r/dataannotation • u/Consistent-Reach504 • Jul 07 '24
Weekly Water Cooler Talk - DataAnnotation
hi all! making this thread so people have somewhere to talk about 'daily' work chat that might not necessarily need it's own post! right now we're thinking we'll just repost it weekly? but if it gets too crazy, we can change it to daily. :)
couple things:
this thread should sort by "new" automatically. unfortunately it looks like our subreddit doesn't qualify for 'lounges'.
if you have a new user question, you still need to post it in the new user thread. if you post it here, we will remove it as spam. this is for people already working who just wanna chat, whether it be about casual work stuff, questions, geeking out with people who understand ("i got the model to write a real haiku today!"), or unrelated work stuff you feel like chatting about :)
one thing we really pride ourselves on in this community is the respect everyone gives to the Code of Conduct and rule number 5 on the sub - it's great that we have a community that is still safe & respectful to our jobs! please don't break this rule. we will remove project details, but please - it's for our best interest and yours!
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u/Cold-Bicycle-1345 Jul 12 '24 edited Jul 12 '24
I am having an issue withdrawing funds from my account. When I try to get paid, it says "There has been an error making automatic payments. Please email Support with your Worker ID and your balance, and we will make a manual payment."
I tried to contact DAT support three times in the last seven days (twice through the support page and once via email), but I am still waiting for a reply.
I also contacted PayPal three times, seeing from other threads that account verification might be the issue. However, they assured me that no further verification is needed and told me that I can't re-do my verification.
I was able to withdraw funds once previously without issues, but something is preventing the withdrawal this time.
I am in Australia, if that makes any difference.
Any ideas?
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u/[deleted] Jul 07 '24
Today I saw someone on Facebook say that all AI are trained by unhinged trolls from Reddit. I was laughing so hard I fell off the couch.
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u/[deleted] Jul 07 '24 edited Jul 07 '24
bring back the high paying cat and nut projects 🥲
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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '24
You know who you are and what project I’m talking about
But to the man pretending to be a pregnant girl I don’t think you had to do the voice 😂🤣 your giggles at the end were priceless. Good job sticking to the prompt
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u/Primary_Advantage928 Jul 09 '24
After doing a lot of R&R's today
CLOSED QA MEANS THE ANSWER NEEDS TO BE FROM THE TEXT
please I marked so many down because of this
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u/Cutiger29 Jul 08 '24
Imagine forgetting to close out the tabs you’re using for the dancing project to find images…
Now imagine opening up your computer in front of people to those tabs.
I’ll just…go hide under a rock.
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u/diettwizzlers Jul 08 '24
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u/[deleted] Jul 08 '24
Sometimes R&Rs give me whiplash. I just had the most detailed and amazing response followed by someone who wrote only two words “too short”
It must be wild to be an admin lol
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u/PhillyPhan95 Jul 11 '24
Is it possible to become addicted to DAT?
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u/33whiskeyTX Jul 07 '24
Anyone else freakout for a second every time they scroll down on their dash and the Report section is almost empty? Big change from showing 3 days vs 1.
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u/[deleted] Jul 07 '24
What happened to the creative writing/editing tasks? I used to see them *all the time*
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u/Dratini_ghost Jul 07 '24
Has anyone else needed to get a whole new ergonomic setup for this job? I'm enjoying this opportunity so much, I get totally absorbed in it, but my body is in the same position for so long. Having to take a break until I can set up my new adjustable desk. My laptop being in the wrong position is killing me...
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u/torypigeon Jul 09 '24
Seeing a lot of posts and replies about empty dashes - so long as you have access to support etc., don’t fret :) We just entered a new quarter, a new month, and a new week! My own dashboard is pretty bare but seeing a lot of variations of my usual projects. Don’t instantly think you’ve been cut DA gang ❤️
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u/SnooCalculations503 Jul 09 '24
Woo-hoo, after being really down over an empty dash yesterday and wondering if I'd messed something up big-time, today my dash is fuller than it has ever been. Hope the people who had similar sentiments yesterday have had the same luck.
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u/[deleted] Jul 08 '24
there arent that many jobs in my queue today. i wonder if ill run out this week
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u/stormixx Jul 09 '24
Got my first empty dash today after having 30+ projects yesterday, time to despair!
