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by tancop 3mo ago
no real damage done just small inconvenience. and he exposed bandais bad security. if a 15 year old with chatgpt (not even claude or glm) can get write access to all your users accounts you are the one who should get investigated.
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by tancop 3mo ago
the difference is with roads you dont get a lot of good secondary effects, one lane is just like the next. benefits are linear with the cost so they balance out. but with typescript and software in general they can be exponential. fast type
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by tancop 3mo ago
the utility of wealth is not linear. a billionaire getting $100 probably has no use for it and they wont notice either way. but a homeless person getting $100 makes a big difference for them no matter if they use it to buy new clothes and a
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by tancop 3mo ago
i think a good general rule is anyone with ultimate power over some area (president, lawmakers, supreme court judges) should be elected. thats anyone whos decisions cant be reversed by someone else above them. those who make final but rever
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by tancop 3mo ago
pirate parties are usually considered left wing and they all vote against. privacy is a big part of their platform. there is more than one left wing faction in the eu - we got greens (more radical and oppose chat control), s&d (mainstre
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by tancop 3mo ago
> an extremely ineffective way to learn a language thats only if you use duolingo exclusively without things like reading news in the language (which is common unfortunately). its a problem with their specific design using a weird hybrid
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by tancop 3mo ago
anyone who has the disk can download the patches and extra content. there is no way to block a specific copy or prevent transfers like with a digital purchase. the point of physical media is sharing and resale, not the piece of plastic sitt
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by tancop 3mo ago
i love that effect based languages are getting more popular but how long will it take until one of them moves from unfinished experimental to at least beta? verse is already used in production but its missing basic features like unions and
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by tancop 4mo ago
this is one of the problems content addressed stores like nix and ipfs can prevent. every version of the code is immutable and impossible to delete. if the devs update the "latest pointer" to a backdoored release users can just st
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by tancop 4mo ago
in this case the median matters a lot more. most people either get sick for a couple days to weeks with something like the flu, or get a more serious illness/injury like a complex fracture that takes them out for months. the first type
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by tancop 4mo ago
someone named "zrschresearch" is cheating. looks like they found a way to only measure cost on specific best case inputs where its trivially 0. its using a correct implementation so the proof checks out but the cost is obviously f
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by tancop 4mo ago
in this case yes. stealing from a thief is right if you give all of it back to the victims . with ai the "stealing" is from everyone on the internet, so the only ethical option is making the results open source and available to a
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by tancop 4mo ago
china has no political agenda outside of their country (that includes taiwan from their pov). all they care about is staying in power at home and keeping up the economy. they only sell to russia because its a good way to make money. belt an
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by tancop 4mo ago
uv removes all the pain from python packaging. and if you ever used it for anything more than one off scripts you know it used to be a lot of pain. manually activating venv, inconsistent python and dep versions, duplicate files taking up
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by tancop 4mo ago
theres a big difference between 99% quality and 30%. near lossless is a good name for the first one. if you treat it in a binary way where everything short of 100 falls into one "lossy" bucket you lose all the practical difference
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by tancop 4mo ago
we dont need new punishments, the system is just backwards. for things like shoplifting and vandalism it should be double or triple damages with no prison. corporate fraud, cartels, pollution, big time tax evasion has to come with 20+ year
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by tancop 4mo ago
nintendo is one of the best in gaming for employees and one of the worst for customers. everyone here knows about the copyright and patent trolling but then you got things like 3D All Stars where they made a time limited digital release. no
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by tancop 4mo ago
you said listen to the kids, but if you actually ask kids they will tell you they want a way to block predators and bullies. they want to restrict interactions with specific people or groups on their own terms because thats where all th
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by tancop 4mo ago
looking for me?
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by tancop 4mo ago
> The approval gates came out, replaced by a sequenced market-group rollout (test -> eu-0 -> eu-1 -> eu-2) that uses the smaller regions as an alarm buffer before the critical eu-2 region. this is interesting. these names dont l
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by tancop 4mo ago
> I suspect that the game programming crowd will try to use it first > perhaps this optimization drive is no longer the case because we've got bazillions of cores nowadays gaming is one of the industries where developers have to
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by tancop 4mo ago
right now sites cant retry prompts because they could just spam annoying permission dialogs in a loop until the user hits allow. thats a problem for legit sites because you have to manually go and grant the permnission from site settings if
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by tancop 4mo ago
the backlash is already massive. 5k negative comments on the official blog post and counting. ign, dexerto, local non gaming news accounts from my country all full of people in comments saying they want to go pc or xbox if sony follows th
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by tancop 4mo ago
i love that we went from bullet being the only real option for open source 3D physics to jolt, rapier, avian, nvidia physx and now box3d.
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by tancop 4mo ago
> probably evolved from something like the author's own `alias eg="grep -r"` pattern this is from the official faq: > When I first started writing ripgrep, I called it rep, intending it to be a shorter variant of grep.
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by tancop 4mo ago
openai had billionaire "donors" who understood the company was going to operate as a PBC with a positive return for them instead of a true nonprofit. the heel turn to unlimited for profit was only possible because of their unique
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by tancop 4mo ago
> What doesn’t make sense to you may be the only safe option for them thats true because their point of view makes no sense for us. dario is all in on lesswrong machine god theory and really believes they need to create a super intellige
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by tancop 4mo ago
im going to be controversial and say no one should have anything other than labor as their main income until they retire. anything you can do thats useful to society counts as labor (but not vice versa, you can work as a robber or corpora
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by tancop 4mo ago
defining classes is complicated. if you do it based on income percentile it will always be arbitrary and never reflect actual economic relations. the most accepted way to divide in socialist circles is based off where your income comes fr
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by tancop 4mo ago
the only true centralized part is the did:plc registry and thats designed to be fully auditable. all canonical data is stored on your pds so if you self host that you get full control. decentralization is not about the number of app instanc

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