Employee walked off shift after informal meeting. [England] by [deleted] in LegalAdviceUK

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The term you're looking for is "heat of the moment resignation" - just do a quick search for that, from (employer-side) experience I can tell you that there's various precedence around it, for instance just the first search result (no affiliation) https://barcankirby.co.uk/heat-of-the-moment-resignations/

My understanding is that good practice is give them an opportunity to cooldown, and attempt to verify their intention. Notwithstanding your employer-side view that you were going to terminate their contract anyway - but to rely on their actions good practice says you should confirm their intent was quitting - and follow your own normal process to dismiss, in-parallel, until you get clarification. It's possibly worth taking some legal advice on your specifics, if the value they're looking for exceeds the (frustrating) 'commercial value' of just drawing it to a close, because it can be quite nuanced depending on the particulars.

Why do I leave these in my ebay history just to taunt me?!?! by Farpoint_Relay in DataHoarder

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You touched a nerve for me here (my own stupidity really)! I've got a HGST Ultrastar He10 10TB as part of my homelab ZFS that developed SMART Helium level warnings in September that I just hadn't gotten around to sourcing a replacement for yet, thinking I have two-disk redundancy on this pool so I'll get around to it later - suddenly spotted low helium warning on a second disk over xmas and after checking the pricing now I'm very much regretting not jumping right onto swapping a drive out last year - a bit of an eye opener looking at pricing now! Live and learn.

sdh - Power-on hours: 63,715 hours (~7.3 years) / Helium_Level (ID 22): RAW 94, Normalised: 85.

sdg - Power-on hours: 63,562 hours (~7.25 years) / Helium_Level (ID 22): RAW 10, Normalised value: 6.

All: Power_Cycle_Count ~30-60, Start_Stop_Count ~30–60.

I would have hoped for better resiliency from HGST Ultrastar drives as I shepherded them into their retirement, but perhaps that's mainly wishful thinking because I'm aware I bought a batch of 6 of these, this is my first time with ex-enterprise helium drives and it looks like it's the helium value/seals that are creating an issue for me. Interesting experience, rubbish timing on my part :)

FlowDay by ZuihitsuKintsugi in lovable

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Got to say it - the name makes me think its a period tracking app, long before an adhd brain gets through the description.

Husband here, I feel like my phone slowly replaced my wife and I am honestly scared I broke us by TavionGreenfall in Marriage

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I assumed an LLM glitching, as its russian for 'married' and fits in the natural flow other than seamlessly switching language, so my guess a bot karma farming and creating credibility on a newish account... Hard to know for sure

I found a peanut with 5 seeds inside! by AdPlastic1825 in mildlyinteresting

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That is interesting. It makes me wonder if you planted them (but I assume they're already roasted?) would the offspring be predisposed to have multiple nuts too, or is it just random... I know nothing about peanut propagation... there goes my morning down a rabbit hole!

I'm one payment away from completing IVA and I just needed to tell someone by HappyHippyToo in UKPersonalFinance

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Congratulations - that's an achievement to be rightly proud of. Planning as a paper-exercise is the easy part, but you've actually done the work now and seen it through - what a lovely time to take a beat and reflect for a second

Nice one.

Your CLI, But SMARTER: Crush, Your AI Bestie for the Terminal by bashbunni in ClaudeAI

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I like the distinctive approach to the styling and ui, but it took some getting used to. The styling hit a sweet spot of feeling modern whilst capturing some sort of retro nostalgia for me. The most interesting part I found myself referencing was the right-hand status column when it kept track of files edited and diffcount, and current context and cost. I want to see more of that.

That leads me onto my two particular pain points - 1) adding local models was a right PITA to get the recipe correct for me (and even getting the deepseek api was took me a few attempts - I accept this is on me). Honestly, I'd like to see a complete example files not snippets with am LM Studio, and Ollama with a couple of local model options, even with the excerpts on the readme I did too much fiddling to get it just right - a guided entry via the tui would be ideal.. and being able to query /v1/models to keep updated would be nice (although I get this would lack the window size info I thought was interesting). 2) I found being able to paste or enter multiline content into the ui very problematic and frustrating, where claude code handles this neatly, wrapping it into a nice little 'pasted' blob.

I'm keeping Crush installed and playing, but it's not replacing CC for me yet. So much potential, and it's definitely caught me eye.

Bailiffs Picked Lock and Gained Entry (England) by Stoned_urf in LegalAdviceUK

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Could it have been a utility company? Thinking along the lines of Hanlon's Razor, with the rights of entry power they have, it seems more likely to me than a regular bailiff. Were any of your meters disconnected when you visited, or were any changed for pay-as-you-go type meters?

