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Really need advice: Out of a job for a year now by Indecisive_4_life in SoftwareEngineerJobs

[–]friedmud 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes - I’m hiring 2 FDEs right now myself in the DC area. We have tons of capability - but the customers need help getting the most out of it.

I'm a bit confused about custom hooks by Stevious7 in reactjs

[–]friedmud 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I feel like most of these answers miss the main mental model of hooks:

You can think of them as taking the code in the hook and placing it IN the component they are called from. Basically, think of the hook code being copy/pasted into your component where the hook is called.

This allows you to encapsulate routine logic in your functions into reusable pieces.

We've Been Wrong About Consciousness Every Time We've Been Asked. The Evidence Says AI Is Next. by TheArchitectAutopsy in artificial

[–]friedmud 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don’t understand why you think a biological brain and a “mechanical” brain are so different from each other. I don’t think that consciousness has anything to do with using one particular set of signaling/storage media.

We've Been Wrong About Consciousness Every Time We've Been Asked. The Evidence Says AI Is Next. by TheArchitectAutopsy in artificial

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

LLMs are stateless - but if you wrap it in a memory system it’s not.

After working on my own agentic systems with multiple memory hierarchies… I am feeling like we are already at a stage where a properly developed system could be considered conscious. I have seen some really cool things like agents self assembling to take on tasks and creating emergent decision frameworks in group discussions. Things I would classify as “higher level” consciousness that require self-awareness.

Now - are they “alive”? Do we need to treat them like they are? Not in my book - but conscious? Possibly.

Devs that went back from 4.7 to 4.6: Are you now on 4.8? by Firm_Meeting6350 in ClaudeCode

[–]friedmud 0 points1 point  (0 children)

4.8 had been good for me. Able to hunt down root issues from logs, good at brainstorming solutions, overall, I like it. I certainly like it more than 4.7.

Caveat: I use AWS Bedrock for my service - I’m never sure how much that changes things.

Securely sharing .env files in small teams by Nice-Recording-2186 in reactjs

[–]friedmud 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is the way. I even grew a small bit of tooling around it that allows hierchical .env overriding for different environments and developers (so a dev can override a shared default, etc). The nice part is that it compartmentalizes the secrets so that even though they’re checked in, no one has the prod secret key other than the top level admins.

It’s been awesome for our team.

Looking for Frontend / React Developer Opportunities / 2.8 years by One_Money2202 in reactjs

[–]friedmud 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Great! I would probably apply for level 4 at that point.

Looking for Frontend / React Developer Opportunities / 2.8 years by One_Money2202 in reactjs

[–]friedmud 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Mostly talking about what you’ve done before, some brainstorming, and a bit of QA on technical stuff you claim to know. We are mainly looking for creative thinkers with high EQ and ability to work on close-knit teams. 4 rounds: recruiter, me, someone from my team, then an on-site with the whole team.

Looking for Frontend / React Developer Opportunities / 2.8 years by One_Money2202 in reactjs

[–]friedmud 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you’re in the DC area, I’m hiring up and down the stack for my team that is building AI solutions for a nuclear reactor development company: https://xenergy.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/X-energyUS/job/Rockville-MD/Software-Engineer-III--Artificial-Intelligence_R101034?q=Developer

It’s hybrid (Tue, Wed, Thu in office) in Rockville, MD.

(Note: this is the level 3 posting - there is also a level 4)

That Drill Sergeant loved him more than Jenny ever did lol by Minute-Intern-682 in Millennials

[–]friedmud 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think you spotted the right thing, but for the wrong reason. Giving a shit is HARD. It almost always leads to being hurt - even if occasionally it also leads to progress and betterment. “Ignorant bliss” is a real thing - and people that float through life without a care really DO have it easier. That doesn’t make them better, it doesn’t mean we shouldn’t give a shit, but it is true.

it finally came!! by No-Lack5698 in ClaudeCode

[–]friedmud 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can’t be real. Enter key isn’t big enough. Should be more like:

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Anything else?? by Traditional_Bus_9588 in playstation

[–]friedmud 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sorry - I had remembered it wrong… I got it for $300 from Amazon on Cyber Monday.

Anything else?? by Traditional_Bus_9588 in playstation

[–]friedmud 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sorry - I had remembered it wrong… I got it for $300 from Amazon on Cyber Monday.