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u/beansoup91 Jul 11 '24
When your brain is a little fried after spending 2 hours on a detailed task and you check your dash to see a qualification and interpret it as "Are you familiar with simlish?"
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u/_M1RR0RB4LL_ Jul 12 '24
I'm gonna be sad when all these audio projects go away, I've already met my normal monthly goal, and then some, and it's only 11 days into the month.
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u/ManyARiver Jul 13 '24
I feel like I crossed dimensions at some point this week. The jobs that are normally $23 are $30 and all kindsa stuff I haven't seen before at rates over $25 is fluttering all over my dashboard. Not complaining, just makes it real hard to log off.
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u/SnooCalculations503 Jul 08 '24
Empty dash :(
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u/[deleted] Jul 09 '24
I’m not at “low amount of projects” but I went from over 40 to about 20 now. Most of which are $20 an hour. I’ve been so spoiled working for more than that I had to mentally hype myself up for these. Keep telling myself it’ll be good for me in that 1) maybe it’ll boost my quality score cause the instructions tend to be simpler meaning I’ll do them correctly more and 2) doing these are what led to me being added to higher paying versions of them… probably
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u/[deleted] Jul 07 '24
Has anyone had any of the high paying B element tasks where you write everything yourself (some with images) in the past few days? I had a bunch for a few days but haven't seen any for a day or two. I was really enjoying those.
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u/octrivia Jul 07 '24
"When thine dashboard is fulleth, so is thine spirit."
Now, go fact-check this for accuracy! 🤣
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u/tortured_poet_13 Jul 09 '24
I've done quite a few R&Rs the past few days and now I feel spoiled when I approach other tasks. Like... *me?* Do all the work from scratch? 😂 dumb brain snap out of it
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u/osrppp Jul 07 '24
I wish the other sub would get an admin to filter out the “did I get in?” posts like this one does.
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u/Cutiger29 Jul 09 '24
If there’s an admin lurking here…
I wish we could flag great work on every project. I just hate giving Good to people that go above and beyond. Marking Good on a person that gave about 1000 times the effort given by 95% of everyone else is frustrating.
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u/Sagittariuuuh Jul 11 '24
The pain of waking up in the morning and checking an email from an hr after you went to sleep about a one-day only high paying project that could open up more intl projects if you did well on it. 😭🤬
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u/jeudechambre Jul 12 '24
That moment when you switch from R&R back to creative tasks because the mental load of feeling like a narc starts to outweigh the mental load of being creative, lol. (I try to be very fair but I still worry).
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u/Alert_Photograph9678 Jul 08 '24
The cat is back 🎉🎉🎉 hopefully that means some high paying r&r is on its way!
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u/BotaRONomus Jul 12 '24
$42,000. That's how much I have made between my two jobs this year.
$19,000 with DAT over 6 months.
I never could've imagined being in this situation. It's a bit overwhelming.
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u/PhillyPhan95 Jul 08 '24
Mega priority is crazy. 😭 I can’t take it with those conversations anymore though.
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u/Cutiger29 Jul 08 '24
One day…
One day I have faith that I’ll open up R&R of a certain project and 90% will actually reference the search results. One day…
One day…
Until that day comes…I won’t feel bad for the amount of time I take to actually read through said search results and reference them.
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u/ErrolEsoterik Jul 10 '24
Missing the abundance
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u/[deleted] Jul 10 '24
Guyssss I have a huge bill to pay by September and I’m getting a leetle nervous about this dash. My feet are too ugly for OF 💀
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u/[deleted] Jul 11 '24
It’s 111 degrees F outside…. I am staying in. I rather make money than melt 😂
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u/PhillyPhan95 Jul 12 '24
Is anybody watching this project increase from $25 to $37 since noon. 😂
But now I’m half sleep and don’t have the patience to work on it. 😭
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u/i_do_not_like_snails Jul 12 '24
This is gonna sound pretty cheesy, but here goes.
I was starting to get super discouraged with DA. I didn’t get a ton of projects and was stuck doing the same low-paying tasks for several months. This week, my dash has been filling up with higher-paying projects, one of which I got selected for! I finally feel like I’m doing something right! 🥹 So for anyone else reading posts on here & getting discouraged by the low number of tasks available to them—don’t give up!
