jfreds

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by jfreds 10mo ago
Citation? Not saying you’re wrong but my time in defense left me very much with the opposite opinion (radar target acquisitions had to be approved by a human, always)
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by jfreds 10mo ago
Your points about misquotes and language troubles are very valid and interesting. But a word of caution on your prompt: you’re asking a lot of the word “analyze” here; if the LLM responded that the thread had 15 comments by 10 unique author
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by jfreds 10mo ago
Yeah this seems like an obvious solution, which axon ought to be on board with since it protects them. When juniors use the excuse “oh Claude wrote that” in a PR, I tell them if the PR has their name on it, they wrote it - and their PRs are
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by jfreds 10mo ago
Short answer is yes. Not only is it more token-friendly and potentially lower latency, it also prevents weird context issues like forgetting Rules, compacting your conversation and missing relevant details, etc.
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by jfreds 10mo ago
Having gone though exactly this exercise recently comparing a homegrown vector db against Qdrant, I’m wholeheartedly in agreement that getting a working solution FAST, and then spending a decent amount of time interrogating it (with help of
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by jfreds 10mo ago
The problem with this whole argument is that you can easily reframe the definition of the activity to suit any specific agenda. Going with the swimming analogy: If you’re attempting to cross a pool, you can just dead man’s float and eventua
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by jfreds 10mo ago
> they remove all nuance Said in a sweeping generalization with zero sense of irony :D
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by jfreds 10mo ago
I agree wholeheartedly. As for the why do craftsmen care so much about the factory instead of the product, I believe the answer is pride. It’s a bitter pill to swallow, but writing and shipping a hack is sometimes the high road
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by jfreds 11mo ago
Took me way too long to learn this. It still makes me sad to leave projects “imperfect” and not fiddle in my free time sometimes
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by jfreds 11mo ago
Maybe it goes without saying, but if you aren’t good at managing -credit-, you aren’t good at managing -money-, period. All your savings will evaporate when you can’t get a good mortgage rate. That’s not good money management
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by jfreds 11mo ago
I was homeschooled until high school. I couldn’t agree with you more. The value that the socialization the public school offers is underestimated. Learning activities with other homeschooled kids is ok but not enough. A tight-knit neighborh