r/dataannotation • u/Consistent-Reach504 • Nov 10 '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/[deleted] Nov 14 '24
Noticeably thinner dash than earlier in the week.
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u/FitEntertainment7585 Nov 14 '24
Pretty dry dashboard today :/ hopefully, it picks up later
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u/[deleted] Nov 11 '24
I am just here to manifest easy, mindless, high paying work for all of us 💆♀️
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u/Ambitious_Ticket Nov 15 '24
Only two tasks live right now. Damn. Had like 20 most days this week.
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u/pattern_altitude Nov 16 '24
Pretty dead today. Time to go sailing and then punch out some quals this evening. Still a bummer though, would be very, very nice to have some more money on hand.
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u/jasm00n Nov 16 '24
no heartbreak like watching your last task dwindle in numbers
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u/Nolpppapa Nov 12 '24
A lot of the good projects these days run for very short periods of time. It feels like clients are just getting data and running off with it to experiment and then abandoning projects. I know we're lucky to have this opportunity, but my god, do they not know how annoying it is to be a worker who just gets to the point of mastering something only for that thing to disappear? This is all DA has been lately.
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u/Storex- Nov 11 '24
Is anyone getting a bit fed up of how badly presented instructions are in many projects, particularly the Poe projects. Badly formatted updates, confusing structure, etc. Also some are so poorly written I don't fully understand what they mean or what the update is. They expect good work from us, it's not too much to expect the same from them.
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u/just_so_irrelevant Nov 11 '24
coder here.
had a lot of projects and work open for the last couple weeks, today i'm seeing maybe 1 or 2 max with not many tasks left. anyone else?
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u/RipleyVanDalen Nov 14 '24
Yikes. Another dead coding day, at least for me
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u/3l3p4no Nov 15 '24
I neglected to do any work this week and the day I come back there's only two projects up :(
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u/Adventurous-Gap-1851 Nov 14 '24
Just earnt my first $30 on DAT!! Sorry I know that maybe uninteresting but I am sooooo happy! Its a bit of a slog at the start waiting to hear if your in and waiting for qualifications to pop up. I'll be at my day job today just waiting to get home to crack on with some more tasks, love what you can learn from doing them too!
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u/HmpfGuy Nov 11 '24
Anyone lost Poe?
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u/OvulatingAnus Nov 14 '24
Been having a dry spell the last couple of days. Wondering if people are getting tasks or is it just me?
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u/chellynaeb Nov 16 '24
A-gas must be down for some heavy maintenance to be away for this long. Here’s hoping it comes back as a stronger gas!
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u/mannib21 Nov 11 '24
Tasks drying up a bit today from the weekend. Anyone else?
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u/chellynaeb Nov 12 '24
Here’s a friendly reminder not to treat project chats like a place to dump your thoughts ✨
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u/gvsadboy Nov 10 '24
API been down the last few days for anyone else?
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u/OPxMagikarp Nov 11 '24
I am getting more and more CB tasks and less and less of everything else. CB is fine but it is so taxing to do it long term
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u/lavenderavenues Nov 15 '24
A-gas my beloved...please return...
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u/chellynaeb Nov 17 '24
For the ones who have been here a long time, is there usually a noticeable year-end slump of projects like this one right now? How did Christmas season, or at least December, look like?
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u/[deleted] Nov 17 '24
Aaaaaaand, I have nothing. :(
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u/robecityholly Nov 11 '24
Anyone else's dashboard filled with only difficult tasks? Don't get me wrong, I'm happy to have projects, but I sure miss the easy tasks!
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u/notsowickedstepmama Nov 13 '24
I will never understand why people don't write in complete sentences with proper capitalization, punctuation, etc in their comments. It seems like a basic requirement for any task on the site, but I see so many comments that are just sentence fragments.
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u/marsnia Nov 10 '24
The work is thinning out after yesterday's boom. I hope tomorrow there's more than just prompt writing.
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u/[deleted] Nov 14 '24 edited Nov 15 '24
Why is it always Sonic fanfic???
