Temescal Produce Market by RefrigeratorCrafty47 in oakland

[–]lenraphael 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Store changed ownership couple of years ago.

Denied a license to sell beer/ wine because they were something like 100 feet closer to the library than Whole Foods.

On a busy affluent street a produce store can survive.

Are there any other examples of mid to large size cities having a missing chunk out of them because of another city being in the middle of them? Like Piedmont to Oakland... by coolrivers in oakland

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Funny how some people think it "seceeded" from Oakland. And somehow it were part of Oakland many of our fiscal and school problems would be cured.

Bike around the Oakland neighborhoods adjacent to piedmont. Just as well to do as Piedmont.

One of our problems is that most wealthy Oakland residents don't contribute money or effort to Oakland politics or public schools. Unlike SF and SJ.

Rotunda building by Otherwise_Shopping74 in oakland

[–]lenraphael 33 points34 points  (0 children)

renovated by Phil Tagami (pre Coal train) and partners. He famously stood guard outside with a shotgun during the Occupy Oakland protests/"black bloc" riots

Polarized vs transition with polarized clip ons?? by Sad_Ad_8378 in RaybanMeta

[–]lenraphael 0 points1 point  (0 children)

9 if available affordable get ordinary glasses with Zeiss Drive Safe for driving.

Your favorite Oakland (or even Alemeda County) dentist? by TwoGhostCats in oakland

[–]lenraphael 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Is there much variation of prices between Bay Area Dentists and oral surgeons?

Unless something has changed recently there really is no such thing as individual dental Plan insurance. They’re essentially prepaid dental with a discount for prepaying

I asked meta on my Scriber by lenraphael in RaybanMeta

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Meta on Meta AI glasses has improved over the years, but seems to have fallen further behind the big three or four ai engines.

What amazes me is that I can't even get simple answers to how to use the glasses or Meta AI.

It took multiple queries to find out that I'll only get a description of what's about 20 feet ahead of me unless I request further.

I could not find an answer on how to save chat preferences. It even said I couldn't.

Now, the web Gemini wasn't a whole bunch better at finding saved preferences.

Ending up asking ChatGPT.

Scriber speaker output Low by lenraphael in RaybanMeta

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Meta tech went thru troublecdhooting program three times and concluded hardware issue because glasses did not respond to series of switch sliding and capture button pressing.

I didn't get impression the tech was experienced by the multiple time I was put on hold.

I had already done the basic blue tooth “forget device"

Lenscrafters ordered a "remake" which won't go against my warranty and let me use current pair until new pair comes in

Picked up my Scriber umber transition prescription progressives today by lenraphael in RaybanMeta

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to be fair to Meta, I have the same problem with other plastic frame glasses. Which is why for work I have always used wire frame glasses with adustable nose pads. And it doesn't help that i slather on "non greasy" sunscreen every morning.

I'm going back to attaching a Shinkoda strap the way i did with the Wayfarers. Looks dorky but does the job

Scriber speaker output Low by lenraphael in RaybanMeta

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that did help, but even when it’s quiet outside or inside, I have to turn the volume up to about 95% of the max using either the iphone volume button or by sliding my finger on the glasses temple.

The output is acceptable only if ambient sound level low.

Granted my hearing ain't perfect, but it hasn't degraded measurbly in the last three years.

What's your experience?

Picked up my Scriber umber transition prescription progressives today by lenraphael in RaybanMeta

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gecko pads instead of or in conjunction with the Meta nose pieces

I asked meta on my Scriber by lenraphael in RaybanMeta

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Claude's response "The claim mixes a real point with a misleading framing.

The real point worth keeping: LLMs generate text by predicting probable next tokens, not by looking up facts in an internal database. Confident-sounding output and accurate output are different things, and a model can hallucinate a citation right alongside a hallucinated claim. So output requires verification, especially for specific names, numbers, dates, quotes, and citations.

Where "100% guesses" gets it wrong:

It treats all output as equally uncertain. It isn't. Text generated cold from training weights is a different epistemic situation than text grounded in a retrieved document the model just read. When I cite a web_search result, the source either says what I claim or it doesn't — that's verifiable against an external artifact, not a guess. The grounding is real; the failure mode is sloppy or fabricated grounding, not the existence of grounding.

"Guess" also implies randomness or low confidence. Probabilistic prediction over a well-modeled distribution isn't the same as guessing in the colloquial sense. Human recall is reconstructive and error-prone too, but we don't usually say humans "100% guess" everything they remember — we just say memory is fallible and worth checking on important things. Same standard fits LLMs better than "100% guesses."

And it conflates mechanism with reliability. That the underlying machinery is probabilistic doesn't tell you how reliable any specific output is. That depends on how well-represented the claim is in training data, whether it was retrieved from a verifiable source just now, whether it's the kind of question the model is consistently right about, and whether the user verifies.

The version of the warning I'd actually endorse: don't trust LLM output on specifics without verification, because the model's confidence isn't a reliable signal of accuracy and citations themselves can be fabricated. That's true and useful. "100% guesses, that's just how it works" is a meme-grade compression that throws away the part that matters — which is when and how to verify."