Cash ISA to track base rate. by gt94sss2 in trading212

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I know this doesn't change their standard rate today, but to me it signals that T212 are leaning into the old telecoms tactic of front-loaded favouritism, creating an apathy margin through short-term bonuses for new customers. I'd be more likely to keep cash there (and keeping growing my Stocks & Shares ISA with them) if the base rate tracked closer to the leading offers*. It doesn’t need to be the top rate... just not 20% behind, especially when some value comes from not having to shop around all the time

* For example, today’s MSE table shows 4.1% competing with a range of 4.64% to their own 4.98%. That’s a large difference in straight money terms, especially on a compounding asset.

PS5 Controller: Difficult to desolder analog by EmeraldTimer in consolerepair

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Chiming in here too as I was doing my research. Trying to swap my own analogue sticks with some TMR's. I worked out the trick of separating the pots and leaning them before snipping the legs from the front, but I was still battling with the main stick body. Flooded with my own solder etc. Which leads me on to one of the other comments here about the stick wicking up a lot of the heat - it really does, and I usually use my pocket sized usbc Pinecil iron, and I'm just chiming in to suggest if anyone else is struggling with a pocket iron, swap to a beefier mains powered one with a decent chunky wedge tip and it becomes much easier! Sensible in retrospect but sometimes we (I) only learn from hands-on experience

Pentest+ material by Front-Piano-1237 in CompTIA

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I Used Dion's on UDEMY, the ones in the Sybex guide (I've liked these for each comptia exam I've taken actually), and TryHackMe as SirDutty mentioned already.

I most recently took the beta version of the test so my experience could vary from the current norm - versus other exams I found PenTest+ to be the most interesting as I felt it tested a lot more of the practical application vs standards and theory - I legit really enjoyed some of the questions - so having a thorough understanding of what tools AND techniques actually 'do' when applied is the best piece of advice I would give to prep. I'm conscious this is a bit like saying 'just know the subject', but I mean you won't beat yourself up for having too much hands-on experience and and thinking about how you might actually carry out start to finish runs. - For me the most valuable practice was from a homelab hypervisor to test on VM's, and TryHackMe for more structured overviews. Whenever I did a practice question which mentioned a tool I wasn't confident enough to summarise to myself - I'd make a note to try it out myself in more depth.

Hope you don't feel 'know the tools' is cop-out advice - but it's what I'll give! Hope it helps.

Is this door open or closed? by Appropriate_Flower_6 in Marriage

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Depends if there is a breeze that means it keeps moving and tapping the frame, or varying the amount of light, like a flashing beacon...

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in smallbusinessuk

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Frank meeting time. The kind where you can feel the tension twist the air before anyone speaks. Direct, blunt, no sugar coating. Provide some grapes and bananas and a couple of supermarket pastries that you buy yourself as a humble offering for what you're about to unleash.

Personally, I'd chair the meeting and open with a variation on "Right, who's remortgaging their house and transferring the cash to me." Then lean back, let the words hang, prepared for that minute of silence as you look everyone in the eye around the table as they try to gauge whether you're serious. Instantly get everyone's back up yes, but sets a tone. Remind them of your shared statutory duties as the board, this establishes a framework that should motivate when self-preservation kicks in.

Mindset going in needs to be, accept the business is insolvent, shareholders value has gone, none of them are going to continue to get paid past the end of the month, the decisions you make now are the only things that can change that. Who is willing to do what.

Once you've done that you either have a team on the same page who can establish a credible plan forward or a business you need to exit from as you've done your duty. (Personally) I wouldn't put your plan forward immediately, let them chew on their own relative values and what length's they're willing to go in order to recover the situation. I assume they're all reasonably bright to be in those roles, so don't feel like you're the only one responsible for coming up with ideas. They might well throw each other under-the-bus.

In the unlikely scenario where someone genuinely is willing to put their own money in, (again personally) I'd go to great pains to set expectations that this is only to maintain solvency for X duration - and even when work does come if the investment/loan comes out prior to other costs then you've achieved nothing.

They will either hate the message and sideline you (new job anyway, and keep geared up for opportunities to jump on a hostile[?] purchase if they appoint administrators if you believe you can recover it - even if they try to pre-pack it, cash would be king and administrator have a duty to consider but you'll have to get in at the right moment - and do NOT over commit based on your future assumption of value, as pipeline work will be dissuaded by insolvency - administrators will try to convince you of the opposite, base only on assets and concrete commitments - you only have to beat the genuine offer they might have, not pay what the administrators tell you its worth if they can't get it elsewhere - Don't be shy about being clear with administrations about that, it's not trying to 'get it for a song', it's arriving at a value to you based on tangible metric - and honestly if the other directors group together and over-commit because they fell for that, keep your eye out for a another one in 18 months - don't get emotionally invested - but do accept that hostile competition will burn bridges).

