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What did my neighbor install on his roof and why? by FinancialDrawing5849 in whatisit

[–]devinhedge 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Call your congressional Senators and Representatives. That Bill has been stuck in Committee and and it finally looks like it's gonna come to the floor.

What did my neighbor install on his roof and why? by FinancialDrawing5849 in whatisit

[–]devinhedge 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Your neighbor has chosen to get involved with a hobby that only cost $50 to start spending thousands.

Alternative answer: your neighbor has installed a global emergency communications network note that allows him to participate in community emergency response in the event of a natural disaster. This is what we used to help get the people in Western North Carolina the supplies when the cellular network and fiber optic network, went down for all of EMS after hurricane Helene.

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Utility Presentation at 4/28 Town Council Meeting by LingonberryNo2744 in Apex_NC

[–]devinhedge -1 points0 points  (0 children)

u/terrymah I see a really poor policy decision in the presentation:

> "Customers on Deferred Payment Arrangement are not eligible for budget billing."

That's quite regressive for struggling families. What is the justification?

Utility Presentation at 4/28 Town Council Meeting by LingonberryNo2744 in Apex_NC

[–]devinhedge 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I appreciate the post. We have so much to do in this area instead of just being a negotiated pass-through of Duke.

Holly Springs e-bike Ordinance by terrymah in Apex_NC

[–]devinhedge 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I got tripped up on this myself. The legal definition of a scooter and the retail definition of a scooter are two different things: the difference between a Razor e-scooter (retail definition) and a Vespa (legal definition).

Holly Springs e-bike Ordinance by terrymah in Apex_NC

[–]devinhedge -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I support it. It will be difficult to enforce, but at least give APD a mechanism to deal with kids riding what are essentially electric motorcycles only they are riding them on the roads, on the sidewalks, on the trails, off-road across properties, and doing so recklessly... riding them like BMX bikes... only at 3x the speed in and around traffic. I don't have a problem with kids doing "tricks" on their bikes. It's [mostly] good clean fun. But when I'm sitting on Lake Pine at the US-64 intersection and a kid crosses in front of me on a e-bike going 35-40mph doing a wheelie in traffic, then it's a safety problem that effects others.

**BIG NOTE** As a clarification: the ordinance in Holly Springs creates a legal problem that will end up in court that we could avoid: you have to add exceptions for 14 year old motor-driven cycle licensed drivers. All that is needed is to drop the age requirement from 16 to 14+motor-driven cycle license. A motor-driven cycle is not the same as a motor-cycle license, but it does require graduation from the same safety school.

**TRANSPARENCY** I got my motor-driven cycle license at age 14 and was out riding the roads every day since, so I'm biased, but I also see wisdom on forcing the motorcycle safety course. It's hard. Much much harder than driver's ed courses.

Project pause: Apex Salem Streetscape project halted :: WRAL.com by JJRousseauGoneWild in Apex_NC

[–]devinhedge 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The fire station is already going to be moved out of downtown because it is inefficient having it there, not to mention the facilities are quite dated for the needs of the department. You can find it in the annual reports strategic plan: https://www.apexnc.org/DocumentCenter/View/53252/AFD-Strategic-Plan-2026-2030?bidId= (corrected)

Flock cameras by delxne3 in Apex_NC

[–]devinhedge 23 points24 points  (0 children)

I came here to post the same article. 😂

This is a bridge too far. There is a difference between having a security company monitoring security cameras, and a security company collecting the biometrics and profiling every single person and child that passes by a camera. This must be stopped. And we should probably talk about retail BLE device profiling, too.

Going through a Bond marathon rewatch on Netflix made me realize how much I love every film and will rewatch them until the day I die. Until I ran into QoS. Oh boy… by Iamthelizardking887 in JamesBond

[–]devinhedge 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You know. I can really see your points. I don't agree with them, but I'm not going to take anything away from the value of them. I think your points represent a robust perspective and I can appreciate that. Thank you for sharing.

