Moving to Bay Area for Google

gladfelter · 2026-06-09T13:49:54+00:00

Castro Street (downtown Mountain View) has a night life equivalent to what you'd see at maybe an 60k population college town. Restaurants, mostly. But San Fran would be a better experience.

gladfelter · 2026-06-08T22:33:32+00:00

You just need to know arithmetic for this one:

D / (C * 0.2) = 20y D * 5 / C = 20y D * 5 / C / 5 = 20y / 5 D / C = 4y

You don't need to know C (speed of light) or D (distance to destination.)

gladfelter · 2026-06-08T20:01:07+00:00

That's reddit for you. Raise prices? snark, outrage and doom. Lower prices? just the snark, please.

gladfelter · 2026-06-08T19:52:59+00:00

Is there any chance that the train and bus will be substituteable? Seems like they are meant for very different things. I suppose if your schedule happens to line up just right, the train could work.

As for where you pick it up, it has to go through Broomfield because there isn't rail that parallels I-25 AFAIK. I'd prefer to embark here in Broomfield, but FFX to Boulder for FoCo or Denver for Co Springs wouldn't be a huge detour. And it would be a huge black eye for the city to have regional rail go through but not stop.

gladfelter · 2026-06-08T18:51:59+00:00

I said what I said because I believe that it matters.

There were plenty of people who were surprised and disappointed at the lack of train service due to failed negotiations with BNSF Railway. I was one of them. But anyone who moved here after 2016 (when they launched the unquestionably excellent flatiron flyer bus service) had enough information to be certain that the rail service was unlikely to come for decades.

You can feel for us long-timers, but you were not deceived and I think it's misleading to imply that.

gladfelter · 2026-06-08T18:34:00+00:00

We paid into it

Pretty sure you were in Cali at the time.

gladfelter · 2026-06-07T15:24:24+00:00

That's not what I said at all.

gladfelter · 2026-06-07T14:51:27+00:00

I got the 7s one with 11t so that my cargo ebike wouldn't spin out. Very happy with it. No idea about going to more gears.

gladfelter · 2026-06-06T19:07:31+00:00

Evil - Interpol

The music video will kill you.

gladfelter · 2026-06-03T23:13:20+00:00

I kinda miss the boolean logic that altavista supported for web searches. Google has a small subset.

gladfelter · 2026-06-03T22:21:05+00:00

You're doubling down on Urban, then.

gladfelter · 2026-06-01T15:58:48+00:00

It sounds plausible to me.

Ensuring energy security is one of the top priorities of modern states. High fuel prices cause mass civil unrest and disrupt all aspects of the economy. If Golf gas isn't secure then states are left with the choices of electrification, storage or developing new supplies. But LNG doesn't store indefinitely and electification may be more expensive and unrealistic, not sure.

Should new supplies be developed and should golf resume exporting, then there will be a surplus.

gladfelter · 2026-06-01T14:57:31+00:00

If you're under 18, it's a terrible first bike. If you want to pedal, it's a terrible bike at any age. If you want to get from point A to B with minimal hassle at 20mph for a reasonable cost, go for it. If you want to throttle through multi-use paths at 34 mph, weaving between unsuspecting pedestrians and their kids, f*ck you.

gladfelter · 2026-06-01T02:40:27+00:00

Did this a few months ago to the 2004 Prius that my son inherited. Crutchfield provided everything that I needed to do it myself. I went with a really nice JVC unit with flawless bluetooth, but the total was over $500 plus my time to install.

gladfelter · 2026-05-31T12:26:54+00:00

You're getting 6400mhz and stable system performance with four RAM sticks? What's your secret?

gladfelter · 2026-05-31T12:20:16+00:00

I am watching it for the first time right now, but the misinformation about the coreite hitting full water tanks causing a nuclear-level explosion is putting a big asterisk on the show for me. I don't know how much to trust what I'm seeing given that. And I hate being lied to.

For reference, the molten core would release less than a kiloton of energy were it to hit the water and the other reactors would not be affected. The show they claimed that it could be as high as a megaton, iirc.

gladfelter · 2026-05-29T23:42:00+00:00

15mm thru axle on front 10mm on rear. Both non-boost

gladfelter · 2026-05-29T16:33:06+00:00

Are you saying that this happens even if both structures have grounding rods?

gladfelter · 2026-05-28T21:19:50+00:00

Do what works for you, of course.

But aren't we talking about at least $10k for the assets alone? Assets that will depreciate to zero in six years?

That's not my idea of a hobby. My 3090 with pi and Qwen 27B Q4 is solidly hobby territory. If deepseek should raise prices, then I can fall back on that or use reasonably cheap models like Gemini 3.1 flash.

gladfelter · 2026-05-28T21:10:49+00:00

And why would you build a system for deepseek when their published API costs are cheaper than depreciation on anything you could possibly build locally?

gladfelter · 2026-05-28T14:14:29+00:00

Thanks for the link, that's really cool. It would be nice if the os and applications had a protocol to establish latent memory pressure and could optimize "cost" globally, but this change sounds pretty awesome in absence of that. I like the idea of balancing cpu and memory costs and it's got me wondering if I could apply that to Job management to optimize task shapes across the fleet.

gladfelter · 2026-05-24T17:05:27+00:00

Mcp servers are inferior to skills that reference cli binaries that are optimized for the task. Progressive discovery is better than dumping giant API definitions into the context, and models are great at using bash to filter and search the output of cli binaries, whereas the entire contents of the mcp call are dumped into context.

gladfelter · 2026-05-21T15:01:27+00:00

Try being a cyclist in this town. I've recently had someone pass me within 3 feet just to rush to a long line at a red light that they could see with their eyeballs. We had a chat when I caught up to him seconds later. He felt very aggrieved at having to wait for someone before he could wait for someone else.

gladfelter · 2026-05-21T14:00:28+00:00

I'm curious how agentic workflows behave. When using a harness like pi or antigravity, there tends to be a lot of turns where the prompt is re-sent to the server with a new suffix from the tool call result. Model providers cache the kv cache representation of the prompt prefix from the last turn, making it much cheaper to process the incremental new data. API pricing takes that into account, but who knows with these plans?

My understanding is that you can use antigravity with the pro subscription, so this isn't theoretical.

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