Blass Rose

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…

Set it to hibernate when you close the lid. It’s a full shutdown so the sleep timers don’t run, but the ram contents are kept, so it’s only slightly slower than starting from sleep.

That should be the default, but OEMs are weird.

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…

And as all my chemistry classes taught: if there’s a common name for something just use that. “Table salt” is completely acceptable as a term. As is “Vinegar” and “Water”. When the exact source/concentration/purity begins to matter is when you can use your fancy terms.

Literally at my restaurant right now the burger with 3 smaller patties is more popular than the burger with 2 bigger patties. Same total amount of meat, just taller on a smaller bun…

This is the only correct answer. I never said “degrees” anywhere, so it’s obviously Kelvin!

Set your water heater lower. Like: make sure it’s above 120 at all times (130+ preferably) to prevent legionnaire’s, but 140 is PLENTY for most home uses. And it means you get a bigger range to move your mixer taps to.

Windows won’t even let you format them in fat32 anymore! Which sucks when the device you plan to use it for TECHNICALLY supports exfat, but there’s lots of community posts about how the drivers for exfat regularly corrupt the drive if it tries to read/write too much…

I saw one like this where a guy hired a hacker to get into his encrypted wallet device because he was sure it had like $100k in it. Guy broke in, pulled up the Bitcoin wallet and… It was empty. Dude had forgotten that he sold all his Bitcoin YEARS ago.

Oh I’m glad this tech went somewhere useful! I remember reading the paper and toying with the models they released as a proof of concept like… 8 years ago? It was really powerful back then. The ability to do TTS of someone’s voice given literally 3 seconds of training data?! (In fact I found that it worked best with short, nonsense audio clips than actually saying anything. Saying “test test test” worked way better than reading an actual sentence.) But now it looks like it can actually handle tone well. It’s also probably way better now, and less… Asthmatic sounding.

Listen, I’m totally down for bioplastic straws. They’ve got a different texture and are far more brittle, but still compostable and lasts more than long enough for me to enjoy my drink.

I don’t get why customers at my work hate them so much. To the point some will bring their own straws if we don’t have the regular plastic milkshake straws. It’s weird…

And here I am glad that my savings account interest pays for my phone bill+90% of my car bill. Meanwhile I could just be buying a new car every month, instead, with a small loan of $6M

I found out my automatic feeder is just ignoring daylight savings time. I’m getting the notifications “an hour early”, and the app acknowledges them as being an hour early, but it still checks off the correct feeding time in the app, so I guess it all works out?

I don’t care unless I’m drinking the Kool aid and actually really wanted the feature. If it’s not something I personally use: who cares? Bit of a bummer that feels like it was all for nothing, but ultimately I still got paid for that time and effort, which is all I’m really going for anyways.

Honestly, my right hand looks BETTER than my left hand. Only explanation that makes sense to me that I’ve heard is that since I know I suck with my left hand, I take it much slower and pay more attention.