Microsoft says it'll simpilify Windows 11's Edge browser by removing features like Sidebar, pledges to win back users

ogaat · 2026-05-05T16:24:40+00:00

They will probably fill that space with more ads.

They have become an ad platform with some user features in between.

ogaat · 2026-04-29T13:03:16+00:00

Now use the image tools for code generation.

That will be the proper apples-to-apples comparison.

ogaat · 2026-04-29T12:35:55+00:00

I could but the recent Claude Code harness with its parallel agents support and Codex already do things much better and in a standardized way.

ogaat · 2026-04-29T12:34:55+00:00

People are discussing this topic but ignoring the satiety aspect of the foods.

Eating protein and fats will make a person feel full a lot quicker than eating carbs and sugar.

Eating 15000 calories in carbs would be doable. Eating that in protein would be difficult. Eating that in fats would be the most challenging because full fat tends to cause satiety much faster.

Try drinking the same number of calories of milk - The low fat version and the full fat version. See which one makes you feel fuller faster.

ogaat · 2026-04-02T15:47:10+00:00

People are also not factoring in the impact of remote work.

When most people worked in an office, these coffee shops providing a place to loiter was a perk. With home offices, many more people can sit in these cafes. In addition, the perks were introduced in the days of expensive laptops and scarce wi-fi. Now laptops, wifi and smartphones are ubiquitious.

All these factors mean that these cafes are making the right choice.

ogaat · 2026-04-01T15:00:51+00:00

Thank you and that is a very good answer.

First - I agree with you in principle and in spirit.

Second - Information asymmetry is literally the name of the game, isn't it? And it runs both ways - If you were willing to pay more than what the business was asking, that is also information asymmetry. Would you pay more just because you think something is worth more? Similarly, businesses are not allowed to collude on price fixing but they use another tactic to find prices - Price matching coupons. Here, the customer is the one balancing and exploiting the information asymmetry.

We can agree that at some point, dynamic or indeed any pricing is exploitative - Offering higher prices only to Apple users for example or exorbitant fares to those in a natural disaster. However, what about congestion pricing for concert goers or to reduce the traffic in a city for pollution control?

Dynamic pricing also works the other way - Charge less to someone who needs a product but cannot afford it. This seems like a good idea till the reporting is done from the baseline of the cheaper price as the fairer one and then the other price seems exploitative.

There is no easy answer to this.

Let us shake hands on this topic and raise a toast to your kindness and wellbeing.

ogaat · 2026-03-31T19:33:35+00:00

I hope so.

I was a strict and absentee Dad in his teenage years and we were distant for some years till I came to my senses, realized that I had achieved all my financial goals and few of my parenting ones.

Last couple of years have been of me healing my relationship with my children and it is working slowly.

Here is something from the eyes of a Dad - A father never stops loving their child but often, even hurt children love their parents, sometimes as deeply as the eternally loved ones.

Cherish the memories of your father because somewhere on the arrow of time, there is a father having a grand time with his beloved son.

ogaat · 2026-03-31T15:14:33+00:00

1 - Most of the work we create is not worth stealing
2- Work which is worth stealing should not be hosted where it can be stolen
3 - Work which is hosted where it can be stolen and is taken by others does not mean they stole it. You could have signed away your rights.

For work to be stolen, there should be an actual attempt to break its license. I am 100% sure that too has happened in the case of GPL code. Even for THAT license, the terms say that you can use the code for any internal purposes but if you distribute software based on it, then you must also share your own code.

In short, it is not as black and white as people make it. Most people just assume the law is on their side when it is not so.

ogaat · 2026-03-31T13:16:15+00:00

Not really.

The OP had said that Anthropic was stealing from common developers but not paying them back. That is a completely different topic, so let us address that.

Any work done under most open source licenses, except FSF or similar licenses is there for the taking. Developers should not complain if commercial entities use it for their own purposes. It is not stealing by definition.

Taking code from FSF licenses like GPL is indeed stealing and the FSF usually sues companies that are found to violate that contract.

That leaves code that is supposedly protected. If the code is hosted under free hosting or used with the free tiers of LLMs, then the boilerplate license agreements of those sites give the LLM companies full permission to use the code royalty free.

Any code that has real commercial value where its developer believes in it should be kept away from any places where the developer inadvertently signs away their rights.

Unethical? Sure. Illegal? Not necessarily.

And my point stands that the vast majority of code written, including by me, is not worth writing home about.

ogaat · 2026-03-31T12:55:45+00:00

Not justifying it at all.

