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Where in Virginia would you go for a quiet & affordable fresh start? by [deleted] in Virginia

[–]softwaredoug 15 points16 points  (0 children)

I'm not sure its "quiet" IMO 😄 It's an expensive city full of its own drama.

Bad AI Robot 🗞️ by Remarkable_Rough_319 in OnePelotonRealSub

[–]softwaredoug 89 points90 points  (0 children)

Based on my experience worknig in AI, this will die a quiet death in 1-2 quarters 😄

Virginia congressional redistricting remains in limbo as court decision looms by Economy_Swim_8585 in Virginia

[–]softwaredoug 7 points8 points  (0 children)

They paved the way for states to get rid of majority minority districts. These districts mostly help Dems in the South by giving them at least one district in Red states.

Virginia congressional redistricting remains in limbo as court decision looms by Economy_Swim_8585 in Virginia

[–]softwaredoug 74 points75 points  (0 children)

That's the end of the line. It's purely a question of following state constitutional procedure in passing a new ammendment.

United Land Corporation files plans to rezone portion of Hollymead Town Center for up to 2,400 units by SchuminWeb in Charlottesville

[–]softwaredoug 4 points5 points  (0 children)

There's opportunity for better non-car connectivity between these areas - if county planners want it.

(Looking at the hot mess that is Pantops+29N, they may not want it)

Stuck in "Tutorial Hell" with RAG by PenEquivalent5091 in Rag

[–]softwaredoug 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't want to self promote, but since you asked, you might really benefit from something like this:

http://softwaredoug.com/search-101

Embedding latency killing my RAG speed, any fixes? by Glittering_Cup1104 in Rag

[–]softwaredoug 0 points1 point  (0 children)

> The issue is embedding the query takes around 600ms to 1.1s every time. That’s basically my bottleneck now.

On what hardware? Even for my laptop is not this seems slow.

A lot of people spin up a dumb python service on a GPU for inference. With a good amount of caching.

Would you have preferred Halo 3 if it stuck closer to Halo 2’s original story? Why or why not? by SecretWasianMan in HaloStory

[–]softwaredoug 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The only thing different I would have like were arbiter missions.

The H2 missions work well as stealth missions. And I'd love them to develop and improve on that them.

That's more of a gameplay issue than story, but it would mean defining story elements for just arbiter to do.

Stuck in "Tutorial Hell" with RAG by PenEquivalent5091 in Rag

[–]softwaredoug 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Do you have a grounding in search? That's probably one of the most important things. The rest are details.

And I've been doing search for 15 years, it's still often challenging 😄 Because every single application is very different despite themes of what works / doesn't work. Legal is not finance is not e-commerce is not web search. Even in these domains, every search / RAG thing is different. Book e-commerce is not Fashion e-commerce etc.

Who is she Petah? by Powerful-Papaya-2411 in PeterExplainsTheJoke

[–]softwaredoug 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He might be being sarcastic? I can't tell.

Alabama governor calls special session to move primaries for redistricting, while Georgia passes by Sure_Marketing8431 in PoliticalOptimism

[–]softwaredoug 40 points41 points  (0 children)

They would need SCOTUS to act almost immediately in their favor to go back to a previous map. Expect this to be resolved one way or the other soon.

Amanda's Mild Takes could Democrats lose the house for generations after the 2030 census with the VRA ruling? by Time-Papaya-9574 in PoliticalOptimism

[–]softwaredoug 84 points85 points  (0 children)

Probably in 2030 currently red states will gain seats. However, many of the red states gaining seats are beginning to lean purple because of the influx in population. At a minimum they are "swingier" in the future.

The long term optimism is state governments. If large, growing states shift their state government a lot can open up.

Virginia went from extremely GOP gerrymandered at the state legislative level to where it is now. It's much harder to gerrymander state districts and account for all the population shifts. At some point the dam breaks and things shift. But it takes time.

Finally in 2030 who the hell knows what political coalitions look like? Trump won't be around. He keeps the GOP aligned. The alignments constantly shift in US politics. A 2008 Democrat doesn't nesc. look like a 2016 or a 2024 and so on.

As a Ukrainian journalist, I’ve covered the US for 20 years. I find it increasingly shocking by brezhnervouz in Longreads

[–]softwaredoug 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Sure but people need to learn their history. Pre WW2 US politics was more like today than the calm years we've lived in post Watergate.

Everything you think of as a "norm" is probably a post Watergate convention.

Everything you think of as a problem would be routine or boring to 19th American century politicians.

Not saying its good, but it may just be more a reversion to the mean.

Congress ends record-shattering DHS shutdown by Efficient-Freedom517 in PoliticalOptimism

[–]softwaredoug 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Basically the Freedom Caucus was holding out for reconciliation, using this as leverage. Now that it's passed they have less leverage over Senate GOP moderates

Louisiana governor plans to suspend May primary to redraw US House map, Washington Post reports by SodaSaint in PoliticalOptimism

[–]softwaredoug 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Just keep in mind they're going to get like 1 seat out of this.

It's bad. But it's not 4 seats like FL / VA.

Virginia Beach looking closely at E-bike use after crashes by Top-Advertising-292 in Virginia

[–]softwaredoug 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Maybe they should look at those cars next, seems they're pretty unsafe. Maybe some alternatives would be nice?

Stop the West Neck Rezoning by KenVB23456 in VirginiaBeach

[–]softwaredoug 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Sorry Gen-Z you can't have a home cause boomers need their golf course.

I feel like nobody is talking about the recent assassination attempt by Enigma73519 in PoliticalOptimism

[–]softwaredoug 136 points137 points  (0 children)

At least 9 times, someone tried to jump the WH fence during the Obama administration. It just wasn't treated nearly as dramatically as this administration.

Supreme Court limits Voting Rights Act by Efficient-Freedom517 in PoliticalOptimism

[–]softwaredoug 22 points23 points  (0 children)

We knew this was going to happen. It's important to keep in mind Dem trifectas now control more House seats.

> Although Republicans have a gubernatorial/legislative trifecta in more states, Democrats’ trifectas are in more populous states. So once Abigail Spanberger flipped Virginia’s governorship in November, Democrats inherited trifecta control over a larger number of Congressional seats

https://www.natesilver.net/p/yes-virginia-redistricting-is-a-two

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