The Official Status Thread
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@BernieTheBernie It fluctuates between about 10 and 20%; somewhere around 14% seems to be the mode and probably the mean, too. And no, not 7 cores. 4 physical; 8 virtual.
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Status:
nice
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@accalia said in The Official Status Thread:
Status:
nice
It was so nice I made that permanent.
Life goals.
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@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
@Parody said in The Official Status Thread:
charge you some money
That's the only meaningful part. The test and the picture are just decoys.
The is the most important part, for sure. However, the DVS and the deputy registrars take checks so you can use up the ones you have left over from ye olden dayes and delay them getting the money by a few hours. (You think the state would pay for fancy check readers?)
It's true that the eye test is basically a formality, but if you can't either pass it or listen to someone else do it and rattle off the same letters then you probably shouldn't be driving.
The picture is...a picture.
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@Parody said in The Official Status Thread:
take checks
I was about to, but they went "a credit card is easier". I usually never use CC with government because they always add a fee. In this case, it was only $0.87 (on a $41 charge), so I said fine and handed my card over.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
HP Hotkey UWP Service
I read it as "HP Hockey UWP Service" at first, and wondered if you had moved to .
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Good job, FedEx. My chairs traveled an extra 4,000 miles. I hope they enjoyed the ride.
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@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
HP Hotkey UWP Service
I read it as "HP Hockey UWP Service" at first, and wondered if you had moved to .
An HP hockey team. I sure there's a good joke in there somewhere.
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@Gern_Blaanston said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
HP Hotkey UWP Service
I read it as "HP Hockey UWP Service" at first, and wondered if you had moved to .
An HP hockey team. I sure there's a good joke in there somewhere.
They're unstoppable until the goaltending subscription runs out.
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@Gern_Blaanston said in The Official Status Thread:
An HP hockey team. I sure there's a good joke in there somewhere.
We can't play, we ran out of blue while painting the lines
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@TimeBandit said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gern_Blaanston said in The Official Status Thread:
An HP hockey team. I sure there's a good joke in there somewhere.
We can't play, we ran out of
blueyellow while painting the linesThat no yellow is required is beside the point.
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@dkf said in The Official Status Thread:
no yellow is required
There are more red lines on the ice than blue. Red = magenta + yellow.
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Status: I have a hundred tape measures. Why can't I find one — just one — when I need it?
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Status: The spread of gas prices around Chicago is as mind boggling as ever. On my wife's drive to work (about 45min), the lowest price today was $2.70 and the highest was $4.40. And that's still 10 miles from downtown.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: I have a hundred tape measures. Why can't I find one — just one — when I need it?
Because they're in the place where you would have put it to remember where you would have put it when you want it.
Try putting an intangible tape measure away and report the result!
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Status: Spent half an hour hunting for why a stray comma was being inserted until I realized that refactoring some code eliminated a side-effect that ignored
null
s and an empty select expression component was being generated.
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
Is there an AI I can ask these questions?
Hello, this is Bing. I can understand your frustration with the lack of clear instructions on how to insulate a concrete floor with foam board. Based on my web search results, there are different methods and opinions on this topic, but here are some general guidelines that might help you:
- The purpose of foam board insulation under a concrete floor is to prevent heat loss and create a thermal break between the cold ground and the warm living space³⁴.
- The foam board should be placed on top of a vapor barrier, such as polyethylene sheeting, to prevent moisture from seeping into the insulation and causing mold or rot³⁵.
- The foam board should be cut to fit snugly against the walls and around any pipes or obstructions, leaving no gaps or cracks that could allow air infiltration³⁴⁵.
- The foam board should be secured to the concrete floor with adhesive, tape, or mechanical fasteners, depending on the type and thickness of the foam board³⁴⁵.
- The foam board should be covered with a subfloor material, such as plywood or OSB, to provide a smooth and stable surface for the flooring of your choice³⁵.
As for whether the foam board should touch the floor or not, there are pros and cons to both options. If the foam board touches the floor, it might provide better insulation and prevent thermal bridging, but it could also trap moisture and create a breeding ground for mold or pests⁴. If the foam board is raised off the floor, it might allow better air circulation and drainage, but it could also create gaps and reduce the insulation value². Ultimately, the decision depends on your personal preference, the climate and humidity of your location, and the quality and condition of your concrete floor.
