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Cake day: July 9th, 2023

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  • most Americans don’t want an EV with batteries at their current state.

    That’s a risky assumption given how driven by propaganda this is. The reality is current state of batteries is perfectly fine for most Americans. What if they realize that? It does partly depend on charger availability, which is being rapidly built out despite the efforts of the current administration to block that. What happens as Americans realize how many new chargers are near them?












  • So far my direct experience with ai is

    • minor efficiency improvements as another programming tool. It can help with syntax, boilerplate, scaling out unit tests BUT IS NEVER. A FINAL PRODUCT
    • MAJOR time sink from junior developers who let ai run amuck without putting in the effort to make it work
    • TECH DEBT from hundreds of excessive unit tests poorly written for maintainability and with no added value
    • INSTABILITY from junior developers letting ai commit slop to the default branch, wasting my time trying to back out thousands of lines of nonsense
    • MISMANAGEMENT where I felt forced to run my writeups through ai to “translate” into something recognizably generated so I could fulfill mandates to use ai



  • AA5B@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.worldFactual btw
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    Plus methane is a much stronger greenhouse gas than CO2, even with the shorter lifetime. We seem entirely unable to reduce methane leaks or even measure them against natural gas usage.

    But from a consumer perspective.

    • where I live, electricity is much more expensive than natural gas, maybe double the cost per unit of energy
    • and I pay even more for 75% renewables
    • I just got a heat pump installed for my addition. So far temps have gotten just a bit under freezing and it has no problems keeping up

    But that adds up to a reality where the cost threshold is mid-40°F’s. While it may be an argument in favor of solar, I don’t have enough unshaded roof to generate more than half my usage


  • Signing (intermediate) certs have been compromised before. That means a bad actor can issue fake certs that are validated up to your root ca certs

    While you can invalidate that signing cert, without useful and ubiquitous revocation lists, there’s nothing you can do to propagate that.

    A compromised signing certs, effectively means invalidating the ca cert, to limit the damage