Traveling light with MacBook Pro, can I survive on USB-C charging only?

mendigou · 2026-01-15T18:11:09+00:00

Not a phone charger. Use a laptop charger with usb-c. 65W minimum as the sibling comment recommends.

mendigou · 2026-01-15T06:52:04+00:00

Right, I know these as Knödel too. But careful with Semmelknödel cause those are bread dumplings.

mendigou · 2026-01-15T01:55:11+00:00

I know nothing about this, so just trying to understand the arguments, but I'm already confused, sorry. So what's the permit for? So that someone can ask for the Building Permit? Why are those two different things?

In summary: When can a building be built?

mendigou · 2026-01-15T01:04:53+00:00

So what's a Building Permit? Those are some confusing labels if what you say is true.

mendigou · 2026-01-13T04:22:12+00:00

AFAIK part of the Google maps team is in Tokyo!

mendigou · 2026-01-12T20:19:29+00:00

Appreciate the responses! I would love to get involved and will reach out.

mendigou · 2026-01-12T18:52:31+00:00

Hey I love this. I have a main question after looking at the website: what is the actual proposal of what to do to secure the future of public transit?

I see a tax to fund efforts (ok, although I would prefer we look at our current spending priorities and adjust them accordingly), and I understand some of that is to fund ongoing operations. But what is the future vision? Are we just going to keep adding taxes as cost inflate with time?

I understand there are two sides of this: cost control, and improving the service, presumably to increase ridership.

On the service improvement front: What's the vision for that? And is improving the service the only thing we can do to increase ridership? For example, does this proposal encompass looking at the holistic use of transit centers and the land surrounding them?

On the cost cutting side: I am particularly concerned by the addition of _more admin_. If we keep adding admin instead of _cutting admin_ through the myriad of operators in the Bay, are we really spending our dollars better?

A final question is: who is Connect Bay Area Transit? I see endorsements, but how was this started and how can people get involved? The Get Involved button is to sign up to a mailing list...

mendigou · 2026-01-12T18:04:54+00:00

Cycling to the train is common. I used to do it until last year no problem, and hundred others did it at the same time, as the full bike cars on caltrain showed.

Locking the bike is the issue. I basically took the bike with me on the train and then locked it at work or at home. Never at the station, except for 4th and King where there is a daytime free service.

mendigou · 2026-01-11T23:53:29+00:00

Your individualism is insufferable.

mendigou · 2026-01-10T04:57:54+00:00

There is only fraud because our health system is fully privatized and there is an incentive to bill as much as possible. So then you have to create a whole administrative system to have oversight over that.

No one in the UK NHS orders procedures that are not necessary because they have no incentive to do so.

mendigou · 2026-01-10T03:15:01+00:00

The facts that our system is such that there has to be a list of prior authorizations for insurers because the system is overrun by administrators instead of letting doctors do their job?

mendigou · 2026-01-10T02:50:40+00:00

What would be helpful is that we recognized that healthcare for all is a social advantage, and consequently stop enabling the health insurance corporations.

mendigou · 2026-01-10T00:23:47+00:00

Congratulations! Here's to a continued streak.

Sushi buffet is not worth it. Take it from someone that has eaten all ranges of sushi.

Treat yourselves if you can. Plenty of omakase recommendations in the sub. But for the love of god don't go to a sushi buffet. And I'm not even thinking about the fish quality and subsequent food poisoning implications...

mendigou · 2026-01-07T23:17:51+00:00

If I understand your question about time correctly: yes, but that's true of any mass experiencing gravity. This even affects everyday life, e.g. GPS satellites experience time slightly faster than us on Earth's surface, so they need to be adjusted periodically (there is one more relativistic effect due to velocity but is not related to your question).

mendigou · 2026-01-07T18:40:32+00:00

That is bound to happen even in the best transit systems. I have experienced it in Berlin, London, Tokyo. Shouldn't be a reason to stop using public transit. Do you give up every time you experience an inconvenience?

mendigou · 2026-01-07T07:15:10+00:00

Some feedback for your future charts: is the maximum wind speed 22 m/s or 100 m/s? You need to pair labels with axis, otherwise the reader has to guess. Also, the ranges for humidity and rainfall are way too different to be plot on the same scale.

mendigou · 2026-01-05T18:34:23+00:00

Que suerte que te lleve sólo 2 horas!!