I hope this information is helpful for your project. If you need more details or clarification, you can check out the web search results I used to generate this response, or ask me another question. 😊
Origem: conversa com o Bing, 16/12/2023
(1) How (and Why) to Insulate a Concrete Floor | BuildDirect. https://learning-center.builddirect.com/home-improvement-info/insulate-a-concrete-floor/.
(2) How To Properly Insulate A Concrete Floor (Step By Step). https://goodmansonconstruction.com/insulate-a-concrete-floor/.
(3) How to Insulate a Garage Floor With Plywood and Rigid Foam - The Spruce. https://www.thespruce.com/how-to-insulate-garage-floors-1398131.
(4) The RIGHT WAY to Insulate Your Concrete Floor - YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQi2bj9XH80.
(5) Insulating concrete floor. How to prepare to lay down foam board. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9J0rtSOnW8.
(6) undefined. https://www.groundfloor.us/new_referr.
(7) undefined. https://amzn.to/3p7Vdxh.
(8) undefined. https://amzn.to/38oBHH2.
(9) undefined. https://amzn.to/3k4pqtm.
(10) undefined. https://amzn.to/2JIiNAl.
(11) undefined. https://www.tubebuddy.com/GarrettGlaser.
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@sockpuppet7 said in The Official Status Thread:
Origem: conversa com o Bing
Thanks, Bing, for respecting desired language preferences at the expense of exposing your user.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@sockpuppet7 said in The Official Status Thread:
Origem: conversa com o Bing
Thanks, Bing, for respecting desired language preferences at the expense of exposing your user.
Who’s more at fault, the AI for following instructions, or the user for sloppy pasta?
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@sockpuppet7 said in The Official Status Thread:
Origem: conversa com o Bing
Thanks, Bing, for respecting desired language preferences at the expense of exposing your user.
Who’s more at fault, the AI for following instructions, or the user for sloppy pasta?
Yes. Naturally.
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Status: While the RAM issues seem to have been sorted out with the new sticks, the video decoding issue still occurs, if not nearly so badly...
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Status: Couldn't find what happened to my naughty-AI art generator. So I'm making do with things like this...
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Status: God damn it, my web host updated cPanel again. Last major update they dropped Squirrel Mail and this update they dropped Horde. So only Roundcube is left. WTF is it suddenly so difficult to support more than one webmail client?
Yes, I know, and do, have an independent Squirrel Mail installation. I was, however, using Horde temporarily because I was too lazy to fix a deprecated PHP function in Squirrel Mail. At the time it felt like I had just done that and didn't feel like fixing it again so soon.
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: God damn it, my web host updated cPanel again. Last major update they dropped Squirrel Mail and this update they dropped Horde. So only Roundcube is left. WTF is it suddenly so difficult to support more than one webmail client?
Maybe the webmail clients aren't being kept up? Looks like SquirrelMail's last official release was in 2011 and Horde's was in 2017. (Yes, they both have some development after those versions. Perhaps they should nail down a version once a year or something.)
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@Tsaukpaetra
that's some serious third leg there
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@Luhmann said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra
that's some serious third leg thereToo be fair, the picture does match concepts of the prompt. The model just didn't have enough examples of certain bits so had to improvise.
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Status: HOW THE FUCK DO YOU DOWNLOAD AN IMAGE SENT THROUGH TEAMS?!?
Oh look, it just put it in the download folder without me noticing. How about you pop up some window where I can save stuff?
Also,
MicrosoftTeamsImage(n).png
will get old fast...
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@topspin It's been requested 33 months ago but Microsoft is a small company, and selecting the download folder is too complicated for the Teams devs
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@TimeBandit said in The Official Status Thread:
It's been requested 33 months ago
Custom notification sounds and ringtones is also apparently impossible as well.
We live in a society!
