The Official Status Thread
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Does that even apply to third party only insurance? I can see it would make sense for fully comprehensive or fire & theft, but when you're only insured for the liability to others I wouldn't have thought it would matter
Yeah, though not as much. Not sure why, since we didn't get the underlying data that supported the rating algorithms.
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They didn't: they got it cheaper because statistically they have less accidents and smaller claims
QFT.
Every rating factor used in the US has to either be:
- Statistically*/measurably supported.
- OR - - Under review for statistical significance.
About the only thing I am aware of in he second category right now is the GPS factor that has recently been added to Progressive's Snapshot program. Gender has been shown to have a measurable statictical impact on accident rates.
* As previously mentioned, those stats may come from the underwriters own records.
- Statistically*/measurably supported.
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Status: Our test systems have a problem where if you install the proper USB controller driver in Windows 7, you lose the ability to use any USB devices, which is kind of important in these post-PS/2 interface days. So I didn't install them and all was well. Sometime between then and now, Windows Update helpfully auto-installed the driver, and now the systems are completely unusable.
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Does that lightsaber say "JEWS" on it?
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Not really a space ship but what about a chocolate dart vader?
Why does Darth Vader have lobster claws for hands?
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Our test systems have a problem where if you install the proper USB controller driver in Windows 7, you lose the ability to use any USB devices
Wait, what? How the hell does that bug happen??
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Sometimes I seriously wonder WTF one of my former coworkers was thinking.
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Why does Darth Vader have lobster claws for hands?
He's not just Darth Vader. He's LEGO® Darth Vader.
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<slap>
It's a moot point.
@dkf for the WHOOSH! -B
Mod - PJH.
Testing UUIDs: 6ab865b7-1b48-403b-b126-25fe3e0a8fa6
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It's good cholesterol, but it spreads like bad cholesterol.
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Sometimes I seriously wonder WTF one of my former coworkers was thinking.
Lucky one ... only sometimes ...
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Wait, what? How the hell does that bug happen??
Beats me. It's an ASUS Z87-A motherboard, and the issue only happens on Windows 7. Windows 8 is fine as are the various Linuxes.
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Status: Still can't see
as anything other than a cat, facing left, throwing up. I've seen the full size version and know what it's meant to be, but my head just won't accept that
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Still can't see as anything other than a cat, facing left, throwing up.
Yep, same here.
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Status: Finding out why a program takes 17 seconds to save its parameters to a leveldb database.
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Beats me. It's an ASUS Z87-A motherboard, and the issue only happens on Windows 7. Windows 8 is fine as are the various Linuxes.
That just doesn't make sense. When you find out how the hell that happens, I would love to know.
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I was able to download an updated USB controller driver which fixed it, it seems Windows Update is not pushing out the latest driver.
Getting the driver on the system was a bit convoluted. I did find exactly ONE PS/2 keyboard (motherboard has one PS/2 port on it thankfully) in the lab so I could log in, but the bad USB driver also killed the NIC so no Internet access. I had to download it via another OS, drop it in the Windows partition, reboot, then install the driver using the keyboard only.
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Beats me. It's an ASUS Z87-A motherboard, and the issue only happens on Windows 7. Windows 8 is fine as are the various Linuxes.
What's this about people saying Windows has perfect hardware compatibility?
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What's this about people saying Windows has perfect hardware compatibility?
Who actually says that though?
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It's not really Windows fault that ASUS has a crappy driver for their motherboard.
/flamesuit on
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I hear the opposite more often. People laughing at Windows reliability compared to Macs without considering the orders of magnitude difference in the amount of hardware configurations each OS supports
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People who also say that Windows doesn't crash...
i don't think we have anyone blakey like that around here, do we?
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Would you give the constant posting of trash a goddamned rest? ;)
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Would you give the constant posting of trash a goddamned rest?
We have taken you suggestion under consideration and regret to inform you that by a vote of 149 to 148 your suggestion has been rejected.
Please feel free to offer more suggestions in the future, secure in the knowledge that they will be considered with every bit of care and consideration as any other suggestion from any other source.
