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Comment · 20 days ago
ok hello I'm a scientist can I have my tokens now
Comment · 2 months ago
I think it's completely fair game. This is the singular document that gets put in front of employers. Ostensibly the person has put a lot of effort into it, and they haven't even run it through spell check? What are they going to do for our company once they get comfortable?

It's a buyer's market - he should spend the hour with an LLM iterating on his resume.

Comment · 2 months ago
I also ran into the eBay application being blocked just recently. Other than that I've had no issues, but I imagine this is going to become more and more common as time goes on.
Comment · 9 months ago
This has also been my experience. I like that it's a small community but their toxicity is much more towards AI or anything to the right of RMS.
Comment · 1 year ago
> As it happens, the daily practice of medicine does not require interpretation of p-values. Indeed, medicine existed before the p-value.

What are you talking about? Doctors refer people based on test results every single day. From what I've seen, hardly any of them understand the precision/recall of the tests that they then use to refer you (or not) to screening procedures (which are not all harmless).

Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
Or at least give us the discord feature of "Mute channel for ..." with some fixed set of durations.
Comment · 1 year ago
I've made heavy use of emdashes my whole life. It feels like I have to eliminate them now :(
Comment · 1 year ago
Are you worried about being sherlocked at all? I know "multiplayer" is on their official roadmap.
Comment · 1 year ago
I think it's a matter of time until we see a notable plugin in the obsidian space get caught exfiltrating data. I imagine then, after significant reputational harm, the team will start introducing safe guards. At a minimum, create some sort of verified publisher system.
Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
Will the secure backups also be incremental? I've gotten to the point where the backup takes quite a while to generate.
Comment · 1 year ago
> Using an LLM is not just ridiculous here but totally the wrong fit and a waste of resources.

Time and labor are resources too. There's a whole host of problems where "good enough" is tremendously valuable.

Comment · 1 year ago
> I'm not proposing that we all just try harder to be altruistic, but rather that we craft some institution for rewarding people who have solved problems for many without encumbering those solutions with a monetization scheme.

> I'm sure somebody has a better idea than mine, lets get creative.

Every creative scheme I've seen someone try to come up with fails to do what charging money for a product can. Charge money for stuff, have a free tier, enjoy sustainable software.

Comment · 1 year ago
> there aren’t a ton of good options for workers seeking shorter hours.

Is that true? Most trades can work fewer hours, medical workers like nurses can, hairdressers, plenty of writers are freelance, the entire gig economy.

It seems like big companies don't provide the option, for software at least. I always chocked that up to more bureaucratic processes which add some fixed cost for each employed person.

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