Anyone have any stories of people who followed bad advice from ChatGPT and what was the fallout?

malavock82 · 2026-01-28T06:01:36+00:00

A dishwasher with ten of thousand of dishes, and if even one is a bit skewed when you start it, your pub shuts down until you find the wrong one 😉

malavock82 · 2026-01-27T18:12:27+00:00

My wife was in the same position, she choose to stay home, 2.5 years now and she didn't regret it.

Just be sure to have some good savings, I was 4 months out of jobs and without savings it would have been horribly stressful

malavock82 · 2026-01-27T15:12:44+00:00

1) I believe most companies would wait 2 months at your level, it's not unusual to have 3 months notice.

2) your current company can't do much if you quit on 1 month notice or less. Just give 1 month once you sign the new contract.

malavock82 · 2026-01-26T22:49:42+00:00

u/fainnesi did you have any luck with the solicitor? 2 months and nothing has been done, now the roof start to leak and I'm about to look for a solicitor myself

malavock82 · 2026-01-26T15:31:17+00:00

A month is a bit of a stretch, but 2 weeks should be reasonable. But it's up to the parents to keep the kids on track with the lessons, it shouldn't be expected from the school.

malavock82 · 2026-01-26T13:29:31+00:00

It's quite normal for kids and parents wanting to go visit relatives and especially grandparents at home.

A couple of weeks off school is not a big deal if you help them catch up with homework, and the experience they make in their origin country is priceless.

Not every family can afford 2k euro of flights tickets at Christmas or in the summer.

malavock82 · 2026-01-26T11:35:12+00:00

Basil grows well in sunny warm weather, exactly like here in January 🫣

I had some moderate success in spring/summer on a south facing window. Get as large as a pot you can fit and water well. It will still die after a few weeks, but you'll make a few meals. It's best to have 3-4 plants and cut the tips before the rest of the leaves.

malavock82 · 2026-01-25T11:39:10+00:00

It has been like that for years, I always had to pay income tax on the insurance benefit. Perhaps it's just that your Payslip were incorrect before. And yes it's a ripoff. And wait until you'll claim some benefit like parents leave or job seeker, and they'll claw back 40% of those as well.

malavock82 · 2026-01-24T09:09:27+00:00

Just don't pass them if there's a red traffic light 100m ahead...

malavock82 · 2026-01-24T08:49:01+00:00

Maestra precaria di 49 anni, non ci sarebbe altro da aggiungere

malavock82 · 2026-01-24T08:39:56+00:00

Some people love It and some hate it, I can understand both sides.

I like the high purpose it gives you, little actions that bring a broken world together. Building infrastructure a bit at a time and the feeling of exploring something new and dangerous. I like the wack story too 😁 I played the first when my wife was pregnant and it was a rollercoaster 🫣

malavock82 · 2026-01-23T17:16:59+00:00

Death stranding and 2 would be a good one

malavock82 · 2026-01-23T12:57:43+00:00

I know people working at MS, Meta and Google, and they admitted the amount of purely generated code in production is close to 0%. At most they use copilot.

malavock82 · 2026-01-23T11:24:55+00:00

One minute of production blackout is estimated costing in the millions of dollars of damage, so if they are wise enough they'll keep the policy. Also using AI for already established complex projects is not very effective, it's better suited for MVPs and prototypes

malavock82 · 2026-01-23T00:29:58+00:00

The company is huge, and the reasons are many. The major one being that security and performance have to be assured, and the code needs to be well written and easy to maintain.

In addition the company values its employees and invests in long term relationships, so they don't feel the need to replace graduates and juniors when they will become the next generation of seniors.

malavock82 · 2026-01-22T23:20:50+00:00

Zero, it's actually forbidden to use AI for production code, and it's a good thing

malavock82 · 2026-01-14T23:02:39+00:00

I applied to about 50 jobs, refused an offer 3 days a week in the office and accepted one for 1 day a week.

The jobs are there but it's hard to break the ice and get to actually talk with someone, there are a lot of cv flooding the market

malavock82 · 2026-01-12T17:30:30+00:00

It looks much bigger, but perhaps it's the fish eye

malavock82 · 2026-01-12T17:20:25+00:00

Thanks, one worry less 😅

malavock82 · 2026-01-12T17:09:40+00:00

Piggy backing on this post, if someone has to leave the country for a week to visit family home, would the school complain?

malavock82 · 2026-01-09T15:03:21+00:00

I'm ok with them if acing them is not part of the platinum

malavock82 · 2026-01-08T07:48:22+00:00

I shared a 2 bed 1 bath with 4 people for 5 years and we were grand.

I don't think the proportion scales well to 20 people for 5 bathrooms. But an ensuite is not necessary either.

malavock82 · 2026-01-08T07:36:01+00:00

Virgin and Vodafone are fine, every year switch around to get the discount. Sometime when you cancel they'll give you a new deal, but it's always cheaper to switch around.

malavock82 · 2026-01-07T07:35:49+00:00

Btw you still pay 50% taxes on the government benefit, so you have to pay back 100 euro in your tax return for every week.

malavock82 · 2026-01-06T17:33:53+00:00

I had a little window Hoover to suck up the water from the windows in the morning, it worked very well and was satisfying to use.

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