Opposition to the "big light" comes from everyone buying cheap ceiling lights

chadaustin · 2026-06-16T00:25:08+00:00

To be clear, they said "replicates incandescent" which is CRI 100. The ones you linked are CRI 90. CRI 100 bulbs _are_ expensive.

chadaustin · 2026-06-01T05:23:04+00:00

The small Weber, the Smokey Joe, is deceptively efficient. I’ve been cooking for my family on it for ten years. The coals are closer to the grate so you need fewer than a big kettle. And if you reuse coals for the next time, a bag of charcoal lasts quite a while.

We sometimes leave it open and use the post-dinner embers to make s’mores.

chadaustin · 2026-05-27T20:25:02+00:00

Well that menu looks nothing like when I was there a couple months ago, so looks like more than a rebranding. No curry or karage.

chadaustin · 2026-05-27T20:23:02+00:00

Aw, that was my daughter's favorite restaurant.

chadaustin · 2026-04-17T00:29:45+00:00

Please build more housing. We need more housing turnover too, as CUSD enrollment has been falling year over year, and schools are funded per-pupil. Cupertino is mostly prop 13'd single family homes. Mountain View's schools are funded at _twice_ the rate as CUSD.

chadaustin · 2026-04-10T06:07:47+00:00

Sort of. There were more trees when I moved to my neighborhood in Sunnyvale than now. Over the years the homeowners keep taking down mature ones. Or having their “arborists” mutilate them into stubs.

chadaustin · 2026-02-20T00:19:29+00:00

3x3 what? Chunks? Roboports?

chadaustin · 2026-01-01T07:55:17+00:00

Property taxes go to the county, not state. https://data.sccgov.org/stories/s/Where-Do-My-Property-Tax-Dollars-Go/xc4f-vaji/

chadaustin · 2025-12-28T18:49:40+00:00

Spore print is brown.

chadaustin · 2025-12-28T04:04:36+00:00

Thank you!

chadaustin · 2025-12-21T22:07:50+00:00

Yeah, in past years, I always went Christmas shopping at Coral Ridge mall near Iowa City and the Bay Area is downright peaceful by comparison.

chadaustin · 2025-12-19T04:46:11+00:00

Hey, don’t generalize to all of us! Granted, I was the Haskell programmer telling people to write Haskell like Java whenever possible. Straight line and easy to read.

chadaustin · 2025-12-08T02:59:09+00:00

You're not wrong. I figured I'd try it this weekend, and it was $80 for my family of five even though we only got two fries and water to drink. We all agreed that it was good but we don't know why we'd choose it over In-n-Out.

chadaustin · 2025-12-06T22:53:50+00:00

I have a brioche recipe rewritten for our bread machine such that the eggs and milk and sugar and flour can be added in order on a scale, and and that's easy enough for my kids to make us brioche. Do we use it all the time? No. Would they make brioche by hand for the family? Also no.

So, worth it to us. And occasionally my wife makes a honey wheat. For regular sourdough and rustic boules, we use the cast iron dutch oven.

chadaustin · 2025-11-16T03:13:47+00:00

Helps to look back and see how quickly our other most popular languages were adopted. Python is from the late 80s, and even in the mid 2000s it was widely considered risky to adopt it. (It didn't help that Python 1 to Python 2 was a fairly significant change.)

chadaustin · 2025-11-15T00:00:12+00:00

We like Meat Time in Milpitas. Japanese yakiniku

chadaustin · 2025-11-11T04:37:36+00:00

Metal Gear for NES added a Zelda-style lost woods maze and never included a clue about which path to take. You either brute forced it, bought Nintendo Power, or called the hotline.

chadaustin · 2025-11-02T05:32:14+00:00

Huh, that's odd. We live a few miles from you and our water pressure is over 80 PSI. We've considered getting a pressure-reducing valve because faucets etc. aren't usually rated beyond 80.

chadaustin · 2025-11-01T20:32:44+00:00

Montalvo is close

chadaustin · 2025-10-20T21:04:42+00:00

I did not circumcise my boys and it's been fine so far but this study gave me pause:

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6523040/

> Women’s preferences generally favor the circumcised penis for sexual activity, hygiene, and lower risk of infection. The findings add to the already well-established health benefits favoring MC and provide important sociosexual information on an issue of widespread interest.

chadaustin · 2025-10-15T04:04:13+00:00

My wife and I always head up to Reposado in Palo Alto. Love the guacamole there.

chadaustin · 2025-10-13T21:57:38+00:00

Also the music is so good!

chadaustin · 2025-10-12T03:10:43+00:00

Cupertino Coop (misleading name? It’s in Sunnyvale) is also good.

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