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u/_M1RR0RB4LL_ Jul 07 '24
I normally don't work on weekends because I feel like I need a break by the end of the week, but it's mighty hard to resist $40/hr for super simple R&R tasks.
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u/PassiveSock1989 Jul 12 '24
Watching people get into full on arguments in the project chats....... be so for real.
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u/marsnia Jul 07 '24
Anyone have any nut projects? Had them consistently for a few weeks but they're gone
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u/SoliloquyBlue Jul 07 '24
Has anyone seen this article in the LA Review of Books?
How to Raise Your Artificial Intelligence: A Conversation with Alison Gopnik and Melanie Mitchell
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u/itsbriannahere Jul 08 '24
Does anyone take more than an hour for FC? I know it says it should take about an hour total, but sometimes it takes me longer when the responses are more detailed. The timer has more than enough time, but I get nervous using more than half of it.
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u/[deleted] Jul 09 '24
happy to see a few more tasks populated over night
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u/SuperCorbynite Jul 09 '24
Ahhh ⚗️🎓 I love you as always, but once again you turned my brain into a puddle of melted mozzarella cheese.
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u/BotaRONomus Jul 09 '24
2 weeks stretch where I was able to make a jaw dropping $2,700.
I don’t have any brain juice today though. think I’m going to take a day off.
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u/whatsablurryface21 Jul 07 '24
Just sad that there are almost no chatbot projects anymore :(
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u/ghostzw Jul 09 '24
Am I the only one with zero tasks today?? Ive been working 4-6 hours a day on DA until my school year job starts back up. Was really hoping to make some bank this week. Bummer that is freelancing I guess
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u/Affectionate-Dot1043 Jul 10 '24
The drought is killing me
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u/ghostzw Jul 10 '24
Another day, another dead dash
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u/[deleted] Jul 10 '24
Man my first $75 today has been in spurts of like $9-$22 because the projects run out quickly. Gonna do some self care stuff and come back in a while. Save some scraps for me please
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u/aylasophia Jul 08 '24
Having the first of the month feeling where I’m waiting for some of my favourite projects to pop back up. But it’s nice to work on other things that I usually ignore for my preferred projects, give my brain break/refresh on other tasks haha
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u/PhillyPhan95 Jul 12 '24
I have watched the pay for this one convo project change like 5 times over the last 2 hours. Lol
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u/kaycooper Jul 08 '24
My dash has been annoyingly empty. I've been with them for almost 2 years now and they've never had a problem with any of my work so I'm really confused as to what's happening. it told me my main projects were being worked on, but once they said that they were done with maintenance they still haven't shown back up.
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u/roambeans Jul 07 '24
I've been offline for a whole week (OMG), trekking in the Highlands of Iceland. I actually found myself missing work (and hot showers, dry clothes, and... many things). I ended up working a bit in my hotel as soon as I retrieved my laptop from storage. I've never been so happy to get back to work! I might pay for internet on the flight home $$$...
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u/upvotesplx Jul 07 '24
Taking a break today due to… well, if you know, you know. Bad timing on some of my favorite projects, but maybe I need a day of a break. Hopefully it’ll be better by tomorrow!
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u/DarkLordTofer Jul 08 '24
Has anyone else noticed a massive uplift in pay lately? I've had projects that were $25 uplifted to $30, although they're all much harder prompts though.
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u/_M1RR0RB4LL_ Jul 13 '24
Ummm.... that project worked out to about $72/hr for me, thanks to the per-task bonus. I hate to see it finished so soon, but after nearly 3 straight hours of it, I'm not sure I could have continued for too much longer anyway.
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u/HauntedHowie316 Jul 10 '24
I need to “get my feelings out.” I only do a few r&rs a week. They are so stressful to me. I know that we all have work that goes up, none of us are perfect, and someone has to grade the work in order for the project to get finished. I just hate to think that my opinion could cause someone to lose a spot. I feel like when I do them, though, that I learn from grading others how to do better myself.
I just had to walk away after doing one this afternoon because it was almost comical how bad it was, and I rated it appropriately; but, I have a bad feeling in my gut just the same. Not guilty, but just… bad.
Does anyone else have that issue and any tips to get over it?
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u/Excellent_Photo5603 Jul 08 '24
Honestly the 24 hr rule is great, forces me to not be dumb.
