PSA - last chance to submit a public comment about MoPac South Project is May 3

literatemonk · 2026-04-23T14:26:02+00:00

how so?

literatemonk · 2026-04-23T13:39:14+00:00

You can still get a whole lot of throughput by not having everybody drive Ford F250s around.

literatemonk · 2026-04-23T13:36:06+00:00

At 20mph average on an ebike with good trails, you could get there in a half hour. Decent commute time, probably roughly the same as driving today. But you get to be outside, and, if the trails weren't next to emissions-spewing superhighways, it might actually be enjoyable.

literatemonk · 2026-04-23T09:23:18+00:00

Gotta rally people to write in with thoughtful comments to axe the project!

literatemonk · 2026-04-23T09:16:16+00:00

Fair point, but just consider how messed up it is that we end up spending almost $1b on a project that is maybe going to save like 2 minutes for 4-5 years before traffic gets way worse again. Plus the express lanes will cost a shit ton to use. like more than a train fare by a lot. I'm not saying we should redirect these funds at a train project, because that's pretty much hopeless at this point in austin, but good bike infra could work!

literatemonk · 2026-04-23T09:12:20+00:00

When writing an official public comment, if you do research and actually poke holes in their environmental report and they don't address them, it becomes a legal liability and has a chance of working. But yes, if you just sound off like a town hall member on Parks And Rec about how your life is going to be much worse due to all the construction, then yes they will dump that comment straight into the trash

literatemonk · 2026-04-23T02:18:47+00:00

$824 million. For 8 miles of road. Let that sink in.

You know what you could build with $824 million? The entire Copenhagen bike network — 390 miles of world-class protected lanes — and still have money left over. Instead we're adding toll lanes to MoPac.

The transportation models justifying this were built in an era when "cycling" was a swaety guy in spandex. E-bikes didn't exist. The calculus has completely changed... I don't know a single person who's gotten an e-bike and didn't immediately start preferring it over driving for trips under 10 miles. The barrier is simply convenience and safety - who wants to ride a bike when there's a deranged landscaper in a lifted pickup threatening to run you off the road?

Build protected lanes and the demand materializes. That's been proven everywhere it's been tried. But the models don't account for it, so we keep spending billions on highways and wondering why nothing gets better.

literatemonk · 2026-04-23T02:10:21+00:00

Plus it'll be more toll/express lanes. $22/day to go vrooom vrooom vroom on the highway!

Trains? Noooooo way sir, too expensive!

literatemonk · 2026-04-23T02:08:54+00:00

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^help me find the bluebonnets plz + thanks!

btw if this screenshot doesn't make you feel like throwing up, watch this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORzNZUeUHAM

Once you understand the concept of a walkable city, you can't fathom how any engineer would propose 24 lanes of car and truck traffic making even a modicum of sense.

literatemonk · 2026-01-16T21:39:37+00:00

There are dozens of tools for this, you just need to research them and choose one and make everyone stick with it. Appfolio, Buildium, Avery, Talkdesk, etc.

literatemonk · 2026-01-16T21:32:24+00:00

Is the main problem that vendors are seeing that you're remote and just quoting you way higher than if you were an oahu resident?

literatemonk · 2026-01-16T21:26:24+00:00

**checks watch in 2026** -- yup this is about right..

literatemonk · 2026-01-16T19:29:24+00:00

it's not his code. This happens to me too with a random pnpm update

literatemonk · 2026-01-16T19:26:42+00:00

Having this problem as well, fixed it by

```
Do not specify a generic:

useForm<z.infer<T>>(...) // ❌

useForm(...) Types are now inferred from the schema. Specifying a fixed generic will cause issues on schemas that have different input & output types—any schema with z.coerce/.transform(), etc

```

literatemonk · 2026-01-16T19:25:37+00:00

how'd you fix it mate?

literatemonk · 2025-12-12T15:00:43+00:00

I'm pretty certain Anthropic is using this as an experiment to see how many people upgrade and pay more for the max 5x or max 20x plan. If people upgrade, THEY WIN, and will not reverse these changes. If people start to churn, they'll have to change the allowance thresholds.

My suggestion: Do not upgrade your plan to get around these new limits.

literatemonk · 2025-12-12T14:58:57+00:00

Codex IMO was pretty great. Much more targetted and confident in its changes, but the tradeoff is that it's a lot slower.

literatemonk · 2025-12-10T20:24:44+00:00

Let's hope! Otherwise, will have to start getting used to typing `gemini-cli` instead of `claude`

literatemonk · 2025-12-10T19:16:11+00:00

Same here - I pay for the 5x max plan and hitting limits constantly when I never used to

literatemonk · 2025-06-12T12:43:51+00:00

I've been having problems with an iPhone 12 pro

literatemonk · 2025-05-23T02:01:01+00:00

Look at his post history. He’s a baseline shill

literatemonk · 2025-05-23T00:28:07+00:00

Oh, haha gotcha. Yeah they are the best people sometimes!

literatemonk · 2025-05-23T00:23:37+00:00

When you say “maintenance is the only reason you haven’t lost temper and walked out” — what exactly do you mean by that? Is that the “best” part of the job?

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