u/Ambitious-Bison-2161

This literally just happened and I am shaking typing this. I have been testing these AI trading tools everyone raves about, you know the ones promising to spot patterns and execute better than humans. Figured it was hype but thought why not try on a small account with 50k, set some basic parameters like max 2% risk per trade on SPY options.

Set it up Friday afternoon, let it scan for setups based on some momentum signals it suggested. Went to grab dinner, came back, it had placed a few small calls, nothing crazy, up a bit. Felt good, so I left it running overnight thinking the AI would handle limits properly.

Woke up this morning to an alert, checked my platform, and it had somehow scaled into a massive 25k long position on NVDA calls expiring this week. Turns out the tool misinterpreted a news blip about earnings hype, ignored my risk params because of some high conviction signal, and kept averaging up as it dipped slightly premarket. Account is down 8k already, margin call looming if it gaps down.

I shut it off but the damage is done, positions still open because closing now would realize most losses. These AI tools are supposed to help but this feels like straight sabotage.

This literally just happened and I am shaking typing this. I have been testing these AI trading tools everyone raves about, you know the ones promising to spot patterns and execute better than humans. Figured it was hype but thought why not try on a small account with 50k, set some basic parameters like max 2% risk per trade on SPY options.

Set it up Friday afternoon, let it scan for setups based on some momentum signals it suggested. Went to grab dinner, came back, it had placed a few small calls, nothing crazy, up a bit. Felt good, so I left it running overnight thinking the AI would handle limits properly.

Woke up this morning to an alert, checked my platform, and it had somehow scaled into a massive 25k long position on NVDA calls expiring this week. Turns out the tool misinterpreted a news blip about earnings hype, ignored my risk params because of some high conviction signal, and kept averaging up as it dipped slightly premarket. Account is down 8k already, margin call looming if it gaps down.

I shut it off but the damage is done, positions still open because closing now would realize most losses. These AI tools are supposed to help but this feels like straight sabotage.

Help a girlie out, does anyone have a holy grail scrub for keratosis pilaris? had these chicken skin bumps on my arms and thighs but lately it’s just gotten so much worse. at the point where i stopped wearing short sleeves or tank tops entirely because I am so self conscious about people seeing the texture. Def ruined my confidence I feel like I’m constantly hiding my body, even when it's roasting outside.
I feel so helpless because I feel like I’ve tried everything. I’m desperate for anything that will actually make my skin feel smooth for once.

I'm pushing 60 and keep thinking about my aunt who fell last year in her kitchen. Nobody could get in quick the paramedics had to wait forever for a neighbour with a spare key and by then she was in bad shape. Started stressing me out cause i live alone too and what if it happens to me nobody knows my meds or where the lockbox is or anything? Been eyeing these fall detection watches and medical alert watches they auto call help if you go down right. But calling 911 straight up feels sketchy cause dispatch has no clue about you they just send someone and hope for the best. With one of those operators they got your info upfront address conditions emergency contacts even lockbox code stuff like that. Would that actually stop the worry or am I overthinking? Anyone have stories with these watches does it work in real falls what do you use to feel safer?

Would love a genuine advice, Thanks!

Living in a small apartment means my home gym dreams are a folding rack and some resistance bands pretending to be serious equipment. Now with 2026 supposedly bringing smart home gym miracles, I'm trying to find something compact that doesn't turn every workout into constant setup and adjustment.

Tired of digital systems promising to replace my pile of weights but delivering more app glitches than gains. I'm looking at compact setups like technogym or other full body machines that let you change resistance quickly during workouts for faster sessions. Bonus if it doesn't take over the whole room when it's not in use because my current setup basically lives under my bed and I step over it every morning like it's judging me.

Trying to figure out what people are using that keeps training intense without turning the space into a mess between sets.

At this point i am done overthinking skincare. Tried layering serums, actives, exfoliants, all it did was make my skin more irritated. Now i just want a simple routine that hydrates and calms things down without causing another reaction.

These are some brands i heard are good for sensitive skin:

Aveeno oat based products that are more calming than aggressive, feels like a safe option.

Skinfix big focus on barrier repair. Their creams are supposed to help when your skin is wrecked.