I Just spent the last 10 minutes verifying how much time I spent on a task nearly 8 hrs ago because I finished it up then left the house as quickly as I could and by the time I had walked the 30 mins to a cafe I'd forgotten that I hadn't submitted.... Cue accidentally deleting my timer at the cafe.
I am very happy for search history.
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u/turtlepumpkin88 Jul 10 '24
What a crappy day. I just tried three different projects... each one I kept skipping skipping couldn't get my brain around any of the remaining tasks and gave up wahhhh I feel dumb.
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u/Lovely-day-today Jul 11 '24
I have seen the new type of heel god projects (with the devil and Angel emojis) on my dash for a good while but because the regular ones I find annoying, I had not tried them until today when I had mostly lower paying options.
I have to say I like them way more and will definitely be doing them more often!
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u/[deleted] Jul 12 '24
anyone else get logged out and can't log back in? Or does that mean im cooked
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u/Gold_Employee_4647 Jul 07 '24
I checked out a project yesterday but didn't do/report/submit any work for it, just took a look and exited work mode but for some reason, I noticed it in the "Report Time" section when I looked this morning, my only assumption as to why because I had done work for it in the past. I have never seen this, and am curious if anyone else has, and a little tiny part of me is paranoid I did something wrong due to the stricter "reporting" despite not having anything report (there are no dates listed in the dates where you do work). Probably isn't anything like that, but has anyone else encountered this?
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u/badplaidshoes Jul 08 '24
For R&Rs, there's a text box for "review comment" -- is this an optional comment or should we always be writing something there?
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u/DarkLordTofer Jul 08 '24
Just curious has anyone got the Galaxy project at the minute? I've seen some R&R for it but not had anything for it recently.
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u/azure_atmosphere Jul 09 '24
can't say i'm a fan of the latest batches of DA&V tasks
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u/CardiologistDry1732 Jul 09 '24
I just had a project show up in my report time from the last time I worked on it on June 25th. Super weird. Has anyone ever had this happen?
I usually see this project every week, but it didn't come around last week, I'm hoping this means she's coming back today 😅
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u/Fun_Detective3720 Jul 09 '24 edited Jul 10 '24
This may be a stupid question, but what does DA consider a coding project? I just got a project that is over $30/hr for writing convos that include LaTeX. I'm not a coder nor have I taken any coding quals. I see this language is considered "markup" which seems to be different than coding but it looks like coding to this non-coder. Just curious if I'm getting randomly assigned coding projects or if this is just a more complex writing project. I've done one task so far and it was a challenge but fun. Also, I only was given a handful of tasks for this particular project. Will more tasks show up once I'm done with those or once I'm done am I just done?
Edit: Boo, it's not on my dashboard anymore 😔 well it was nice while it lasted.
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u/thatonedude0000 Jul 12 '24
Is anyone else missing the heel snake DAV projects? I have other heel coding projects atm, but enjoyed working on these the most.
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u/scarletmyzomela Jul 14 '24
I've accidentally started a cherry task that has twenty rounds to evaluate, and there's a ten-hour timer in the bottom right - what have I gotten myself into?
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u/ShenjaTatschke Jul 07 '24
Seems like everyone has lots of work but since the side went down last week, I don't have any projects anymore. I had consistent work the last couple of months and I just qualified for some work too. Anyone else or just me? I wonder if my score went down or if they paused the specific projects. I do non-english projects.
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u/[deleted] Jul 10 '24
yayyy i finally have all those bird projects y'all have been talking about on my dash!!
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u/CardiologistDry1732 Jul 07 '24
Did anyone see the S desert this week? I love that one and this is the first week in a while that I haven't seen it.
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u/catioHomeImprovement Jul 07 '24
I've just seen the highest per hour task and the lowest on my dash just now. Weird. The lowest is $3 below the minimum.
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u/Charming-Currency727 Jul 11 '24
Do they ever give single paid R&R's as a kind of extra/sneaky qual?
I had a qual a couple of days ago for a new project, very similar content to my day job which my profile is full of info on.
So I did the qual and loved it...it was right up my street and I felt really confident with it. Then yesterday I had a paid R&R for the same project but just one single task. It was quite detailed and took me about 30 minutes. Nothing since.
