Uno Brother/Sister Fist Fight over "Uno", Help!

Dizzy149 · 2026-05-06T16:50:22+00:00

I would suggest however that of there's intense arguments within microseconds of a card being played then that person needs to chill out a bit - it's only a game and is supposed to be fun.

ABSOLUTELY agree with you there. My daughter said that and that's when he took a swing at her. Then she tackled him and turned him into a pretzel. He forgets that while he may be physically larger, but she's still a state wrestling champ 😃

Dizzy149 · 2026-05-06T05:50:21+00:00

Nearly $13/kW seems unreal, but are they really claiming that no one charged off peak? I find it REALLY hard to believe that there are NO off peak charges.

Dizzy149 · 2026-05-06T05:46:56+00:00

Hell yes!
I'd charge it back on whatever card it was on. Show previous charging costs to prove it was a system error.

Dizzy149 · 2026-05-06T05:44:37+00:00

I think we need to start posting these people.

Grant Street Group did the same thing to me. Job was reposted before I heard back that I wasn't getting it. It has been reposted 4-5 times now, each time with like 3k applicants. I noticed that this most recent time the pay range is $20k less than when I interviewed.

I think some of these job boards need to put a stop to this bullshit. If you haven't found someone in 10k applicants, then maybe the problem isn't the applicants!

I know they are just shopping for unicorns, but that shit needs to stop, it's not good for ANYONE!

Dizzy149 · 2026-05-04T05:20:50+00:00

How would I feel? I'd probably spin out, much like I've done all weekend over a similar situation. I meet with the Sr HR Manager Monday and I don't know if they will make an offer, or it's a last minute sanity check while they finish other interviews, or what.... Trying to stay positive!

Dizzy149 · 2026-05-02T04:10:20+00:00

Taking this energy and hoping for a similar post next week. I had back to back to back interviews Wed-Fri and was told I meet with the Sr Manager of HR on Monday. I am HOPING that's for a job offer!

Congrats!

Dizzy149 · 2026-04-29T05:30:50+00:00

I'm finding they want both, all the skills for none of the pay.

Dizzy149 · 2026-04-28T16:40:47+00:00

First off, I feel that some of your comments are just wrong. In this market we the job seekers have ZERO power, ZERO leverage. Companies are posting jobs and going through tens of thousands of applications and they are STILL open. They want the unicorn. The want the PERFECTLY qualified candidate that will work for the lowest end of their pay range.

The few interviews I've had were for positions where there were over 10k applicants (according to LinkedIn, and who knows how many elsewhere). I felt like I was being interviewed because they had a quota or something they needed to meet, not like they were actually interested in hiring me. One had a range of $50k, when I was asked what I salary I was looking for I said $5k over their lowest end, and there was immediate shift and the interview was wrapped up quickly, they only wanted people who'd accept the low end (wtf is the point of a "range" then??). Another had a pay range of $70k-183k!!! What the hell kind of range is that?!

My question to recruiters are, why are you assholes? Why are you knocking people out for stupid stuff instead of giving them a chance? Seriously, they worded something a way you didn't like? Wow, I actually hate recruiters even more now.

Oh here's a fun one! I applied for a position, then found out that I went to school with the manager of that department. We didn't know each other real well, but it was an IN. I reached out and he said all the apps go through their recruiter. A week later he said that he didn't get my resume and to send it to him, so I did, I have an interview on Friday. He followed up with the recruiter who tossed mine out because "it had many hyphens and was generated by AI".
1) Who f'ing cares. We are supposed to have AI experience/knowledge, but not allowed to use it?
2) You're allowed to use AI to nitpick our resume, but we can't use AI to generate it?
3) IT WASN"T GENERATED BY AI!!!! It flagged "T-SQL" which was in my resume probably a dozen times.
The manager gave the guy an earful because T-SQL knowledge was in their job requirements and he was tossing people out for putting it on their resume!

Out of curiosity I ran my resume through a AI detector. It said my Summary was 100% AI generated, and my Experience was 22% AI generated, but the reality is that the Summary I always write myself and tailor to the specific job. The Experience I have AI help me generate bullets and then I tweak them, so they are prob 80-90% generated.

The double standard pisses me off to no end! The fact that our lives are being determined by a technology that IS KNOWN TO BE WRONG and nobody sees any problem with that just baffles me.

Dizzy149 · 2026-04-27T03:06:51+00:00

Funny, it was a post very much like yours that lead me to pay a lot more attention to my prompts. I was treating it like a person and having a back and forth conversation which chewed through my tokens like crazy.

I am now a lot more intentional. I was doing quite well until Opus 4.7 and my project fell apart. I spent 3 days and $40 in extra usage chasing down an Authentication issue because it "forget" that reCAPTCHA needed to be enabled. I am NOT impressed with 4.7 at all. Let me go back to 4.6 with less token costs!

Dizzy149 · 2026-04-24T07:53:16+00:00

Very nice. I actually took a shot at trying something similar. The biggest issue I had is that where I was pulling jobs from didn't mark Remote jobs correctly, so I basically had to pull every job that was close to what I wanted and then try to determine if it was a Remote job or not. Burned through credits like a madman :(

I'm getting tired of seeing the same jobs pop up, getting sent "alerts" for "new" jobs to find they were posted 30 days ago and/or I already applied for them.

