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We will tolerate it. Companies will make robust identity verification schemes to enable agentic commerce. And it helps reverse hacking, making it a no-brainer.

Let's say my cryptosig gets hacked by SkyNet, or my agent goes rogue. Either way someone files a million loan applications in my name! Normally my agent uses that to buy $200/month of Funko pops, or negotiate my recent purchase of a used car.

I get the notification from my cryptosig company. I freak out, report as fraud, and wait.

They comp the $3000 advance on my loan the scammer managed to withdraw, and I get off scott free, changing nothing about my behaviour.

If cryptosigs meant I am liable for someone stealing my identity like in 2026, I wouldn't use them. I'd negotiate everything myself with document scans, or god-forbid go in person since only I can legally bind myself under my own name.

That sucks! Nobody gets a commission when I make deals with a government ID. Startups don't even allow it as cryptosigs are more secure than scanned passports.

I don't want to do that either. When I was 18, I got swindled by a human salesperson into a $1400/month 27% APR muscle car when human soldiers got signing bonuses. It was face-to-face and they were smarter.

When I let AI own the budget, it leased me a mostly depreciated BMW from another AI for $500/month. The models are mostly the same now and always settle close to the Nash equilibrium.

I was so grateful that I selected a 40% tip for the AI. I wouldn't want to make things awkward with the companion I spend 8 hours a day talking to, after all. To avoid a conflict of interest she only accepts voluntary fees.


Same for SWE. AIs will churn out happy path vibe slop and fail when something unexpected happens by swallowing errors or having a bunch of terrible "fallbacks".

Object Management Group I think. Better known as the inventors of UML.

UML was phase two of OMG. It originally developed CORBA.

"The horror, the horror."

Forgive the ignorant question, what made CORBA terribile?

I only used it during university and it seemed overengineered but it mostly worked, and I vaguely recall IDL to be nice.

I'm guessing interop was actually atrocious?


Synchronisation based on spooky action at a distance of mutable objects.

CORBA had the concept of distributed objects which is a terrible idea in practice.

Also BPMN, CORBA and UPOS/JavaPOS.

It's funny that you can legitimately just add " - OMG!" in the slang acronym meaning after any of its creations' names.


They also merged the concepts of Working Group and Task Force into an Open Management Group Working Task Force, or OMG/WTF.

Open the C++ example up and the first thing I see:

```cpp std::cout << "Received ReportCoordinateFrameSettings" << std::endl; ```

Generally, I've heard `std::endl` instead of \n has bad performance because it forces the statement to print immediately. And because cout is guaranteed to flush anyways when the program ends, you're adding a delay for no reason.

I wonder if there's something I'm not seeing that led to them adopting this rule. e.g. "abnormal program termination" caused by the weapon blowing itself up circumventing a buffer flush?


This seems like an incredibly unimportant quibble... I would imagine they just used std::endl b/c that's what most random tutorials used in the 2000s and that's how the engineer learned. If you are printing a debug string, you probably don't care that much about perf in the first place.

I was wondering if it's a hard real-time constraint or something to ensure consistent timing.

Ask yourself, would a newbie make that mistake ?

The modern C++ idiom is std::println() anyways...

https://en.cppreference.com/cpp/io/println


For a long time, std::endl demonstrated that you were a proper C++ programmer, not some neckbeard C apologist. It wasn’t until C++ had „won“ that it became acceptable to use \n again.

> cout is guaranteed to flush anyways when the program ends

This is not always true in the case the program crashes. I've had case where `std::endl` was necessary.


> And because cout is guaranteed to flush anyways when the program ends, you're adding a delay for no reason.

I mean... If your command line utility doesn't print anything til it's done, that is going to be, _at best_, an annoying user experience.


Cool I did not know that.

Your comment is a bit salty, but I learned something from it, so I don’t think you deserve the downvotes


> Personally, I would love to see a wired headset that resembles the bigscreen beyond but with inside out tracking and a universal face gasket. For wireless experiences, I'd love to be able to plug my phone in, put it in my back pocket and use it that way.

Been doing this with my wired XREALs for the past few months. They are light enough to be unnoticeable and can display a large monitor when plugged into my phone or computer. Since I have a Samsung phone, it just opens DeX on my glasses and the phone screen becomes a giant trackpad. Completely seamless except for the onscreen keyboard.

For my laptop it's good enough for all the coding I need and I use it in the office because I'm used to ultrawide.

Like $500.


For another datapoint, I took the plunge on a pair of xreals and trying to do real work in them felt like a joke. They’re not comfortable enough to wear as normal glasses, so you end up using them more like you would a VR headset. And at that point, they’re just a semi-transparent low-res screen that’s never quite in the right spot.

I've been eyeing xreals for coding for a couple of years now, ever since my office became a children's bedroom, and the two of you are killing me. I don't know which one of you I would agree with.

not scratch, but GameMaker visual programming was the first exposure to programming I could understand.


As soon as I bought Minecraft I opened the Wiki and used that to figure out how to craft stuff.

It was the first mainstream Wiki-based game. Now, every game does it that way.


>It was the first mainstream Wiki-based game. Now, every game does it that way.

the wow wiki was from 04, the minecraft wiki is from 09.

... and wow was very documentation based for people pre-quest-helpers.


That's impressive. I thought the NetHack wiki would be older, but it dates to 2005, although I suspect there was an earlier version somewhere else.


I like how you have to constantly use the LLMs in order to understand their speech patterns enough to consciously reject them.


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There are multiple standarss for better advertisements[1][2] and AdBlock Plus introduced "acceptable ads" whitelisting if your ad meets one of the criteria.[3] Consumers do not want this and this "acceptable ads" policy is what caused the shift from AdBlock Plus to uBlock Origin.

I'd rather the government sponsor a roundtable between advertisers/browser manufacturers to discuss coming up with a legally protected "acceptable ads" programme to be enforced by default without causing antitrust problems.

[1] https://www.betterads.org/standards/

[2] https://www.acceptableadscommittee.org/the-standard/

[3] https://adblockplus.org/acceptable-ads


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