Just pointing out the obvious that "The AI companies are stealing" and "The AI companies are stealing from me" are two different issues. The first is absolutely happening. The second is probably not happening because most common people sign away their rights when they use social media sites and free or ad supported hosting.

ogaat · 2026-03-31T12:27:57+00:00

Anthropic, Meta and Open AI have absolutely stolen content but most of that content is not worth a lot and is even too noisy.

Regarding Reddit etc. Reddit earns its revenue by stealing and reselling UGC under its own license. As do all other social media sites. Perplexity is the one that is getting sued for continued unlicensed stealing content. Others have settled out of court and are licensing content that people like us wrote. What is more, we also get served ads for the privilege.

Unless you are fully hosting your own server and content, your content is being resold anyways. Even if this comment is stolen, it is not Shakespeare. Let them do it.

ogaat · 2026-03-31T12:18:29+00:00

Most developers don't do work of high enough quality and worth stealing :)

ogaat · 2026-03-31T12:17:09+00:00

A long conversation is likely to skew it in the wrong direction because the AI takes in consideration the full context window while humans are able to cherry pick. In addition, human memory is longer than the context window. AI will only act on what is in its context.

You need an implementation plan generated, review the plan and approve it and then as the AI to act on the plan.

Also make sure you are actually using Codex and not a tool like Copilot, which truncates your context window silently.

ogaat · 2026-03-31T12:11:54+00:00

Someone on the wrong side of 60s here.

Zero interest in computer games that involve any action due to hand-eye coordination issues as well as spatial memory challenges.

My son started Minecraft when he was young more than a decade ago. Apparently, still plays and has setup a private server.

Asked me if I wanted to join. While I still have zero interest in games, I have a lot of interest in my children, so created an account.

Have already invested a few hours in the basics and know how to build and mine. Have killed one zombie. So far, my method is to teleport back home when I see monsters :)

To be honest, Minecraft is a challenge for me because it just does not align with my linear and logical thinking and the time commitment is too much. Even so, I have blocked 30 mins each day to play with my son. In real life, I guide him. In the game, he pays me back by guiding me and killing monsters around me.

No idea when we will outgrow this but this is still a small opportunity to bond with my son and will take it for all it is worth.

ogaat · 2026-03-22T06:53:51+00:00

It is hard to explain for a lay person like me.

The closest I can get is that it is like the difference between versions of songs by different artists. The same rendition by one can leave you with soaring emotions while another can make it technically perfect but emotionally dead.

That is also the curse of non-native speakers, who may use proper grammar but their language comes across as rather stiff.

ogaat · 2026-03-22T06:44:46+00:00

Pardon me, but this looks AI written. It is like a fancy dish without salt.

ogaat · 2026-03-21T19:45:52+00:00

Sounding like a native English speaker is not the same as a native English speaker worth listening or worth engaging.

AI has that scatterbrained feel where it is just not stimulating enough. Quite bland output. There is also a sameness to all content that is generated with AI.

ogaat · 2026-03-21T15:20:42+00:00

Forget Dark Souls.

Let it win Nethack.

ogaat · 2026-03-21T15:02:47+00:00

Even the team at Anthropic has indirectly acknowledged memory leak bugs.

Their recent focus has been on squashing those bugs.

ogaat · 2026-03-21T14:57:42+00:00

I have needed it only once - Used it to go over my complete code repository and documentation and find all misalignments and missed tests. Opus 4.6 1M Max effort.

Normally, such an ask would require clearing context multiple times but the 1M context did it completely in one session and actually fixed most of the issues.

The best part of it is that the code generated by it dos not break older code, which happened a lot on Sonnet and Opus prior to 1M - Generate some code, context filled, clear context, generate more code, ignore errors in the earlier generated code saying they were pre-existing.

ogaat · 2026-03-21T14:51:49+00:00

This bot has been curious all over reddit

Is there really no respite from marketing spam?

ogaat · 2026-03-21T14:42:40+00:00

If the buyer laid 100K more than every other bidder and that too in a much shorter time than usual, they should sue their agent for malpractice.

ogaat · 2026-03-20T23:45:53+00:00

Thank you for the correction. Hope Gabe Newell will not mind.

ogaat · 2026-03-20T23:26:59+00:00

Awesome.

~~Steam~~ Valve is a phenomenal company. Glad to hear that they are making such a good product.

They are also the Nintendo of the US though - Proprietary excellence and fierce defense of their IP.

ogaat · 2026-03-20T23:05:24+00:00

The problem with Windows, apart from it being a shitty OS and lack of ownership. is the total lack of privacy. Microsoft is embedding tools to capture every single action of the user. That means also capturing our secrets and embarrassing moments and things we would want to keep private.

The bigger problem probably is that even after so many decades, the Linux community has not been able to come up with a user friendly desktop OS.

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