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Cake day: June 29th, 2025

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  • Isn’t Cuba walkable for the most part? I’ve heard the whole 50’s car factoid as a kid, but this really kind of feels like big oil/general motors propaganda. “Look at Cuba they are forced to use cars from our golden years”

    I don’t think there’s anything stopping them from importing electric vehicles from China. Buy if you’re walking most places why bother? The main concern would be freight. I am not well versed on Cuba’s freight capabilities.

    But if you’re already cut off from oil, then there isn’t really a reason to cry over something you can’t have. The Cubans know this. So I wouldn’t really say they’re decades away from electrification. It’ll happen however fast Chinese investors or even the CCP themselves want it to happen.










  • Yesterday, one of our new devs was struggling to get the page count of a word file in Python. I asked if he could just use an index from one of the existing libraries we’re using. He proceeded to search it on Bing and then waited for Copilot to generate slopcode at the top of the page. Shocked in horror, I asked, “Are you sure these are real functions?” He responded, I’m sure I can just copy and paste what I need. FML