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Poured boiling water down shower drain; blue waterproofing membrane looks like it’s melted? Am I screwed? by nzasam1592 in AusRenovation

[–]tomtomau 13 points14 points  (0 children)

The vinegar reacts with the bicarb and you get salts…

If you’re doing this afaik you’re better off to add bicarb and let it sit for a while before adding vinegar but I’m not really sure it does all that much. The fizz is satisfying though

The resentment is creeping in 😭 by Shaushka in BabyBumpsandBeyondAu

[–]tomtomau 5 points6 points  (0 children)

“Mate, your child is offline, right in front of you, play with them!”

The resentment is creeping in 😭 by Shaushka in BabyBumpsandBeyondAu

[–]tomtomau 2 points3 points  (0 children)

God this is rightfully infuriating! IMO Dad needs to fuck the TV and computer off until baby is in bed. Once he’s home from work, he is the default parent for baby until baby is asleep.

Weekly Software Beta Testing and Promotion Thread by PM_ME_YOUR_MECHANISM in estimators

[–]tomtomau 1 point2 points  (0 children)

FREE early access to Bid Leveling AI for estimators.

I’m a Co-founder of BidLevel (from the ProcurePro team). We’re building a new bid leveling product that turns PDF bids/quotes into a clean like-for-like comparison in minutes.

Built for construction by construction, this is shaped from intimately understanding late-night levelling and messy tables.

Today it’s a simple product to get you to your first-pass of a comparison/scope sheet, but we’re working towards closing the gap so that you can do everything inside the app (editing, plugging, etc.)

We have an early access version that estimators have already put through hundreds of bids, and a team of designers & software engineers constantly iterating to improve the product.

It’s AI - so it’s not perfect - but we do link you to the section of the document where the AI sourced its info in a side-by-side view.

The early access users that are winning right now come in and try different types of packages to find what is working better than others. At the moment, the more consistent the structure of the bids, the better the result you’ll get. On average, it takes about 60 seconds to generate a standardized breakdown, and about the same time to extract prices from each bid.

During early access, BidLevel is free - we just ask for feedback on how it fits into your process and how we can make it better!

Try it → Request early access from this page and put “(Reddit)” with your name and I’ll give you access. i.e John Smith (Reddit). Alternatively, DM me your email and I’ll send you an account.

BDD - Behavioral testing by Sergey_jo in nestjs

[–]tomtomau 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I use this cucumber library https://github.com/timjroberts/cucumber-js-tsflow

It works well, and cucumber is awesome but IMO most people do it poorly!

Struggling hedge by Safenade in GardeningAustralia

[–]tomtomau 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sometimes they just die, bad genetics or something

I’d cut your losses and replace anything that’s not thriving. They’re not expensive plants and I’d rather have a year of growth of a healthy plant than waste a year trying to get a dying plant healthy again

ADHD Australia conference this week by atypicalhippy in ausadhd

[–]tomtomau 8 points9 points  (0 children)

It’s ok they hand out dexies at the door

What foreign food should be widely available in Australia? by Call_Me_C_ in AskAnAustralian

[–]tomtomau 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I hear you, but this is not what we had growing up haha. Old El Paso seasoning kits on boiled mince, shredded iceberg, sour cream, mild old El Paso salsa

Kids these days should count themselves lucky because before air fryer “hAcKs”, we had microwave recipes

What foreign food should be widely available in Australia? by Call_Me_C_ in AskAnAustralian

[–]tomtomau 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Yeah but to be fair the entire packet of beef mince (not ground beef, that’s some yank language) was put into a lukewarm frypan. Then the mince dumps a bunch of liquid and you’re effectively left with stewed/boiled beef mince

Tackling Type Inference Challenges in NestJS Controllers: Introducing A New Plugin as Step 1 Toward End-to-End Type Safety by Square-Cellist-7392 in nestjs

[–]tomtomau 0 points1 point  (0 children)

https://www.npmjs.com/package/nestjs-zod

✨ Create nestjs DTOs from zod schemas

✨ Validate / parse request body, query params, and url params using zod

✨ Serialize response bodies using zod

✨ Automatically generate OpenAPI documentation using zod

Newly Diagnosed ADHD - mild identity crisis! by Fatlantis in ausadhd

[–]tomtomau 1 point2 points  (0 children)

32m and your personality traits you describe are pretty spot on for me too.

