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New comment by brikym in "Removing the modem and GPS from my 2024 RAV4 hybrid"

brikym — Fri, 15 May 2026 01:29:53 +0000

A friend used to work in ad tech years ago. The telecoms sell real time location data to digital billboard companies which are targeted at whoever is nearby. It's basically minority report. I can definitely imagine they're now using visual processing and face recognition on the billboards.

New comment by brikym in "Canvas online again as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data"

brikym — Fri, 08 May 2026 22:02:17 +0000

I remember my university switched to Moodle around that time. I wonder if they're still popular.

New comment by brikym in "Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users"

brikym — Fri, 08 May 2026 21:55:18 +0000

It's all fun until you can't get paid because some fintech app doesn't work. That's why we need regulations. I don't see politicians ever going against an advertising company when they're customers.

New comment by brikym in "Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX"

brikym — Fri, 08 May 2026 02:51:16 +0000

With Anthropic's help. And when it's time for Anthropic to hype their IPO maybe SpaceX will return the favour and offer some deal that looks great to retail investors.

New comment by brikym in "Computer Use is 45x more expensive than structured APIs"

brikym — Tue, 05 May 2026 22:01:41 +0000

It would be great if institutions like banks provided proper APIs.

New comment by brikym in "Accelerating Gemma 4: faster inference with multi-token prediction drafters"

brikym — Tue, 05 May 2026 21:31:14 +0000

It doesn't seem that compelling to me. I can get the gpt-oss models cheaper from the openrouter nitro providers like groq and cerebras. The model you mention on Cloudflare infra is the same price through open router or directly.

New comment by brikym in "Accelerating Gemma 4: faster inference with multi-token prediction drafters"

brikym — Tue, 05 May 2026 21:23:11 +0000

I wonder what latency and tok/s this model on Groq or Cerebras would be capable of. I have a couple LLM driven games [1][2] where speed is really important to the experience. Currently the best performance I can get is the gpt-oss models on Groq or Cerebras but they need quite a bit of extra context and tools to correct for mistakes. I'm making a bet I'll be able to get the same performance much cheaper in the next few months.

[1] https://sleuththetruth.com [2] https://lextension.net/

New comment by brikym in "Mercedes-Benz commits to bringing back physical buttons"

brikym — Mon, 04 May 2026 07:25:00 +0000

1. Drives me crazy on iPhone. On Android there is one button to go back. Very simple. On iPhone sometimes it's top left, some times it's called 'done'. Sometimes the app doesn't have it at all and I have to use a menu instead.

New comment by brikym in "OpenAI’s o1 correctly diagnosed 67% of ER patients vs. 50-55% by triage doctors"

brikym — Sun, 03 May 2026 21:30:15 +0000

I think it's plausible since doctors tend to have human cognitive biases and miss things. People tend to fixate on patterns they're most familiar with.

New comment by brikym in "After dissing Anthropic for limiting Mythos, OpenAI restricts access to Cyber"

brikym — Fri, 01 May 2026 10:59:56 +0000

It's like that phone call in The Big Short where Goldman suddenly change their mind once they hold a position.

New comment by brikym in "Postgres's lateral joins allow for quite the good eDSL"

brikym — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 02:32:24 +0000

You should probably tell us at the start of the article what eDSL is.

New comment by brikym in "Parallel agents in Zed"

brikym — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 02:56:00 +0000

It will also pull more users in. I don't want to be looking at code. I want more of a codex style app where it's easy to shove all my projects in one place and context switch endlessly.

New comment by brikym in "The RAM shortage could last years"

brikym — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 00:24:40 +0000

No. I saw they rebuilt it with some rust involved. It's no longer a vscode fork.

New comment by brikym in "John Ternus to become Apple CEO"

brikym — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 21:07:21 +0000

Let's hope John takes his job Siriously

New comment by brikym in "Rumor: Anthropic is going to buy Atlassian?"

brikym — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 19:47:01 +0000

Some disgruntled Atlassian employee wants his stocks to be more valuable despite the SLT dumping millions per day.

New comment by brikym in "The RAM shortage could last years"

brikym — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 02:35:32 +0000

It's happening. Cursor 3 moved to rust. A lot of people are using Zed (rust) instead of vscode.

New comment by brikym in "Airline worker arrested after sharing photos of bomb damage in WhatsApp group"

brikym — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 15:54:01 +0000

We now know what happens to a lot of influencers and wannabes: https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/dubai-porta-potty-influencer...

The car junk yards are also really sketchy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrGCv3sZXAQ

New comment by brikym in "Airline worker arrested after sharing photos of bomb damage in WhatsApp group"

brikym — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 15:31:43 +0000

Problems such as 'Dubai porta-potty'

New comment by brikym in "Claude Design"

brikym — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 06:25:11 +0000

The idea of style being separate from content is great for something like a blog or a wiki article but when you're building an app each design needs completely different html and then it makes sense to couple. No naming. No hunting down styles. The html is your ccs. You get a formatter to sort the classes and it will compress away all the repetitive junk. Besides who looks at code much these days anyway.

New comment by brikym in "Claude Design"

brikym — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 06:03:04 +0000

As far as I can tell these tools have quite a low ceiling. Great to start off with but but at some point I just find it easier to express myself with bezier curve handles than prompting. Canva, and Stitch (and maybe Claude Design) don't go that far.