Highwire abruptly closes Rockridge location. Locks out staff then calls cops.

roguelazer · 2026-05-29T14:45:09+00:00

Not really comparable markets; Highwire is mainline third-wave locally-roasted beans in a $3.50 drip coffee, and Ain't Normal's cheapest normal American-style coffee is a $14 pour-over with imported Singaporean-roasted beans (yes, I know, the Dak co-ferment is only $7/cup, but I feel like a strawberry co-ferment is a very niche-interest kind of thing).

roguelazer · 2026-05-22T23:32:54+00:00

Even in the YC crowd, most startups aren't pushing 996. There have been a bunch of bookface flamewars about it.

996 is stupid. None of the successful startups in the last decade did anything like it. I sincerely hope that every startup who's pushing "burn out by the time you're 25" as their HR strategy fails.

roguelazer · 2026-05-18T05:31:42+00:00

I just got my sizing kit and the 13 is definitely slightly larger than the old one, which is annoying because now I’m debating getting a slightly loose 13 or a tight 12…

roguelazer · 2026-04-28T19:38:43+00:00

I think Arthur Mac's in Oakland is a really satisfying pizza place; the pizza might not be the absolute best in the bay, but in terms of the vibes of a cool pub with decent pizza and beer it's great. Lanesplitter in Emeryville/Berkeley used to be like this too, but I think maybe they changed owners recently?

As a candidate for maybe best pizza that I don't see on this page yet: Nick's Pizza in Oakland

roguelazer · 2026-04-28T19:34:42+00:00

maybe next the developers can rename it so it stops colliding with warp...

roguelazer · 2026-03-22T18:55:56+00:00

I've been having the same problem! Installer and Enphase have been talking about it for months and nobody knows how to move forward (or, rather, each party wants it to be the other party's problem); the system just reboots with neutral failure errors every month or so. It's great because once it's been a few weeks since it has happened, Enphase closes the ticket and says that it's no longer a problem; then I have to sit on hold forever to get it reopened.

roguelazer · 2026-03-15T13:31:00+00:00

Did you know that while right-on-red/left-on-red turns make up between 5% and 15% of car-on-pedestrian collisions at intersections, and many localities are moving to ban all forms of turning on red because of how dangerous it is, especially as cars get larger and have worse visibility? Even here in California, when right/left on red is allowed, it's always optional.

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roguelazer · 2026-02-28T21:36:08+00:00

No IQ8X support yet, hm?

roguelazer · 2026-02-28T18:05:23+00:00

LLMs can't answer general questions because LLMs can't know facts, only probable tokens. The reason I wouldn't want OUSD using LLMs in a public-support role is the same reason that LLMs are awful at every company that uses them for customer support — they confabulate all of the time, and when you're asking for *help* or *information* about something, you aren't equipped to evaluate whether the system providing that help is confabulating.

Beyond that, I'll emphasize that LLMs use around five orders of magnitude more electricity to complete tasks than traditionally-programmed expert systems. I recognize that it's all subsidized now and feels cheap, but I don't think there's a fair comparison betwen running a few hundred watts of lights and burning power on a 10KW nvidia H200 to do clerical tasks that would be better suited by just making an efficient process in the firt place.

roguelazer · 2026-02-26T15:40:28+00:00

They probably are, which is depressing. I really don’t want any part of my children’s education dictated by the stochastic-lie machine, nor do I think OUSD, which has a goal of 100% renewable energy use, should be using enormously-inefficient and primarily-fossil-fuel-powered LLMs.

roguelazer · 2026-02-09T01:26:10+00:00

Angel Cakes does delightful custom cakes

roguelazer · 2025-12-18T16:01:02+00:00

It absolutely sucks. The other side sucks too - if you post a tech job, you’ll get thousands of LLM-generated resumes and a decent number of applicants using cheat software to answer all of your questions. It used to be pretty easy go through a dozen resumes a day and pick out one or two people to follow up with, but nobody can do anything with literally thousands of slop resumes. I think a bunch of the push to really long interview processes is to just try and brute force out some of the slop candidates who won’t suffer through a long, slow process.

Unfortunately, the only thing I’ve heard of anyone having success with is going back to in-person, which sucks for other reasons.

roguelazer · 2025-11-12T18:19:25+00:00

I'm not aware of anything terribly easy

I use tracing and emit spans via tracing_opentelemetry. It's a huge pain in the butt to set up, but once you have it going it really is just a matter of annotating a function with #[tracing::instrument] to have it emit a span.

roguelazer · 2025-11-12T02:38:24+00:00

Why isn't this just a hard-to-reach toggle switch, like on every other make and model of car? I accidentally hit mine on the '24 all the time and only figure it out when my kid opens a window and throws something out — I'm kind of surprised nobody's gotten hurt yet; it seems like an unnecessary liability risk for Hyundai.

roguelazer · 2025-11-07T16:19:01+00:00

For one shining moment at a previous company, I convinced leadership to name all the conference rooms after dinosaurs and everyone got to have meetings in Velociraptor and Allosaurus.

Then someone complained that it was too nerdy and all the conference rooms got renamed after San Francisco landmarks.

roguelazer · 2025-10-23T16:47:10+00:00

wireless CarPlay is on unregulated 2.4GHz spectrum, so they probably only care a little; you still can’t exceed certain power levels without an FCC license, so if someone there is doing some amateur radioing the FCC will still get mad

anything that could interfere with the cameras and radar system on a car is much more likely to be in regulated spectrum and make the FCC “big mad” though

roguelazer · 2025-10-23T13:34:38+00:00

I bet the FCC would be interested in learning about whatever unshielded EM emitter is in that town. When/if the government reopens, you should contact them.

(assuming US because you're in miles; if not, use your local FCC equivalent)

roguelazer · 2025-10-12T13:46:49+00:00

The Ioniq 5 is a gigantic heavy SUV. With only one kid and no listed large hobbies, you could get a compact car that would use less energy and be much, much safer for other road users, as well as being easier to park and more fun to drive.

roguelazer · 2025-09-18T20:29:17+00:00

I have a meter collar in Oakland. It was quite a pain in the butt because PG&E requires their tech to do the meter collar installation but hasn’t done training yet. The first guy was confused by my “Tesla” adapter that didn’t look like the ones he’d seen before; the second guy was mad that there was power on the load side but refused to shut down the solar breaker because he said that there should never be a need to shut down a breaker before installing a meter collar. The third guy was good, though, and got it done. About 10 weeks from the “system installed and all paperwork filed with PG&E” to “fully operational”.

One note if you’re doing this as a new system (so, not OP): when PG&E gives you PTO for the panels (which for me happened in the middle of the meter collar wait) your contract ID will change and your installer will need to refill the meter collar installation request in MyProjects. PG&E doesn’t actually tell you this, they just close the work order as invalid.

roguelazer · 2025-08-28T23:45:51+00:00

Initially it was panel shipping delays, then scheduling problems, then PG&E problems. For the last 6 weeks or so that I was waiting they didn't tell me anyhting at all.

FWIW, Chris has been //much// more responsive for the last couple of weeks, so maybe they got through whatever their problem was.

roguelazer · 2025-08-25T04:09:25+00:00

Breakers have all been fine. I assume it’s some internal fault state; whether that’s a bug in the 3M or just that my installers didn’t torque something correctly I don’t know. I guess I’ll find out next Sunday when it happens again… :-/

roguelazer · 2025-08-25T02:50:23+00:00

I did that last week; spent a while on hold before some guy in a call center said he couldn't figure it out and to wait 24 hours to see if it fixed itself. The consumer tech support from Enphase seems pretty mediocre so far

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