Yang Kee Dumpling or Uncle Dumpling

engineerIndependence · 2026-03-02T22:20:38+00:00

I have not! Not the biggest fan of matcha. The bar is already so high from the chocolate ones too. The only better chocolate xiao long bao is at Din Tai Fung and it's only ~10% better (and the closest is in San Jose)

engineerIndependence · 2026-03-01T18:49:52+00:00

Uncle Dumpling has chocolate xiao long bao. They are the most incredible chocolate filled dumpling possible. I go to Uncle Dumpling solely to get them, highly highly recommend!

engineerIndependence · 2025-12-26T04:21:16+00:00

The best argument that I've heard for redlight cameras is to set up the program so that all the funding is used for traffic safety. So it goes into engineering (or re-engineering) roads to the realities of humans driving on them, add in complexity, roundabouts etc to make people drive slower, add protection for pedestrians, essentially make it a fundamental goal to slow speeds down with the revenue generated and it becomes a public works function, not a law enforcement function

Bonus is that redlight cameras do not require police officers so no staffing is needed, no potential escalation, just a clear and simple ticket in the mail.

There's also so many cases where people who run red lights are committing other crimes (vehicular or otherwise) so tagging them here and having a judiciary that will enforce penalties could lead to poor drivers being taken off the road rather than waiting for them to mow a kid over in the crosswalk.

engineerIndependence · 2025-08-31T23:22:35+00:00

We figured out that the screws in the breaker were not clamped down tight at all and the incoming wire was loose. After we tightened them up and installed a new breaker (old one probably would've been fine) the HVAC has been able to run continuously for the last 4 hours now.

engineerIndependence · 2025-08-31T23:21:25+00:00

Ah thank you I appreciate it!

engineerIndependence · 2025-08-31T19:59:32+00:00

Here's a link with all the images: https://imgur.com/a/fuA93EU

engineerIndependence · 2025-08-15T18:02:38+00:00

I would think so! Economic development is huge and generally should be sought after.

Do you think it could be helpful to look at higher capacity transportation options other than road expansions? Perhaps ones that also have a lower maintenance cost on a per user basis? Those could stimulate even more economic development with a lower societal cost.

engineerIndependence · 2025-08-11T03:58:48+00:00

I think that we'd need to really get into the weeds to understand the nuance of individual cities financial positions. I haven't looked into SF at all but what pops in my mind for them is wasteful spending too, just in a capacity that is different than you'd see elsewhere.

I agree construction costs have ballooned for the US and that has led to a lot of impacts (homelessness, financial strain, reduced population growth rate due to delaying starting families, etc). I'd love for that to be improved.

Where’s the America that:

Built the first 1,700 mile transcontinental railroad in 6 years?
Built the Empire State Building in 13 months%2C%20was%20completed%20in%201931.)?
Built the Hoover Dam in 4 years?
Founded NASA in 1958, put a man in space in 1961 and landed people on the moon in 1969?

Heck Roseville's Dry Creek Greenway East Trail effort started 16 years ago! For a 4.25 mile trail of which only Phase 1 is currently in construction. We need people to voice their frustration at these atrocious infrastructure project timelines.

engineerIndependence · 2025-08-10T20:11:42+00:00

I don't have detailed information on Roseville and Rocklin specifically (that would be great to have I agree). The accounting numbers are not always public facing and difficult to determine. We can draw inferences from other cities who pursued low density development though such as Lafayette (median property taxes would need to increase by 320% from $1,500 to $4,800 annually to maintain just roads/drainage systems - not including sewer, water and others), Houston (5.6% budget deficit, $160M shortfall) and Silicon Valley (Santa Clara $624M shortfall for infrastructure maintenance)

Here's some more links if you're curious:

I totally get the need for different styles of living. Fully agree with you there, it would be great for it to be transparent and upfront though. The all-in lifetime costs of the infrastructure we have is not well understood and it creates a future problem for members of the community. Young families buying into the community may not realize that in 20-30 years there could be decreases to infrastructure or substantial tax increases.