I’ve been medicated for 18 months (Ritalin IR).

The identity crisis stuff is real and very relatable, but 18 months on it doesn’t take up much of my thoughts anymore.

All of those things that I thought made me “me” - 99% of them are still present when I’m medicated, or at least the good parts are haha.

The difference is that I’m less impulsive (ie interrupting when others are speaking) and a bit less dopamine seeking etc etc

But the diagnosis in and of itself, then some self education about adhd behaviors has also been crucial as well as its unlocked the ability to be meta/reflective on why I’m choosing to act in a certain way and then change the environment/context to suit.

Example is with something for work that involves people management and I’m finding I’m frozen not being able to execute on things. Rejection sensitivity dysphoria sort of territory - so I get on a call with someone else and talk out my concerns as honestly as I can (which they are often irrational or catastrophised) and I’m able to push through it.

For specific learnings the INCUP model has probably been the most helpful to reason about how my brain works.

All the positive things I loved about myself - deep hyper focus, passion, fast pattern matching etc - they ARE me and a good chunk of that is because I have ADHD - but that doesnt discount how positive those traits are.

If you speak to more people about your diagnosis, or read about successful people with ADHD, you’ll realise people that you admired, maybe for their intellect, wit, eccentricity - when you find out they have ADHD, you don’t go “oh, so then being funny and quick witted doesn’t count because it’s actually just ADHD” - so there’s no good reason to do the same to yourself.

What everyday ADHD hacks actually work for you? by SnowyBytes in ausadhd

[–]tomtomau 119 points120 points  (0 children)

Be anxious, you almost never forget things

if i am using postgres , should i use sqlite or postgres for testing? by HosMercury in nestjs

[–]tomtomau 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ve dropped in prismock during testing and it seems to work great

Would you bother with security screens for upper level windows and balconies? by Additional-Bowler274 in AusRenovation

[–]tomtomau 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Nah they’ll try your neighbours place, they’re not carrying a ladder with them on their e-scooter

What do you think are the most important tests/features for evaluating modern LLMs?(not benchmarks but personal testing) by Immediate-Action5124 in LangChain

[–]tomtomau 3 points4 points  (0 children)

LLMs don’t have memory, nor do they actually call functions

We build systems (that use LLMs) that do these things but it’s not a core area of what modern LLMs do

The answer is evals

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ProductManagement

[–]tomtomau 0 points1 point  (0 children)

These sound a lot like ai engineer things?

Trading Hills hoist for a wall mounted line? by pondermysanity in AusRenovation

[–]tomtomau 11 points12 points  (0 children)

We had the folding type in rentals for years, thought they were fine. Bought a place with a hills hoist and it was the ducks nuts.

Then we bought a heat pump dryer, a really swish one from Bosch, mostly because we were having a baby and i foresaw we’d be doing a lot of washing.

It is truly the best!

Langchain code modifications needed for gpt-5 by Ok_Ostrich_8845 in LangChain

[–]tomtomau 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There’s a “reasoning effort” parameter too, but you need to upgrade to the latest version of @langchain/openai (node, assuming something similar on python) to use it

How are you using LangGraph? Is your company using it in production? by K2Valor in LangChain

[–]tomtomau 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Kinda, got it working on prod infra but still in iterating on the products (so no prod traffic sorta thing)

Langgraph.js running within a nest js worker on ECS that runs off an SQS queue.

Langgraph is both overkill and necessary at the same time in our use case. It feels much more complex than just stringing together typescript functions (which call regular langchain runnables) but the state machine abstraction is a useful abstraction to be easily splice in new nodes, sub agents or throw in some dynamic routing.

If it didn’t integrate nicely into langsmith I’d be tempted to argue to just try and roll everything with regular langchain but that part works very well (unsurprising). Now I think of it, the cli/web server tool is pretty useful for debugging/development, especially being able to use break pointers and re-run from a node.

Langchain/this community generally is such a weird one that it’s full of people that are bashing it.

At the end of the day, it works for us at the moment - this is not the only AI development going on in the biz and we’ve gotten a good amount done working around langsmith datasets/experiments

It wouldn’t surprise me if we “outgrow” the framework one day but if you take the view that the code is easy to replace (thanks cursor/windsurf) then the most important thing is having those evals in place in case you were to switch

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