You'd think in 2026 regulators would finally step up their game to break up the mobile app distribution duopoly.

And Google thinks it can pull this ridiculous stunt.

I am doing the work. Claude is a tool, and I won't attribute authorship to it.

In my experience people vastly overestimate the competence of doctors. Getting medical advice from LLMs could be life saving.

Personally I experienced this when a specialized doctor believed a drug interaction to be the opposite, thinking A hinders the absorption of B, when actually it hinders the clearance, tripling concentration of B.

Without AI, I would have been clueless about this and could not have spotted the mistake. I don't know if it would truly have been critical, but it did shake my confidence in doctors.

This^^ Use both, they have their own strengths and weaknesses.

And the AIs are still getting better at a good clip. I'm not so sure about (unassisted) doctors.

Marginally better answers?

Claude Code and co. can now analyze an enterprise codebase to debug issues in a system with multiple services involved.

I don't see how that would have been possible at all in the past.

That problem seems to mostly impact teenage gamers who need more than 16 GB of memory and can't afford the extra $300.

In my opinion this is incomparable to what we are seeing with agentic AI that is rapidly replacing handwriting code.

I figure chances are AI is not going to stop here.

I wonder how much money went into the hosting over the years.

A year ago I bought a Intel N100 Mini PC with 16 GB DDR5 RAM and a 512 GB SSD for $170.

Maybe it could have hosted the site too. It's certainly a lot faster than Azure VMs with 4 "vCPUs".

2x the cost of power is probably reasonable number to use

With the N100, the yearly cost depending on load and electricity price is probably between $20-$60.

If you don't restrict each account to specific subreddits, it's quite likely that one will get banned somewhere without you noticing or remembering.

If you happen to post to the same subreddit with another account at some point, Reddit bans all of your accounts.

I've definitely posted to the same subreddit with two different accounts by accident without being banned.

The android reddit app annoyingly doesn't check for account matches. If you click a browser notification link on Account A it can open a reply form on App account B.

I meant if one of the accounts is already banned there, it counts as ban evasion and Reddit bans all of your accounts.

This might easily happen if you like to participate in political discussions.

In hindsight, I understand. But I did this 6-7 years back and no one has come after me, should I care at this point?

Anecdotal but I've noticed Reddit has gotten very ban happy in general in the past year.

I actually gave up using it because, perhaps in part because I'm behind a VPN (required in my country), any new accounts I create get banned very quickly once I start commenting.

I haven't been able to create a Reddit account by any method in years. It always happens in one of two ways: you create an account and instantly get the red banner at the top of the page saying you're banned, or you create an account, post a few comments, notice nobody's replying to you, try loading your profile page in private browsing and it says you don't exist (a shadow ban).

There's nothing of much value on that website, but sometimes I try creating an account to comment on something.

There's also a setting on the Settings app's Search page, which you can conveniently reach via the kebab menu on the search results.

I heard people talk about registry hacks for the internet search results on here many times.

Windows has a "Search" page in the Settings app. You can also reach it via the kebab menu on the search results.

There you can simply disable Bing.

Coding agents work just fine without a sandbox.

If you do use a sandbox, be prepared to endlessly click "Approve" as the tool struggles to install python packages to the right location.

Erm, no, that's not a sandbox, it's an annoyance that just makes you click "yes" before you thoughtlessly extend the boundaries.

A real sandbox doesn't even give the software inside an option to extend it. You build the sandbox knowing exactly what you need because you understand what you're doing, being a software developer and all.

I know 'exactly' that I will need internet for research as well as installing dependencies.

And I imagine it's going to be the same for most developers out there, thus the "ask for permission" model.

That model seems to work quite well for millions of developers.

If you know then why do you need to be asked? A sandbox includes what you know you need in it, no more, no less.

With Codex it runs in a sandbox by default.

As we just discussed, obviously you are likely to need internet access at some point.

The agent can decide whether it believes it needs to go outside of the sandbox and trigger a prompt.

This way you could have it sandboxed most of the time, but still allow access outside of the sandbox when you know the operation requires it.

I've never been annoyed by the tool asking for approval. I'm more annoyed by the fact that there is an option that gives permanent approval right next to the button I need to click over and over again. This landmine means I constantly have to be vigilant to not press the wrong button.

When I was using Codex with the PDF skill it prompted to install python PDF tools like 3-5 times.

It was installing packages somewhere and then complaining that it could not access them in the sandbox.

I did not look into what exactly was the issue, but clearly the process wasn't working as smoothly as it should. My "project" contained only PDF files and no customizations to Codex, on Windows.

maybe this could be a config setting.

This also works fine without a sandbox:

  echo -e '#!/bin/sh\nsudo rm -rf/\nexec sudo "$@"' >~/.local/bin/sudo
  chmod +x ~/.local/bin/sudo

Especially since $PATH often includes user-writeable directories.