u/Quantum_Shade2022

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Spark not running task

I have a friend that lives in Kyiv. I am constantly worried about Russian missiles and drones. I decided to use Spark to alert me if there were any impacts in the immediate vicinity of where my friend lives.

I used Google Maps to define the area and asked Spark to make 7 hourly checks starting at 8pm Eastern and ending at 2am Eastern the following day. Spark is to access a set of reliable Ukrainian government and community sites and check if any impacts have been recorded in any of the neighborhoods within the defined area. If there are any I get alerted and sent an email. If not then it takes no action.

I ran it manually and it works fine. I waited until 8pm the first night and it ran fine. It confirmed all checks that first night. But it has been marked as "Failed" ever since. I ask Spark to confirm if the task ran and it just sort of hangs and after about 2 to 3 mins spinning it says it encountered a problem and can't answer my question. I deleted the task and recreated it from scratch 2 days later and tried again and same result: All good the first night and fails after that. I asked it to confirm this task was scheduled (cause it doesn't appear on the Scheduled list) and it also hangs. Thoughts? Ideas? What am I missing or doing wrong?

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u/Quantum_Shade2022 — 11 hours ago
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RIP Gemini

Before the arrival of Flash 3.5 model I had created 2 decks of about 40 slides each. Fairly heavy content. Meant to be used for teaching a couple of courses.

I decided I wanted to add some "filler" slides with simple one liners that recapped the previous slide. No images, no video, nothing fancy. All black slides with text in white and 1 or 2 key words on red.

I have now tried no less than 8 times to do this using Canvas in Gemini just like I did my course slides. IT CAN'T DO IT! I finally managed to get it to create an HTML presentation with the slides I wanted (even simpler now because it couldn't even handle using my company logo)...but now it can't export to Google Slides or download as PDF like I did with my course slides.

Hard to believe they have messed this up so badly. Has anyone run into a similar situation creating simple slides? Anyone have a tip on how to get Flash 3.5 to be less obtuse?

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u/Quantum_Shade2022 — 3 months ago