Ralphisinthehouse

People who are really good at interviews, what's your secret sauce?

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Ralphisinthehouse@reddit

Personally, I tend to treat them like a first date. I'm there to see if I like them as much as they like me. Just not worry about trying to impress them and worry about whether you can work together and just give natural answers.

Is hopefully generally meant as passive aggressive in British lingo?

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Is hopefully generally meant as passive aggressive in British lingo?

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Ralphisinthehouse@reddit

I wouldn't say I'd go as far as passive-aggressive normally. It's usually more just the lack of British directness. I mean, it could be passive-aggressive in some cases, if someone's knows you haven't done it. But generally it's more like, rather than saying, where is that thing? They just say, hopefully you've done it.

what is working for the NHS like?

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I know lots of people that have been in the NHS. As a rule they all love it until they get promoted to the point where they have to manage people or departments and then they just look for the quickest way to quit.

Do people actually know what they want to do with their life?

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I wouldn't limit yourself to waiting until you can drive. Unless your appointments are more than 10 miles away from your house on a regular basis it's almost always gonna make more financial sense to Uber to them than own a car anyway and it's much easier to claim back taxi expenses against your end-of-year taxes than it is to try and figure out how much of a car cost and usage you can claim for.

Do people actually know what they want to do with their life?

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Have you had to deal with disappointment due to rain on your wedding day?

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I've been to a couple of weddings where it rained. Neither were really a problem. The first one, they ended up putting a row of gazebos over the pathway from where the bride got out of the wedding car and to the church door because it was **really** raining and the second one they just held an umbrella over their head for the walk into the church. I think they were probably a little bit disappointed but the portion of the day where the rain actually has any effect on you is about five minutes. You said she has a picture in her mind of people being outside, so I'm not sure if that means you've booked an outdoor venue or the venue's got an outdoor portion. But most venues will have an indoor alternative as well for weddings. Ultimately, what you're gonna remember is being surrounded by your loved ones and the feeling of the day, not the fact that you couldn't stand on grass instead of concrete. In my experience, and this comes from a lot of relationship mistakes, you're better off sharing her disappointment even if you know it's not gonna be a big thing than trying to tell her that it's not gonna be a disappointment which will just rile her up.

How would you spend a birthday alone?

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How would you spend a birthday alone?

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Should I go to the US on holiday?

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Has company implemented autonomous AI agents, has it affected employment?

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Should I go to the US on holiday?

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Should I go to the US on holiday?

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Ralphisinthehouse@reddit

You've solved your own problem. At least 50% of Reddit users are completely full of shit and make up whatever they feel like on the spot and can't stand it when somebody actually corrects them.

Should I go to the US on holiday?

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They can if they genuinely suspect you're trying to gain illegal entry. You know, don't dismiss the risk at all, but I've never seen it in 20 years of travelling there regularly. But this is exactly the same as any other country. I don't know why the OP thinks America is any different or England's any different.

Should I go to the US on holiday?

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I mean, be more paranoid. You need to stop reading, believing everything you read in the papers. I go to America eight to ten times a year at least. Never once have I, or been asked to show my phone, and never have I even seen anybody have it happen to them in security.

Has company implemented autonomous AI agents, has it affected employment?

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Ralphisinthehouse@reddit

Not to quibble but pilots have been largely replaced with AI. Planes can land and take off and fly themselves now. Pilots are really there for reassurance and to take over if something goes wrong. I see that as computers and humans working in harmony, personally.

Do you have any interests you feel you have to hide/keep low-key?

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Do you have any interests you feel you have to hide/keep low-key?

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Ralphisinthehouse@reddit

The most important life skill you can learn is not caring about what other people think. I wish I'd learned it earlier. Life is just so much better when you start to think like that.

What to do about noisy garden parties after asking nicely (twice)?

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What to do about noisy garden parties after asking nicely (twice)?

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Find a couple of really big pals and go round with them and explain that it needs to be turned down and they need to be more respectful. It's usually the only way twats like this will listen to anything. Just to be clear, I'm not suggesting any violence but people like this see are usually easily put off when they see intimidating looking folk.

