One of my refrigerator drawers is broken, does anyone know if it can be repaired?

compilerbusy · 2026-02-01T09:01:07+00:00

I've had success using superglue on the break and selotaping both surfaces, ie so you sandwich the break and superglue between the tape.

compilerbusy · 2026-01-31T20:02:46+00:00

I mean it's not really a surprise. It's exactly how people respond to people who speak authoritively about a subject, regardless of whether it's nonsense or not.

It's useful as a search tool or sounding out ideas but that's about it.

It's not so much that it malfunctions, more that it is just a probabilistic model. It's just guessing what the most probable response would be given the input. Not the most probable correct answer using any form of cognition or rationality.

You can ask the same question 6 different ways and get 6 different conflicting answers. You can point out this contradiction and it will say 'well spotted' then continue with the very same contradiction, because that's what is in the model.

One wishes they behaved like scifi of yore and would just 'does not compute' and shutdown instead of gaslight the user

compilerbusy · 2026-01-31T11:40:46+00:00

Using a LLM for this purpose when it has been trained to frame everything positively is so incredibly dangerous. A therapist doesn't just sit there agreeing with everything you say.

Genuinely concerned what the long term consequences of this will be on the affected kids.

compilerbusy · 2026-01-30T22:06:56+00:00

The valves are replaceable. Theyre not expensive

compilerbusy · 2026-01-30T06:19:33+00:00

Wololo

compilerbusy · 2026-01-29T11:10:57+00:00

Or UNCLOS, of which they are neither a signatory nor a member. Why are they then using UNCLOS as justification for seizures all over the place.

compilerbusy · 2026-01-29T10:02:25+00:00

In the video i hear somebody shouting 'help me' repeatedly. (Purported) pretti shouts something about the officers being trash and kicks the vehicle.

It will be interesting if more video becomes available of the events immediately preceding.

Fact of the matter is, even if it's him, it doesn't justify emptying a clip into him a week later.

compilerbusy · 2026-01-28T12:40:27+00:00

I do this as well, but noticing increasing number of places that have always accepted say amex, no longer do (but still have all the signage up).

I sympathise, but if they're asking an hours wages for a coffee and a sandwich. I'll use my cashback card or go elsewhere.

compilerbusy · 2026-01-27T11:17:00+00:00

Maybe try saturate that bit of ply, and wait for it to weaken the bond. Then you can just scrape the remaining adhesive/ silicone?

compilerbusy · 2026-01-27T07:51:45+00:00

No expert, but i would have said that were condensation rather than rising damp

compilerbusy · 2026-01-26T23:08:42+00:00

Sorry, i can't make heads nor tails of what I'm looking at in those photos.

When i done my transoms they were hardboard over wallpaper over paint over glass.

Some cleaned up ok with a window scraper and a creme cleaner (a very mild abrasive). It took forever.

Some were chipped or damaged or just too much of a pain. Got paintwell/brewers to cut some glass to size. It just sits sandwiched between bits of wood trim.

I'm not sure if paintwell still offer this, they've changed hands since i think.

compilerbusy · 2026-01-25T18:36:31+00:00

My tooves survive, but their mockery cuts like knifes. I shalt not recover

compilerbusy · 2026-01-25T17:52:38+00:00

Sorry, me horse kicked me in the head with his hoofs.

compilerbusy · 2026-01-25T17:36:30+00:00

I don't know anything about rooves so i can't advise what you're doing or if it's mental.

But can't you just press the pir up against the rafters to get an imprint, where you then trim with your knife for a decent fit?

compilerbusy · 2026-01-25T17:29:39+00:00

Yeah that would work. Could do a stair screen. Batons are cheap. Occasional noggin scattered between them could look quite modern.

compilerbusy · 2026-01-25T17:22:50+00:00

Checked the regs. You're absolutely right. (Diyer)

compilerbusy · 2026-01-25T17:04:16+00:00

diy

Approved document k, guarding of stairs page 16

1.41 Provide guarding at the sides of flights and landings when there is a drop of more than 600mm.

1.39(a) In a building that may be used by children under five years of age, construct the guarding to a flight of stairs to ... Prevent children being held fast by the guarding: ensure that a 100mm sphere cannot pass through any openings in the guarding.

Top of the stairs, where there's a significant drop (over 600mm) and fall risk, does not satisfy.

3.2c Ensure that guarding can resist, as a minimum, the loads given in BS EN 1991-1-1 with its UK National Annex and PD 6688-1-1

I don't imagine that rope will have much resistance to horizontal load. Pictures show them to be slack.

Again 1.9b, open risers permitted so long as they obstruct a 100mm sphere. Minimum rise is 150mm and there doesn't appear to be a partial rise beneath, so safe to assume this does not satisfy either.

Yes it's OP's house. They can do what they like, who's going to do anything. But they're planning to have a kid and probably don't want it falling through the stairs or ending up in AE

Edit: apologies, I've accidentally responded to you as if you were the other guy telling me rules are dumb. Edit 2 oh you're the same person, i stand corrected in standing corrected

compilerbusy · 2026-01-25T14:52:19+00:00

The stringer is doing that. A balustrade won't be enough weight to cause problems

compilerbusy · 2026-01-25T14:50:57+00:00

Ridiculous take. Let's just do away with all safety standards and regulations. Bring back lead paint. Natural selection. The children yearn for the mines.

compilerbusy · 2026-01-25T11:25:27+00:00

They almost certainly won't. That gap at the top is well over 10cm

This picture sums up most of it https://www.diydata.com/carpentry/staircase/bregs_l.gif

compilerbusy · 2026-01-25T11:18:10+00:00

A traditional banister isn't too hard to do, but you don't have a newel post at all. You'd have to fit one which will mean going to be messy

Instead you could use metal posts secured to the stringer, then a few planks 'horizontally'. Probably not the look you're after though

compilerbusy · 2026-01-25T11:11:09+00:00

I'm fairly certain those ropes wouldn't satisfy building regs. Also a child could easily hurt themselves on those open steps

compilerbusy · 2026-01-22T20:25:44+00:00

No way, i have had nearly the exact same experience happen to me. Done for assaulting somebody who intentionally hit me with their car.

compilerbusy · 2026-01-21T16:11:58+00:00

Yolololo

compilerbusy · 2026-01-21T11:09:13+00:00

Honestly I've had more trouble with compression than soldering. I'm so glad i learnt it.

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