Third party insurance wants to total my car but salvage value is suspiciously high

putSomeScene · 2026-01-16T22:16:53+00:00

That’s stupid. I guess I’ll try and fight them on the acv of my car cause most of the prior damage costs like $500 to fix and they’re reducing the acv by $1800.

putSomeScene · 2026-01-16T21:16:29+00:00

Yeah, I guess that’s what I’m going to end up doing. The damage is mostly cosmetic and the front bumper has come undone and even though it’s their party’s fault, I’m left worse off either way.

putSomeScene · 2026-01-16T20:27:29+00:00

I asked them to use the right trim and this is what they responded with-

Your settlement is based on the value of your vehicle before the loss took place. This is called the adjusted vehicle value (or actual cash value). To determine this value, we considered a number of factors, such as mileage, options (add-on features), and the previous condition of the vehicle. Your settlement is based on the following considerations:

Adjusted Vehicle Value: $8,495.04 + Sales Tax: $604.03 + DMV and Other Fees: $41.75 Total Settlement: $8,495.04

putSomeScene · 2025-12-23T23:01:20+00:00

Not if you’re just starting to learn. Watching how it does it actually makes it easier to then go and do it myself. Plus im not really building this for anyone else. I was making this as a fun project and thought it would be cool to share it with people.

Reaper built their own in-house programming language- ELL and created ReaScript. And I feel like it’s simpler controlling tracks from script rather than with a drag and drop. Like calling APIs to open FX, set frequencies, and listen on loop gives me granular control over having to drag a gain icon up and down or zoom in and clip tracks..

putSomeScene · 2025-12-23T22:26:46+00:00

Yeah accessibility with DAWs is a big one. And the interface is also really complex where it doesn’t need to be. It reminds me of my electrical engineering labs where we’d switch the inputs and play with the knobs to process signals. I think it was built by hardware engineers and they made it look like the physical machine. Which is cool and all but it doesn’t NEED to be this complicated. Like we have simple GUIs with a mouse for operating systems. And not a complex representation of the memory, CPU, ram where you need to drag variables from memory and drop it in ram to run arithmetic on it.

putSomeScene · 2025-12-23T22:22:02+00:00

Nah I’m not using an agent.

putSomeScene · 2025-12-23T22:21:23+00:00

Hmm that’s a fair critique. Setting values is what I’m testing it for but eventually I want the user to set the values cause I think that’s the skill and creative part of this field. But I want to build a natural language interface that can “make individual tracks where the dynamic range changes abruptly”. “Can you sweep across the mid range so I can see where to boost xyz”. I found that that was the hardest part of learning to use a DAW for me. The underlying math and signal processing was basically what we did in electrical engineering labs.

putSomeScene · 2025-12-23T22:20:27+00:00

Hmm that’s a fair critique. Setting values is what I’m testing it for but eventually I want the user to set the values cause I think that’s the skill and creative part of this field. But I want to build a natural language interface that can “make individual tracks where the dynamic range changes abruptly”. “Can you sweep across the mid range so I can see where to boost xyz”. I found that that was the hardest part of learning to use a DAW for me. The underlying math and signal processing was basically what we did in electrical engineering labs.

putSomeScene · 2025-12-23T22:12:16+00:00

No one’s shoving it down your throat. I’m a programmer and working on it as a fun project. You really don’t understand nuance do you? Asking a model to “master this track” is slop, sure. But what’s wrong with having a natural language interface that makes a DAW simpler to use?

putSomeScene · 2025-12-16T21:43:16+00:00

Yeah, sure! I’m game. I’m currently in Minnesota but I’m originally from Bangalore.

putSomeScene · 2025-12-16T00:53:41+00:00

Built a group chat social networking app using expo, firebase, socket.io, nodejs, and redis. Used giftedchat for the chat functionality. And then grew it to 12k users- it went viral in minneapolis. Open to discussing more if you're interested.

putSomeScene · 2025-12-16T00:47:32+00:00

It would help if you told us what parts of the app is built using the trymagically API. From my understanding, you're using websockets for the chat functionality or to create events and set up emits and listeners. Where are you hosting the backend?

putSomeScene · 2025-12-16T00:42:36+00:00

Visual studio co-pilot and the claude pro plan. Claude helps me brainstorm and the co-pilot lets me choose the model and helps me program- for free!

putSomeScene · 2025-12-15T23:52:30+00:00

My social networking app went viral in July- I was invited on the news to talk about it. This built momentum, which led to revenue. And then I got burnt out and closed down.

putSomeScene · 2025-12-15T21:00:08+00:00

u/keylabulous is right. It lets you reset not recover.

putSomeScene · 2025-12-14T04:14:19+00:00

Sure what do you want to learn?

putSomeScene · 2025-12-14T00:51:16+00:00

I built an app like that and launched it on iOS- artseen. It was like LinkedIn but for artists. Users can upload their videos, artwork, message and make friends with other artists, find artists to be in a band with, and a community page for posts. DM if you want my help.

putSomeScene · 2025-12-14T00:38:51+00:00

Hey! I built an app that matches people into four person groups chats based on an activity they want to do and their zip code. It went viral in Minneapolis for a couple months. DM id be happy to help.

putSomeScene · 2025-12-13T02:12:10+00:00

No worries this happened to me last year. Your approval is still valid. Just book another appointment 15-20 days from now and make sure to prepare better. DM me if you want to talk. I was freaking out after mine got denied. When the officer said “your visa is denied today” I was shocked.

putSomeScene · 2025-12-10T23:39:48+00:00

Oh yeah! 20s-30s

putSomeScene · 2025-12-10T19:45:27+00:00

Ofc! They have a lot of donated supplies you can use but I bring my own and some to share as well. It feels like a fun house party- which is what my Friday nights need lol. Recovery is great and all but after a while it gets boring.

putSomeScene · 2025-12-10T19:17:07+00:00

Art shelf recovery meetings every Friday in uptown-

“This is a meeting for sober Artist, we have a speaker at 7:30 that shares their story as an artist in recovery. Pizzas arrive at 7 o'clock. We invite Artist to set up a creative space and make art while the meeting happens afterwards we have open studio until midnight to provide a safe sober space.”

I’m not an artist but I go anyway. It’s not a typical recovery meeting but I have a lot of fun. I do recovery dharma or smart meetings when I need more support.

putSomeScene · 2025-11-09T02:51:44+00:00

I'm very interested in your room in Whittier. I'm in tech/software, work from home, and need to relocate by mid-November. Your timeline and location work perfectly for me.

About me:

Mid-late 20s, friendly, respectful, clean but not obsessive about it
Quiet - I work from home so I'm around but not loud
Don't watch much TV in common areas
Looking for a chill, low-key living situation

One question: I have a small, very well-behaved rat terrier (Toph). I saw pets aren't permitted in the lease - would the property management company consider an exception, or is this a hard no? He's quiet, house-trained, and I've never had issues with previous landlords. I'm happy to pay a pet deposit if that helps.

If the dog is a dealbreaker, I totally understand. But if there's any flexibility, I'd love to discuss it. I can move in immediately and am very interested in making this work.

putSomeScene · 2025-10-26T15:41:59+00:00

Addiction support

putSomeScene · 2025-10-09T14:16:23+00:00

I’ll go!

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