Blass Rose

Makes me think of many Medicat tools (and others like Macrium Reflect) that boot up a tiny windows installation just to run a single piece of software.

I’m used to Linux being used for that, so it’s funny when it’s Windows.

And didn’t use a single drop of water to do so. This sort of natural language processing was just done on-device, so there was no need for an Internet connection or waiting around for your slow Internet to catch up.

I’ve spent an embarrassing amount of money on EGS… it’s embarrassing because it’s the first time I’ve spent money on a free game. All the games I own on there were free. Which is great, because a few of them I was thinking about getting on sale on steam, but they were the weekly free game on EGS.

So yeah, they got my money, but not for the games…

It’s always interesting when I load up a download, I get seeded at like 20MB/s, but then… There’s nobody to seed to. It’s weird to see a torrent that so many people are seeding, but there’s like no downloads for it nowadays. Usually once it’s no longer popular, seeders disappear, too. Even weirder: it was season 2 of a show (that aired 15 years ago), but season 1 had… One guy. Only online for about 6 hours a day in the middle of the night.

Oh thanks! I always thought it was a riding crop, not a leash!

I legit looked into the cost of buying up land in a city ravaged by fire. For about 1/3 of the cost of the average home there, I would have enough plots of land (with working gas, electric, water, and sewer hookups. Only getting ones with recertified hookups doubled the cost) to strong-arm the local council with ~2 people per plot. Sure, then we’d all need homes and stuff, but we can work on that. So we get all the benefits of a recognized City and address, utilities, and work done before, but at a price that would be very affordable for my part of the country.

I’ve seen so many game jam entries where the code is like this. Delicately balanced and using so many assumptions to just get the thing out the door.

It’s funny when they decide to make a full game out of it and realize that it’s gonna take them 6 months just to undo the tech debt of the original “demo”

That’s funny, here in California we just upped the strictness on our cell phone ban. Now touching it in any way while driving is treated as using it.

I do enjoy messing with AIs and making them do stuff they weren’t supposed to do… In fact, with the same prompt, my phone’s local AI urged me to not stop eating the paella, and just keep eating it until my body adjusts.

I’ll try to repark at a different station. If they’re at full/busted (should’ve known that’s why that one stall was open…) then it is what it is, it becomes a game of how long am I willing to wait for a charger to open up. And suddenly the people who unplug and then sit in their car talking for 15 minutes really piss me off… The last 2 fast charging stations I’ve had an issue with had ALL chargers broken except one. So obviously when I didn’t get the working one, I sat there seething until they moved.

Literally looking at a car I want to buy and the 4 colors are white, black, grey, and blue. Blue is actually just a cold silver. It barely looks blue.

On my current car, I ended up with white because the only one I saw in blue was charging $1k more than the one I got that had a higher trim package. They called me the day after I signed the purchase agreement to say that they decided to lower their asking price to $2k below what I paid. I still think about that…

I just worry about people trashing it by essentially treating it like a hybrid. That battery being constantly at 10% and the engine running non-stop will kill both of them prematurely. And then they’ll blame the damage on it being an EV…

It was a very limited run thing. It was a celebration for them being top-sellers. Only 10k were ever made.

And oddly enough, these celebration pieces tend to increase sales further by amplifying their advertising.

Should really be

November 31st November 32nd November 33rd November 34th December 5th December 25th

Shell recharge is Volta. They bought it and rebranded them. Now they’re dismantling all the level 2 side of the network (IE all the Volta chargers) and only keeping the DCFC side.

I saw a ton of chargers get installed at a local park, all this infrastructure upgrading to support them all, even saw them switch the branding from Volta to Shell, and most of them seemed fully set up, some were just missing the cord, but none were ever turned on. Probably 20 of them in total. Now I see that they’ll never get set up…

Though to be honest, I had a Volta account, but when shell bought them, they sent me non-stop reminders that Volta doesn’t exist and I needed to make a Shell app to even use their free chargers, but I never saw the use in doing so. I used Volta so rarely anyways. It was just nice when I went to the mall.

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.

Everything inside the cabin runs at 12v. The only area where the gets fuzzy is that your 12v is charged via the main battery, so ULTIMATELY, you are draining the main battery. (Unless you have a poorly designed EV like the early ones that just… Didn’t charge the 12v or only did so during charging) So really, anything but driving and using the climate control is… Negligible.

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…

At least it’s better than them trying to gaslight you into thinking you’re wrong and they’re correct…