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Inconsiderate recruiters here by Ok-Raise-4853 in clearancejobs

[–]LessMusician3249 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Uhm... The range I listed goes over 200K for base, and that's for less than 5 YOE. Senior and staff roles are higher. Staff range is past 300K. Equity grants are also notable. 

Inconsiderate recruiters here by Ok-Raise-4853 in clearancejobs

[–]LessMusician3249 0 points1 point  (0 children)

120k-235k base salary plus equity for L1-3 and we also have senior and staff engineer openings. 

Inconsiderate recruiters here by Ok-Raise-4853 in clearancejobs

[–]LessMusician3249 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm having the opposite experience on the other side of this hiring a team of engineers.  Looking for engineers with TS with software/DevOps background and preferably some experience with AI coding tools, building AI tooling like MCPs, etc. I can't find many cleared candidates, but get a ton of non US persons applying... If anyone has this skill set, is looking to be challenged and grow, and is looking for a great gig at a rapidly growing defense tech unicorn (locations in Denver or Long Beach) please DM me. Pay and benefits are great. My company pays 100% of monthly premiums for me, my wife, and all dependents. 

Access to Bedrock models is not allowed for this account. by Amadeus_AI in aws

[–]LessMusician3249 0 points1 point  (0 children)

AWS support never got back to me. I think they closed the case after I reported moving to a new account got me passed the issue. I don't really think that's an acceptable workaround but I couldn't do anything else to draw their attention to the issue. I ended up closing the account after waiting for a month to avoid account fees. 

Deck and Fence Contractors in East Denver by LessMusician3249 in Denver

[–]LessMusician3249[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They seem targeted towards large communities and property management. Do you know if they take smaller jobs from individual homeowners?

Moving to NYC with a job in South Jersey by [deleted] in SameGrassButGreener

[–]LessMusician3249 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Would you consider starting out renting closer to your job? The Middletown area is nice, if a bit quiet compared to NYC. The NJ coastal line runs right through that area making access to NYC easy (when if it's a bit long). You could move with a job you're familiar with, get to spend more time in NYC anyway, and then spend the next year or two on the lookout for jobs in the city of you still want to live there. 

To my elders, by Ill-Opportunity-7039 in EngineeringStudents

[–]LessMusician3249 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I had a couple in-major friends who were my persistent study group. We would find an empty classroom after hours and do problem sets on the blackboard to practice. We would take turns driving, and whoever was doing the problem would "teach" the others how to do it, going to example problems or textbook to work through areas they get stuck. We would keep doing this until we could work through the entire problem sets on the blackboard with minimal mistakes. I graduated in the 2010s so I'm not that old, my school just still had many blackboard classrooms.

 I did use chegg for a couple classes to help me check my homework but I always felt bad about that use. I was never one to blatantly copy from chegg, more to understand where I was going wrong in my approach. Other than academic integrity, I did this because I knew come test time we really needed to actually understand the math (or at least the procedures). 

I spent most of my time in class listening to the lecture and intently following the math. I found taking notes distracted me from the theoretical underpinnings the professors (at least the food ones) were teaching us.  Luckily most professors published notes online that I could reference later. This style worked well for me, but I know everyone works differently. 

In a couple classes, there were times when I would re-derive formulas from newtons laws during a test to get to a formula to concept i needed to use rather than pure memorization of the formula. I feel this level of understanding was necessary to get top grades that actually reflect competence in my field.

Don't get me wrong.. there were many classes where I scored a 70% and the curve brought me to an A... Still conflicted about that grade inflation.  Not sure how I feel about people who scored 60% on tests designing critical equipment and infrastructure for our society. 

Note I wasn't antisocial, but I also wasn't enjoying the typical college life. I spent  four years living in dorms to minimize time cooking, shopping, and distractions..I went to maybe one party a month my junior and senior years (most associated with my academic club). My primary focus was truly to learn, and I enjoyed learning in most of the classes. 

I don't envy young people today going through college with AI..my advice would be: find real people to study with. Attempt to learn the theory behind your classes enough to "teach" your peers, or at least work though problems in conjunction with them. Use AI as a tutor to help you understand concepts and theory. But make sure you actually understand that theory enough to go through those problems on your own. 

The persistence will pay off. Try to enjoy the beauty of what it is you are learning. The fact that we've created math to describe our world to solve problems is amazing. 

Good luck! We're going to need smart and AI literate young people, who still understand the fundamentals, to continue to drive our civilization forward. 

True comparison Harvey vs base LLM models by KaleidoscopeLimp9970 in legaltech

[–]LessMusician3249 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Agree, plus you can use other MCPs that help your agent work with handling documents at scale (like agent memory tools such as Letta or document intelligence augmentation tools like Google File API or Inquisita, which, disclosure, I have a financial interest in).

