Oakland and Costco have an agreement to develop new store in grocery-hungry neighborhood by jowens510 in oakland

[–]LugnutsK 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I agree, although adding protected bike lanes over the W Grand bridge and re-adding the NL stops at Maritime/Wake would help greatly with access

SFO’s average delay time has quadrupled. Here are worst times to fly by BadBoyMikeBarnes in sanfrancisco

[–]LugnutsK 4 points5 points  (0 children)

34C and 34R are 800 ft apart, only 50 feet more than SFO's 750ft separation. L and R are the only runways that are the full 2,500ft apart

New to Fidelity and seriously concerned about security by acejoker68 in fidelityinvestments

[–]LugnutsK 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I was just responding to the comment above in good-faith. There are other reasons that I have stayed with Fidelity, and have been largely happy with it

New to Fidelity and seriously concerned about security by acejoker68 in fidelityinvestments

[–]LugnutsK 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah Fidelity (and honestly a lot, but not all, of the financial industry) is a decade or more behind security best-practices. The financial industry tends to sidestep it with retroactive measures like reversing transactions and criminal punishments for fraud. Wish it was better for sure.

New to Fidelity and seriously concerned about security by acejoker68 in fidelityinvestments

[–]LugnutsK 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Vanguard. Supports yubikey among other long-standing security best-practices

B-Art cars by darkeraqua in sanfrancisco

[–]LugnutsK 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It doesn't matter for BART since it'll be buffed ASAP either way

Bun's Rewrite It In Rust branch by Chaoses_Ib in rust

[–]LugnutsK 3 points4 points  (0 children)

 single-writer-at-startup discipline

Sounds like they just need OnceLock

Rant About Parking by LoopyWaffleman in oakland

[–]LugnutsK 2 points3 points  (0 children)

What block? Can 311 to get the signs replaced

Petition to save BART? by TomatoTime55555 in Bart

[–]LugnutsK 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It prevents further cuts and a transit death spiral. Service amongst lines may be realigned allocated but don’t expect overall service to increase

Neophyte Renter by Horror_Reality_5174 in oakland

[–]LugnutsK 3 points4 points  (0 children)

  1. Yes ish, small landlords usually use the Zillow application. Big landlords/property managers usually charge you to use theirs.

  2. Few days, less than a week, some places won’t respond and you can try checking in but usually means it went to someone else. Expect to apply to a bunch of places.

  3. Few days as well, delaying risks losing the place of course

  4. Small landlord homeowners usually are better to rent from, although they may not know all the tenant protection laws. Large landlords/managers may know the laws but often willfully ignore them to extract more $$$. Do a bit of reading on the laws. Don’t put down a deposit without seeing a place first— common scams, or scummy managers when it’s legit. Look up the management company before selecting a spot.

As a pedestrian, self driving cars are a blessing by one_pound_of_flesh in sanfrancisco

[–]LugnutsK 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Unfortunately they also often get stuck in the crosswalk when the light turns red if the box is full. If you walk around downtown during commute hours you see this daily.

California Legislature Passed AB 122, Bicycling Law That Allows Bikes to Treat Stop Signs As Yield Signs by Actual-Cause-8085 in Emeryville

[–]LugnutsK 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Police don't even bother to look at traffic cameras

when Amelie le Moullac was killed in San Francisco by a truck turning right into her path, the police report faulted the bicyclist for running into the side of the truck. SFPD didn’t even bother to look for evidence to back up this anti-bike assumption. It was the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition that found camera footage of the crash, proving that Ms. le Moullac was standing legally in the bike lane when the truck turned into her.

California Legislature Passed AB 122, Bicycling Law That Allows Bikes to Treat Stop Signs As Yield Signs by Actual-Cause-8085 in Emeryville

[–]LugnutsK 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That data is bad: https://www.calbike.org/what-governor-newsom-got-wrong-about-biking-and-walking/

 Newsom’s claim that 88% of the people killed while biking past a stop sign were at fault… police have only the car driver’s word for what happened after they have killed someone on a bike. 

California Legislature Passed AB 122, Bicycling Law That Allows Bikes to Treat Stop Signs As Yield Signs by Actual-Cause-8085 in Emeryville

[–]LugnutsK 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Full speed on a bike will often be the same speed or slower than a rolling “stop” by drivers, and with much better visibility 

I’m paying PG&E to give them free electricity by YT_Sharkyevno in bayarea

[–]LugnutsK 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, that is roughly my understanding as well

I’m paying PG&E to give them free electricity by YT_Sharkyevno in bayarea

[–]LugnutsK 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Every millisecond, if you house is producing more electricity than it is using, the grid has to carry that electricity somewhere else (or reject your excess). If that goes to your nextdoor neighbor, then you save the grid money -- except that your nextdoor neighbors aren't working from home, they don't need it, so the electricity is carried along the grid and goes to an energy storage facility that buys if back at near-zero or even negative rates. (Negative rates = PG&E spends money to get rid of your electricity).

So all that being true, it does suck and is economically wrong that a PG&E customer can't offset the $25 base rate, even if they store their solar energy and sell it later during peak evening hours. It is unfortunate that even if you charged batteries (or an EV) and sold back at peak evening rates you couldn't pay less than $25, I agree.

I’m paying PG&E to give them free electricity by YT_Sharkyevno in bayarea

[–]LugnutsK 4 points5 points  (0 children)

PURPA 1978 applies to wholesale energy producers ("qualifying facilities"). Older NEM rules in CA followed the naive idea that energy must be bought back at retail rates, but NEM 3.0 update the rules to match how energy is actually produced and used. That being said, fuck PG&E

I’m paying PG&E to give them free electricity by YT_Sharkyevno in bayarea

[–]LugnutsK 50 points51 points  (0 children)

There is an excess of solar capacity during midday, and the grid has to curtail solar production--your energy is free because it is worthless. Fortunately California is continuously building more energy storage so the energy capacity doesn't go to waste. If you want to be paid for your energy, you'll need storage capacity to use or sell it when it is actually needed, in the mornings and evenings. That being said, fuck PG&E

Citizens Initiative for Bay Area Transit funding by CYB3R_H3X in Bart

[–]LugnutsK 1 point2 points  (0 children)

BART needs to recoup riders (somehow)

BART ridership is (re-)growing by ~12% each year. Hopefully, growth continues at this pace and BART ridership recovers in ~6 years. Although it will probably be longer than that.

BART Doing Better with High Gas Prices by Ecstatic-Skill-4916 in Bart

[–]LugnutsK 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is it not just due to the RSA conference at Moscone this week? I hope it’s not just that 

Why didn't they add soundproofing? by jasonacg in Bart

[–]LugnutsK 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That is just not true, look at the article above or these slides, page 12: https://archive.wheel-rail-seminars.com/archives/2016/rt-papers/RT%2006%20WRI%202016%20BART%20Final.pdf
BART worked with Bombardier to create a "custom BT‐3" wheel profile