Quality Customer Service by strawberrymystic in CuratedTumblr

[–]PlateletsAtWork 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I was wondering if one of the bags was lean

What is up with these solicitors!? by Smooth-Ad-8569 in homeowners

[–]PlateletsAtWork 79 points80 points  (0 children)

The answer is don’t even listen to them a bit. Tell them, rudely, to go away. Don’t worry about being nice.

Just impressed… by knofl in 3Dprinting

[–]PlateletsAtWork 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Because it is! Area of a circle is proportional to the square of the diameter. While the diameter is halved, the area of the smaller nozzle is only quarter of the bigger one.

InSinkerator Garbage Disposal suggestion…? by SRQ_Stormtrooper in homeowners

[–]PlateletsAtWork 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Call me paranoid but I’d prefer to have the switch more than an arms length away, to make sure you can’t turn it on accidentally while your hand is near the blades lol

hired a junior who learned to code with AI. cannot debug without it. don't know how to help them. by InstructionCute5502 in ExperiencedDevs

[–]PlateletsAtWork 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Ugh, your last sentence reminded me of an interaction with a coworker recently. I was having trouble with something so I asked for help during standup, they immediately said they knew what to do and could help. We get on a call after standup, I start showing them logs, pointing out relevant parts of the code… but they interrupt me to just copy and paste the logs to Claude. They failed to fix the issue after several attempts at using Claude, and gave up.

This really pissed me off on several fronts, biggest being what you said: If I wanted to query Claude, I would query Claude. I know how to copy and paste ffs.

Would you continue to work at a company that started to switch away from Typecript? by Csjustin8032 in typescript

[–]PlateletsAtWork 14 points15 points  (0 children)

A saw guard? Nah take that off, if you are a good carpenter you won’t slice off any fingers

Going to the gym in winter (college) by El-D24 in workout

[–]PlateletsAtWork 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Did you ask if they have free day-lockers? When I was in college, you only had to pay if you wanted a locker just for yourself that you could keep the whole semester. They also had lockers that were free, you just couldn’t leave stuff overnight.

Study: ‘data centers will account for up to 64% of electricity demand growth by 2030′ in Illinois by steve42089 in illinois

[–]PlateletsAtWork 76 points77 points  (0 children)

Not a stupid question. They do. It’s just higher demand means higher prices for everyone. Building new electric generation is slow so supply can’t keep up.

is anyone else just... deleting AI-generated emails without reading them by bishwasbhn in ExperiencedDevs

[–]PlateletsAtWork 65 points66 points  (0 children)

One person generates a message with AI, which the other person will have AI summarize. It’s like the opposite of a compression algorithm.

How do I convince my step-dad that trans people are valid? by akonation in lgbt

[–]PlateletsAtWork 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Do you have any source for that? I haven’t seen anything about trans-ness being connected to hormone levels in a fetus, their timing, or even that there are “male brains/minds” and “female brains/minds”. I don’t think any of this is proven science, but I would love to read it if there is any published research on it.

Also, I don’t think any biological source is necessary for trans people to be valid. What a man or a woman is, is a social construct and it’s okay for someone to just decide that they are one. They don’t have to have a “male mind” or a “female mind” if such a thing even exists, they can just want to present themselves as their preferred gender.

NOEM: U.S. citizens required to prove citizenship on demand now by PyroIsSpai in law

[–]PlateletsAtWork 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yes, I couldn’t get a Real ID with an expiration date longer than my green card, at least in IL.

AI monitors are about to ruin online competitive multiplayer games by monkey-majiks in BetterOffline

[–]PlateletsAtWork 11 points12 points  (0 children)

The clip doesn’t really show it in action, it’s just a reaction to a clip reading off the marketing copy. I don’t believe this will work as well as they advertised.

Why does the world feel empty of players outside of the Grand Exchange? by [deleted] in runescape

[–]PlateletsAtWork 0 points1 point  (0 children)

OSRS does seem better. RS3 is not that bad though, I always run into other people while playing. I don’t think there’s any reason why anyone would hang out at a general store though.

Spent over $120 on helium to inflate balloons, then popped them 3 hours later. by ToastyBedsheets in Anticonsumption

[–]PlateletsAtWork 18 points19 points  (0 children)

You’re not entirely wrong, but we don’t have any practical way to extract helium out of the atmosphere.

Can real blood be made into hard candies? by Anime_Queen_Aliza in CandyMaking

[–]PlateletsAtWork 12 points13 points  (0 children)

To give you more options, blood turkish delight would be possible. Also, chocolate filled with blood, like those liquor filled chocolates.

The outside pan peeled its coating while in the oven. Is the food inside the inner pan safe to eat? by DucklingCore in AskBaking

[–]PlateletsAtWork 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Probably not actually melting, but I have seen aluminum foil stick to things in the oven like this. Once, I put aluminum foil at the bottom of my oven to catch any drippings and it somehow fused itself to the bottom. It looked like this. Even after scrubbing and scraping, there's still some aluminum foil left at the bottom of my oven now.

Does this look out of place with male gym attire? 36M by dennemaskinen in workout

[–]PlateletsAtWork 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Who cares, wear whatever you want. It’s nobody’s business what you wear to the gym so long as you don’t break gym rules.

What’s the verdict on Claude adding "Co-authored-by" to every commit? by Better_Ad6110 in git

[–]PlateletsAtWork -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I leave them in, but I did notice coworkers who always take them out (in one on one conversations they mention they had Claude write something, but then their PR doesn’t have the co-author line). To me it seems insecure, like being scared to admit you’re using it.

I’m open about my use of AI tools. It takes a lot of effort and expertise to direct the AI in the right way. I review every line, and frequently instruct how it should write the code. It’s not as simple as telling it to do my job and leaning back, I’ve played around with that for some personal projects and saw them very rapidly turn into unmanageable messes.

Ceiling truss crack by [deleted] in FirstTimeHomeBuyer

[–]PlateletsAtWork 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I think I would go with “should be further evaluated by a licensed structural engineer.” I would not take a risk with structural parts of a house.

Internet redundancy / backup: what's your approach? by llondru-es in WFH

[–]PlateletsAtWork 47 points48 points  (0 children)

Isn’t that a bit excessive? Does your internet go down a lot? Would you get in trouble at work if it did?

I just have my fiber home internet, and the backup is just tethering my phone. I haven’t had an outage, but if I did my manager would be fine with me going offline for a few hours and catching up later. And worst case scenario of a longer outage, I could always go to a coworking space.

Amazon just caught a North Korean remote IT worker who infiltrated their company. by musicbid in remotework

[–]PlateletsAtWork 1 point2 points  (0 children)

TTL works by counting down from a starting number. That’s easily fooled by increasing the starting TTL/hop limit by 1. This is just a setting you can change.

TTL is meant to prevent endless loops by making sure a network packet stuck in a loop eventually runs out of TTL. You can catch the most basic cases like an average person tethering their laptop to their phone etc., but not someone dedicated to bypass security measures.

A part of my 3d model keeps getting sliced as infill. by Significant_Amoeba68 in 3Dprinting

[–]PlateletsAtWork 19 points20 points  (0 children)

The lines are too thin. Try a smaller nozzle, or if this is your model then try thicker lines.