jubilationtcornpone
@jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Not even half a year left 7 hours ago:
You guys can afford more than two pairs of underwear??
- Comment on 8 hours ago:
…maybe.
- Comment on 8 hours ago:
Older house, poor insulation, 19 year old heat pump/AC, and hot summers.
- Comment on 18 hours ago:
they generate about 3,800kWh per year. We also use about 3,800kWh of electricity each year.
Holy shit. I think we used that much last month, which is higher than average but not that high for August around here.
- Comment on Millions turn to AI chatbots for spiritual guidance and confession 1 day ago:
Bless me
FatherChat GPT for I have sinned. - Comment on Flooring Pop 3 days ago:
The main concern about an unlevel floor is why is it unlevel? If you can figure out the “why”, that will tell you if it’s easily fixable or if it will potentially get worse.
How hard it is to investigate depends on how accessible the underside of the floor is. It’s going to be pretty hard to tell from the top side without ripping off the tile first.
If the room has a crawlspace or basement underneath and you feel like playing detective, get a bubble level and go check the joists and beams in the vicinity. Work downhill until the slope stops. That will give you a general area of the source of the problem.
There could be a variety of causes, some of which are obvious, some not as much.
- Comment on Flooring Pop 3 days ago:
Yikes! Don’t bother trying to patch it. That floor is a disaster and needs to be completely removed and reinstalled. As at least one other commenter mentioned, the tiles should be staggered and have room around the edges for expansion. The reason those popped up is because there are no gaps for expansion around the edge of the room. Also, they did a really sloppy mortar job. I’m not even sure they used the right mortar but it’s hard to tell from just the photos.
- Comment on Exclusive: Kratsios details White House AI plans 5 days ago:
Yeah baby! Strip those regs! Who’s ready for some more early 2000’s level fraud induced corporate bankruptcies? We’ll call it “Vibe Accounting”, which is where some idiot who can barely add uses an LLM to spit out financial statements that have no basis in reality.
/s
- Comment on Trump's video on the shooting of Kirk appears to be AI 1 week ago:
I would not put it past Donny Bonespurs to have Kirk assassinated as either a distraction or to use as a pretext for more power grabs.
I’ll admit it’s a little tin foil hatty but considering he views other people as completely disposable, I don’t think it’s that far fetched.
- Comment on Trump's video on the shooting of Kirk appears to be AI 1 week ago:
“Vibe Presidenting”
- Comment on Microsoft mandates a return to office, 3 days per week 1 week ago:
Well you see, it’s ✨magical✨ data that only executives can interpret. Us lowly employees just wouldn’t understand it.
- Comment on Microsoft mandates a return to office, 3 days per week 1 week ago:
“Vibe Executing” is apparently how alot of CEO’s do their jobs. They didn’t know how to gauge productivity before the pandemic and they still don’t. They just pull whatever sounds good out of their asses at any given moment.
- Comment on AI adoption rate is declining among large companies — US Census Bureau claims fewer businesses are using AI tools 1 week ago:
Personal Anecdote
Last week I used the AI coding assistant within JetBrains DataGrip to build a fairly complex PostgreSQL function.
It put together a very well organized, easily readable function, complete with explanatory comments, that failed to execute because it was absolutely littered with errors.
I don’t think it saved me any time but it did help remove my brain block by reorganizing my logic and forcing me to think through it from a different perspective. Then again, I could have accomplished the same thing by knocking off work for the day and going to the driving range.
- Comment on Storm Water Mitigation/Sump Pump 1 week ago:
Part of the challenge is that most of the rainwater doesn’t originate from the exterior in the area where I’m working.
When they poured the front porch (which is actually towards the rear of the house from the street since the house sits sideways on the lot), they didn’t backfill it correctly. As a result, there’s a nice little spot next to the foundation, under the front walkway, where water that gets through cracks in the walkway gets funneled downhill under the walkway and front porch, through the exterior wall, and into the corner where I’m digging.
There’s a small hole in the wall on the other side of this crawlspace (see photo). When I first discovered it I looked in and could see the front porch slab above it. It’s big enough inside that if the hole were bigger I could probably crawl into it.
Long term, the whole walkway needs to be ripped out, backfilled, and replaced. But that’s going to be $$$ so it will be a few years before I can do that.
- Comment on Storm Water Mitigation/Sump Pump 1 week ago:
That would be a huge job. I think it would probably pay off more if the ground was flat and standing water was a greater risk. Around here it’s very hilly and the soil is not that absorbent.
Water runs down hill. It’s just a question of making sure it runs away from the house which it now does 99% of the time.
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- Comment on Getting Started with Proxmox 1 week ago:
In this situation it’s not necessarily that it’s the “right” or “wrong” device. The better question is, “does it meet your needs?” There are pros and cons to running each service in its own VM. One of the cons is the overhead consumed by the VM OS. Sometimes that’s a necessary sacrifice.
Some of the advantages of running a system like Proxmox are that it’s easily scalable and you’re not locked into specific hardware. If your current Beelink doesn’t prove to be enough, you can just add another one to the cluster or add a different host and Proxmox doesn’t care what it is.
TLDR: it’s adequate until it’s not. When it’s not, it’s an easy fix.
- Comment on Good luck! 1 week ago:
I am not even going to attempt to climb those stairs.
- Comment on A conundrum 1 week ago:
Then there’s all the expenses you didn’t know about before you bought the house. If you don’t have at least some DIY skills, you get to pay people a lot of money to fix things for you.
…BTW, the county just did a reassessment on your property and your property taxes have now doubled. In exchange, you get nothing. Congratulations.
- Comment on 3 out of 4 is pretty good 1 week ago:
A little surprising since I’ve heard they’ve not been getting along recently.
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- Comment on Someone else will retire me when the time comes. 1 week ago:
Absolutely. As long as the boots are made properly and the sole isn’t just glued on. I think a lot of Danner and Redwing boots are resolable.
I’ve got a pair of Danner’s that I really like.
- Comment on Someone else will retire me when the time comes. 1 week ago:
Timberland boots don’t retire. They constantly slack off at work and quit in a rage when confronted about it.
…also I’m pretty sure they were smoking crack while driving the service van
- Comment on Getting Started with Proxmox 1 week ago:
Yeah, with something that size you’re pretty much limited to containers.
- Comment on Getting Started with Proxmox 1 week ago:
I use one VM per service. WAN facing services, of which I only have a couple, are on a separate DMZ subnet and are firewalled off from the LAN.
It’s probably little overkill for a self hosted setup but I have enough server resources, experience, and paranoia to support it.
- Comment on This bacon grease 1 week ago:
That goes in the grease jar in the fridge to make gravy later.
- Comment on Porca miseria, ma perche! 1 week ago:
But he ate-a my canolli!
- Comment on UK government trial of Microsoft's M365 Copilot finds no clear productivity boost 1 week ago:
The sole reason I still pay the Microsoft tax is Excel. Other office suite components are generally good enough to fill in for their Microsoft counterparts. But, spreadsheet programs are one area where open source competitors need to get their shit together.
Most of them can do the basics but Excel is still in a class by itself for power users and advanced functionality. That’s a real bummer because I would love to stop paying the Microsoft tax.
- Comment on UK government trial of Microsoft's M365 Copilot finds no clear productivity boost 1 week ago:
I believe that’s the “I spent six years in college and $150,000 for the ‘privilege’ of sitting in teams meetings all day.” look.
- Comment on Ia Ia! 2 weeks ago:
TBF, you should have known that can of Natty Lite in the back of the fridge was no good.
