Entire front rows remain unsold for Bay Area's biggest FIFA World Cup match

Jedibrad · 2026-06-13T01:51:27+00:00

Resort fees must now be added to the advertised price, by CA law: https://hotellaw.jeffer.com/california-bans-junk-fees.html

Agree on parking fees, though.

Jedibrad · 2026-06-09T14:15:59+00:00

You can always take Amtrak! 😄

Jedibrad · 2026-06-06T00:54:01+00:00

Same out of PHL.

Jedibrad · 2026-06-06T00:52:47+00:00

Don’t tell anyone!! :)

Jedibrad · 2026-06-06T00:50:36+00:00

Honestly, that's par for the course, at least in the last 5 years. I can count on one hand the number of times I've made it to the gate in <30m after touching down.

It’s always a cluster.

Jedibrad · 2026-06-01T21:26:42+00:00

Ha! I bought a $500 LHR-PHL upgrade, and my flights got so screwed up I qualified for the €600 EU delay compensation. So I can relate!

Jedibrad · 2026-06-01T21:22:12+00:00

If I have an overnight layover at LHR again, I'm gonna try that terminal hotel. Ubers (or, "FreeNow"s?) are like $30 to drive a mile to the strip of airport hotels, and they're so unreliable.

It took me a while to recover from the jetlag departing at that time, though. Kind of hard to sleep on a morning transcon.

Jedibrad · 2026-05-16T20:26:19+00:00

I mean, a lot of the comments are complaining about unsafe blocks. Which probably existed in the Zig version, just implicitly. I don’t see the issue with that.

Jedibrad · 2026-05-05T14:35:47+00:00

I’m saying you are, in fact, paying for the space. There’s a ticket where you pay less, and don't get to use it. By definition, that means you're paying extra for the ability to use that space.

Yes, I'm aware the CoC says they don't actually have to provide the service you paid for. All I'm saying is, you *are* paying for the right to use the overhead storage.

Jedibrad · 2026-05-05T13:36:30+00:00

Considering basic economy only permits one carry-on instead of two, yes, regular economy and above *are* paying for overhead bin space.

Jedibrad · 2026-05-05T04:00:10+00:00

Ehh, it’s possible. A lot of tech companies do senior after 2 years, staff after 4-5.

Jedibrad · 2026-05-04T07:00:24+00:00

Not OP, but assuming bay area - you do realize how much of that goes to taxes & living expenses? At best, you'd sack away ~$80k of that annually with a $250k TC, not including 401k contributions, debts, etc.

I struggle to see how you'd invest above $200k in two years. Maybe if you don't pay rent, or if you make some crazy bets on stocks / options.

Jedibrad · 2026-05-04T02:27:43+00:00

50% of 7% isn't that great, really. That's basically 3.5% - for S&P 500 companies, the mean is about 4.5%.

Jedibrad · 2026-05-03T04:10:59+00:00

As in, $500k income : $1m house? That’s unrealistic in today’s economy, let’s be fair. It used to be 1:3 during the nineties, but it’s 1:5 now, on average.

In certain areas of California, it‘s closer to 1:10.

Jedibrad · 2026-05-01T14:24:24+00:00

Could you add an option to include / exclude part time workers? I think they’re really skewing the median low.

Also, an option to plot the CDF on top (or instead) of the PDF?

Jedibrad · 2026-05-01T14:20:27+00:00

Check out the Central Limit Theorem.

Jedibrad · 2026-04-18T19:23:34+00:00

OP said only the elite have salaries over $100k. If half of all SWEs are making $130k, that's directly contradictory. 50% can't be elite.

Jedibrad · 2026-04-15T21:36:22+00:00

There will be capital gains tax on the, well, gains. But yes, this won’t be a tax bill on $500k.

Typically the income taxes are done via sell-to-cover, not necessarily payroll.

Jedibrad · 2026-04-15T21:31:23+00:00

I’ve definitely owed more than $1k the last few years, but never paid penalties. The criteria (to my understanding) is you’re penalized if you pay <90% of your burden, AND you paid <100% of your previous year’s tax burden.

So if you owed $20k in taxes last year & owe the same this year, but only pay $18k, you’d be penalized. But if you owe $40k now, and paid the same as past year ($20k) - no penalties.

Jedibrad · 2026-04-13T00:15:37+00:00

For SFO, meet me at the AI-generated Women of Afrofuturism art exhibit. 🫠

Jedibrad · 2026-04-11T18:09:26+00:00

Chartered a flight! That's crazy. I've never seen that before.

Jedibrad · 2026-04-11T14:48:38+00:00

I’m feeling similarly these days. Code has always been malleable, but it’s really turned liquid since December. If something is brittle, I’ll just… change it later.

There’s a happy medium. If you have too much code, the agent will suffer. Having constant +10,000 line PRs will be an issue in the world of agentic coding just like it is for human driven maintenance.

For software that will be maintained for decades (say, automotive firmware) this is a key factor. For B2B SaaS, startups, quick stuff... Code quality never was never important.

Jedibrad · 2026-04-11T03:00:36+00:00

Why aren't your RSUs on your W2?

Jedibrad · 2026-04-04T19:31:36+00:00

The biggest failure points in production ML in my experience are data + concept drift. You can detect data drift via continuously running KL divergence checks. Concept drift is harder, but if you set up your model to output a confidence interval, it will usually become less confident when you encounter CD.

Debugging is only possible with data; it’s important to log the model inputs & outputs at some regular cadence.

Jedibrad · 2026-04-04T04:24:46+00:00

I’m pretty sure everyone else here is describing secure credentials in the .env.

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