metek

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by metek 7d ago
Blast radius minimized
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by metek 21d ago
The fascist leader needs to catch every single revolutionary group every single time. But a single revolutionary with a pistol only needs to catch the leader ONCE.
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by metek 24d ago
LLM comments for code are almost unfailingly completely redundant or impenetrably verbose bordering on word salad.
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by metek 24d ago
You know that recent social media trend where you name 100 women? Try naming 100 ffmpeg command line options.
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by metek 24d ago
I think I understand how to use about 20 of the command line options for ffmpeg and the companion utilities like ffprobe. Which is to say; I understand about 0.5% of the total options they provide and am likely a world leading expert in it.
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by metek 25d ago
You can do quite a lot with a few MB. Don't tell every React behemoth on the web that we know this trick.
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by metek 1mo ago
A locked door stops the lazy thieves, and the lazy thieves are the most common ones.
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by metek 1mo ago
I've spent the last year working as an annotator/evaluator for DataAnnotation. All the frontier/flagship model providers use independent contractors for iterating on their LLMs. I'm not able to tell you which models I&#x
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by metek 10mo ago
You literally give them write access to your brain every time you interact with social media.
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by metek 10mo ago
I've recently started going full send and using Ad-Nauseaum instead of simply using an ad-blocker. I've even started seriously boning up on Javascript to see if I can come up with some horribly hacky :click:hover:focus smokescreen
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by metek 1y ago
Your average white collar worker is certainly challenged, but I think the talent of neurodiverse people is going to become even more vital as average-ability people are more and more challenged. Of course, there's the saying: "A m
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by metek 1y ago
There's more options than those two; there's a reason that "spanner in the works" is a colloquialism. Humans become disagreeable when our status is challenged, and many people are very attached to the status of "emp
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by metek 1y ago
I try to apply my layman's understanding of whatever law of thermodynamics states that a minimum of <x> percent of a reaction's energy is lost as waste heat; whatever you try to do in life, <x> percent of your effort i