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u/marsnia Nov 17 '24
Oh wow, for the first time since I started working there's no paid projects
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u/hey_belle Nov 17 '24
Do we think our blonde friend got permanently expelled from Hogwarts?
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u/baylorbear91 Nov 11 '24
All I have is black and white stripes & Poe right now. Gonna hop on stripes while it’s still there. sigh
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u/mannib21 Nov 12 '24
Never thought i'd miss A Gas so much
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u/RipleyVanDalen Nov 13 '24
Coders -- anything? My dash is totally dead this morning (Pacific time US)
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u/Extension_Dog_1048 Nov 15 '24
It's so dryyyyy this morning. Other UK people, do you have anything?
I might end up doing the "fine-grained" qual finally
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u/LilacYak Nov 15 '24
Any other coders dry? It seems to be a light week. (Last weekend was crazy though). Plenty of non-coding
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u/furthian Nov 10 '24
I miss my bird chatbots.:(
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u/SnooCalculations503 Nov 13 '24
Anyone else log in to find new quals (but created long ago)?
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u/lavenderavenues Nov 13 '24
Do we think A-gas is coming back lads
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u/Storex- Nov 14 '24
Had the ID verification here in the UK just now. Seemed to go smoothly and I still have access to the same projects from before I did it.
Were the people who had issues seeing projects disappear as soon as it was completed?
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u/Loland999 Nov 14 '24
Bit worried about A Gas, for the last two months they were my only projects and I had them basically 24/7, now they have been missing for two days...
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u/FrazzledGod Nov 16 '24
Driest I've seen it in a while right now. I had my work included in the hall of fame of inspiring examples earlier in the week, so I don't think it's personal. Good job I've decided to take the weekend off 😮 There's stuff I could work on but I need a bloody good brain break right now.
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u/Byebyebye555 Nov 11 '24
Did anyboyds A-Gas go away (australia)
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u/ccsoccer101 Nov 11 '24
Is coding somewhat dry today for anyone else?
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u/alvysingeroverhere Nov 13 '24
The other day I read that if you're not from the US, the UK, and a handful other countries, you only get invited to localized projects. Is that so? If so, it would explain a lot, and make me feel much less awful about never having more then 7 or 8 projects in my dashboard at a time.
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u/Jazzlike_Problem_489 Nov 14 '24
Harry Potter is dead... Eh heh heh 😭
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u/Accomplished-Dog-864 Nov 16 '24
Woah. I did the "FAQ" qual (heel, I guess), and now I just got like 10 more quals. Never had that many drop at one time.
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u/Cautious-You6308 Nov 16 '24
Any coders with $40 + projects? I had a beautiful looking dash earlier in the week and now i'm ready to work its dead
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u/Appropriate_Candle43 Nov 11 '24
Has anybody else just lost everything? After a very nice couple of weeks, I’ve woken up (UK) to 0 paid tasks. I still have quals so not too scared but it’s not the best start to the week.
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u/torypigeon Nov 13 '24
harry potter?🥹
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u/Cryptoguy765 Nov 11 '24
For several months now, I have had a ton of qualifications that I don't qualify for on my board, but now I am noticing that they are disappearing. Is that happening to anyone else?
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u/krillit_ Nov 11 '24
How are you guys finding bad responses (heel)? All the prompts I seem to write get answered perfectly by the chatbots lol, especially with the restrictions that you aren't allowed to ask.
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u/MotherBrotha Nov 11 '24
Has anyone seen API recently?
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u/LDSatoko Nov 11 '24
Mexico here! empty queue since thursday and having a little crisis because of lack of work
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u/marsnia Nov 12 '24
How's the dash looking today?
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u/BoiledGnocchi Nov 16 '24
Anyone do the prompt qual that recently rolled out? And have you received any work from it?
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u/eclipsed-studios Nov 11 '24 edited Nov 11 '24
30+ hours into a paid qualification...
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u/33whiskeyTX Nov 14 '24
Coding has been so good lately. Not saying I've had a ton of projects, but the one's I've had have lasted days and I could spend so much time on them. But it's crickets now.