Vanicream super basic formulas. No fragrance, nothing extra. People with reactive skin swear by it.

First Aid Beauty- known for simple, soothing products. The ultra repair cream keeps coming up for sensitive, dry skin.

Paula’s Choice- has gentle options if you still want light exfoliation without going overboard.

Kiehl’s more on the hydrating side. Their creams seem simple enough without too much going on.

Trying to keep it to just cleanser and moisturizer for now and let my skin chill. Has any of you tried some of these and can you give me suggestions on which is best?

My skin was fine before some acne treatment messed it up. now its super sensitive and everything stings. got these KP bumps all over arms and legs that wont go away, tried different acne stuff before but this is new.

i use skin hydration cleansers in morning, thick moisturiser at night but even those burn sometimes. switched to sensitive skin care products but kp bumps still there and skin feels raw.

Is there any gentle ways to handle kp and keep skin hydrated without irritation? help

So, my couch and I have had a good run but It’s time to do something about the fact that I can no longer walk upstairs without narrating my own decline. The problem is I have maybe eight square feet of space and a budget that hovers somewhere between broke and extra broke.

I keep seeing all these home gym setups online where people have full racks and dumbbells from 5 to 150 pounds and I’m over here trying to figure out if I can fit a resistance band collection in a storage container under my bed without my partner staging an intervention.

Like what’s useful versus what am I buying to make myself feel like I’m doing something while I continue to exist in a constant state of mild regret. I see pull up bars and kettlebells and adjustable dumbbells and tbh they all just look like expensive ways to hate myself in a different location.

What moves the needle if you’re starting from zero and have the space of a closet or should I just accept that stairs and carrying groceries are my functional fitness routine now

We sync from HRIS on new hire records. match on first name, last name, department. works fine until it doesn't.

last month it matched a new hire to a former employee with the same name who left four years ago. different person entirely system saw the name department was close enough, merged them.

new hire spent their first week with access to everything that old account had accumulated. some of it elevated. nobody caught it because the account looked normal, just assigned to the wrong person's history.

took three weeks to untangle. the part i still can't fully close is what the new hire actually accessed during that window that they shouldn't have. logging ties to the account not the person so the reconstruction was incomplete.

we added employee ID as a matching field after this. but we provisioned a lot of people before we tracked IDs consistently so i don't know how many historical records would fail the same match if those people got rehired.

how are others handling rehire matching in environments where the historical data is messy. and whether anyone has actually audited their matching logic before something like this surfaced it.

My mom is 81 and lives alone 90 minutes away. I call her couple times a day but still worry what if she falls in between and lays there hours no one knows. Like that story I heard neighbours dad fell nobody found him till way later. I text check-ins but it's not the same. She says she's fine independent doesn't want to move or anything but guilt eats at me especially nights. Can't afford to visit more right now either.

I’ve been seeing a lot of discussions here about azelaic acid and retinoids, and most of it is based on personal experience (which is great), but I thought it might be helpful to break down how they actually work in a more structured way. Azelaic acid is one of those ingredients that tends to be well-tolerated even by sensitive skin. It’s often used for things like uneven texture, redness, and mild breakouts. The benefit is that it works more gently compared to stronger actives, so people can usually introduce it without too much irritation if they go slow.

Retinoids, on the other hand, are more about long term change improving cell turnover, fine lines, acne, and overall skin texture. They are very effective, but they can also be more irritating at the beginning, especially for people with compromised skin barriers.

From a formulation point of view, brands like First Aid Beauty or LaRoche Posay often focus on balancing actives with barrier supporting ingredients, so the goal is to reduce irritation while still getting results. Dermatologists usually emphasize that consistency and tolerance matter more than strength alone In general, it’s not really about choosing one over the other it depends on your skin’s tolerance and what you’re trying to treat. Curious what people here have had better luck with azelaic acid or retinoids and how did your skin adjust at the beginning?

We’ve been building AI agents that look really strong in controlled environments. They can plan tasks, break down workflows, and generate good outputs without much issue. At first it feels like everything is solved. The agent understands what to do and produces the right steps. But the moment you connect it to real websites, things start breaking in ways that are surprisingly consistent.