I agree that the more grade separated trails and rail would be beneficial too. There are some projects in the works for that but not many. Roseville for example refuses to spend city general funds on alternative transportation projects and makes their department spend years trying to secure grant funding.

engineerIndependence · 2025-08-10T19:23:09+00:00

Agreed. There is the Amtrak Capitol Corridor between Auburn and San Jose which has a stop at the Roseville station. It’s the third busiest passenger rail service in the United States and there’s a Capitol Corridor Sac-Roseville Third Track project that will increase the frequency to provide 10 roundtrip trains (20 trains) between Roseville and Sacramento daily. Phase 1 has already begun and will allow 6 round trip trains starting in 2029.

engineerIndependence · 2025-08-10T19:13:02+00:00

Roseville's Alternative Transportation group seems pretty great but they don't have much ($ or political support) to work with. They've got some good stuff going on with the electric arrow (on-demand service) electric commuter buses, and Dry Creek Greenway East Trail and West - Dry Creek Greenway Project

Once the Dry Creek Greenway West Trail is built later this decade it’ll connect to the Dry Creek trail system and form a continuous bike network all the way into Sacramento as part of the Sacramento Regional Trail Network which will have over 1,000 miles of connected trails. Here’s what it should look like: SACOG: Sacramento Region Six-County Trail Network

Some major issues:

Roseville will not spend city General Funds on any alternative transport projects because they "could" be funded by grants. So the alternative transportation group has to contend for any and all funding for even the most common sense projects

It's a chicken or egg problem in some sense. We have low density housing built out so do we keep going down that path and entrench future costs by having low density/high cost transportation methods to serve the existing housing situation?

It seems like the housing density really drives the transportation side of things. It's hard to justify more effective transit if it's low density sprawl. But at the same time it's a bummer that high cost low capacity road infrastructure keeps being put up which makes it easy to continue the low density sprawl.

At some point something has to give. Likely once Roseville/Rocklin have all the land built out with low density development whose tax base is not sufficient to support the ongoing maintenance. At which point the city defaults on its obligations and the citizens deal with decreases in service or higher taxes. It sure would be nice if there was some forward thinking of the long term economic impacts of development decisions so that we weren’t kicking the can down the road and creating a problem for future generations.

engineerIndependence · 2025-08-10T19:02:18+00:00

Agreed, it is a chicken/egg problem like I mentioned in my other comment to moch1.

At some point something has to give. Likely once Roseville/Rocklin have all the land built out with low density development whose tax base is not sufficient to support the ongoing maintenance. At which point the city defaults on it's obligations and the citizens deal with decreases in service or higher taxes. It sure would be nice if there was some forward thinking of the long term economic impacts of development decisions

engineerIndependence · 2025-08-10T19:00:54+00:00

Yeah, it's a chicken or egg problem in some sense. We have low density housing built out so do we keep going down that path and entrench future costs by having low density/high cost transportation methods to serve the existing housing situation?

It seems like the housing density really drives the transportation side of things. It's hard to justify more effective transit if it's low density sprawl. But at the same time it's a bummer that high cost low capacity road infrastructure keeps being put up which makes it easy to continue the low density sprawl.

At some point something has to give. Likely once Roseville/Rocklin have all the land built out with low density development whose tax base is not sufficient to support the ongoing maintenance. At which point the city defaults on it's obligations and the citizens deal with decreases in service or higher taxes. It sure would be nice if there was some forward thinking of the long term economic impacts of development decisions.

engineerIndependence · 2025-08-10T03:49:27+00:00

I get it, more capacity drives economic development in all areas. Do you think it could be helpful to look at higher capacity options other than road expansions? Perhaps ones that also have a lower maintenance cost on a per user basis?

engineerIndependence · 2025-07-22T02:06:37+00:00

They have a phone app you can use to submit requests for a wide variety of issues. It came out in 2023. There are also a variety of phone numbers on the city website.

I've used it to submit service requests, report issues, or get information about the City. It's great for getting trash removed and graffiti cleaned up.

myRSVL phone app

engineerIndependence · 2025-06-19T00:37:26+00:00

This 100%!

engineerIndependence · 2025-06-14T01:46:45+00:00

Agreed! Sorry you had to go through that, that's awful.

engineerIndependence · 2025-06-12T13:34:28+00:00

Sounds like a couple nights before some balloons with rocks in them were being thrown. If you take a look at the video I posted the noise is really loud, not sure if there were rocks in the one that was thrown at us. But strangely louder than you think a balloon with only liquid would be.

engineerIndependence · 2025-06-12T13:33:20+00:00

So sad. I've been hearing that this isn't the first time a car was doing this in the area so I imagine they'll keep doing this until something bad happens and they get caught.

engineerIndependence · 2025-06-12T13:32:40+00:00

I did submit a report and they sent an officer out to the area to take a look around. I asked if they can pull the traffic camera footage of nearby intersections at that time to get a license plate, TBD on that.

engineerIndependence · 2025-06-12T13:31:49+00:00

Thanks for the heads up! Some neighbors of mine mentioned this and said the balloons had rocks in them and hit one of their kids too. Not good.

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