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by tancop 5mo ago
personalised feeds are great when its actually doing what you (the user) want and not pushing paid ads or political agenda. the whole reason i dont use fediverse apps that much is they built up a culture of "respects your attention&quo
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by tancop 5mo ago
> Sadly, I heard that the studio is apparently trying to figure out how to make a Hail Mary sequel they put a lot of subtle hooks in the ending montage. i just hope they dont try to force it and make a direct sequel with ryan as the le
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by tancop 5mo ago
the name lives on in the pirate community. someone called Razor12911 created XTool ( https://github.com/Razor12911/xtool ), its a compression library a lot of famous repackers use. im not sure if they are a former razor
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by tancop 5mo ago
and NDAs should be limited to something like one year after your employment ends. no standalone "money for silence" contracts allowed of course. that would create a big incentive to keep your employees happy, avoid controversial p
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by tancop 5mo ago
on one level i understand why he doesnt want some random tech company profiting off his art but moving to everything closed off copyrighted and secret is bad for society as a whole. you are replacing big tech with big content and supporting
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by tancop 5mo ago
i mean its perfectly valid to create a new exception to copyright laws. in fact it might already exist because if you are legally required to release something that beats all the contracts you signed in any reasonable jurisdiction. weaker i
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by tancop 5mo ago
putting aside the politics and asking for money i also found this: > I found a much easier answer for my own project, which has been to never accept anonymous contributions and to not merge a single line of code until the contributor sen
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by tancop 5mo ago
> Even self-proclaimed anarchists have long acknowledged that 'the tyranny of structurelessness' is a thing structure and hierarchy are two very different things. you can have elected leaders who manage the day to day problems
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by tancop 5mo ago
making a real sacrifice is something that only affects you and the bad guys. fire bomb a data center and go to jail. leak internal chats or code showing your company lied to users and get fired. when third parties get hurt that makes you lo
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by tancop 5mo ago
europe can copy a lot of what made china a superpower (not the weak labor rights obviously). subsidize everything and build up state owned factories. that will end unemployment and make eu products cheaper. no need to be all protectionist
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by tancop 5mo ago
open source ai labs care a lot about inference speed. that translates to energy and e waste (gpus that work for less time take longer to wear out). training power is another thing and thats where we see a lot of duplicate work we could fix
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by tancop 5mo ago
grade inflation is the right thing to do as long as employers and post graduate schools keep looking at grades or gpa. if you do strict "fair" evaluation you put your students at a disadvantage compared to same level students at o
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by tancop 5mo ago
profit only matters for investors. if anything its a sign that apple is selling overpriced products and underpaying workers and you should avoid them.
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by tancop 5mo ago
> I assume Racket contracts can handle your concern about relating functions and types contracts are not real types enforced by the compiler/runtime. that means you need to keep them in sync manually and you dont get performance ben
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by tancop 5mo ago
EULA's are for corporate customers. as a normal person you dont need to care about breaking contracts unless its related to your job
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by tancop 5mo ago
and how do you stop giving them money? you watch it on a pirate site where none of the revenue is going to the league. not watching it at all is just performative sacrifice
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by tancop 5mo ago
for me the most important point in this is about how ai and tech in general concentrates power. if we want to build something good (in a moral sense) we need to put in work and make sure as many people as possible can use it with equal acce
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by tancop 5mo ago
if theres just one good thing coming out of ai its breaking copyright law forever. no one should be able to "own" ideas. royalties for commercial use is another thing and i support it but what we know as (non commercial) piracy an
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by tancop 5mo ago
there is one upside, its a big incentive to indirectly leak things like album release dates and military operations. anything that helps get some secrets out is a positive in my book
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by tancop 5mo ago
this just more evidence that ZIRP was actually a good thing. when the interest rates stay low a business can afford to run public good projects that are less profitable and give more people well paid jobs. in a perfect world (aka market soc
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by tancop 5mo ago
another "ai is inherently evil" take coming from the "ai is inherently evil" blog. i agree that specific implementations of a technology (claude, gemini, qwen) are never neutral but any tech itself (llms as a concept
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by tancop 5mo ago
the best async/concurrency model i know is verse [1], a language made for fortnite scripting because tim sweeney decided he wants something with "metaverse" in the name. instead of async/await or verbose callbacks its al
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by tancop 5mo ago
> SOTA models will eventually be locked down that might be true for us based providers but i dont see china turning closed source anytime soon. a lot of chinese labs come from big non ai focused cloud services (alibaba, tencent, huawei)
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by tancop 6mo ago
loading third party agents in a sandbox with full custom model support. right now you need to either run that code directly (super dangerous) use a vm/container (slow and complicated) or a interpreter like lua (language bound, slow and
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by tancop 6mo ago
thats not a controversial take. most left wing or even liberal people just think the moral and economic value from letting people live in a more developed country is worth the non existent security risk. both legal and undocumented immigran
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by tancop 6mo ago
how much is that minimum wage reflecting on the actual prices? from a google search the average location in france spends around 30% of its total expenses on wages and social insurance. if the total labor cost was half what it is (6eur mini
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by tancop 6mo ago
everybody i know that works at mcdonalds eat there at least once in a while. if you mean the ceo thats just your average top level exec with a private chef and a health nut wife who only eats out when its a place with a month long wait list
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by tancop 6mo ago
i just write svelte components with normal css. no complex hierarchy, no long class names, no forced structure, no runtime cost, global rules are opt in. everything exactly the way i want without hacks and boilerplate.
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by tancop 6mo ago
cato and reason are the only conservative/libertarian sites i respect. they actually believe in democracy and freedom, just defined in a different way from mine and focused on other issues that more liberal or leftist media ignore. rea
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by tancop 6mo ago
i dont know if it needs to be extremely verbose: fn prints_output(value: &str) @ mut std::io::Output { println!("side effects! value: {}", value); } effect CurrentTime { pub date_time: DateTime<Utc>

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