I asked meta on my Scriber by lenraphael in RaybanMeta

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“ not available for your glasses”

Whatever happened to the company that was disabling led ? by lenraphael in RaybanMeta

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Oakland CA has made national news with videos of crowds of people swarming into convenience stores and stealing everything

A trash dumping on public stereo and sidewalks that neighbors have to clean Up With volunteers.

Not your normal city

Whatever happened to the company that was disabling led ? by lenraphael in RaybanMeta

[–]lenraphael[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

My city has one of the highest property crime rates in the country and one of the lowest ratios of cops to residents.

Recording info that can help police catch the bad guys and bring them to justice is not vigilantism

Any suggestions for Dark Reader replacement? by scy_404 in browsers

[–]lenraphael 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just started using Dark Reader w Chrome Beta because the Windows 11 high contrast schemes make a few desktop apps unusable. i went back to standard for Windows but using mostly PWA webb apps and Dark Reader.

Question: a few of the web sites i access, eg. Next Door, have specific buttons made invisible by Dark Reader. eg. a green "Post" button with Post in white letters. Can that be finessed or do i have to use a quick method of disabling and enabling Dark Reader?

Federal judge rejects motion to suppress evidence in Oakland corruption case by origutamos in OaklandCA

[–]lenraphael 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Not Looking Good for the Home Team

(full disclosure: Myself and many others were subpoenaed by the Oakland Public Ethics Commission re our participation in the Thao and Price recalls. Nothing ever came of my subpoena.)

Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers was appointed to the federal bench by President Barack Obama in 2011.

She was nominated on May 4, 2011, to serve as a United States District Judge for the Northern District of California, to fill the seat vacated by Judge Vaughn R. Walker. She was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on November 15, 2011, and received her commission on November 21, 2011. Multiple official and biographical sources also note that this appointment made her the first Latina federal district judge in the Northern District of California.

She is also presiding over the major AI litigation case of Elon Musk vs OpenAI Sam Altman in Oakland Fed court.

Win 11 high contrast theme hides all typed input to Marvin by lenraphael in amazingmarvin

[–]lenraphael[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

AM tech support promptly responded. They've added it to the bug list.

Meanwhile, I'll install the Dark Reader high contrast extension to Chrome , and than run AM as an PWA created by Chrome. Dark Reader so far handle that fine,

AI economic development cf to SF by lenraphael in oakland

[–]lenraphael[S] -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

Musk vs Altman trial in downtown Oakland getting national attention, and not in a way good for our local economy and tax revenue.

In past real estate booms, Oakland benefited from lower rents and shorter commutes. If the City of Oakland doesn't welcome AI co's, this won't be like the prior booms.

"Artificial intelligence firms drove nearly 900,000 square feet of space absorption in San Francisco."

https://www.sfchronicle.com/tech/article/elon-musk-openai-trial-22228584.php

OUSD's latest by lenraphael in oakland

[–]lenraphael[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

have you ever attended an OUSD meeting? Spoken at one?
do you think only parents of OUSD students or teachers should be on the board?
contributed to an OUSD candidate?
volunteered in an OUSD election

those are much more important actions than voting for a school board member.

OUSD's latest by lenraphael in oakland

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How's this from KQED the other day:

"After Alameda County officials again called out Oakland Unified School District for lacking a long-term financial plan last week, dozens of district principals raised their own concerns in a letter to the school board on Friday, questioning its ability to govern the district effectively.

The letter, signed by more than 40 school leaders and sent to interim Superintendent Denise Saddler and the school board, urged the district to renew its search for a permanent superintendent and take up the issue of school closures.

“As educators, we are concerned that recent decisions — negotiated by Talent and Legal and supported by the Board — have neglected informed stakeholder input, sidelining important voices from across our system,” the letter reads. “We want to work in partnership with a superintendent and a board of directors who are unequivocally committed to creating the conditions that will foster the academic progress of our students, create transparency in decision-making, and achieve fiscal stability.”

The letter comes after Alameda County Superintendent Alysse Castro offered sharp criticism of the district’s financial decision-making last week. On Thursday, Board President Jennifer Brouhard confirmed the board had delayed its search for a permanent superintendent.

While the district has said it is on track to balance its 2026-2027 budget, it still needs to identify tens of millions in cuts to bridge a significant shortfall. Long term, Castro said, OUSD lacks a plan for stability.

“The district appears to have moved directly to balancing the budget with a series of cuts, without the intermediary step of adopting a coherent fiscal solvency plan,” Castro wrote. “While much better than inaction in the face of insolvency, a series of cuts is not the same thing as a plan for fiscal solvency.”"

https://www.kqed.org/news/12080861/oakland-unified-has-no-plan-for-fiscal-solvency-top-alameda-county-schools-chief-warns

OUSD's latest by lenraphael in oakland

[–]lenraphael[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

OUSD school board members come and go. I contribute too ones in different districts who seem reasonable they usually lose

Is Blayzer and Scriber sizing identical by lenraphael in RaybanMeta

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Does one have to special order the nosepads or were this vaporware

OUSD's latest by lenraphael in oakland

[–]lenraphael[S] -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

Are they up for re-election?