Thank you and have a fluffy day.
filed under: totally not a cut and paste
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What's this about people saying Windows has perfect hardware compatibility?
They're saying that it doesn't?
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Or is it being left until someone has time to award the badge?
Today's a holiday in the US, so my Monday activity will be spotty this week. And it's always spotty on weekends.
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Yeah - sorted now anyway, just didn't want Discosocks to have eaten the flags.
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Status: Going to lunch to hopefully get in a better mood after losing 2 hours of work due to VS/our source control (SourceGear Vault) reverting a few files changes unprompted.
Update: Nope.
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Why the fucking fuckity-fuck does fucking Discourse keep notifying me about fucking updates in a fucking topic I've fucking told it I DON'T FUCKING WANT TO HEAR ABOUT?????
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i'm guessing:
- server cooties
- someone's hidden @mentioning you
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No, it's just the broken-by-design fact that muted topics still show up in "Latest." And that a flame war is causing that topic to be updated every 5 seconds.
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muted topics still show up in "Latest."
All because Muting works differently between topics and categories, while Tracking and Watching don't.
And yes, it's annoying as shit to me too.
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oh.....
yeah.
it also triggers topic updates if someone edits a post in the topic, and i'm like 90% sure it also counts flagging a post, and liking a post. maybe even bookmarking or linking....
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while Tracking and Watching don't.
because they are applied to topics on topic creation in trackled and watching categories.
observer what happens when you create a topic in a category you have muted and it is moved to a non muted category. the topic stays muted even though it was the category that muted it not you.
rather counter intuitive to me!
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because they are applied to topics on topic creation in trackled and watching categories.
Muted is not. Topics created in Muted categories are "Regular" by default. That's what is counter-intuitive.
[moving topics]
Moving topics doesn't change what their tracking is, the topic keeps its former level. The only time you have an oddity is if you move a Tracked/Watched topic to a Muted category, where you get the phantom "new" or "unread" counters, like I was seeing when you'd made the topic in General that got moved to Articles (or when people make topics that get moved to One Post).
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Moving topics doesn't change what their tracking is
might be a perspective but i would expect all topics to be at regular unless manually changed by user interaction. topics in a watched/tracked/muted category get the category settings applied to them if not overridden by user interaction. then when moved the new categories defaults apply.
that might not be the most logical way to do it, but it would be consistent.
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would be consistent
Where do you think we are?
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On a more serious note:
topics to be at regular unless manually changed by user interaction
Except Discourse will automatically put you in Tracking if you read a topic long enough (per your preferences) or if you add a post to the topic. It will make it Watching by default if it is your topic (I'd prefer it to be Tracking, but I can live with it, I rarely start topics anyways).To a degree, I understand where they are coming from by having it automatically bump you up to Tracking if you have an interest in a topic (by reading or replying), so if the topic would get moved, you still have it Tracking, no matter the category and your category preferences (with the obvious exception of Muted categories, which I feel is more a bug than intended, but it's one that they aren't bothering to fix, even though it'd been pointed out to them).
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i would expect all topics to be at regular unless manually changed by user interaction
Check your settings. I have everything default to tracking.
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Check your settings. I have everything default to tracking.
so do I, but i file that under user action (i took an action to change the default.)
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Is it just me, or does Discourse need its diaper changed again?
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Status: http://www.hitbox.tv/BenLubar is now slightly more automated. My Dwarf Fortress AI will automatically make a new fortress if it fails and will automatically generate a new world if there are no good locations for a fortress. Unfortunately, I haven't figured out how to make ffmpeg cooperate at quite the same level, so the stream will still go down every time my ISP gives me a new IP address.
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so the stream will still go down every time my ISP gives me a new IP address.
is this a thing that happens regularly?
if so is there literally any other ISP you could sign up for? because DAMN!
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Minor WTF of the day: One of our driver packages has an issue. The 32-bit package is identical to the 64-bit package, only with the description changed. It even has 64-bit binaries! The 32-bit Windows test systems don't really like it.
