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Cake day: July 4th, 2023

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  • 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.


  • 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.



  • 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’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…