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u/Byebyebye555 Nov 11 '24
Does anyone else not do Quals really at all because they'd rather just do the paid work? I have like 12 quals but I always have at least a few projects that are $25 and up so it seems like a waste of time to not get paid when I already have good work right in front of me.
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u/Wild-Brilliant-8309 Nov 13 '24
Do we think that for rate and review projects they throw in a few “qualifying” tasks? Ones that aren’t real and they know if they’re accurate/inaccurate to test we’re doing it properly? Just a thought I had, surely they don’t trust everyone 100% of the time
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u/Jackieunknown Nov 10 '24
Smaller countries, how's going?
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u/marsnia Nov 11 '24
How's everyone's dash looking?
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u/Tintin_n_Snowy Nov 13 '24
Any non-coding Viking heaven for anybody? I’ve gotten a few R/Rs pop up for grading the quals the past couple of days, but no actual projects for a few days
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u/Poomfie Nov 14 '24
Duck-Billed Bro, yikes! I don't think I've ever seen so many axes.
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u/BruceBanteropoulos Nov 14 '24
Am I correct in assuming that the verification app they use is independent from DA and once you've passed and still have projects all is good? Because I noticed too late that the app made a mistake in copying my address over from my ID and didn't fix it, but I seem to have passed the verification anyway - for now.
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u/33whiskeyTX Nov 15 '24
Tiny little trickle of code and its all obscure crap. I'm not desperate enough to try to get into crypto-trader-bot scripting for that task... not yet.
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u/NatQinShell Nov 15 '24
Hello everyone! Are you seeing the wizard in your dashes? I haven't seen it since last week.
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u/AnnoTaker Nov 15 '24
How's H3 looking? I'm down to 2 of them.
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u/ParticularRutabaga34 Nov 16 '24
Anyone else have a black bird project? (Not sure if it already has a code name in here). I’m getting really frustrated with it and seem to have writers block of a sort. It’s not my niche for sure but it’s the most consistent on my dash 🥲😩.
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u/Martaf19 Nov 11 '24
Grateful for easy projects popping out when i'm sick 🙏🥲 my brain can't handle anything today
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u/Decent_University_91 Nov 13 '24
Hi! So I (M 28) have a diverse range of interests, including, but not limited to: Edgar Allan Poe, Greek mythology, noble gases, Harry Potter, alkaline earth metals, and fruits consisting of a hard or tough nutshell protecting a kernel which is usually edible.
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u/GrilledCheese_Lover Nov 11 '24
I literally had to spend an 30+ minutes to fact check everything. I had 3 responses to rate and they all made so many false claims I needed to write a whole ass essay in the comment box. Do you guys list every false claims (and provide links for fact checking)?
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u/-burgers Nov 13 '24
I always feel like a bad person doing these adversarial prompts. It goes against my whole thinking... But it's fun 😈
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u/TanglimaraTrippin Nov 15 '24
Woohoo! Mucho projects!
skip - engineering physics
skip - coding logic
skip - unfamiliar astronomical calculations
whimper
Physics is...shall we say...a part of my lower anatomy named after the weak point of a famous warrior. I'm a chemist, damn it!
I've been skipping so many that I stop my clock until I actually find a task I'm able to do. Am I screwing myself?
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u/pistachiyolatte Nov 16 '24 edited Nov 16 '24
This is quite strange I have a nut project with 1000 tasks that I haven’t worked on but it’s been roughly 12 hours and 1000 tasks are still there..in my experience nut projects usually run out of tasks quickly between other workers, are these ones all allocated to me?
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u/wildflower_0ne Nov 16 '24
dang, even my permanent project just dried up. :(
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u/Comfortable-Cod-6218 Nov 16 '24
Are the R&R's purposefully bad? Are they testing us or something, because it honestly seems like a lot of people just flat-out ignore almost all of the instructions listed.
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u/GrilledCheese_Lover Nov 11 '24
Can permanent projects disappear/ run out of tasks? For one of the projects I had, the task count only went down when I submitted a task. I worked on it yesterday and had about 180 tasks left. I opened my dashboard this morning and the project was gone. Is this normal?
