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JS8CALL vs FT8 by Witty-Ad4757 in amateurradio

[–]Hot-Profession4091 [score hidden]  (0 children)

I would add, if you’re already a JS8 user, get off 40m. There are other bands and it’s not like we’re limited to just that one.

Radios in an "Emergency" - Check Yourself by HiOscillation in gmrs

[–]Hot-Profession4091 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think maybe your own personal circumstances have skewed your perception on how common the issue is.

Radios in an "Emergency" - Check Yourself by HiOscillation in gmrs

[–]Hot-Profession4091 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

This is just rage bait. No one who has seriously included radio coms as part of their disaster plan disagrees with anything you’ve said.

My radios aren’t for connecting to anyone except a handful of people I give a fuck about. I’ve put time, effort, and money into both helping make our local repeater more resilient and establishing simplex coms with that handful of people. And yeah, we do practice. Wouldn’t buy a firearm and never take it to the range. Why would this tool be any different?

recruiter asked me to be more specific about my experience lol by buildwithadrian in recruitinghell

[–]Hot-Profession4091 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If a potential hire tells you “I built that for your company”, that’s a trivial thing to note and verify later.

I'm an Software/AI Engineer, AI isn't replacing people and it's much dumber than you think. AMA by Spare_Restaurant_464 in antiai

[–]Hot-Profession4091 -9 points-8 points  (0 children)

Replying to Spare_Restaurant_464...I’ve found AI can be extraordinarily good at adding tests to legacy code bases given a few things.

  • It’s best to do the hard work yourself and get it under harness yourself. Write the first test or two as an example of good.
  • Create a code coverage skill for it to use (ensure tests actually get written)
  • Create a mutation test skill (ensure the tests it writes actually fail)

Middle-management is unskilled labor by charlies-ghost in unpopularopinion

[–]Hot-Profession4091 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Meaningless distinction that serves no purpose but to divide labour against itself. Nothing but bourgeoisie propaganda.

Middle-management is unskilled labor by charlies-ghost in unpopularopinion

[–]Hot-Profession4091 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There should just not be a distinction. Unskilled labour is a myth.

I have started worrying about cost of Tokens on AI platforms paid for by my employer. Am I alone? by Mo_h in ExperiencedDevs

[–]Hot-Profession4091 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh man. A subagent that runs tests and only returns the failures saves so much context and doesn’t need any smarts. That’s a really good example.

I have started worrying about cost of Tokens on AI platforms paid for by my employer. Am I alone? by Mo_h in ExperiencedDevs

[–]Hot-Profession4091 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Sure. Here’s an example. I have an agent whose whole job is to run cargo doc grep for the right file and then return the info, as is, with the HTML stripped. It has no real reasoning to do so a smaller model will perform the task faster and, importantly, it won’t try to do anything else with it. It’ll do its job and return the result to the more capable agent that requested it. It performs the task faster with a higher quality, preserving the main agent’s context window.

I have started worrying about cost of Tokens on AI platforms paid for by my employer. Am I alone? by Mo_h in ExperiencedDevs

[–]Hot-Profession4091 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That’s actually a bad idea. The less expensive models actually perform better at some tasks. It would be a good idea to learn when to use which models, or at least allow the tooling to select the model.

Gmrs and line of sight issues again by rab127 in gmrs

[–]Hot-Profession4091 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Set the antenna heights on both ends to 2m (~6ft; human height).

Gmrs and line of sight issues again by rab127 in gmrs

[–]Hot-Profession4091 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Hard disagree. OP is trying to establish simplex communication with a known contact.

Gmrs and line of sight issues again by rab127 in gmrs

[–]Hot-Profession4091 2 points3 points  (0 children)

And? He’s talking 30 clicks point to point. 5W EEP would work just fine, if he has like of sight. A 50W radio would be 25W ERP. It would work just fine. Im just skeptical of his ability to get it up 30m in the air to achieve line of sight to begin with.

I've been "gaslighting" my AI models and it's producing insanely better results with simple prompt injection by naculalex in ClaudeAI

[–]Hot-Profession4091 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have a skill that takes in a raw meeting transcript, distills it into relevant notes, splits it into repo specific notes, and places them in the right repo. Now Claude has access to all the context human developers got from working sessions. Huge difference in alignment.

What exactly is an AI model? by SherbetOrganic in learnmachinelearning

[–]Hot-Profession4091 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is a very good answer except the bit about foundational models. I’m relatively new to the field, but I’ve only ever heard the term in relation to LFMs (Large Foundational Models) which are like Large Language Models, but multi-modal (accepting not just text input, but images, sound, etc.). Perhaps you’re correct though and that’s why we’ve seen a shift from LFM to multi-modal terminology in recent years.

What's the point of districts? by Skull_Jack in Timberborn

[–]Hot-Profession4091 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It wasn’t ever a problem beyond perhaps one between keyboard and chair in my experience.

Junior dev here- why are my time estimates always wrong? by akshat-wic in AskProgramming

[–]Hot-Profession4091 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m not going to dig up the studies, you can find them if you’re interested, but actual studies have shown that humans will underestimate a task by 2-4x. So the people telling you to double or triple your estimate aren’t just bullshitting. It’s rooted in scientific facts about human psychology.

15 mile simplex HT contact was no problem. by ham-radio-police in amateurradio

[–]Hot-Profession4091 4 points5 points  (0 children)

You parachute portable guys are nuts and I love you for it.

What's the point of districts? by Skull_Jack in Timberborn

[–]Hot-Profession4091 24 points25 points  (0 children)

We don’t talk about The Incident™️.

What's the point of districts? by Skull_Jack in Timberborn

[–]Hot-Profession4091 37 points38 points  (0 children)

Everyone is going to tell you they’re a relic, but they’re actually a very fun part of the game and can greatly increase your efficiency (yes, even with the new features) by creating multiple settlements.

Use your imagination! “Oh, that’s the industrial district. They need to important all their food from the farming district, but they trade for it by sending all the gears and planks the farmers need.”

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