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by tancop 2mo ago
i think good dynamic quests will eventually be a thing but not coming from gen AI or old school complicated rule books. if you generate the whole thing with a LLM you get a lot of results that make no sense. if you go with a deterministic r
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by tancop 2mo ago
that site came up on here a couple times, the code and long form descriptions is obviously written with claude but there is 100% a real chef behind it. all photos look real and the actual recipe cards dont have signs of ai so he probably wr
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by tancop 2mo ago
> it's unsolvable since you need to download the whole world (a few MBs) to have the app running on your browser another reason why the web should move from whole app bundling to content addressed CDNs for library code. you would on
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by tancop 2mo ago
thats exactly why a lot of people in europe or america trust china more. enemy governments have zero direct power over you and they dont really want to work together with your government. they cant hurt you, only the country you live in.
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by tancop 2mo ago
> the usefulness of bitcoin is negative from the viewpoint of a free society if you mean PoW mining instead of crypto in general then maybe. ethereum uses about as much power as a small village in europe so it should never be a target fo
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by tancop 2mo ago
flatpak should really push to make it work better for non GUI apps. right now its a total mess both for users and developers. IIRC apps cant register a command line alias that gets added to your PATH and theres no way to request permissions
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by tancop 2mo ago
just to be clear, they did this to make sure they follow the governments order instead of running away to Singapore and going on with the acquisition. they will most likely get released when the unwinding process is complete. its not a gene
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by tancop 2mo ago
the tricks never worked legally speaking. misleading labels stay misleading even if you have a trademark on that name and use it for years. the problem is cases like this rarely go to court, and plaintiffs might run into a judge who liter
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by tancop 2mo ago
> The kinds of questions that AI ethics brings up, are the same kinds of questions that people have been asking for centuries - Chloé Bakalar, former AI Ethics Lead at OpenAI This might actually be the reason they pushed her out. OpenAI
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by tancop 2mo ago
private citizens should be allowed to record anything. make it strictly forbidden for the government and businesses because they have the power and motivation to abuse it, but that risk doesnt really exist for an ordinary person.
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by tancop 2mo ago
open source will never die as long as there are crazy idealists (like me) who put their time into building things for free, and hope that they will make some random persons life a little bit better. not everyone is a silicon valley "ha
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by tancop 2mo ago
it could be a video game with no real money, and some online casinos have zero edge games where you pay a small fee when you win.
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by tancop 2mo ago
this is not about extremism or politics at all. this type of perfomative "woke" behavior and language policing only exists because it lets humanities students from rich families recognize each other. you dont fix it by getting rid
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by tancop 2mo ago
its banned by the terms of service. but contracts dont override copyright law, all they can do is terminate your account if they find out. when you give the outputs to a third party anthropic cant go after them. the copyright doesnt belong
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by tancop 2mo ago
how do you permanently cure obesity? you can try rewiring metabolism with crispr or some epigenetic changes but thats insanely risky, it would be very likely to mess up the immune system and give people cancer or nerve disorders. maybe i co
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by tancop 2mo ago
it makes perfect sense. inventions implementing some abstract concept thats already known with prior art (like your rejected patent) cant really count as novel. otherwise an evil law firm could spam adaptations of your idea to every relevan
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by tancop 2mo ago
why are arbitrary rules a problem? if some company starts opening steel mills and its causing problems for the grid then the state can make all new steel mills build power generation. right now the problem is data centers so new rules are a
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by tancop 2mo ago
> A world where business and communication is conducted primarily online cannot coexist with low cost, widely distributed, undetectable identity theft. what if we dont use centralized identity at all? web of trust failed in the 90s becau
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by tancop 2mo ago
what about a "rich loser pays" rule? if the losing side can afford to pay the other sides fees without getting close to bankruptcy they have to do it, otherwise it reverts to each side paying for itself. that would encourage lawsu
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by tancop 2mo ago
H-1B is not bad because its taking Americans jobs. Its bad because the rules make it easy to abuse workers by threatening them with deportation if they act up. Scrap the whole program and make it a lot easier to get normal work visa that ar
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by tancop 2mo ago
when those tricks benefit the average person in the end whats wrong with them? subsidy wars give you extra manufacturing capacity that stays there even if the market collapses. economists call it overbuilding like its something wrong but i
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by tancop 2mo ago
every recreational drug is addictive in the same way as weed or sex or anything else that feels good. thats nothing to be concerned about. the problem is when something gives you physical dependence like heroin or heavy drinking where you
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by tancop 3mo ago
most tv makers and electronics stores in europe give you the screen size in inches first and cm second. they only come in a few common sizes so the specific units dont really matter.
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by tancop 3mo ago
My ideal syntax for function pointers is: fn signal(signum: int, fp: fn(int -> void)) -> fn(int -> void) It keeps the parameter and return types inside, makes it obvious that it's a function using the fn keyword (or f
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by tancop 3mo ago
confirming a game is real is one of the things psa is good at. the problem is a lot of graders act in suspicious ways when it comes to assigning scores at the high end. you get a lot of reports about collectors sending a game in, getting a
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by tancop 3mo ago
credit scores reflect default risk to the lender, at least in theory. it might not be the best possible model but people with a history of paying on time will probably keep doing it. in retail the only risk is stealing or bad behavior insid
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by tancop 3mo ago
thats not the blocker you think it is. they can "leak" the info, wait until broadcom lawyers notice, agree to investigate themselves and fire a random contractor (who gets paid on the side). they just need to do it outside of amer
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by tancop 3mo ago
i got a better solution. make open firmware and user flashing mandatory. if anyone can inspect the code for backdoors and replace it with brand new software then any security issues go out the window. should apply to domestic products too f
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by tancop 3mo ago
Would this work better in a language where generics are vtable based by default and only monomorphized as a form of LTO? If you have a Zig style machine IR where function calls are a "fake instruction" you can decide between direc
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by tancop 3mo ago
You dont need to rehash everything if you do multi level hashing (file -> mod/impl block -> function). The expensive part is doing lots of hash passes over small parts of a file, so if you break as early as possible the moment yo

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