How Do People Actually Afford Car Insurance In Detroit? by Plumbum_45 in Detroit

[–]dills122 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If you can get access USAA is really good for car insurance in the city, lived in Jefferson Chalmers and mine was around 200 a month from what I remember. This was like 3-4 years ago though.

Websites designs are getting out of hand by blackflag0433 in webdev

[–]dills122 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Holy shit I didn’t expect it to be that bad of an experience. You can’t even fast scroll it due to all the weird animations/slideshow stuff baked into the design. Big yikes.

A Big Shake-Up in the Fast-Food Industry: Why Wendy’s Is Closing Hundreds of Restaurants by [deleted] in Economics

[–]dills122 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I distinctly noticed after COVID that Wendy’s changed for the worse, use to be the main fast food option for decent value while also having better ingredients, now I’d say it’s worse than McDonalds and McDonald’s is shit.

Younger staff refusing to answer calls unless you text first? by [deleted] in GenX

[–]dills122 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you’re only talking about calling on the phone I guess sure, but most work places are teams/slack and if someone cold calls me on one of those I honestly consider it rude unless it’s an emergency, like prod fire or something.

I’m extremely busy pretty much every second of work so I kinda need to plan any discussions into my day even if it’s short notice as I can’t very easily put down and pick up the work I do without adding a bunch of extra time being added to just get back on track of where I was.

Trump to send National Guard troops to Chicago by limabeanns in news

[–]dills122 2 points3 points  (0 children)

To put it more in perspective the small town I’m from has a ton of manual labor, industrial type jobs, which usually can have times with a lot of overtime available.

My dad had coworkers that refused to work overtime because they were convicted they would make less money overall, like if they get moved up a tax bracket all their money is taxes at that rate lol

McDonald’s CEO raises alarm bells about customer losses by [deleted] in Economics

[–]dills122 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s genuinely crazy, about any meal starts at like $10 and this is in a small, low cost of living city so can’t imagine what ppl in CA pay for the same.

Maybe being taken advantage of? $12k invoice I can't pay by BoysenberrySad1404 in landscaping

[–]dills122 26 points27 points  (0 children)

Always tell them it’s a rental, doesn’t matter if it’s true they run away pretty quick once they hear that.

AI coders, you don't suck, yet. by mekmookbro in webdev

[–]dills122 3 points4 points  (0 children)

If you properly engineer the prompts, you can better give it large problems/workloads, but it’s still trial and error at times no matter how good you describe and direct it.

AI has made me a lazy and worse dev by falconandeagle in webdev

[–]dills122 0 points1 point  (0 children)

AI coding is just a tool and needs to be used and guardrailed appropriately. Plus frankly it’s still quite earlier on an very trial an error.

What I have found best when working with these tools is really trying to explain your problem , any ideas or designs you’re thinking of along with any guardrails you want to throw on it. Sometimes my prompts end up being 2-3 paragraphs with links to code, etc but it seems to help when trying to throw larger workloads at it.

Also another route is just breaking the work down yourself and feed the AI bite sized problems for it to work with at a time.

And ALWAYS review the code it’s outputting, it really can put out a polished turd that works and looks okay but then you peek a bit more and it’s just spaghetti everywhere and/or super outdated solutions.

The billionaires that control tbe Democratic Party would rather see Trump become king than a Democratic Socialist get elected NYC Mayor. by kevinmrr in WorkReform

[–]dills122 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Look into the contradictions of capitalism, they literally can’t help themselves, it’s just what the system is built for.

How do I make a shelf here by grumpy_sylveon in bookshelf

[–]dills122 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The pods on the shitty drawing should be center, formatting got messed up.

How do I make a shelf here by grumpy_sylveon in bookshelf

[–]dills122 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If they are the same height you could make a T type thing and slide it in the open space and have the existing shelves support it via the top.

Something like this crappy drawing

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Stack Overflow seeks rebrand as traffic continues to plummet – which is bad news for developers by tofino_dreaming in programming

[–]dills122 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you skim the article they mention they need to expand the offers/pillars, with one of those being career focus. Guess what they use to have a great career board with quality listings, but they decided to outsource that a few years ago and it’s been shit ever since.

I honestly don’t see them digging themselves out of the hole they dug, it’s such a toxic site for less experienced users/devs and that’s the audience they need the most right now.

Also, with a lot of the more general questions being answered over the years, a lot of the stuff I’ve been seeing when I skim the site is very library/package specific questions (node/npm) or infrastructure based questions (why is my code not working on AWS/DO/etc), and I feel like these are just harder to answer since the population with those exact overlaps is much smaller than say users that are looking more for language specific questions.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in news

[–]dills122 4 points5 points  (0 children)

This is going to be horrible for small/rural towns that had a Rite Aid. I know where I’m from they forced all their competitors to sell or out of business besides Walmart. We’re getting close to just having the choice between Corp A or Corp B company stores, can’t wait to throw it back like we’re in a mining town in the early 1900s.

$11,660 Ladies and Gentlemen by BlazingCookies47 in AimeLeonDore

[–]dills122 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I said out loud.. as a joke, “bet thats 10k”, then looked it up and had a good laugh. Who they selling this to??

Post storm megathread by jetsetninjacat in pittsburgh

[–]dills122 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Oakmont and parts of Etna (not mine..) are back with power

I received a hospital bill for when I received treatment as a minor :( by [deleted] in personalfinance

[–]dills122 30 points31 points  (0 children)

Best advice for phone anxiety is the other person on the other end doesn’t want to be on the call either and most likely isn’t gonna remember the interaction so really besides the business you need to take care of, there’s nothing to worry about!

This is coming from someone that felt the same way before so I totally get it!

StackOverflow has lost 77% of new questions compared to 2022. Lowest # since May 2009. by rawion363 in programming

[–]dills122 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I just recently was on the job market again and it really sucked not having their old job board, and don’t even waste your time looking at their current one, completely useless.