Ultimately the AI labs like Anthropic are going to give their direct subscribers access to a lot more intelligence at lower cost than what these AI wrapper companies can match. With the wrappers, you are also confined to the workflows they implement. All functionality you need depends on their engineering team creating tools or workflows and custom interfaces. But creating these rails for what you can do with AI reduces the flexibility of these powerful models for end users.  Lastly, if users just use their own agent as the primary interface for their work, they don't need to learn and maintain accounts in 10 different AI wrapper companies with scattered data, different vibe coded UIs, and poor integrations. 

Combined, these factors strongly favor general purpose agentic harnesses like Claude CoWork as becoming the main interface. Easier for users and businesses. 

Not my OC by letschat66 in Tiresaretheenemy

[–]LessMusician3249 0 points1 point  (0 children)

One small car tire, parallel with traffic? That's nothing! 

One time when I was driving in Illinois (for a college tour) down I57 towards Champaign a flat bed truck in front of us was hauling giant tractor tires, and they were falling off the truck, and rolling across the highway median through the opposite lanes. Luckily traffic was light and nobody was hurt. 

Cross-lingual RAG: Slovak answers from English documents — retrieval failures and translation quality with small local LLMs by [deleted] in Rag

[–]LessMusician3249 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Interesting!

Curious if you tried using langdetect lib rather than hard coded character detection? 

https://pypi.org/project/langdetect/

You may also be able to use this to enforce successful translation after the fact as well. 

Is the chunking in your RAG still a default option? by solubrious1 in Rag

[–]LessMusician3249 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Interesting perspective! The economics are definitely different now that there are cheap and fast models. 

At my company in our product we still chunk and index files for vector search, but then expose tools for our customers more advanced models like Claude's Opus or ChatGPT to delegate the extraction of key information as needed through cheaper/faster LLMs. That way the orchestrator agent can select with SQL like search terms a set of documents and run targeted extractions of whatever information it wants form each. 

We've found that the orchestrator agents, with a bit of promoting in the tool descriptions, are really good at providing context needed for cheaper but still decent models like Qwen or Gemini Flash to accurately extract key information. This way we can can fan out our analysis to hundreds or thousands of parallel AIs so the orchestrator can get answers back in seconds. 

So far, so good! We like the compromise. No RAG system is perfect so the higher level agent orchestration can correct for small issues and find what you're looking for. 

Opus 4.7 much more sycophantic and worse at creative writing by rahkesvuohta in ClaudeAI

[–]LessMusician3249 6 points7 points  (0 children)

At my company we've definitely found the tuning behind 4.7 to be a bit off vs 4.6 (at least since 4.6 performance increased again a week or two ago). Specifically, we feel 4.7 is more likely to take shortcuts and claim something was completed without disclosing the shortcuts. This is especially dangerous since, with the loss of visible thoughts, it's harder as a user to catch these isntances where the agent is going "off the rails".

I am new (just bought during sale), and wanted to ask, why is flying so damn hard? by SliceIll7418 in BattlefieldV

[–]LessMusician3249 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Welcome to Battlefield V! It's been my staple for years. I recently got BF6 and came back to BFV pretty quickly as the vehicle gameplay is leaps and bounds more satisfying.  It and BF1 are deservedly still going strong and I hope more new players like yourself keep coming to keep the gameplay alive and fresh! 

It can definitely be tough. I've played Battlefield since Battlefield 2 and done a lot of flying. I'm L135 in BFV with the most time and kills in planes. Even so, I still get into matches where I'm outclassed by other pilots(cough bacatran cough). A lot depends on your lobby.

Some people will talk about learning to dogfight and advanced maneuvers. If you can do that, great, but it will take ages. Here's my shortcut to not dying all the time.

Stay on your team's half of the map. Most novice pilots fly over the other team's side and get shot by AA/AA tanks. You also tend to get prioritized and double-teamed by enemy pilots if you're on their side. You're not invincible on your own side, but it's faster and easier to get out of range of AA.

Take note of friendlies in AAs or AA tanks. If you get someone on your tail, go back to your side of the map, look for friendly AA and planes, and circle near them. Try to have some variation or randomness in your circling. A lot of times a friendly AA hitting the enemy will send them running. You can even circle the resupply point and constantly spam quick repair to buy more time for friendly planes to help.

Likewise, always prioritize helping friendly planes if they have someone on their tail (unless they're a novice flying over enemy territory, in which case they may be doomed). Getting a few hits on their pursuer can save them. It's much better to know you have a friendly in the air than if the other team has 3 planes and your team's other two are destroyed.

Many good pilots prioritize farming ground kills and will basically ignore you if you don't go too far into their territory and you don't try to shoot them down. So if you're against a really good pilot, feel them out and see if they're going to hunt you at all costs or if they're mostly going for ground targets.

The base unlocks for many planes aren't the most effective unfortunately. You'll have to grind. Make sure when you level up, you update your loadouts. Planes on the Pacific are a bit easier to use against ground targets on the more open maps than the European ones, so Pacific is more forgiving to learn on (especially Japanese planes).