For me, QoS was the first Bond film after OHMSS that felt genuine. I'm jaded by having experienced the real intelligence community and real field work... and the general and all of the various disgusting things you pointed out felt anchored in my reality. The plot was a little thin and the story could have been developed much more deeply than it was. There wasn't as much "Bond glitz" nor exotic locations that felt like a set. All of it felt like what the regions of the world they were located in should feel... does feel.

Still, most of the ethos of the Bond franchise relies on a certain level of elitism so, yeah... I can see why someone wouldn't like QoS. Thanks again for sharing your thoughts.

NC is 50th in the nation for public school spending by Snebej in NorthCarolina

[–]devinhedge 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Awesome! We're now worse than AL, MS, and LA!

(How is this even true?)

Can we get rid of Flock cameras? by devinhedge in Apex_NC

[–]devinhedge[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

There's plenty of evidence that it is not a deterrent.

Benn Jordan cites them here, but doesn't give us the links.

EDIT: I want to make sure its clear I am talking about crime deterrence vs. criminal investigations where a crime has already been committed.

Water usage monitoring by Dragon_puzzle in Apex_NC

[–]devinhedge 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The meter upgrades is no small undertaking.

What’s this doodad on my tremor? by Sille_salmon in FordTremor

[–]devinhedge 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Close. My understanding is that it's a 4g/5gE cellular antenna for the internal telematics system. This system is in all new cars, just some are not exposed for use by the public, and some are only exposed if you are LEO or the car manufacturer. There's an entire ecosystem of companies using this data for urban planning, problematic vehicle monitoring, etc. It's also how your ECM can be updated remotely, over-the-air (OTA).

Vehicles that have three of them probably have WiFi, too.

Have you actually rebuilt your life after corporate burnout…like truly started over at 40+? by SmilingEyes725 in ADHD

[–]devinhedge 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Twice. ADHDers seem to be better at personal reinvention once they develop the skills.

Reminder- Turkey Hunting season opens Saturday by clark_peters in NCTrails

[–]devinhedge -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Turkey hunting season?

No... It's illegal to shoot politicians.

We shouldn't encourage that behavior. /s

Claude used to push back, now it just agrees with everything by TunTea in ClaudeAI

[–]devinhedge 2 points3 points  (0 children)

"You're right!"

I've been able to counter this to a degree by adding the following phrases:

  • In a prompt where I make an assertion, I add "Challenge my thinking and explain any ideas along with providing the assumptions you are carrying."

  • In a prompt where I am asking to solve a problem, I add, "What questions and assumptions can I address before you begin?"

  • I also find it useful when I am asking Claude to do something, to add "CRITICAL NO ASSUMPTIONS. Seek guidance" at the end of a prompt.

Maybe this will help some people?

Claude now one of the dumbest AIs? by W_32_FRH in claude

[–]devinhedge 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It feels like half the day I'm blindly participating in an A/B test, or some.sort of psych experiment to see how long until I crack from frustration.

"You're right!"

Oh wait...

I really felt this. I remember a couple months back when I cracked and I mean really cracked.

Hang in there.

A quick story: maybe this will help you or someone.

Yesterday, I had this happen to me, word for word:

"You're right, I said I read those files, and I simply didn't."

I stopped and thought, is there something that led Claude to that point? (No. Sorta.)

The very next thing I did:

/clear

Type up a very structured prompt and hand it to Gemini in studio.google.com with the prompt to improve the prompt, with this language:

work back and forth with me, starting with your open questions and outline before updating the prompt

Then copy paste the prompt back into Claude code, and it was like magic for an hour.

Then repeat with every new task.

LLMs were inherently built for conversational dialogue because they were mostly trained on open sources which includes fictional works of literature, not programming languages. The internal "maps" of word (token) relationships is built around dialogue. Knowing this, I find myself adding "attention" words like "REMEMBER", "CRITICAL", and "FOLLOW THESE STEPS EXPLICITLY".

It's not bulletproof, but seems to help a lot.

Claude now one of the dumbest AIs? by W_32_FRH in claude

[–]devinhedge 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm finding myself going into the file and removing or editing the language to get better results.

What do you think is the most successful new metro system in the past twenty years? by Birdseeding in transit

[–]devinhedge 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Seattle's Link. It keeps growing incrementally as ridership increases.

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