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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 rea…

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 …

> 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 al…

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> 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 ow…

> 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 int…

> 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 …

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 mor…

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 co…

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 b…

> 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: > -…

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 voic…

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 ma…

My boss doesn't consider my driver's license his problem, or the company's.

> 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,…

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 withhol…

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 stat…

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 - {No…