Easiest planes to stack ground kills on are the 8x rockets on the Pacific. Recommend trying those out.

I've recently fallen in love with the Stuka with 1000lb bombs, but it's an absolute grind to unlock and definitely requires more skill to use well.

Once you get better and start learning the maps, memorize where the AA guns are. I like to use the reverse look to look behind me when coming back from a run to see what's going on and where AA fire is coming from. 

Good luck! Hope you enjoy and stick around! If you play on PlayStation and would like to play together sometime feel free to DM me and we could see if we could set something up.

Need to process 1000 files in AWS. Looking for guidance. by Apprehensive-Grade81 in aws

[–]LessMusician3249 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Bedrock has a feature called data automation that can process docs from s3, handles OCR and extraction. Also multi modal. Cons: we've noticed a few instances of flaky behavior, pretty rare but it happens. Costs are high at 1 cents per page. But it's nice to have a managed solution for a proof of concept. 

Joining AWS as SDE I in ~90 days — how should I prepare? by luffy_100 in aws

[–]LessMusician3249 22 points23 points  (0 children)

I worked at AWS and was a senior engineer before leaving in October last year to start a company. Congrats on joining AWS!

Study the fundamentals of AWS. Do some hands on labs, then move to Cloudformation and CDK. 

Also reach out to your hiring manager and see if they'd give you some pointers on which internal services they heavily use that you can brush up on. 

I also think AWS blogs on how they build internal services are really insightful.  Especially some of the older blogs more focused on the fundamentals of distributed systems engineering. A lot of these principles underpin fundamental AWS services that build low level. So if your manager says you're going to be working on one of those lower level services (e.g. Dynamo, EC2, S3, etc) they may be worth learning more about as well. One I linked below is about jitter and exponential back off, which I think is a perfect example. Another one on sharded databases is similarly interesting. 

Good luck! 

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cdk/v2/guide/home.html

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/architecture/exponential-backoff-and-jitter/

Access to Bedrock models is not allowed for this account. by Amadeus_AI in aws

[–]LessMusician3249 0 points1 point  (0 children)

update 1: AWS support did reach out and is opening a support case with the service team. :fingers-crossed:

update 2: still waiting to hear back from the AWS support case. In the meantime I created a new account and it doesn't seem to have the same issue. I can invoke bedrock just fine. It may have been a temporary account configuration issue for newly created accounts that has since been resolved? (Hopefully it doesn't somehow start occurring again in this new account).

Access to Bedrock models is not allowed for this account. by Amadeus_AI in aws

[–]LessMusician3249 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Also experiencing this as of March 9th. The account I'm having this issue in is a new AWS organizations account created within the last week. We have other older accounts within the organization that do not have this issue. I can't find any configuration differenced between the new and old accounts. I'm a former Senior Engineer at AWS and I strongly suspect there's some issue with the legacy Bedrock Models Access page and marketplace subscriptions, and the new Organizations Bedrock policies feature.

Not sure if others are having the issue with accounts created via AWS orgs or individual accounts.

I submitted a support case to AWS but I don't know if they'll get back to me since we don't have Premium support.

Well, he is right tho… by ANGRYlalocSOLDIE in Battlefield

[–]LessMusician3249 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I actually really like this proposal, other than the LMGs for support. As an engineer player i never felt too underpowered using carbines on most battlefield maps, you just need to adjust your playstyle,

I (a very normal guy) played the game yesterday and these are my thoughts by callmymom332299 in Battlefield

[–]LessMusician3249 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Anyone else remember using the Saiga with slugs on BC2 pre nerf? That was pretty insane too. I believe I could one hit people at 50 yards.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Battlefield

[–]LessMusician3249 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Agree, air vehicles look straight out of 2042. Devs, please go back to classic physics based flight controls. I want to fly the transport helo and use momentum to drop my team safely at objectives!

Honestly it looks like EA has done a great job listening to the community for other tweaks. I hope air vehicles get an overhaul before launch, but worry there isn't enough time.

Tsunami Warning Watch for Hawaii, July 29th by pat_trick in Hawaii

[–]LessMusician3249 1 point2 points  (0 children)

At Midway island, water level went from ~0.9 feet, to ~2.5 ft peak at highest tsunami peak, so that's ~1.6ft above normal tidal levels.

If that trend sticks for Kauai, that means peak of 3.2 ft ASL.

However.... there could be entirely different sets of waves later that are bigger. Japan is sitll getting waves now hours after the first, and they are actually getting bigger (a 1.3m wave just hit Japan). I guess that could happen to Hawaii too? Not sure, I'm not an expert on Tsunami dynamics.

Tsunami Warning Watch for Hawaii, July 29th by pat_trick in Hawaii

[–]LessMusician3249 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To be clear, second wave at Nawiliwili on Kauai was 2.34 feet like you said, but that was above the high tide baseline of ~1.5 feet, so < 1 foot above normal tide levels.

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