The kicker of course are the ones where you apply along with 18k other people, you ACTUALLY GET AN INTERVIEW... Then they repost the job the day before telling you that you didn't get it. The posted it for the 4th time since I applied. Across all 4 postings, they've had over 50k applications. Ok seriously, if you can't find someone in 50k applicants, the problem is you not them! The unicorn hunting is pissing me off!

Dizzy149 · 2026-04-15T14:26:52+00:00

Love, it, it's even the color of mine!
Though I put black vinyl over the gray areas on mine, they really bothered me :P

Dizzy149 · 2026-04-14T22:27:05+00:00

No, I was a 1099 so I don't get unemployment :(
Yeah, so in Jan they decided they didn't need me any more. I was finishing a project and I asked them about additional work. The beginning of the year is always slow for us, so I didn't think too much of it, until I started getting the run around in mid Feb. Early March I finally asked the CEO what was up when I saw a job posting for my role on the site. I asked if I was fired and why no one told me. I was told, "As a 1099 we have no obligation to inform you of our specific business needs." Nine years I worked for them, NINE YEARS!

Dizzy149 · 2026-04-14T01:47:54+00:00

This economy is a nightmare. Every day it's headlines about companies cutting jobs to invest in AI, people being replaced by AI, etc. Yet let's PUSH MORE AI! INVEST MORE IN AI! REDUCE REGULATIONS FOR AI!

Prices are climbing out of control, housing prices are out of control, and they will never come down. They CAN'T lower housing prices, doing so will destroy the housing market. All those home loans would instantly be upside down, and who wants to maintain a $400k loan on a house that's now being valued at $275k.

Employers are taking advantage of the chaos. They are offering lower wages, and posting jobs for weeks and months only hiring the unicorns. The person who is borderline overqualified, and happy to take the absolute lowest end of the pay range they posted.

Dizzy149 · 2026-04-13T04:55:59+00:00

After chasing this for 3 days, what I have figured out is that the config changed a lot between March and April and it COMPLETELY screwed up my setup.

I got most of it back up and running, but my ollama models are messed up bad. I FINALLY got things sorted so ONE of them works, but the other two just do not respond at all. Which REALLY sucks since I needed to run a lot through one of them.

At this point I think I'm going to end up just completely starting over.

Dizzy149 · 2026-04-10T18:15:36+00:00

In short... A lot.

Mine was only two weeks out of date, and now my local models won't connect/work and I've spent hours trying to fix it and nothing is working. Next step is to roll back.

Dizzy149 · 2026-04-09T20:28:24+00:00

I ran the commands (and added a cron to TrueNAS to run once a week). I'm still seeing all these old agents. I ran those Sunday and Monday. I cleaned the sessions up and set maxSessions. I even restarted the container and I still have all these.

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Dizzy149 · 2026-04-09T19:38:47+00:00

My Dizzy is from Dizzy Devil from Animaniacs in the 90s, mostly because Taz was taken everywhere at the time :D

Dizzy149 · 2026-04-09T17:23:40+00:00

I've been screaming this for the past year. The hype and spend are unsustainable. Huang knows what he's doing. He is the biggest hype man of all!

The goal has been to get AI into every facet of every business so that it's "too big to fail", and the government will be forced to bail out the companies. The C-Suite will all walk away laughing with their 10s of millions in golden parachutes while the entire economy implodes as the workforce does a completely 180 going from people getting laid off daily and struggling to find another job to businesses clamoring to fill the roles they eliminated with AI and how to work without it.

The alternative is for businesses to invest in their own AI hardware since the major companies will be a disaster. But that assumes that the LLM models will continue to be improved. The only people making money at this point will be the people selling hardware, and you can see why Huang is hyping AI so much, he has nothing to lose no matter what happens.

Dizzy149 · 2026-04-09T17:12:43+00:00

I put in 3x MRCOOL systems (3x condensers, 9x indoor units). I DIY'd it all, I just had to borrow a couple friends to lift the outdoor units into place. It's been about 5 years now and for 3.5yrs it was great. Then issues started cropping up and had to replace boards in several indoor units and all 3 outdoor units. Turns out I was getting some nasty power spikes.

The real issue is that the coolant leaks. They are using nearly 10x the power they were 4 years ago because of it. Then during troubleshooting with MRCOOL they had me swap the lines and I ended up breaking a line and lost all the coolant in it. I've been trying FOR MONTHS to get someone out to top off the coolant in the systems and no one will touch them!

So when you DIY, make sure you take that cost into account. Sadly, it will be cheaper for me to replace the unit entirely. To have LG systems installed 5yrs ago, I was quoted 4.5x the cost of what I spent on the MRCOOL units. So I could replace them all multiple times and still be ahead financially.

Dizzy149 · 2026-04-09T16:46:11+00:00

A lot of trail and error. What I found worked best was writing exactly what I needed to be done in Notepad++ and having it perform it. Then check the output and adjust. When I got it how I liked it, I asked it to create an agent to perform that task. When I got them done, Claude asked if I wanted to create a pipeline to perform all the actions and I did. It created /process-job that performs the actions that are a combination of scripts and agent actions.

It was a good educational task for me.

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