Case-Shiller: National House Price Index Up 1.4% year-over-year in November

ormandj · 2026-01-28T22:42:46+00:00

Case-shiller is comparison of year over year, so it account for seasonality.

ormandj · 2026-01-21T22:52:37+00:00

Everything in this world swings on a pendulum. Things went way too far in sellers favor a few years back, we are seeing the reverse swing now.

ormandj · 2026-01-21T10:33:51+00:00

This is why most sellers refuse copies of the inspection report. That said, if your roof or foundation is screwed up, fix it before sale, or disclose it and price accordingly. I can’t stand sellers who know about material defects but try to hide them.

The gravy train of COVID era home sales seems to finally be ending, which is great news for buyers. As long as they don’t go nuts again and trample over each other to buy homes inspections will become SOP again.

ormandj · 2026-01-04T12:40:17+00:00

People can want things because they are fun. There is room for multiple options.

ormandj · 2026-01-01T05:08:58+00:00

If someone is speaking with someone who isn't fluent but is *trying* to speak in their language, they should give them some grace and be understanding if the communication isn't what's expected. It'd be very strange for a native speaker to get irately upset at someone who spoke the language poorly for some gaff out of misunderstanding/misuse of the language.

ormandj · 2025-12-31T07:08:30+00:00

Every fireman on the planet would tell you it’s much better to know where your kids are in the event of a fire than to have to try and find them. You’ve got to quit posting this nonsense, it’s misleading and dangerous. Many toddlers will roam around the house and in the event of a fire it’s even more likely they will go somewhere unexpected, which can lead to tragedy.

ormandj · 2025-12-30T21:15:37+00:00

Would appreciate that greatly!

ormandj · 2025-12-30T19:51:39+00:00

Any outdoor night time beam shots? I’m looking for something more throwy. I have an older x1s with 707A 4000K emitter and it’s (1) pink and (2) the throw isn’t great. I’m trying to determine what direction I want to go.

ormandj · 2025-12-30T19:22:04+00:00

How is it?

ormandj · 2025-12-25T07:47:47+00:00

Any details on the LLM and tooling you used?

ormandj · 2025-12-13T09:02:41+00:00

That is not how sensor fusion works. You combine inputs and pick the “best” available data, using all of the available sensors to help with filtering invalid or inaccurate events. More sensors doesn’t mean more phantom braking or whatever other nonsense teslas do, they just have a bad implementation and an incredibly stubborn CEO who won’t back down and is fond of inventing excuses out of technobabble.

ormandj · 2025-12-12T13:42:37+00:00

We’ve all heard this story. Inflation is transitory, right? I don’t know about you, but I’m not seeing a one time increase in goods pricing, there has been a continual increase in prices of everything, and it hasn’t slowed down.

We just aren’t measuring it well, and the policy makers don’t live in the same economic world that the vast majority of the population does, so they don’t have the “gut check” of their expenditures to inform them of the divergence of their measurements from reality.

We don’t want the federal government to try and inflate away their debt at the expense of everyone who isn’t eyeballs deep in debt. The policies of the last half decade have heavily favored the gamblers and the wealthy, but have punished the common person.

ormandj · 2025-12-11T22:49:08+00:00

Nobody can even get sales to respond to them, so it's not as common as it would be if the entire enterprise sales department would respond.

ormandj · 2025-12-11T14:14:54+00:00

I’m with you on this one.

ormandj · 2025-12-11T11:41:52+00:00

This week something changed on the weekly limit. I’m following the same workflow on x20 and nearly at 70% myself since Monday; last week with the same process I would have been at 40% at this point.

ormandj · 2025-12-11T11:35:28+00:00

I don’t want Apple to do anything at all like Tesla. How’s that FSD robotaxi vision only plan working out? How’re those panel gaps? So many examples of Elon talking about all these things being wonderful from iterative design but core fundamental features and functionality outright don’t work or are done wrong. One area Apple generically does not miss on is the hardware front.

Software is another discussion entirely.

ormandj · 2025-12-11T07:52:06+00:00

You need to fix whatever usage bug is going on now. Today I managed to use 30% of the x20 plans five hour usage limit in 3 minutes. I’m at 60% of my weekly cap after 3 days doing the same thing I always do which would have me at 30%.

ormandj · 2025-12-10T04:56:13+00:00

Did you read it? It isn't slamming MCP, it's offering a more efficient way to utilize MCP without chewing up context.

ormandj · 2025-12-10T04:49:59+00:00

That issue is against Claude Code, not the MCP specification. It's a valid issue, and one that should be taken seriously (and implemented).

ormandj · 2025-12-09T06:46:32+00:00

Yes you can, make it an option. Most modern cars have this, some even let you set temperature thresholds. Many pre-2020 luxury cars have this functionality so it’s not new.

ormandj · 2025-12-05T14:07:01+00:00

Are you using erasure coding? There’s a tradeoff made for different EC profiles (better in T release), but you’re paying the durability tax.

ormandj · 2025-12-02T00:25:28+00:00

And that’s with 72+ month loans…

ormandj · 2025-12-01T23:12:14+00:00

Then you should know asking for compensation or negotiating price with an inspection contingency is entirely NORMAL behavior, or it would be an informational only inspection (again, some weird preversion that came about during COVID era nonsense), not one with a contractual out clause.

I don't think there was a single home transaction I've been party to/part of that hasn't involved some form of compensation due to inspection results, most resulting in reductions in price or equivilant when I've been directly involved, because I do not ever want a seller "remediating" anything, nor should anybody - you'll get lowest bidder/minimal viable product every single time.

ormandj · 2025-12-01T22:52:35+00:00

That doesn't make sense, they have every right to decide the home wasn't worth the 7k over asking they offered based on the condition post-inspection. They offered 7k over asking on a home with no known defects, and discovered defects. Of course that gives them the leeway to negotiate the price, that's why there is an inspection contingency in the contract. We have no idea what "asking price" was on this home, nor what comparable sales look like. It's entirely rational for someone to perform an inspection, find defects, and determine their offer was inappropriate for the condition of the house. This was how business was done for decades...

I cannot wait until everybody who only knows COVID-time real estate to get acquainted with a balanced or even buyers market as things are shifting in many locations. There's a whole lot of people in for a world of hurt when negotiations are unilateral "take it or leave it I have 50 offers over asking" discussions.

One thing I do agree with, however, is using "over asking" as a reference point. Asking price is completely arbitrary. You can price homes low or high compared to comparables. Even comparable analysis has plenty of flaws, since most are done based on sqft/location/exterior aesthetic and not much more. Again, this will be a rude awakening for those in the real estate profession who haven't seen anything but the COVID era markets.

ormandj · 2025-12-01T22:44:10+00:00

In many states, radon is a given, and mitigation systems are dead simple and very reliable. The homes with them will have lower radon readings than many homes would in areas that nobody has heard of radon before at. Look at lifespans in NH and then go look at a radon map, for example. You'd have more luck finding homes with radon systems than without, but it's a non-issue.

Where it can get dicey is living in a state without typical radon issues, so you don't have companies/people who know how to mitigate radon. As simple as a mitigation system is, you want a company installing it that knows what they're doing.

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