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Planning to travel to Canada for a short trip. I have a valid I-797 approval notice but my H1B visa stamp in the passport is expired. I recently read about Automatic Visa Revalidation (AVR), which apparently allows travel to Canada or Mexico for less than 30 days and re-entry to the U.S. even with an expired visa stamp, as long as certain conditions are met. I also have Global Entry approved. My question is: If I return to the U.S. by air, can I use the Global Entry kiosk / self check-in process like normal, or will I still need to see a CBP officer because of AVR and the expired visa stamp?

Planning to travel to Canada for a short trip. I have a valid I-797 approval notice but my H1B visa stamp in the passport is expired. I recently read about Automatic Visa Revalidation (AVR), which apparently allows travel to Canada or Mexico for less than 30 days and re-entry to the U.S. even with an expired visa stamp, as long as certain conditions are met. I also have Global Entry approved. My question is: If I return to the U.S. by air, can I use the Global Entry kiosk / self check-in process like normal, or will I still need to see a CBP officer because of AVR and the expired visa stamp?

I work in the process department of an energy company and often need to prepare preliminary mechanical sketches before handing them over to the mechanical team for detailed design drawings.

Right now, I need to create around 20 sketches, including both plan and elevation views, and the process is taking a significant amount of time.

Tried conventional approach like promoting in GPT, The results for CAD-style drawings and engineering sketches seem inconsistent or not detailed enough for practical use.

So I’m wondering:

• Is this mainly a prompting issue?
• Or is AI simply not mature enough yet for reliable CAD/mechanical sketch generation?
• Are there better AI tools specifically designed for engineering sketches, process layouts, or mechanical concept drafting?

My use case is mainly:

• Quick conceptual mechanical sketches
• Piping/equipment layout concepts
• Plan and elevation views
• Something good enough to communicate intent before detailed drafting

Would love recommendations from anyone in engineering/EPC/design workflows who has successfully integrated AI into CAD sketching.

Pretty newish to the city, Mid-30s male looking to meet someone organically who enjoys the outdoors, hiking, fitness, and an active lifestyle. I work out and hike regularly, play tennis, and spend a lot of time skiing during the winter. Try to travel every month and want to cover all the national parks in the US

I keep a minimal social media presence and would prefer someone similar.

I want to determine whether a specific number (Let us say 5566.14) exists anywhere within a complex Excel workbook containing multiple sheets and interconnected calculations.

The reason is that this value appears in another Excel file and is being used there without any direct cell reference. I want to understand how this value was originally selected or derived, so I need to locate where it may exist in the original workbook.

I understand this may be difficult, especially if the number contains decimals or has been rounded during calculations. Is there a way to search not only for the exact value, but also for the closest matching values within the workbook?

EDIT : chatGPT Plus at &20/month

At my company, we have a Microsoft 365 subscription that includes Copilot. I can also access GPT-5.5 Thinking there. Is the model quality essentially the same as subscribing separately to ChatGPT Pro? I’m trying to decide whether it’s worth paying separately for ChatGPT Plus at $20/month, or if using Copilot with GPT-5.5 is already enough.

We don't have access to codex, But at least what I'm looking for is to help with coding an internal tool for the company in Python. I'm not developer, but just trying to build some internal tools and automate a bunch of tasks

Looking for RShiny like reactivity for data science and visualization application. How do Flask, Django, Streamlit, and Dash compare for interactive data science apps? Mainly curious about:

- Reactivity

- Ease of building dashboards

- Performance/scaling

- Large datasets

- ⁠UI flexibility

- Production readiness

⁠Which framework feels closest to Shiny, and ⁠which works best for serious data-heavy applications?

I’m building an R Shiny app where users can upload Excel, CSV, or text files. The app automatically parses headers, cleans unwanted data, and lets users select columns to visualize and plot.

Now I’m trying to scale this for massive datasets.

The issue:

• Some Excel files are 1GB+ with huge numbers of rows and columns

• fread() works great for CSVs, but not for Excel files

• I tried using DuckDB for Excel ingestion. In the console I can see DuckDB being called before the file loads, so I think it’s working, but performance is still very slow on large files. So I’m trying to understand:

• Is the bottleneck mainly a RAM limitation? -Or is Excel itself fundamentally inefficient for large-scale analytics ?

• What’s the recommended architecture here for production-scale apps handling massive Excel uploads?

• Would you preprocess Excel into parquet/csv first? Use Arrow + DuckDB? Chunk reads? Database-backed workflows?

Curious how others handle large-file ingestion in Shiny apps.

I bought a set of tires from Discount Tires back inndef 2024. Fast forward to now, the tires are down to about 3/32 tread, a nail plus a torn section that they say is beyond repair.

They are saying warranty won't be covered in this case as threads are at 3/32.

Is that right and I have to buy brand new ? btw, I drove less than 8k miles on this

I don't see an option for canceling subscribe and save in the Android mobile app at least. Looks like it's hidden deep inside. Is that a easy way to cancel this?

I had 8,000 points in spirit and since they are shutting down, I will most likely lose it. I have around 50,000 points in frontier airlines, question is whether frontier is in a precarious financial position or is it good for at least a year?

These idiots at VFS , inspite of giving the exact name of my dad as per the passport is asking for proof. More waste of time and money submitting documents

I received a notice saying my application has been received but cannot be processed further due to a mismatch in my father’s name. Specifically, the name listed in the application must exactly match the one on the passport. To move forward, they’ve asked for one of the following:

- A copy of my father’s passport (first and last information pages) along with his Aadhaar card, OR

- A signed letter addressed to the Consulate General of India confirming the father’s name exactly as per the passport

Until this is resolved, the application will remain on hold.

Has anyone else gotten this ?

I requested Positron from my company, but they’re pushing back with “why not just use VS Code?” My main use case is working with both R and Python in a single IDE. Positron seems like the closest fit for that, especially since I really like RStudio’s layout and workflow. From what I’ve seen, Positron carries over that same experience while expanding better into multi-language data science, analysis, and visualization. VS Code is obviously powerful, but it feels more like a general-purpose editor that needs extensions and setup to match a proper data science environment.

Are there stronger arguments I can make to justify Positron over VS Code? .

The initial drop-off was narrow, steep and scary, managed to get down by doing some hockey stops and skidding down but the rest was okay. I got a bit overconfident the second time, and tried to pick up speed , that's when I came down crashing, but luckily wasn't hurt

This trial is marked as blue with some black signs. Does it really have black stretches?

Also what is the run that is immediately to the left after you get of facelift express - Is it the china bowl ?

We have over 500 emails exchanged between our engineering team and a client, but the communication is fragmented. Different emails include different recipients, some conversations exclude key stakeholders, and overall the information is scattered. Most of the original engineering team members are no longer with the company, and we now need to reconstruct a clear picture of what was communicated. Specifically, we want to understand the client’s issues, how they were addressed, and what solutions were proposed or implemented.

All the communications have been saved as .msg from outlook. When I try to upload the .msg into copilot, it says the format is not supported

I keep seeing a message that today (April 19) is the last day for the discounted price. The Ikon Base Pass is currently showing $949. I’m still relatively new to skiing and have just started doing blue runs. I’m planning a trip to Mammoth next weekend. If I buy the pass now, can I use it there immediately? Also, is this a good deal at this stage for my skill level and plans?

btw I'm from Texas 😟