The main issue is not intelligence. The problem shows up when the agent needs to really execute actions inside real browser environments where work happens. In practice, this is what keeps going wrong:

• many SaaS tools we rely on don’t have APIs at all so everything depends on the UI
• login flows like SSO, MFA, and OTP interrupt automation and require manual intervention
• sessions expire in the middle of tasks and the agent loses its state completely
• UI changes break selectors and workflows without any warning
• important actions are only available inside dashboards and not exposed through APIs
• bot detection systems block or limit non human behavior even if it is legitimate

What makes it more frustrating is that everything looks fine during testing. In sandbox setups the agent works perfectly. But real systems are messy, constantly changing, and not built for automation at all.

Why do AI agents look so good in demos but completely fail the moment you connect them to real websites?

this guilt about my aging mom eats at me and nobody really talks about it enough. I live about 90 minutes away, got a full time job, kids and all that, so I cannot just drop everything to be there 24/7. For months I felt like the worst daughter, picturing her alone if something happens at night. Got her one of those medical alert watches with fall detection recently, not a fix all but knowing it calls help if she falls at 3am with her info ready, that eased something in me a bit. Doesn't stop the worry completely though.

We have been building this stealth web scraping agent using a human like browser automation tool with computer vision AI for browser tasks to handle MFA and anti bot measures. Supposed to integrate with their APIs for full workflows pulling data from their partner sites. I was the one who said we could rely on their APIs since they documented them as stable.

Did final testing in staging yesterday everything perfect. Their APIs had all the endpoints we needed no rate limits hit. This morning I merge to prod merge goes smooth deploys fine. Client has their big investor demo at 10am we monitor from slack.

By 10:15am their entire API cluster goes into lockdown. Our agent was firing thousands of requests per minute because their undocumented rate limits kicked in after 500 calls per hour per IP and we had no fallback. Turns out half the endpoints we were calling straight up dont exist in prod they are incomplete and the docs were stale. Agent kept retrying exponentially because of breaking changes they made last week without notice.

Client support pings us furious their demo crashed live investors watching blank screens. Our agent browser was slamming their login pages too trying to reauthenticate past MFA every failure loop. We had to kill the whole swarm manually and roll back but not before they banned our IPs across all their services.

I feel sick. Boss is on damage control promising manual workarounds for weeks. What do we even do now cant trust APIs for automation anymore.

My daughter just turned 15 and my dad is 82 now. Feels like i'm pulled both ways every day. Dad had a bad fall a couple months back, nothing broken but it shook me up. He still lives by himself, insists he's fine, won't even discuss moving or help but i'm up at night thinking what if it happens again when i'm not there.

How is everyone else in this situation actually coping and practically speaking what have you put in place for your parent that actually gave you some peace of mind?

we have a setup where alerts go off fine for cpu spikes or similar, but by the time i check dashboards they’re already down or showing stale data. graphs stop updating or metrics are missing, so it’s hard to trust what i’m seeing.

rn using prometheus + grafana with alertmanager, but it feels backwards. alerts wake me up at 3am but the dashboards aren’t useful when i need them. anyone else dealing with this.. what setups keep dashboards reliable during incidents, or ways to make alerts reflect actual dashboard state

running dbt in prod with BigQuery, all tests green every day. singular, freshness, relationships all pass. but downstream reports are still off by a few percent. customer counts don’t match, revenue totals drift from source systems.

chasing this down takes hours. sample data in models looks fine, but aggregates somewhere along the pipeline are wrong. basic checks like row counts don’t catch it.

our setup:

300m rows daily

incremental models with merge

custom aggregations in some marts

tried adding more tests:

- accepted values on key metrics (still misses edge cases)

- dbt expectations package (too noisy)

- manual diffs against source (tedious, breaks with schema changes)

not sure if it’s merge logic, timezone issues, or just bad assumptions in transformations. leadership sees “all tests passing” but the business sees incorrect data.

how are you catching this kind of drift, anyone built data quality layers beyond basic dbt tests.. whats worked when tests pass but the data is still wrong?