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@TimeBandit said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin It's been requested 33 months ago but Microsoft is a small company, and selecting the download folder is too complicated for the Teams devs
Furthermore, in a twist that nobody could have predicted, the actual request leads to a 404.
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@TimeBandit said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin It's been requested 33 months ago but Microsoft is a small company, and selecting the download folder is too complicated for the Teams devs
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@TimeBandit said in The Official Status Thread:
Microsoft is a small company, and selecting the download folder is too complicated for the Teams devs
Just like with the completely useless menu bar that makes the whole app behave like one huge text field (oh wait, it is), anything that needs to behave like an actual desktop app instead of just being a browser in disguise is too complicated for them.
Except that, ironically enough, every browser on earth has the possibility to select a download folder. But of course those browsers don't use a web view to implement that feature.
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@TimeBandit said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin It's been requested 33 months ago but Microsoft is a small company, and selecting the download folder is too complicated for the Teams devs
Actually this has been implemented on Windows Teams.
Just not Mac Teams for some reason.
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@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
Just not Mac Teams for some reason.
You're holding it wrong.
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@Gern_Blaanston said in The Official Status Thread:
Good job, FedEx. My chairs traveled an extra 4,000 miles. I hope they enjoyed the ride.
Years ago, something I ordered from China (to Canada) took a detour through Norway. Why? Who .nos
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
Oh look, it just put it in the download folder without me noticing. How about you pop up some window where I can save stuff?
I think there's a setting in the new Teams
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@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
Oh look, it just put it in the download folder without me noticing. How about you pop up some window where I can save stuff?
I think there's a setting in the new Teams
#stuckOnClassic
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@Parody It can be difficult to see in some software jobs but some software just works and doesn't need updated every day.
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
@Parody It can be difficult to see in some software jobs but some software just works and doesn't need updated every day.
Well, until something magically breaks from the OS side.
One of these days I'll fire up a debugger and attach it to my Windows Server and figure out the suddenly-there null-dereference that's happening...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Well, until something magically breaks from the OS side.
Yeah, in one group I'm in, I'm seeing lots of 'this doesn't work in Sonoma anymore". Thank you Apple.
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Adding @Tsaukpaetra's server to the list of things that died of suddenly
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@Gustav said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra's server ... died of suddenly
I'd expect nothing less.
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@Gustav said in The Official Status Thread:
Adding @Tsaukpaetra's server to the list of things that died of suddenly
Well it's not like it can get dysentery!
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@Tsaukpaetra With your devices, can we be sure?
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@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra With your devices, can we be sure?
... .... ... Reasonably....!
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@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread:
@Parody It can be difficult to see in some software jobs but some software just works and doesn't need updated every day.
That's fine as long as either nothing around it changes or backwards compatibility is being maintained. Neither is true for these server-based programs. Horde's last official release fixes problems with PHP 7, while SquirrelMail's last news post is about PHP 8 problems being fixed in dev builds. Judging from their blog posts, the cPanel folks didn't want to spend the time to keep patching these web clients either.
I don't know if you are forced to update cPanel, or if it has its own copy of the software it installs for you vs. getting it from online somewhere (the
LEFTPAD
problem) but that could be an option.BTW, I still use Office 2003 and Adobe Creative Suite CS6 (2012) on my current computer (Windows 11) almost every day. I play emulated arcade, console, and 8-bit computer games all the time. Some things do just work, but they need an environment that allows for them.
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@Parody said in The Official Status Thread:
Judging from their blog posts, the cPanel folks didn't want to spend the time to keep patching these web clients either.
The previous fix for Squirrel Mail was literally one or two lines of code. It's been a while but I vaguely recall having to change a default configuration value. That's what the fix I need to do this time looks like too, one deprecated function in one page/file. My own front page broke for some time because PHP changed something about one of the array functions I used to filter/sort a list - they took away the constructor I used to define an anonymous callback because reasons.
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@Parody said in The Official Status Thread:
That's fine as long as either nothing around it changes or backwards compatibility is being maintained. Neither is true for these server-based programs
Oh, come on, it's totally not the fault of people insisting on using software from 1999 that your web server got hacked! Quit trying to blame the customers and force security updates on them, and just secure your servers man!