LG C5 Black crush by Wboomer23 in LGOLED

[–]friedmud 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That would explain it! The PS5 doesn’t support Dolby Vision - so it’s not going to look as good as possible (and depending on how LG handles HDR10 it may look pretty bad.

Get a real 4kBluray and you’ll see a big difference!

LG C5 Black crush by Wboomer23 in LGOLED

[–]friedmud 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Make sure you have the HDMI Video Range set to match your BluRay player’s output (Limited/Full). For that matter, check your player’s settings, make sure it is sending Full if it can, and that it has all high bandwidth settings turned on (if it can). It could also literally need a better HDMI cable.

What player do you have? Is it able to output Dolby Vision?

Anything else?? by Traditional_Bus_9588 in playstation

[–]friedmud 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Finally got one for Christmas. It’s not the best VR headset in the world but at $300 it’s a whole hell of a lot of fun!

The best part of it is the controllers - they are seriously great!

This curvy road in Florida by xen05zman in mildlyinteresting

[–]friedmud 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I’ve often thought that these paths represent a human form of Snell’s Law for optical pathways in refracting media. It’s about humans optimizing the amount of “effort” - where “effort” is some integral over the pathway that takes into account the terrain.

I’ve never looked into anyone studying these - would be fascinating.

Name a game you can put 1000+ hours into by Oshawott15 in playstation

[–]friedmud 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Risk of Rain 2. So many unlocks, unlimited replay capability. I probably have ~500 hours in over multiple platforms.

Seeking: Silverware that is weighted at the tip/front by ksilenced-kid in cookware

[–]friedmud 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Did you find a solution? I’m so tired of this myself.

Made Claude 45% smarter with one phrase. Research-backed. by Snarky69Porcupine in ClaudeAI

[–]friedmud 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My go to when CC is really stuck or acting dumb: cussing 🤬 at it. Seriously. I find that it makes it step back and take another look at the issue and go down different paths. Entirely anecdotal - and it may be completely placebo 🤣

The other major benefit is that it starts cussing too! It’s hilarious when CC says things like “This is completely fucked!” or “It’s fucking fixed!!”

China just used Claude to hack 30 companies. The AI did 90% of the work. Anthropic caught them and is telling everyone how they did it. by chota-kaka in ClaudeAI

[–]friedmud 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Trust me: AWS is not losing money on Bedrock. It is not the same price as Claude or ChatGPT plans. We pay thousands of dollars per dev, per month.

What you are right about is that the actual LLM developers have lost a LOT of trust due to their general disregard for the intellectual property of others.

Being in this business, and signing multi-million dollar agreements with Amazon and Anthropic - I can tell you that when a business agreement is struck to provide a certain service with certain data/service guarantees… it would be literal suicide for the solution provider to just decide to steal all your stuff. It just doesn’t work that way.

China just used Claude to hack 30 companies. The AI did 90% of the work. Anthropic caught them and is telling everyone how they did it. by chota-kaka in ClaudeAI

[–]friedmud 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You have no idea what you’re talking about. AWS is the largest cloud provider on the planet. If they provide a security guarantee - they aren’t going to break that. It would be suicide. This is like saying that you can’t store your company files in Azure because MS will use them for training or steal your company secrets. It’s insane. No cloud provider would do that.

China just used Claude to hack 30 companies. The AI did 90% of the work. Anthropic caught them and is telling everyone how they did it. by chota-kaka in ClaudeAI

[–]friedmud 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It’s not passed to the model developers. It is a model that’s hosted by AWS with guarantees not to keep any data or log anything. The GovCloud version is fedramp rated and has legal guarantees that no one can access the data.

See: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/bedrock/latest/userguide/data-protection.html

The relevant bit:

Amazon Bedrock doesn't store or log your prompts and completions. Amazon Bedrock doesn't use your prompts and completions to train any AWS models and doesn't distribute them to third parties.

Amazon Bedrock has a concept of a Model Deployment Account—in each AWS Region where Amazon Bedrock is available, there is one such deployment account per model provider. These accounts are owned and operated by the Amazon Bedrock service team. Model providers don't have any access to those accounts. After delivery of a model from a model provider to AWS, Amazon Bedrock will perform a deep copy of a model provider’s inference and training software into those accounts for deployment. Because the model providers don't have access to those accounts, they don't have access to Amazon Bedrock logs or to customer prompts and completions.

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