Vanth

I’ve been very pleased with your performance since joining the family 30 seconds ago. How would you feel about joining our management training program? Double the work for 10% more pay. I’m so proud. Can I call you son?

Hired!

Cooked or uncooked? Either way, you seem like a good fit for the team.

I mean, sure, if you don’t want to try any other answer to help convince them to hire you out of all the other applicants.

They’re not asking “why do you want a job” they’re asking “why do you want this job”.

As in, out of all the jobs that will pay you money, why do you want this one in particular?

There are other points during an interview process to lay out your pay expectations.

Lol, I’d settle for communication, social skills, and some awareness of professional etiquette if one doesn’t want to go as far as nepotism and cronyism.

I’m probably in a bit of a bubble but I work with too many engineers who don’t like that they have to work with other people. If a super STEM person ever wonders how “less smart but friendly with the boss” people advance further, introspect a bit on whether anyone else can understand your big brain thoughts or if they die as soon as they leave your mouth.

Making friends and doing clubs in college is a good way to learn to be smart and to make sure you can adequately communicate your smart ideas. Goes with the theme of “don’t stress GPA, be well-rounded”.

I don’t because I don’t have the necessary depth of skill.

But I don’t say I “blindly” trust anyone who says they’re FOSS. I read reviews, I do what I can to understand who is behind the project. I try to use software (FOSS or otherwise) in a way that minimizes impact to my system as a whole if something goes south. While I can’t audit code meaningfully, I can setup unique credentials for everything and use good network management practices and other things to create firebreaks.

1. it depends on the school and sometimes even the program

2. my advice is to slow your roll and focus on transitioning to college successfully, meaning establishing good study habits (they will have to change from high school), staying healthy during the time that is often the first extended time away from parent(s) (food, sleep, hygiene, keeping the drugs/booze under control, proper response to inevitably getting sick, mental health), and finally, enjoy the experience by making friends and trying new activities.

I have never once thought about what I could have done to earn another point on my GPA. I have thought a lot about the friends I made and the things I got to experience.

Is that really the message you got? It’s worded differently than what I see in mine.

I extend more trust if I see consistent stories across multiple sources. If one is reporting something and no one else is, I question why.

I know a couple that was betrothed before they were even born.

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I set my homepage to communities I’m subscribed to, sorted by new. So I get a very limited and curated slice of Lemmy.

I would say I’m seeing perhaps a small wave of new users from Reddit though not nearly as big as the wave from the API changes. That affects the questions being asked in general topic communities like this one; which is what they are for.

In niche topic communities, I rarely notice changes brought in by new users. New users are slow to find them, and they’re probably already accustomed to niche community quirks from other forums.

Yes. I tag people that prove to be wastes of time: arguing in bad faith, lying, uninterested in actually taking any advice and are only here to whine, proud bigots.

I tag them because they often get good responses from the community that I want to see. I just don’t want to engage with the tagged person directly, so tag them to signal to myself to not waste effort.

No tagged people in this thread.

Some examples of tags I have applied to other users,“AI Slop Slinger”, “Fetish hunter”, “Doesn’t reply”, “the world is white straight male by default”, and “uses Lemmy as websearch, poorly”.

For example, AI slop slinger asked a question that prompted a lot of really excellent, in-depth responses with citations that I could run down and learn even more from. But Slinger just posted semi-regurgitated text back in comments. Some assumed Slinger spoke a different language and tried to help them communicate, but no, Slinger was just a lazy asshat wasting people’s time. Maybe Slinger wasn’t even human.

Ah, you want specialized instead of general.

Well, then is a couple of books enough to train your LLM? How many books are there on wavelengths your first doublet filters for?

Seems like you might want a forum full of topic specific comments too to feed into the model. A photography textbook with a section on lenses is good, real questions and answers from actual photographers with real scenarios would be better for most people.

If copyright were magically not an issue, why does this need to be local/self hosted?

Like sure, some people will still self host and we need some people to keep information independent of corporations. But for people who just want a summary of a car maintenance task, why would they go to a local repository instead of the largest one they can find?