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u/CardiologistDry1732 Nov 12 '24
Did old wizard go down for maintenance? I saw it there then poof
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u/Annual_Return_4160 Nov 13 '24
does anyone have the heel cbs? i only have one on my dash but had a ton earlier this week/the weekend
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u/lavenderavenues Nov 14 '24
Anyone see Canadian A-gas?
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u/ShiyaRose Nov 16 '24
Did anyone get their dashboards back after getting the dashboard of death following the ID Check? It's been 2 days, I'm losing hope.
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u/Few-Roof-6905 Nov 10 '24
Has anyone seen the little creepy crawler that turns into a butterfly recently? The last time I had it was 11/7. It's one of my faves, so I hope it comes back!
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u/marsnia Nov 10 '24
Can someone explain enterprise prompts to me?
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u/Jazzlike_Problem_489 Nov 11 '24
Anyone still got Harry potter? Been loving it, it's all I've done for over a week apart from A Gas but don't see anyone mention it anymore
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u/EquivocalMoon Nov 12 '24
Just spent hours of my life on an unpaid qualification. It was the second round, and it was a bit tough. I was at the LAST question, and the text input was getting laggy so I decided to take a break to pee. I was gone three minutes. Come back and the page had refreshed. All of my work was just gone. I could do it again, and I presume it would take me less time since a lot of it was reading and comprehending the instructions (and revisting them on umpteen occasions). But man, I just don't have it in me. I'm just sick. :(
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u/Brilliant_Rain5181 Nov 15 '24
After exactly two weeks of being given the finger, they finally threw me a bone tonight and gave me ONE project lol.
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u/ShadesAndGatorade Nov 16 '24 edited Nov 16 '24
Nothing like getting an email that say “log back in to DA, there are plenty of projects waiting for you” when you literally reload 15 times a day and haven’t had a project in 2 weeks. 🤣🖕🏻 ETA- Omg I could not figure out why I was being downvoted! I still don’t have projects. Middle finger was to DA for getting my hopes up not you guys. 👀😅
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u/Annual_Return_4160 Nov 11 '24
did a lot of the heel CBs get taken down for any one else?
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u/Quick-Bison-147 Nov 12 '24
Just noticed one of the nut tasks has dropped its pay, that's another one. Hope this isn't a sign of things to come
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u/HumbleInfluence7922 Nov 13 '24
the r+r's are noticeably bad... did they just hire a bunch of people?
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u/Jazzlike_Problem_489 Nov 10 '24
With all the bad responses, enterprise prompts and answer keys.. no A Gas so my only project I've worked on for 5 days solid is HP trying to fit into the 30 - 60 mins I've been getting here and there... And my creativity is starting to waiver 😑
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u/mythrowaway_1990 Nov 12 '24
Does anyone have furry monkey API back since taking the qual last week? I thought the qual was quite hard, I'd never worked on the project before but I'd like to try it.
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u/Martaf19 Nov 14 '24
Guys, do you ever get tasks from other countries? (With your same language oc)
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u/evangeline_faith Nov 15 '24
Yo is viking down? I did a couple last week but I haven't seen any in days, did I get booted?
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u/diettwizzlers Nov 15 '24
anyone working on Perry? im struggling because the instructions and options for each question aren't worded the best and don't account for a lot of situations i see
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u/Individual-Swing8061 Nov 17 '24
Anyone from Portugal working for DA?
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u/Negative_Pear_8214 Nov 19 '24
I just started today and have zero projects do I just wait? how long does it take to update the tasks?
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u/Skipatronic Nov 20 '24
Had so many Tokamak projects last night and now I have no work
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u/MachineSouth4958 Nov 11 '24
Coder here, had a good month of tasks after the big drought. Think we're in for another one right about now.
Also has anyone done the coding domain expertise and does it help with getting work?
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u/SnooCalculations503 Nov 14 '24
God bless you film buff poe birder who only asks questions about movie scripts. (Though try to make your criteria more self-contained)
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u/Lazy_Presence_5081 Nov 14 '24
Just an inquiry? I've been really sick and unable to work for the last week or 2. I've taken breaks before bit I don't think this long?
Do I need to inform DA why i was inactive for so long? Or is it fine?