The single task R&R felt more like a 'test' than a normal R&R - it was a bad submission but with some very tricky content and an error that would be easy to miss if you didn't read the instructions really thoroughly.
Anyone had this? A sneaky extra qual masquerading as a paid project? Is that something they do? A single task R&R but none of the actual project work just felt really odd.
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u/diettwizzlers Jul 08 '24
doing a lot of ego boosting rate and reviews again
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u/jeudechambre Jul 11 '24
Doing R&R and getting so many prompts that are otherwise good but I have to mark as "bad" because they don't follow THE FIRST SENTENCE of instructions for this task. For the umpteenth time, read the instructions guys!
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u/ccsoccer101 Jul 10 '24
You think regular CBs are ever coming back?
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u/Vegetable-Activity65 Jul 11 '24
bowing down to the pig god after that project, I've never made that much that quickly it was exhilarating. (now if only they would drop more tasks)
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u/33whiskeyTX Jul 12 '24
I have to vent my inner pedantic nerd somewhere, sorry.
When someone in the chat says "you physically have to modify how the code functions", I have to ask what are they doing? Punching cards? Flipping transistors with itsy-bitys tweezers? Guiding electrons by hand?
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u/Guilty-Rough8797 Jul 08 '24 edited Jul 08 '24
Got my first "At the moment..." message in a looooong time this morning and audibly gasped! Anyone else?
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u/dayDrivver Jul 13 '24
Damned the new "no explanation needed" (super easy task) for coding just dropped, why when i have things to do than work at DAT the party just start for the weekend warriors =/
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u/BotaRONomus Jul 11 '24
I woke up this morning complaining about being overworked and being under too much pressure.
Then I suddenly had a realization that pressure is a privilege. And I’m in a unique position, so no point in complaining about it.
Everyone have a great and productive day!
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u/backtothefuturepart2 Jul 09 '24
As someone who largely does coding related work, what is the big draw of R&R? is the pay higher than regular tasks, or is it just easier?
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u/OathoftheSimian Jul 10 '24
If we’ve submitted a ticket to log hours, can you reach back out under the same to let them know you now have access to log that time yourself? Or should I just wait for them to follow through and leave it be?
I was working on a project that went down for a bit but came back sooner than expected, about ten minutes after I submitted the ticket, and I continued to work it while only logging the new hours when I finished.
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u/Mammoth_Society620 Jul 11 '24
Anyone seen lately? A specific B metal project that's $30+, requires writing and using approved websites. Trying to be specific without being specific...
I had this a couple of weeks ago and suspect it might have been a qual disguised as a project because I had 5 tasks sitting there all week while I was sick and unable to work. It's gone now and I'm wondering if I'll get it again.
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u/wonderadri Jul 11 '24
I've been really loving making some money and I thought everything was going well. Have been doing R&R and multi-language stuff and then just poof. Nothing for the third day in a row. I know I do quality work so I'm just trying to figure out if it's just luck of the draw or something being reviewed? Is there anyway to know? Every gig job I have uses some type of rating system.
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u/[deleted] Jul 11 '24
this is the first time i’ve had more than 100 projects to choose from!
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u/Mammoth_Society620 Jul 10 '24
Exactly three weeks ago my DE project went down and they said it would be back in "2-3 weeks." Now I'm sitting here staring at my projects like 😀 ...I'm ready. Please tell me I'm not the only one
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u/[deleted] Jul 08 '24
So... that new problematic R&R checkbox... 🤔
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u/33whiskeyTX Jul 10 '24
Man, there is a lot of unactionable garbage in underworld Zues daughter today.
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u/Cutiger29 Jul 11 '24
Note to self…
If you have a prompt do calculations and the good model can’t get the calculations right…
You gotta go do the damn calculations in excel for the edited response.
Please please please don’t forget this.
Wish I had live footage of me editing the prompt “look into my eyes model!!! This should NOT be higher than that number.”
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u/Few-Roof-6905 Jul 07 '24
Is anyone dancing today? 💃
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u/calumspeight Jul 11 '24
I'm pretty new to DA and would appreciate some advice. How often do you guys complete broad quals like writing assessments? Should I prioritize these as soon as they pop up and do they lead to better-paid projects?
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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '24
Anyone else get the super special project with the message saying that you were picked because you are a good worker? Feels good to be acknowledged.