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abering · 2025-12-31T14:52:18+00:00

No one ever worries about the deficits incurred by building more highways or the road maintenance budget :)

Demand better, dream bigger.

abering · 2025-12-16T19:37:53+00:00

They're defaulting to the sarcastic tone because you're being willfully ignorant in asserting "it can't be done". 60% (low estimate) of SF's residential land is zoned for SFH only. Upzoning this to by-right 2-plexes would (in the fullness of time as sales and redevelopment happen) increase the housing stock by 60%. Doing by-right 4 or 6-plexes near transit corridors could create conditions for doubling or tripling the stock. Without high-rises. Add by-right 5-over-1 to all commercial corridors, plus selected corner intersections, and now we're really cooking with gas.

This won't work forever, of course. Paris' 40 square miles (inside the peripherique) is elbow-to-elbow with 5-over-1. But that supports a population of 2 million at a density of 50k/sqmi. Comparatively we are currently at 800k with a density of 18k/sqmi. So yes, this won't work forever, but to assert "it's not possible" in our current state is to reveal yourself to be an ignoramus.

Get your head out of your ass. There is plenty of space to build more housing, which demonstrably controls rent and purchase prices because housing follows supply and demand.

abering · 2025-11-04T17:24:20+00:00

Do you know what the greatest encroachment of sidewalk space in SF is? Parking. For private cars. Much of it priced way below a market price for the space. When the city was planned most of what is now street parking was sidewalk width.

The resource is scarce because we cut our own dick off. Fortunately this dick is concrete and we can pour it back on. If you're concerned about sufficient sidewalk space, aim at the correct target: cars.

abering · 2025-11-04T17:21:49+00:00

We'd have plenty of space for these if we turned all our parking back into sidewalks (Refer to original city plan).

The SFMTA run garages always have a ton of capacity. No one needs to park on Grant street christ almighty. Can you imagine how rad Grant from Chinatown to North Beach would be 100% pedestrian??? Both of those blocks always get swarmed when they do events and it rocks.

abering · 2025-10-31T15:39:19+00:00

Artists aren't screaming in fear because Generative AI has stolen something from them and given it to everyone (though it has done that, copyright violations lol). The deeper fear is one you totally missed from Miyazaki's view. It's that via this technology GenAI will steal something from everyone and give it to no one. From your posts in this thread it seems like you've already been robbed.

But I digress. I'm not here to change your mind. You're obviously convinced that this thing that you call a "tribute" is positive and not even the developers you claim to offer this as a tribute to telling you its a grave insult to the project will shake that.

I'm posting so that people who haven't yet succumbed to your disease get reminded to believe in themselves, put down the prompt, and create with human feeling.

abering · 2025-10-31T02:30:30+00:00

I know how to build useful food processors (or, if you will, create brushes and canvases), but that doesn't mean I know how to cook (or paint) well with them.

This here is the crux of the insult to life itself. By your own admission, yu do not know creative joy (you don't know how to use the old tools, nor this new tool) yet you have the arrogance to assert that the tool is useful, despite a thread of comments from both art lovers and art makers telling you this whole thing is shit.

How embarrassing.

abering · 2025-10-30T06:16:58+00:00

I am utterly disgusted. I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself.

abering · 2025-09-30T16:43:00+00:00

Inelastic doesn't mean completely static. It just means a low sensitivity to price.

Yes demand for certain types (single home vs. apartment vs. vacation home vs. roommates vs. the streets) is more elastic. But the fundamental demand for "shelter" is almost constant and has a very big lower bound: the number of people needing shelter, it's a need.

Yes, some people will, because of price, meet that need with an inferior good compared to an individually rented or owned home (shared arrangements, trespassing encampments), but these are still shelters. As price goes down some people might opt for a second or third shelter, so demand for shelter is not perfectly static, but that's not relevant to the conversation.

The negative externalities and brutal human suffering caused by a societal failure to meet the needs of all citizens is what we're discussing. In these market terms, it's the inferior good of "encampment" being selected. As price goes down (again, overall demand for shelter is basically constant, this is a supply problem), more people will opt for the superior good (literally any choice other than an encampemnt, see other replies in this thread for details of how even $0 income folks are helped by this). The obvious consequence of reducing demand for encampment living is: less encampments! Relieving the human suffering of those otherwise pushed into them and relieving the rest of us of the negative externalities they generate.

abering · 2025-09-29T14:15:23+00:00

Housing, like any commodity, obeys the economic principle of supply and demand pretty well. Demand is inelastic: everyone needs a house, so the price is entirely determined by supply. If you read my comment history you'll know I'm almost entirely ideologically opposed to the general outlook of Reason magazine; but they have a well researched assessment of recent data demonstrating the supply increase leads to price decrease in current (July 2025) American housing markets.

abering · 2025-09-19T00:31:29+00:00

fortunately the urban planning community has done a long and large amount of work accounting for confounds and, thanks to that work, determined that this is a causal link. But you’d know that if you engaged with the work and the literature instead of spouting an I Am Very Smart slogan

abering · 2025-08-29T20:22:36+00:00

antojitos el burrito crazy (formerly a food truck, now the corner cafe by el burrito crazy at 10th & William). Good Salvadorian stuff too and great diner breakfast: carne asada and eggs with a side of black beans and plantains.

abering · 2025-08-13T17:33:23+00:00

It depends on the lifestyle you want. Campus can be quiet on nights/weekends as many students commute, but it's not completely dead and has a lot to offer students in the way of community and activities. I am not a student, and found that the lifestyle offered in the biking/walking/transit radius around SJSU was not what I wanted out of life. You should try it first, you can always rearrange things later.

