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Cake day: July 4th, 2023

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  • Near my friend’s house the city is desperately trying to push EV adoption with city-funded chargers and everything. The cables were cut before they were even fully installed. The power distribution cabinet was gutted. Literally the city switched all street lights to solar lights because the copper in the street lights were getting stolen so often, their solution was to remove the copper power cables from the streets. And these aren’t like under an overpass where people wouldn’t see. This is 10ft outside a gas station convenience store.

    I go to chargers that are constantly rotating pictures offering $1k rewards for identifying any person in the photos because they’ve stolen the cables from those chargers (thankfully those are never broken when I go to them)

    And I KNOW those cables are expensive. For my home charger, which only does 50A, the cable is $200, the bulk of the price. Fast chargers have to do 100+A.



  • I’ve had this happen where I fed it some ebooks and the responses it pulled were nonsense. Eventually I pulled JUST the knowledge stack and queried it, only to find it spitting back garbage.

    Turns out, epub processing had been broken for a while, but nobody noticed… And they still haven’t fixed it, so I have to convert them to txt first…




  • I loved when my IDE would warn me that my code wasn’t deterministic unless I used c++11 or newer compilers because previous versions technically didn’t define how it should work, so every compiler handled it differently.

    And all the times I had to specify C++11 because it had features I needed, and suddenly it was a huge headache because the testing pipeline wasn’t REALLY compatible, it just said it was, and then handed it off to manual review. Something I didn’t know until 6 months after I started using it…