Grace Johnson (u/grace_johnson9)

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My brother told me to ignore the new Gemini 1.5 Flash model and stick with the Pro version for coding.

He was totally right, because Flash gave me weird, broken outputs on a Python script I was working on last week. Anyone else run into issues with the smaller, faster AI models being less reliable?

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c/dredge-operators•

grace_johnson9•5d ago

Remember when we used to just eyeball the spoil line distance?

Honestly, I got lazy on a big channel job down in Mobile Bay about five years back. The old cutterhead dredge I was running had a worn out flow meter, and instead of getting it fixed right away, I just guessed based on the pump sound and how the spoil looked coming out. Ngl, I figured my experience would cover it. Ended up over-pumping by almost 300 feet past the marked area. The environmental fine was bad enough, but the real cost was the two extra days we had to spend repositioning the entire floating line and re-dredging the section we messed up. That mistake cost the company close to $15,000 in lost time and penalties. It was a dumb, expensive lesson that you can't skip the basics. Anyone else have a story about a small gear issue that turned into a big problem?

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c/crane-operators•

grace_johnson9•13d ago

Rant: I thought the 'wind talk' from the old guy on site was just stories

He kept saying 'you can feel the crane sway before the anemometer beeps' and I wrote it off as nonsense until a gust in Tacoma last week nearly tipped a load before any alarm sounded. Now I'm paying way more attention to the feel of the rig itself, not just the gadgets. Anyone else have a piece of old-school advice that actually saved your bacon?

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c/baking-fails-and-wins•

grace_johnson9•21d ago

My grandma told me yesterday that her first cake in 1955 was a dense brick because she was too scared to use more than two eggs.

It hit different because I realized my own fear of 'wasting' good ingredients is probably why my chocolate torte collapsed last week, so has anyone else gotten over that mental block and how?

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My brother told me to ignore the new Gemini 1.5 Flash model and stick with the Pro version for coding.

Remember when we used to just eyeball the spoil line distance?

Rant: I thought the 'wind talk' from the old guy on site was just stories

My grandma told me yesterday that her first cake in 1955 was a dense brick because she was too scared to use more than two eggs.

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