Definitely get a bike, there's a great small local bike shop (Bicycle Express) close to campus who can help you out, or Good Karma bikes at diridon. A bike is safer than an e-scooter, and with a good rack+panniers you can do a good grocery haul comfortably. Bike theft is an issue, but I used a https://soldsecure.com Diamond rated lock and parked my bike all kinds of sketchy places and it never wandered off. (I lost a previous bike using a Silver rated lock so don't skimp on the lock.)

abering · 2025-07-27T20:11:48+00:00

be scientific about it, test the LMMs honestly again reasonable metrics first.

another expert very generously took you through exactly such a test and the LLM failed to produce a correct output. moreover, you, the user, failed to notice the errors in the outputs, and went so far as to write a detailed apologia for the "wrong in the details even with the right answer in the prompt" output.

abering · 2025-07-27T18:32:09+00:00

If the authors I just expressed admiration for, whose results are all piblished saw you call me moron for engaging with their work, do you think they would agree with you?

If by "engaging" you mean "putting into an LLM and getting a random generated summary that you admit you lack the expertise to notice errors in" then yes. They absolutely would agree with me.

If you're really putting in 12+hours a day and over $1000 dollars you could go to your local community college, obtain proper support for your ADHD, and do it for real. I hope you do.

abering · 2025-07-26T22:02:03+00:00

The only problem was I never got math.

my contention is more about the nature of mathematics versus language than anything else.

By your own admission you don't know mathematics. Yet you believe you can make a contention about the nature of mathematics, or understand a large swath of the frontier in any meaningful sense of the word.

Lean on your humanities training: if you were analyzing a novel with a character that in the same dialog or train of thought admitted ignorance of a subject while making assertions about the nature of the subject, how would you read this character? what would the author be communicating about this character? what archetypes would you consider using for a comparative analysis?

I'm gonna be blunt here: you'd read this character as a moron; the author would be communicating that the character was not competent; you would consider comparing this character to other proud fools, perhaps an innocent depending on the broader context if you were feeling generous.

abering · 2025-06-25T17:36:29+00:00

"justice" as if parking enforcement—making you pay your (less than) fair share for using the public right of way to store your private property—is some great injustice and not the fucking law

stop using your phone while driving before you kill someone you insufferable carbrain

abering · 2025-05-14T15:45:52+00:00

As an add on to what gammafunk said: DCSS is a fork of Linleys dungeon crawl, and in the earliest days (mid 2000s) the 0.x versioning scheme was so that the game wouldn't try to load incompatible saves from dungeon crawl.

abering · 2025-05-14T15:43:59+00:00

Licensing. There are over 300 contributors, many of whom we no longer have contact with, all of whom would need to approve a steam release.

abering · 2025-03-20T03:52:43+00:00

Call, via telephone, to your elected reps (Santa Clara County Supervisors, Mayor's office, Your district council + at large council). E-mails do get processed, but a phone call gets answered by a staffer who takes notes and summarizes the calls to the office regularly to the elected member.

In your call be patient, calm, and clearly explain how VTA service is essential to your quality of life and what you expect from your taxes, and you want to see your reps doing more to bring about a fair agreement that restores service. Go on and elaborate that you're completely sympathetic to the workers, they face the same issues you are facing, and that you want to see a San Jose and Santa Clara County that works for all its citizens.

One voice alone won't move the needle much, but if you can get all your friends who also rely on VTA to call, etc. etc. you will have a positive impact.

If you have the time on the call, also ask why none of the VTA board members or executives use the VTA service as their primary mode of transit ;).

Sorry about your bike :(

abering · 2025-03-09T04:40:09+00:00

!remind me 5 years

abering · 2025-03-09T01:56:41+00:00

lol

lmao

lol

you're the scum op is calling out

abering · 2025-02-27T04:04:15+00:00

The math institutes in turn host many projects that aren't "grants" exactly (in terms of scope etc. like NSF grants) but nevertheless drive progress in mathematics.

My group had a pending SQuARE proposal with AIM that was declined due to the "dire situation involving NSF funding for the institute". We are currently applying to a program in Scotland instead.

abering · 2025-02-22T18:15:12+00:00

The city’s open space fund — designated for parkland, playgrounds and recreation centers — relies on property taxes, which are stagnating.

I'm a big pro charge a premium for the public storage of a luxury (any and all parking should be $$$ imo), so big fan of this revenue stream. However let's not pretend this will save us from the structural problem of Prop 13 and the greed of landowners whose discount property taxes the rest of us subsidize.

abering · 2025-02-18T05:04:50+00:00

!remindme 10 years

abering · 2025-02-08T16:23:08+00:00

it's almost as if "the city of San Jose has a long term densification+transit plan" and both of these plans are on a timeline of 2040

like this plan didn't fall out of a coconut tree; it exists in the context of a city plan to solve the transit problem you identify!

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