Honestly, I look around the world and don’t see much, if any, practical difference.

The US has had two presidents that were direct relatives, I can’t believe that’s by pure chance or some kind of genetic skill at being president.

If you don't see any difference between people who won US presidential elections and those appointed for political favoritism, then I don't know what to tell you. Also, if you look at the current state of the UK vs US and don't see any difference then you need to get out more.

Well. Looks like you don’t know what to tell me, hopefully someone who does comes along.

It's because people find comfort in what they know, nothing more complicated than that.

I don't see how it's fundamentally any different to mailing someone harassing messages or distressing objects.

Sure, in this context the person who mails the item is the one instigating the harassment but it's the postal network that's facilitating it and actually performing the "last mile" of harassment.

The very first time it happened X is likely off the hook.

However notification plays a role here, there’s a bunch of things the post office does if someone tries to use them to do this regularly and you ask the post office to do something. The issue therefore is if people complain and then X does absolutely nothing while having a plethora of reasonable options to stop this harassment.

https://faq.usps.com/s/article/What-Options-Do-I-Have-Regard...

You may file PS Form 1500 at a local Post Office to prevent receipt of unwanted obscene materials in the mail or to stop receipt of "obscene" materials in the mail. The Post Office offers two programs to help you protect yourself (and your eligible minor children).

Grok posts the pictures publicly, everyone can see them.

The postal network transports a letter, and only the person reading the letter can see the contents.

These situations are in no way comparable.

The difference is the post office isn't writing the letter.

I think they misspoke - they likely meant the north atlantic ocean: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/ghana-becomes-dumping-grou...

I thought the US had a “FIFO” rule for 4 way stop signs? I had to drive through Nevada and Arizona last year so read up on the rules.

Keeping track of which cars entered at what time was kind of stressful and I’m pretty sure I didn’t do a good job of it.

The US has a FIFO rule but it only applies once you reach the stop sign itself, so the FIFO is never very deep. Yielding to the person to your right is the tiebreaker if you get there at exactly the same time.

I have seen an increased number of drivers have no idea how to handle 4-way stops, but the rule is relatively simple in practice.

How do you/I know that? I implemented OpenTelemetry in a project of mine recently and was shocked to see the number of AI authored commits in the git repository.

> How do you/I know that? I implemented OpenTelemetry in a project of mine recently and was shocked to see the number of AI authored commits

Do you pay for OpenTelemetry? How is this related?

If I did, I likely wouldn't have access to the source code and wouldn't be able to verify the degree of AI input.

So, I ask again - how do you know that the service you're paying for is all of those things?

> So, I ask again - how do you know that the service you're paying for is all of those things?

How do you know anything? How do you know the bank won't lose your money? How do you know the bank note you hold is worth what it says? How do you know?

This is wildly unpopular, for good reasons, but if I want to get a third dog I need to apply for and get a license from the council - they’ll come round, inspect my property and ensure that it’s adequate for a number of dogs, that it’s secure and my current pets are well treated before issuing it.

The disconnect between this and children seems wild to me. Why don’t we display the same amount of concern for children?

My most common use case for MCP servers is to wire the documentation for whatever I’m working on into the Context.

Context7, I assume? I wanted to like context7 but I constantly need documentation that is either private or not in a format that context7 supports. Instead, I scrape the docs to Markdown, stick them into a "context" folder[1], and use Cursor's vector codebase indexing. This allows the agent to literally ask questions like "how do I do ABC with library XYZ?" and the vector database delivers a chunked answer from all available documentation. This is, IMO, much better than how context7 works: context7 just returns whole pages of documentation, polluting the context window with info that isn't relevant to what the agent wanted to know.

I have done this with entire textbooks. Find a PDF and get GPT-5 to transcribe it page by page to Markdown. Costs a couple bucks and turns the agent into a wizard on that subject.

Context7, too, could easily have been a command line tool that both you and the agent can use. Even now, I don't see what MCP--specifically--brings to the table.

[1] One trick for Cursor users: put "/context/" in .gitignore and "!/context/" in .cursorignore. This will keep it out of git but still index it.

Fractional scaling is awful on Wayland if the application relies on XWayland to work. Drives me up the wall having to find the various flags to force Wayland mode.

I mean don't worry, once there's no more X11 you won't have to switch it into Wayland mode anymore.

Microsoft Flight Simulator

From what I can see, that runs fine through Protob