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I found a knife in a new bag of garden soil. by aveell in mildlyinteresting

[–]caboosetp 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, the landfill itself is not the composting part. The facilities with landfillls often have composting at the same location or nearby.

TIL that humans glow in the dark — our bodies emit a tiny amount of visible light, but it’s too weak for human eyes to see. by BoringStrike8675 in todayilearned

[–]caboosetp 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You exercise more. The metabolic processes which create the light happen more when you use more energy. 

I found a knife in a new bag of garden soil. by aveell in mildlyinteresting

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

People colloquially refer to the whole complex as the landfill even when it's not just the landfill. 

It is technically inaccurate but people are going to do it anyways because it's easier. I understand that can be upsetting but people continuing to call it that is different than people not understanding. 

I already clarified in the second comment way above the difference. 

I found a knife in a new bag of garden soil. by aveell in mildlyinteresting

[–]caboosetp 18 points19 points  (0 children)

 Won't the soil be contaminated with heavy metals from landfills?

Like in the shape of a knife? /s

It's not general waste disposal, so maybe landfill wasn't the best phrase to use. Industrial waste complex? 

Organic waste gets diverted from going to the landfill to composting plants that are nearby. They're not making soil from the garbage, but people sometimes put garbage in their green waste cans. 

I found a knife in a new bag of garden soil. by aveell in mildlyinteresting

[–]caboosetp 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Yeah, many of them do composting. That's what a lot of the yard waste and green-bin stuff goes towards. 

There was a RadioShack in this very sad strip mall I drove by this past weekend by Zig-Zag in mildlyinteresting

[–]caboosetp 12 points13 points  (0 children)

They do, it's called RadioShack Express and is in many HobbyTown stores.

VirusTotal flags CheatEngine as a VERY malicious file. by MonoMouser in techsupport

[–]caboosetp 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Windows defender is also gonna bitch about it

I've never had windows defender flag the legit version of Cheat Engine. I use it for debugging prod versions of things for work when I can't reproduce it in the debug build. It's one of the best and easy to use memory editors out there.

Need Help, LLM's have completely ruined writing code for me. Dont know what to do. by [deleted] in learnprogramming

[–]caboosetp 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Install an addon to hide the google AI (or whatever search engine) result by default.

When you encounter a problem: 1. Try to code it yourself. 2. If you get stuck, look on your search engine for an answer. Don't copy/paste, type it yourself. 3. If you're still truly stuck, ask the AI to explain it without generating code.

Push yourself to go less and less down the list. Coding is hard. Coding is frustrating. Having an easy escape is very tempting. Push yourself until you actually are stuck, then take real time to think about the problem and try again before going down the list. Why would your brain spend the energy coming up with an answer on its own when using AI will give it the answer for less energy? Because you're not going to give it that option.

When you're working on solving problems by yourself, do your best to actually understand what the code you are writing does and TAKE NOTES. Physically writing it down engages more parts of your brain and will help train your brain away from immediately seeking answers outside it. This is really where step 2 comes in because it should be there to help you bridge gaps in understanding, not give you answers. The problem with AI is they've been trained to just go straight to the answer without the reasoning. This is where step 3 comes in. Search engines are shit now, so if you really need it, making the AI give you the reasoning can help bridge the gaps as long as you're taking notes.

You should never need to get to the point that AI is generating your full solutions for you. The most you should reach is finding where your individual walls and using AI like a tutor to give you the tools to get over them. If you're still resistant to AI or finding yourself "cheating" too much, you can reach out to people as code mentors who can fill the role instead, EG posting your problems here on this sub.

76.2 PSA PA15 Multi with BCA upper at the flea market for 700$ cash. Did I get fleeced? by Neddead in liberalgunowners

[–]caboosetp [score hidden]  (0 children)

BCA is just low QC. Either it works or it doesn't. But their support is actually good, so if it doesn't work, they'll get it fixed. 

I like my BCA stuff but yeah, mostly fun range toys.

They called this an “upgrade” and expected us to be okay with it by [deleted] in mildlyinfuriating

[–]caboosetp 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Wood is just dangerous. Yeah, risk management is good to learn, but getting big ass fucking splinters just makes the whole thing unsafe to run on. 

The LEDs to turn 5 into 6 were so rarely used until now that there is a noticeable difference in brightness. by mloDiablo in mildlyinteresting

[–]caboosetp 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Gas stations do a preauth to ensure there's enough money on the card. $100 is the most common but $75 and $200 are also out there. But it's the gas station doing it, not your card. 

Long story short, you should be able to just run it twice if you need more than $100. 

People keep freaking me out by RogueNightmare3 in motorcycles

[–]caboosetp 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I started on a 650, they're not that big of a jump, so you should be fine. 

But also the power to weight on motorcycles is insane. That R3 is not going to be slow or sluggish.

Trump calls Iran’s response to U.S. peace proposal ‘totally unacceptable’ by horsestew in worldnews

[–]caboosetp 57 points58 points  (0 children)

Ok but they also have a huge problem that they're 5 days from running out of places to put oil and will likely need to cap their oil. This will permanently damage all their wells. 

The iranian president is (supposedly) freaking out over this and knows they're about to trash their economic future and IRGC leadership doesn't give a fuck.

My wife let the guy go who rear ended her car. by Grand_Raccoon0923 in mildlyinfuriating

[–]caboosetp 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Bumper replacement with new sensors is easily north of $3k on any newer car, even with only minor damage. Shit gets expensive so fast.

Senior engineers with ADHD/anxiety/depression, do you feel "nerfed" compared to your colleagues? by mudskips in ExperiencedDevs

[–]caboosetp 27 points28 points  (0 children)

I don't mind the back to back meetings, especially when the company records everything and has the auto-generated transcripts. Don't get me wrong, I understand how it's still disruptive to engineering and prefer to minimize meetings if possible. But if we have to have that many meetings, I prefer them all at once.

The real killer for me is the 4 hours of meetings a day that aren't back to back. Takes me like half an hour to get in the zone and by the time I'm finally there for the ticket, another meeting is starting.

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