tancop

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by tancop 3mo ago
unsafe goods are a real problem. counterfeit are not as long as you know its fake before you buy it, and thats true most of the time on these platforms. cut the fine in half.
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by tancop 3mo ago
steamos holo was the codename for steamos 3. this project is called holo core because its the core for a new steamos version that will run on aarch64. the fact that its shipping on a vr device first is just a coincidence. valves long term p
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by tancop 3mo ago
they dont need bots. all normal people know that total usa and big tech domination would turn the world into the worst dictatorship in history. alex karp wants a future where anyone who speaks out against the government gets tracked down an
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by tancop 3mo ago
its not on annas archive so i couldnt read the full article, but from the abstract it doesnt look like they adjusted for body weight or economic factors. people trying to lose weight will replace sugar with sweeteners and a lot of cheap sod
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by tancop 3mo ago
as someone from a working/lower middle class family im perfectly happy with my tiktok influenced dopamine addicted brain, just like im happy with wearing shirts from primark and drinking cheap booze at a party. makes me wonder how much
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by tancop 3mo ago
you can go ipv6 only, any good isp will give you a static /56 for free. practically none of your users have ipv4 only devices when every major os has been dual stack by default for like 15 years. if your isp cant give you one its time
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by tancop 3mo ago
some places already do this for food where anything thats after sell by date but still safe to eat has to be donated to a food bank. i think it should be expanded to cover more categories than food and clothes when reuse and recycling infra
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by tancop 3mo ago
i switched from twitter to bluesky and the first thing i noticed was the feed looking really boring so i almost quit. turns out the default is following only but then i found a great third party feed at [foryou.club] and now i can use it wi
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by tancop 3mo ago
theres a world of difference between a left party, even radical left like die linke, and ddr style communist dictatorship. and i dont like the greens views on nuclear power but they might be the only one who can save germany from afd fascis
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by tancop 3mo ago
its the same wrong answer again and again. how long will it take for lawmakers to realize that the best way to fight big tech is give people choice . infinite scroll, recommender systems, targeted ads, all the other "toxic" featu
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by tancop 3mo ago
a lot of uk prisons are effectively private. companies like serco and g4s get paid millions to run everything with zero oversight. its not quite as bad as the worst cases in america (no legal slavery for prisoners) but the government is def
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by tancop 3mo ago
this is amazing. if i had a mac i would try to reverse engineer the code, extract the weights and port it to something that works on linux/windows like torch or burn. then put the code on github and weights on a torrent site. lifes too
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by tancop 3mo ago
there are two big exceptions to this, the military and healthcare. playing world police is incredibly wasteful and so is funding a system based on submitting to the demands of big pharma and for-profit hospitals. the problem is 50 years w
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by tancop 3mo ago
the problem with this kind of article is half of them push a doom angle and the other half talk about carbon footprint. both of them have the same effect making people give up or do useless lifestyle changes that do nothing for the environm
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by tancop 3mo ago
"intellectual property" never existed. there is only copyright (created to make sure book publishers pay authors), patents (encourage inventors to publish their research instead of keeping it secret) and trademarks (protect buyers
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by tancop 3mo ago
> develop complex front end without the need for a build tool zero build on complex front ends is disrespectful to your users. when you dont minify and code split you are basically saying "got a slow connection? tough luck, go wait
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by tancop 3mo ago
most of that criticism only works on C++. rust does enforce RAII but uses stack allocation for locals by default instead of touching the heap so it skips the slow part. on the other hand there are no constructors (just normal functions) so
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by tancop 3mo ago
i think the best way to keep your site working for legit users is serving static cached pages to suspected bots. decide based off something like cloudflare bot score. crawlers get redirected to content that might be stale but its still usef
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by tancop 3mo ago
make it 7 years instead of 3 and count median student debt as a factor. that would remove the obvious flaws. of course it would be better to make college free, or give everyone zero interest federal loans that can be paid off with normal ta
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by tancop 3mo ago
way better than privately owned banks doing the same while extracting profits from users. better than todays crypto with terrible ux where its easy to lose all your money. more practical than cash (but that should still be an option). worse
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by tancop 3mo ago
i think theres something in peoples mindset or genetics that creates this difference. my experience is like the opposite of yours. i dont exactly love malls but its one of the things that can satisfy the part of my brain that just wants
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by tancop 3mo ago
> what crypto will leave behind is bad Austrian economics and worse monkey JPEGs its what the crypto industry will leave behind, and you could say the main bubble already burst when ftx went bankrupt. the defining property of public bl
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by tancop 3mo ago
> Should the freedom to harm others also be guaranteed as freedom? everyone should have the ability to harm others, with the understanding that if they actually use it for evil there will be consequences. as in "i can guarantee
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by tancop 3mo ago
this is the wrong approach. they should enforce a choice between addictive and "ethical" algorithms (or even better allow third party feeds), make them transparent with what kind of data they use to personalize and strictly ban
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by tancop 3mo ago
if you follow wukko on twitter you know it makes sense. its the same guy who made cobalt the video downloader.
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by tancop 3mo ago
the most useful frontier models maybe. but you cant say deepseek or glm is useless. thats not even a debate.
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by tancop 3mo ago
some journals and colleges actually have a policy to always use random order to help fight the "senior researcher gets all the credit" culture in academia. theres a lot of cases where a prof forced their students to put them fir
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by tancop 3mo ago
tractor emissions are nothing compared to all the normal cars and planes. the long term solution is scaling up synthetic fuels or solid state batteries but its just not a big deal today. i think everyone outside of the most hardcore greens
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by tancop 3mo ago
legalize pseudo and codeine again. prohibition is literally killing people. its forcing everyone to use less effective otc drugs where you need to take a more dangerous dose for the same effect. and when its harder to get codeine or real pe
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by tancop 3mo ago
less willing to take risks and be independent. less active and staying at home for more time. but thats almost all down to controlling parents who teach their kids to be scared of everything and dont let them go out alone, and the news chan

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