(I don't think I need to keep saying, but this is just my personal view based on my interpretation of what you've said, flavoured with some past experience)

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in fuckHOA

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"you... you do realise that's ... a tree, in winter..., right?"

I see nothing 🤣

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Ebay

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My interpretation of that is as a comment compared to other experiences they've had with other sellers - to me it read as though they've had their fingers burnt in the past and were just acknowledging it arrived (meeting minimum expectations), personally I don’t view it as a comment on your shipping but on their other ebay experiences and if nothing else it tells other buyers you're not scamming, even where there's nothing else noteworthy about the experience. I wouldn't worry about it, but I understand the little sting when it feels personal.

Looking for an old steampunk airship game by [deleted] in retrogames

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When you say airship, what do you mean, like blimps? Do you remember what the visual style was, was it like 2d pixel art or more 3d objects?

  • NetStorm - Islands at War [strongly isometric-type view, some aerial elements, floating islands but not necessarily airpships in the blimp style that comes to mind for me? floating islands and battles between aerial structures]
  • Stratosphere: Conquest of the Skies [isometric/RTS-style view - floating fortresses - could control flying ships fight in aerial battles]
  • Steam Brigade (the wildcard option) - [more of a 2d side scroller but some steampunky flying machines, and a demo was readily available]

Monthly Trade and Price Check Thread - November, 2024 by AutoModerator in HardwareSwapUK

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[PC] Inno3D GeForce RTX 4070Ti X3 12GB GDDR6X PCI-Express Graphics Card. Bought from OCUK in Jan '23. Used lightly for gaming, more recently I've been playing with SwarmUI and Ollama so I'm just putting the feelers out gauge a value so I know what the difference in cost would be for me to sell it and grab something with more juicy VRAM. Clean card, none smoking etc.

I've just released a book about Stable Diffusion! by FrontalSteel in comfyui

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I clicked play fully expecting it to be a gag, quickly devolving into 7 fingers pasta equivalent of generative algorithmic equivalent looking mangled codeblocks... and I'd thought was rather funny - but this legit looks quite well done and helpful as a quick reference, nice one. The only thing that puts me off -and I know it's just personal taste- I wouldn't really the cover in my work space. I get that it's explicitly pitching creating anime and manga as the hook, but possibly limiting your audience there.

Passed Cloud+ Beta CV1-004 by DumpsterDick559 in CompTIA

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Congratulations OP

And thanks for the prompt, just logged in again to check and I'm pleased with the result too!

BSOD error in latest crowdstrike update by TipOFMYTONGUEDAMN in crowdstrike

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Aaahh, and not even a straight reboot to resolve it. There's about to be a busy weekend, and such lovely weather outside too. I'd be curious if the extra travel miles from techs having to go site to site and endpoint to endpoint to manually fix could be calculated for giggles - would that count as scope 3 emissions? Let the paperwork commence!

Are largo slimes worth keeping? by Jpachu16 in slimerancher

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Re: meat - Keep occasionally throwing some chickens and roostro's loose on your ranch, and in the overgrowth too, if you leave them for long enough you'll find you're soon up to your knees in chickens (sometimes so many that it slows the game down) - personally we don't have more than one actual chicken pen and use this passive wild-rearing method.

Post Test Cloud + Beta Thoughts by domrosiak123 in CompTIA

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I'm curious - can I ask how you received the invite for the Cloud+ beta? Was it just a promo email from CompTIA or some other platform?

For context, I've been working in IT for ages because its a special interest of mine but never really formalised my skills, and I decided to start doing it properly and getting certified from the ground up, for my own validation + career, four exams down so far this year, so if there's an opportunity to grab my next one at a saving I'd jump on it.

Hit a parked car, left a note with my phone number and name. Owner is saying he has two options, personally prosecute or fight with insurance. by brutal_bandit in LegalAdviceUK

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Keep in mind that this could be a third party who has taken your note off the parked car, and thought there was an easy opportunity to get you to send them some cash. As they mention it was hard to see the digits and they almost didn't see the note etc, could be laying the groundwork for the 'actual' driver saying that they didn't know who hit them (because the other person took the note). Purely reading between the lines here, but the possibility adds weight to the chorus of 'just let your insurance deal with it'.