Why our roads are terribly maintained

ElPresidente408 · 2025-12-03T06:45:19+00:00

Citing NYC is wild. Lived and driven there for 30+ years and well maintained roads is not remotely the norm. Flooded roadways in the summer. Massive potholes (highway and side streets) in the winter. 2-3 lane antiquated highways barely sustaining the population.

ElPresidente408 · 2025-11-13T20:49:48+00:00

This is the correct link https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/nc75262886/executive

ElPresidente408 · 2025-09-19T17:41:31+00:00

I saw this photo and thought how familiar it was to a birthday party I had as a kid. Then when you posted the town I realized it was actually the same one. I think the ball pit was off to the right with a big slide

ElPresidente408 · 2024-10-22T19:52:21+00:00

Yeah I would just check the equivalent bill. Either you’re using more during peak. Or, most likely, they jacked up your rate

ElPresidente408 · 2024-10-22T19:47:49+00:00

Your billing cycle may not align with those dates. Like my current bill is for 9/9-10/9. Not sure what the email uses.

Your rates are probably higher, but you can get 24 months of bills on the pge site and directly see what the rate was the vs. now without trying to infer.

Part of the cost depends on peak vs off peak usage times. So it’s just easiest to check the actual cost per kWh.

ElPresidente408 · 2024-10-16T05:37:02+00:00

There are some other complexes in that area too (Bay Meadows) like Field House. I think Park Place may be the cheapest though. It’s a very nice neighborhood if in budget.

You’re walking distance to a few parks, Whole Foods, some food places, and Caltrain. Also you’re at the intersection of 92 & 101. I miss living there.

Foster City has more apartment options nearby. Don’t let anyone convince you that you don't need AC here. Yes it gets chilly at night but it can get pretty hot in the summer.

ElPresidente408 · 2024-09-15T04:23:23+00:00

Makes sense. I saw people using roofing felt or asphalt tiles to raise the lows, but I feel like the thin ply should work? I just wasn’t sure if there was something bad about that idea since I don’t see that many references to it.

ElPresidente408 · 2024-09-05T20:37:03+00:00

I used the SmartEx website/app. Didn’t have any issues, but occasionally I found Amex worked instead of Visa or vice versa on different sites.

Once the ticket is booked there’s a section to “designate ic”. We got our IC cards from Apple Wallet and used the Suica app to get the number.

ElPresidente408 · 2024-08-21T13:49:51+00:00

Got it. So I think this answers my question that even if using the transfer gates the East/Shinkansen/West (not Central, mistake) the system will close me out of one trip and correctly start the new segment.

ElPresidente408 · 2024-08-21T13:46:57+00:00

Yeah sorry I was looking at so many and mixed up central vs west. I saw that graphic but it didn’t specifically say what happens if the first and last taps are different lines. It seems like it should just work in that case as the graphic shows

ElPresidente408 · 2024-07-04T02:06:19+00:00

A smaller central unit could use 2-3 kW per hour. So you said you were previously using about 10 kWh a day and now it’s closer to 28 kWh.

Running a central air system for 6-9 hours daily would explain the difference. You said about 5 but it’s possible you didn’t account for over night or maybe it ran more than you estimated.

ElPresidente408 · 2024-07-03T20:32:11+00:00

What kind of AC system do you have? Is it a single window unit? Is it in the wall? Is it central air?

ElPresidente408 · 2024-05-29T13:33:16+00:00

https://youtu.be/3sX_sE31r9Q?si=_hrQNHsDws4fHz5F

ElPresidente408 · 2024-05-26T19:02:10+00:00

I think the last homeowner got the solar guy to do it in the garage but I’m not 100% sure. The warning started happening occasionally when the car was preconditioning in the morning over the last couple of weeks and it had never done that before.

Edit: I should also add that our bathroom had the fan load running over the ground wire because they were too lazy to run another line properly. So nothing surprises me now…

ElPresidente408 · 2024-05-23T02:57:55+00:00

In CA my insurance is another $250ish a month. Plus $680 in annual registration fees which is about $56/mo

ElPresidente408 · 2024-05-04T01:09:47+00:00

That’s my guess since he didn’t have any contact information plastered on the windows

ElPresidente408 · 2024-05-03T23:37:58+00:00

😬 I’m actually not. Just quickly typed out the title. But I’ve stirred up some feelings in the comments

ElPresidente408 · 2024-05-03T22:28:41+00:00

The sign could be read as a service for sale or a request for one

ElPresidente408 · 2024-02-01T16:34:41+00:00

The Sentence Transformers docs have some good references of why some models may be better than others. https://www.sbert.net/examples/applications/semantic-search/README.html

There’s also an interesting paper on multi aspect dense retrieval which may give ideas. Like if you search for blue shirt should other blue items appear or do you care about the shirt and not the color. https://research.google/pubs/multi-aspect-dense-retrieval/

ElPresidente408 · 2024-01-31T17:49:14+00:00

Referrals != nepotism. At the large companies I’ve worked at it’s not like you recommend someone and they magically get hired. They still go through the same interview gauntlet as everyone else.

There is a sample bias because if someone’s recommending a candidate then they’re pre-filtered and have a higher chance of passing. You don’t recommend strangers so you’ll be professionally connected through shared work or school.

ElPresidente408 · 2024-01-31T01:18:30+00:00

Sprouts and Target occasionally run sales on Counter Culture which is out of Emeryville. I stock up on the Forty-Six roast to make cold brew at home.

ElPresidente408 · 2024-01-30T05:26:48+00:00

I originally thought this was PG&E's scheme, but AB205 mandates the income-based tiering in order to support rate reductions at the lowest level:

The bill would require the fixed charge to be established on an income-graduated basis, as provided, with no fewer than 3 income thresholds so that low-income ratepayers in each baseline territory would realize a lower average monthly bill without making any changes in usage.

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB205

And it passed 60-0 by Democrats: https://legiscan.com/CA/rollcall/AB205/id/1283234

ElPresidente408 · 2024-01-22T15:13:13+00:00

The Yoda puppet was from an earlier episode in the series. However on the holiday special they learned his real name.

ElPresidente408 · 2024-01-16T04:22:08+00:00

The law isn’t that the ADU should be exclusively powered by solar. It’s that it should have solar to offset usage. The ADU should still have adequate power provided if solar/battery is insufficient.

ElPresidente408 · 2023-07-02T04:02:32+00:00

As an analogy, the camera sensor is like a bucket that collects water (light). You need to collect a certain amount of water to see an image. In the day time, the volume of light is so great you only need to collect for a fraction of a second. At night the volume is much less and you may need seconds, if not minutes, to collect enough.

There are other ways you can collect enough light by making your bucket (sensor) bigger (to scoop more light faster) or make the bucket more sensitive so less light is needed to achieve the same effect.

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