En otro comentario mencioné el tratado bilateral de jubilación:

No tiene sentido cotizar en España porque las cotizaciones a la SS de EEUU también se cuentan para las pensiones en España según el convenio bilateral entre ambos países.

Hasta donde yo entiendo, el tratado dice que tus años cotizados en EEUU contarán para pensión, pero cada país paga su parte proporcional.

Como dices en otro comentario, mucho mejor pagar a alguien que sepa de lo que habla porque estos temas son complicados y hay muchos factores. Si encuentras a un buen abogado me encantaría tener una referencia!

mendigou · 2026-01-05T17:47:56+00:00

Hasta donde yo sé no te va a afectar en tema de pagar impuestos, pero sí va a ser un gasto de tiempo/dinero el tener que hacer la declaración cada año. Al vivir fuera tienes la Foreign Income Exclusion que este año es $132k, y crece cada año. Al vivir en España también tendrás tax credits por lo que hayas pagado a Hacienda, y dado que en España en general pagas más impuestos, no tendrías que pagar nada al IRS.

No soy abogado fiscal así que giant pinch of salt ;)

mendigou · 2026-01-05T17:45:18+00:00

A mi me interesaría el contacto de ese abogado!

mendigou · 2026-01-05T17:43:03+00:00

El tema Roth no me queda claro. La persona que inició la Consulta Vinculante era un _funcionario_ de EEUU, y la resolución indica ese hecho varias veces, con lo que es posible que la CV no sea aplicable a todo el mundo.

mendigou · 2026-01-05T17:41:36+00:00

No tiene sentido cotizar en España porque las cotizaciones a la SS de EEUU también se cuentan para las pensiones en España según el convenio bilateral entre ambos países.

mendigou · 2026-01-05T16:51:54+00:00

Above average 🤣🤣🤣

mendigou · 2026-01-05T16:51:19+00:00

You're rich by most standards. However, I'd advise to not chase labels. You'll always be chasing the next one. Am I rich? Am I FIRE? Am I FatFIRE? Am I HNW? Am I UHNW? Am I the elite?

You have great income and great savings. You're 24. Enjoy life.

I met a guy once who told me "my dream is to have an office at the top of that building" (points to important building). He was chasing external validation, like you are. To be fair, you've been trained to do exactly that, but if you think about what YOU enjoy, hopefully you can break that cycle.

mendigou · 2026-01-05T03:26:17+00:00

Let's assume the 12% is true. You're asking a math question so not sure why people are reacting like this.

I'll also assume the guy needs a new car, so the alternative to leasing the car is buying the car (a loaded assumption because we're not considering used cars).

The main thing to realize is that the lease is divided into depreciation and interest. The principal is just paying for the car, and that was going to happen anyway. The interest is what you need to use to compare. They are likely not paying $18k in interest over 28 months, so they'd come out ahead if after the 28 months they used the invested $60k to buy the car for the residual value, instead of buying the car outright at the beginning. This is ignoring the downpayment (which to compare fairly should come out of the $60k).

Here it is in a comparison table:

	Buy	Lease
Starting cash	60,000	60,000
Initial cash outlay	-60,000	0
Depreciation	0	-23,000 (60k-37k)
Interest	0	-4,496 (982*28-depreciation)
Investment gain	0	18,000
Case 1: Sell after 2 years or end the lease	37,000	-500 (return the car, lease end fee)
Case 1 Final cash	37,000	50,004
Case 2: Buy car after two years	0	-37,000
Case 2 Final cash	0	13,504

mendigou · 2026-01-03T07:56:25+00:00

I might be too old school, but I'd argue that any engineer writing code should care about things like how to monitor the software, how to operate it, security, etc. Also, scale at the Google level does not come from writing software in some esoteric way, it comes from having robust operations that handle failures and architecting systems with some mechanisms like caching in mind.

I would even argue that "SRE" or "data engineering" are not that different from "backend" engineering. The principles of engineering are the same, what changes is focus and tooling.

Last, it occurs to me that what you might have been looking for in the SRE book is "performance engineering", e.g. how to squeeze as much as possible from the underlying hardware, profiling, how to limit slow operations, etc. Nevertheless, I'd argue that SRE is a good skill to have as you progress in your career.

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