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Cake day: August 30th, 2025

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  • Just got the news today that my electric rates are going up 12%. This follows multiple above inflation rate hikes in recent years. We used to have cheap electricity. I’m sure that wider adoption of EVs and the push to switch from natural gas in the home to electric everything is a big contributing factor. I’m also sure data centers are a big contributing factor.











  • Totally agree. In my day to day work, I’m not dealing with anything groundbreaking. Everything I want/need to code has already been done.

    if you have a Copilot license and are using the newest Visual Studio, it enables the agentic capabilities by default. It will actually write the code into your files directly. I have not done that and will not do that. I want to see and understand what it is trying to do.





  • They have a near monopoly on certain goods. I built my home gym using Amazon 2 years ago. I couldn’t find most of the stuff anywhere else for anywhere near the same prices.

    Things have changed. I don’t use Amazon anymore. Out of curiosity I checked some prices on my gym equipment and a lot of it is 50+% more now. The squat rack I have is almost double the price.

    Prices elsewhere haven’t gone down. It is still probably cheaper to buy the double the price squat rack from Amazon. But I’m done, Amazon is full evil.