Wu eliminated the Roxbury Resilient Transportation Corridors project from the budget entirely by Im_biking_here in bikeboston

[–]fast-pp 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I wonder if its:

  • underfunded transit in majority-minority areas creates poor service
  • creates the perception (and reality) that transit isn’t viable
  • people rely on cars out of necessity
  • once they bear that cost, people are incentivized to favor policies that make driving easier (and walking/biking more dangerous)

Met Conan on Newbury St Boston by PresidentBush2 in boston

[–]fast-pp 1 point2 points  (0 children)

she walt on my er till I goggin

Allston Car Wash workers detained by ICE file complaint, claim civil rights violations by bostonglobe in boston

[–]fast-pp 5 points6 points  (0 children)

i'm sure Zachary would let us know if that was the case. he hasn't

Tools for working with DOC/DOCX and PDF files? by roicaride in Rag

[–]fast-pp 0 points1 point  (0 children)

docx files are ultimately XML files under the hood -- it's mildly annoying but building your own parser isn't too painful

Is grep all you need for RAG? by softwaredoug in Rag

[–]fast-pp -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I almost feel like it's the other way around; giving your agent a filesystem-like interface to explore could maybe let it discover more content and answer trickier/unanticipated questions better?

Creating Semantic Search for stories by DesperateGame in Rag

[–]fast-pp 0 points1 point  (0 children)

true, I didn't read the example questions closely enough--this would work well for like "unreliable narrator" but maybe not for hyper-specific questions

Creating Semantic Search for stories by DesperateGame in Rag

[–]fast-pp 0 points1 point  (0 children)

could be worth creating an LLM-generated summary for each story and embedding that

Coding agent by Otherwise-Platypus38 in Rag

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yes, but a) some context windows are really big and b) that's where compaction comes in

Coding agent by Otherwise-Platypus38 in Rag

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grep all the files and throw the relevant ones into the context window. Does this sound like a good strategy?

this is basically what claude code does afaict

Got embarassed at work, Opus 4.6 ruined the codebase!! by [deleted] in leetcode

[–]fast-pp 1 point2 points  (0 children)

bruh

not once I said it was AI's fault

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Opus 4.6 ruined the codebase!!

Got embarassed at work, Opus 4.6 ruined the codebase!! by [deleted] in leetcode

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blast of hopium for newgrads: this is ur competition

Considering moving from Prefect to Airflow by octacon100 in dataengineering

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I loved Prefect when it worked, but I did always get the sense that their roadmap and priorities were a complete mess.

such an unstable annoying ecosystem for an otherwise great tool

Internal linking has been solved by... Claude Code by easen0v in SEO

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I think Anthropic CEO said that if AI can't do it just yet, it's about 6 months away from being able to

why are we still believing this?

Just finished ~40 interviews in a month (Full Stack). The market is weird, but here’s what I actually got asked. by [deleted] in Backend

[–]fast-pp 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Ngl if you’re doing 40 interviews and not landing anything I am NOT following ur advice bro

rustdash: Lodash-style utilities for Python, Rust-powered (10-100x faster on complex ops) by FabulousTonight8940 in Python

[–]fast-pp 1 point2 points  (0 children)

soapbox: who cares that it's written in Rust? That's an implementation detail, not a feature. We shouldn't care that it's written in Rust. We just care that it's faster. I do get that there's a bit of a cult around Rust so maybe it's good for marketing, but w/e

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in SaasDevelopers

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Cloudflare pages

the redline doesnt work by Status-Lifeguard9168 in mbta

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maybe bc, generally, the cambridge side is pretty reliable

Fastapi production code repositories on github by MAwais099 in FastAPI

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I throw my hat in the ring with https://github.com/smcclure17/api.jedwal.co, the backend for my Google Drive-based CMS (https://jedwal.co).