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by tancop 4mo ago
middle managers only exist because c suite has no idea/dont care what their employees actually need so there has to be someone in the middle to water down their awful plans. its a hard job nobody should have to take on. the worst part
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by tancop 4mo ago
i hope the thing they roll out is a straight copy of pix from brazil. its fast, reliable, cheaper than debit cards and private (not anonymous but only the central bank can see your info). no corporations involved outside of support contract
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by tancop 4mo ago
thats game design not something engine related. its been like this since before demons souls, i think it started out way back with the first kings field. its just the way fromsoft do things. everyone knows what to expect from them.
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by tancop 4mo ago
> Mental illness and addictions are not causes of homelessness at the population level. They are selection mechanisms in that they determine who falls through the cracks when housing is rare and expensive. this is the part so many people
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by tancop 4mo ago
the key word is consumer product. apps can (and should) set their own rules but models need to stay neutral and capable of producing harmful content. they should never generate it unless asked to by the user but its important that the capab
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by tancop 4mo ago
its just a lazy clone of duolingo. its a ux pattern that works on mobile for a lesson with 10 complex questions where you have to retry the ones you failed until you get it right. when its 100 abcd questions on desktop its just annoying for
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by tancop 4mo ago
> the things that PC gamers are asking from them are not realistic gamers always want cheaper and faster gpus. its the same thing data centers want but they care about ray tracing and fragment shaders instead of raw number crunching powe
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by tancop 4mo ago
another day another reason why copyright should be for commercial use only (yes that means piracy will be legal). you can throw out entire categories of bad faith cases. art stealing companies still have to pay up and its easier to get what
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by tancop 4mo ago
> only Bluesky offers or can run did:plc PLC is set up in a way where the database is fully visible and exportable. any censorship would show up in logs. if bluesky ever pulls it off at least part the community will stop trusting them, s
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by tancop 4mo ago
peter thiel is an ultra conservative "new catholic" convert. its a movement using Christian language to push fascism and conspiracy theories. the main reason thiel started palantir was to keep america on top, because he believes i
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by tancop 4mo ago
the obvious middle ground is preventing eviction until a new tenant is found. if you owe 3 months of back rent your landlord can put up your apartment but you can stay there as long as nobody takes it. if you pay back your debt they have to
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by tancop 4mo ago
i got an old EU market redmi (yes im broke) and you can turn off either wifi or cellular or both for any non system app. remember apple had to put in work to actively block the feature outside of china.
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by tancop 4mo ago
planning law changes today are either made to benefit loud nimbys or rich developers. i dont think pressure groups actually represent an average person from the neighborhood. imo the best way to fix it is by-right development for public int
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by tancop 4mo ago
end non proliferation rules. its blocking nuclear adoption way more than environmental movements ever did esp in developing countries. and imo its better for a lot of countries to have nuclear weapons than just a few, if they have to exist
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by tancop 4mo ago
there are regulations that make it safe and the ones that make it expensive. its two different groups. radiation limits and design safety with meltdown prevention is one thing but then you get rules like radiation needs to be as low as pos
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by tancop 4mo ago
no one really knows, when broadcasters started using party colors it was all over the place and they settled on blue for dems. i guess its because neither party was socialist so there was no association with red like in europe.
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by tancop 4mo ago
> Seriously, join Mastodon! not bad but bluesky/eurosky is just better. activitypub based networks treat instances as sovereign with full control over users data. they can permanently delete your posts and the posts you see depend o
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by tancop 4mo ago
bluesky is mit/apache so they can legally make a closed source fork. what they cant do is sue people who reupload any version before they went closed, even if they used a copyright assignment cla because neither of the licenses can be
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by tancop 4mo ago
increasing wages will fix part of the inequality crisis because as you go up from working class to billionaires you get less income from wages and more from capital gains. if you raise wages that changes the distribution to be more equal
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by tancop 4mo ago
that problem sounds more like you cant make it do chaotic good, as in things that break some rules but are obviously good for the user or society as a whole. its either lawful good like claude (refuse to do anything against the letter of
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by tancop 4mo ago
sounds like the old hola vpn business model where free users served as residential proxy endpoints for paying customers. a couple ended up with criminal investigations after someone used it to download cp through their computer. the details
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by tancop 4mo ago
the majority of farm workers are Latino in many parts of Texas and California. problem is the ones doing the political lobbying are big time corporate farm owners who are almost all rich white and conservative.
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by tancop 4mo ago
at Tesco scale you really dont want a central database even if its big and high availability. if one store loses connection because of isp issues it would shut down everything and make it impossible to serve customers in that location. a gl
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by tancop 4mo ago
if you can afford the investment you get stable low costs for years with better security (at least if your cyber team is good). its even better in regulated industries where some vendors might add a premium for hipaa/soc/pci dss c
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by tancop 4mo ago
if the PECTT (Physical Extended Church-Turing Thesis) is true then the current standard way of connecting classical gravity with quantum mechanics is wrong. the authors take it as evidence for full quantum gravity because the alternative is
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by tancop 4mo ago
if you are fifa please keep using them in the most insecure way possible. release the infantino files
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by tancop 4mo ago
great news if this moves forward. while we at it lets ban ghosting applicants and make companies give a direct rejection email with a reason, it can be as simple as "not qualified" or "we found a better candidate, try again n
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by tancop 4mo ago
you can put the compute on a big expensive reusable control drone and send commands down with lasers. thats way harder to jam than any form of radio. if thats not enough try fiber optic like they do in ukraine.
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by tancop 4mo ago
what is the impact on housing cost as a percentage of income? the whole point of rent control is making it cheaper to live in the city and prevent people from going homeless. working class wealth going down is a negative side effect but its
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by tancop 4mo ago
fifa is so greedy they lost out on 150 million a year in license fees from ea sports because they wanted double that and 4 years of royalties paid upfront. and eveyrone knows world cup bids are selected based off how much you bribe the offi

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