How are you supposed to eat rice with a fork?

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If you're going on a long car journey, do you check oil, tyre pressures etc?

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Ralphisinthehouse@reddit

It really depends on the American and how much they drive, but a long trip in America, in my experience (which is of having family in various states there and visiting three or four times a year, traveling for business a few times a year) They don't really start talking about long trips until it's over a thousand miles. But, let's be realistic, that's just my experience. I'm sure there are plenty of Americans that would call it a long trip, but I don't know any. And heck, they might even think it's a long trip, they just don't say it. I don't know.

If you're going on a long car journey, do you check oil, tyre pressures etc?

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If you're going on a long car journey, do you check oil, tyre pressures etc?

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If you're going on a long car journey, do you check oil, tyre pressures etc?

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I don't anymore. My windscreen washer tells me a while before it's gonna run out. I don't have a dipstick in my engine and I can tell by looking at my tyres if they're okay and they have a tyre pressure monitor anyway. But yeah, until about 10 years ago, I used to. Growing up in the 80s, you pretty much did a service on the car before you left the drive most times.

What are some compliments that made you laugh but also really meant something?

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Ralphisinthehouse@reddit

I would at least connect it to an LLM and have it come up with a response based on whatever is input into it or whoever the person is. An app that just has a book of predefined compliments for everybody to share is not gonna get you very far.

What are some good swear words/phrases?

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What do you think is ‘worth every penny’?

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And for £400 outlay and a couple of quid a day to run it, I think that's absolutely worth every single penny of it. I can't work when it's too hot and it was 35 Celsius in my flat last year during heatwaves before I got air conditioning.

What do you think is ‘worth every penny’?

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What do you think is ‘worth every penny’?

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How much does your car cost you each month?

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Ralphisinthehouse@reddit

How long's a piece of string? What kind of car do you want? What type of fuel does it take? How often do you drive? How far do you drive? Do you need to park it anywhere? Do you have parking? Do you need to pay for parking when you're away? How many years' experience driving have you got? How many years' no claims have you got? The questions go on and on. However, as a ballpark number, £400 a month is enough to lease a vehicle, insure it, and drive it a reasonable amount per month, as long as you've got the deposit to put down on the lease, which will be two or three grand at least. Personally, I would just get a two or three grand car, insure it third party, and drive it till the wheels fell off.

What is new neighbour etiquette?

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Ralphisinthehouse@reddit

Personally, I would pop round and say hi, we're your new neighbours, nice to meet you. We're moving in tomorrow, and we're gonna be doing some work that's gonna make a bit of noise for the first week or two. If you have kids, let us know what time they go to bed so we can work around that, but we can't avoid the work overall. The trick is to be friendly, but don't open the door for them to start telling you when and when you can't do the work. You know, if you start asking a question about when it would be best for them, you start getting into a dialogue that they have control of, and then it gives them a reason to complain if you don't follow that. So just keep it matter-of-fact. And remember, however nice you are about it, be ready for them just to be jerks about it. Some people are. Nothing you can do about that.

Do you think houses will be built/renovated to have air conditioning if this heat continues?

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Ralphisinthehouse@reddit

Earth has been heating up and cooling down for millions and billions of years. This is just the first time humans are here for one of the times it's getting hotter. I'm sure it's marginally accelerated by having humans on the planet, but it's nothing the planet hasn't seen before.

How long before your flight do you get to the airport? Dot. Want to sit around for ages

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Ralphisinthehouse@reddit

I'm not sure how getting there two hours or 90 minutes before changes the outcome of having a patient's for mile-long queues. They're not gonna change that much in that time window.

Why is one person creating multiple companies?

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Ralphisinthehouse@reddit

It will just be a third-party company formation service using that name to set them up. He seems to join and resign them all within one or two days. It only takes 15 minutes to set up a company in the UK, but a lot of people are worried about getting the wrong SIC code or some other compliance issue around the articles they use, so they just go with someone else to do this. It's pretty common.

Why is one person creating multiple companies?

