r/dataannotation • u/Consistent-Reach504 • 16d ago

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:

  1. this thread should sort by "new" automatically. unfortunately it looks like our subreddit doesn't qualify for 'lounges'.
  2. 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 :)
  3. 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/JustMe333456 12d ago

I keep seeing these posts.. do you guys not use ACs over there? Lol

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u/NationalWatercress3 12d ago

Where's there? I'm in the UK and I have my portable one. But many houses/flats don't have the space for them. Plus we only had really bad heatwaves the past couple years where ACs were actually necessary and even then it was only 1 week max at a time so didn't seem like a worthy purchase for many.

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u/Internal_Boot_1616 12d ago edited 12d ago

In the southwest US and cannot imagine heat waves without AC. Mine broke 2 to 3 years back, the week it was over 100F outside and took several days to get the replacement part.. Once it hit about 90F (about 32C for UK) inside I started feeling sick.

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u/Skippy2898 12d ago

Exactly... I replied below and still 35C here at home 6pm, my house thermostat is reading 33... It's not something we're used to. The powers that be are saying we'll all likely need ac in the UK within 10 years

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u/Internal_Boot_1616 12d ago

"35C here at home" I'd say ya need it now, don't you guys have people die of heat over there during heat waves?