qaadika

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by qaadika 6mo ago
I'm kinda one of those who believes they 'completely' understand LLMs. But I've also developed my understanding of them such that the internal mechanisms of the transformer, or really any future development in the space
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by qaadika 6mo ago
I actually never got into note-taking before I found Obsidian. I used Google Drive all throughout college and up to 2023, so any knowledge I had written down was sequestered by an ad-hoc folder structure that was mostly chronological by yea
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by qaadika 6mo ago
> You never (or rarely) write the wiki yourself — the LLM writes and maintains all of it. You're in charge of sourcing, exploration, and asking the right questions. The LLM does all the grunt work — the summarizing, cross-referencin
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by qaadika 6mo ago
> Uh, Steven Spielberg is all over E.T. For one thing, he storyboarded the big special effects sequences. He collaborated closely on the screenplay because it was drawn from his own childhood experiences. He was the final say in casting.
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by qaadika 6mo ago
> Nowadays my writing [] has totally devolved into "prompt-ese." I've noticed this myself. Even in my Obsidian vault, which only I read and write in. I think it's a development into writing more imperatively, instinct
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by qaadika 6mo ago
> the big AI companies do have opt out mechanisms for scraping and search. PRESS RELEASE: UNITED BURGLARS SOCIETY The United Burglars Society understands that being burgled may be inconvenient for some. In response, UBS has introduced th
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by qaadika 6mo ago
It's been interesting the past year or so watching myself turn more and more into one of the tin-foil wearing linux users. I'm not sure how it happened, but self-hosting became more and more alluring and hyperfocusing on taking as
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by qaadika 6mo ago
First response: It doesn't matter if I use copilot right now . It matters if I will ever use copilot in the future. Opting-out is future-focused. What if I said "no, I don't use copilot, so I don't need to opt out"
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by qaadika 6mo ago
It should take 0 seconds, because I shouldn't have to do it. That's my bar. My time is my time, and anything that takes time from me better have a damn good excuse. Github is not bringing any good reasons to the table to justify m
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by qaadika 6mo ago
> https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/updates-to-gi... > Should you decide to participate in this program, the interaction data we may collect and leverage includes: > - Outputs accepted or mod
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by qaadika 6mo ago
Well he didn't "fix" it, he hacked it to work for one tenant. And to allow said tenant's non-tenant's friends free access into the building. "fixing it" would be restoring the voice call ability to its ori
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by qaadika 6mo ago
I felt myself starting to sweat as I read. I can't imagine doing this at my apartment complex, let alone at someone else's. Messing with building controls (old or unused as they may be) sounds like a great way to get your lease ni
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by qaadika 6mo ago
My boss doesn't consider my driver's license his problem, or the company's.
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by qaadika 6mo ago
> an attack on human work A "software engineering team" is human, so that does change the argument. It becomes a human-human problem, not a human-machine problem. Or in OSHA terms, a problem to be solved with administrative con
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by qaadika 6mo ago
Yeah, I wonder if the author has been in a situation where a brief explanation was taken by a higher up (or a cc'd higher-up x2, or x3) as "It was entirely my fault and I'm withholding details that would further implicate me
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by qaadika 6mo ago
My wallet was stolen a few weeks ago. I was able to get my bank cards cancelled, but my only state ID is lost. I live within the US, so I've never needed anything more than my state ID. I got this state ID using my previous state'
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by qaadika 7mo ago
The grammatical structure in the middle two is identical, and they're all similar in that way. - "- Name - {Noun with modifiers} {comma} {verb-ing with modifiers}." - "- Name - {Noun with modifiers} {comma} {verb-ing wit