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How long before your flight do you get to the airport? Dot. Want to sit around for ages

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Ralphisinthehouse@reddit

You never heard that phrase before, squeaky bum time? I think it was Alex Ferguson who said it. It's basically the really nerve-wracking period when everything's on the line.

How long before your flight do you get to the airport? Dot. Want to sit around for ages

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You really don't. The only time I would ever even get there close to two hours in advance is if I was checking an awful lot of luggage and I was going at a really busy time for security. But out of the last 10 or 15 transatlantic flights I've taken, I've got there 90 minutes beforehand, bag dropped in 10 to 15 minutes, through security in half an hour, and I've got another 30 minutes sitting at the gate.

How long before your flight do you get to the airport? Dot. Want to sit around for ages

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Ralphisinthehouse@reddit

I usually get there about 90 minutes before flying, even for transatlantic. I got there 45 minutes before going to America from Manchester once, and that was a little bit of a squeaky bomb moment. But what I've learned is, once you've missed a couple of flights, it's not the end of the world, you'll get the next one. Obviously if you're going on two weeks' holiday to Tenerife, you wanna make your flight, but I've relaxed a lot about business flying these days.

UK Heatwaves - do you love them or loathe them?

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Do people actually use AI day-to-day, or is it all hype?

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Do people actually use AI day-to-day, or is it all hype?

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Do people actually use AI day-to-day, or is it all hype?

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Ralphisinthehouse@reddit

I was responding to this. You've imagined a world where a calculator and an LLM are somehow related. "They’re asking a robot and assuming it’s correct without checking."

Do people actually use AI day-to-day, or is it all hype?

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Do people actually use AI day-to-day, or is it all hype?

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Do people actually use AI day-to-day, or is it all hype?

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Ralphisinthehouse@reddit

If anything, the AI revolution in coding will speed up your entry, but unless you do the learning of what it's doing in parallel with using it, you're just gonna get a load of spaghetti code. It really is, it can do things incredibly quickly, but left on its own, it acts like a junior developer with no foresight and no planning and no vision and no thinking and just random on it goes and changes things. To get good at programming, you need to learn how to code. That's never gonna change, regardless of what anyone else tells you. As for COBOL, I don't know anything about that market, but I would imagine that you need to be having 20 years' experience in COBOL to get a COBOL job these days, because COBOL's used by banks and financial institutions at the deep level.

Do people actually use AI day-to-day, or is it all hype?

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Ralphisinthehouse@reddit

Everyone thinks heads of department are lazy until they do the job. You try managing a department of people. It's a full-time job just getting people to do their jobs. I had no respect for them until I became one. Then I lost a lot of respect for everybody that worked for me. The amount of bitching and moaning and whining and backstabbing and wanting elitism or favours or time-wasting disputes about where they sit, etc., etc. You only ever start doing your actual job by the end of the day.

Do people actually use AI day-to-day, or is it all hype?

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Ralphisinthehouse@reddit

That's why the people who win with AI are the ones that use it to speed up things they would already have done manually but take time. I don't think I've yet to receive a first draft from AI that's good enough to do anything with, but by talking to it a few times, I can get to 90% there and then I can tweak it. What would be a two-hour document gets some being done in 30 minutes tops.

Do people actually use AI day-to-day, or is it all hype?

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Nobody's saying it's impressive, I'm saying it saves time. That's why it's winning, it's because it saves people time, not because it impresses them in a lot of cases. It just means the shit they used to spend two hours on, they can do in five minutes and get the same result, which is objectively a no-brainer, and anybody who says that isn't must be questioning their sanity.Or just have too little going on in their life to care about the time loss.

Do people actually use AI day-to-day, or is it all hype?

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You should understand that if you've ever had an X-ray or a medical diagnosis or been prescribed medicine or spent any time in hospital or used YouTube or Netflix or about a billion other things in the world, then you've used AI. Your complaint is really with the hallucinations of ChatGPT and Google Gemini. There are a million things that AI does which are unrelated to those things that gets right every time and is relied on universally and has been for 10 years.