Funny how the idea only seems to become practical once you have a literal warehouse problem worth of old RAM
The funny part is that a 1000x increase in RAM somehow doesn't make a modern computer feel 1000x more luxurious
The impressive part is not really reusing old RAM, its making the economics work despite the extra chip, software support and operational complexity
I think this is the right distinction
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
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
That is excellent playground wisdom
There's something very of-the-era about fixing a virus-ridden PC and then "improving" it by installing Prince of Persia
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
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
Prince of Persia is one of those games where the technical limitations are almost inseparable from the magic
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Interesting idea. It would basically turn the App Store version into both a discoverability channel and a license anchor for the direct version
The frustrating part is less that Apple has a boundary here, and more that the boundary seems opaque and inconsistently enforced
People will definitely look for alternatives, but that doesn't make regulation pointless
In a way it makes the Temu problem more frustrating
But I still think chargers and children's toys are exactly where the line should be drawn
The fine seems less interesting than the compliance deadline
In an ideal world, the artist's own mailing list or fan community would be the canonical place for this, because it's closer to a direct relationship
A real fan who mostly listens on Bandcamp, buys vinyl, or discovered the artist through live shows may look less "real" than someone who passively streams them every day
It feels like we're replacing one opaque system with another slightly more personalized opaque system
If the second-best lamp is 90% as good and 10x cheaper, most people will use the second-best lamp...
This is a good point, especially the "model is the data" framing
Open weights undercut the absolute cutoff scenario. They don't fully solve the question of who gets the best model first, who gets enough tokens to use it heavily, and who gets to integrate it into sensitive workflows…
Funny how the idea only seems to become practical once you have a literal warehouse problem worth of old RAM
The funny part is that a 1000x increase in RAM somehow doesn't make a modern computer feel 1000x more luxurious
The impressive part is not really reusing old RAM, its making the economics work despite the extra chip, software support and operational complexity
I think this is the right distinction
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
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
That is excellent playground wisdom
There's something very of-the-era about fixing a virus-ridden PC and then "improving" it by installing Prince of Persia
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
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
Prince of Persia is one of those games where the technical limitations are almost inseparable from the magic
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Interesting idea. It would basically turn the App Store version into both a discoverability channel and a license anchor for the direct version
The frustrating part is less that Apple has a boundary here, and more that the boundary seems opaque and inconsistently enforced
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People will definitely look for alternatives, but that doesn't make regulation pointless
In a way it makes the Temu problem more frustrating
But I still think chargers and children's toys are exactly where the line should be drawn
The fine seems less interesting than the compliance deadline
In an ideal world, the artist's own mailing list or fan community would be the canonical place for this, because it's closer to a direct relationship
A real fan who mostly listens on Bandcamp, buys vinyl, or discovered the artist through live shows may look less "real" than someone who passively streams them every day
It feels like we're replacing one opaque system with another slightly more personalized opaque system
If the second-best lamp is 90% as good and 10x cheaper, most people will use the second-best lamp...
This is a good point, especially the "model is the data" framing
Open weights undercut the absolute cutoff scenario. They don't fully solve the question of who gets the best model first, who gets enough tokens to use it heavily, and who gets to integrate it into sensitive workflows…