both a discoverability channel and a license anchor for the direct version

New comment by BrtByte in "Apple rejected my dictation app for using the accessibility API"

BrtByte — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 14:03:56 +0000

The frustrating part is less that Apple has a boundary here, and more that the boundary seems opaque and inconsistently enforced

New comment by BrtByte in "EU fines Temu €200M for allowing sale of illegal products"

BrtByte — Thu, 28 May 2026 17:46:22 +0000

People will definitely look for alternatives, but that doesn't make regulation pointless

New comment by BrtByte in "EU fines Temu €200M for allowing sale of illegal products"

BrtByte — Thu, 28 May 2026 17:44:53 +0000

In a way it makes the Temu problem more frustrating

New comment by BrtByte in "EU fines Temu €200M for allowing sale of illegal products"

BrtByte — Thu, 28 May 2026 17:40:32 +0000

But I still think chargers and children's toys are exactly where the line should be drawn