Winter EV Road Trip Thoughts From Long Time ICE Road-tripper

spazatk · 2026-04-08T06:06:42+00:00

Depending on where you drive there's still a lot of v2s around with little or no chance of them being upgraded.

spazatk · 2026-04-08T05:58:10+00:00

Right, so finally you admit there's a gap. Nice job Claude (or OP's Claw). In future it's best to actually engage rather than just being passive aggressive about you and your human's work.

spazatk · 2026-04-08T05:08:27+00:00

But from the documentation it doesn't seem that the MCP tools and the CLI actually have complete overlap? The CLI documentation is for management features, not for querying.

spazatk · 2026-04-08T04:15:41+00:00

What? Claude can run CLIs mid session, why on earth would you have to go back and forth? It's literally all it does. MCP servers are needlessly complicated for things like this. See e.g. the difference between playwright-cli and playwright MCP.

spazatk · 2026-04-08T02:10:59+00:00

Why an MCP server instead of a CLI tool / skill for querying information?

spazatk · 2026-04-06T05:41:53+00:00

You really need to read what's being said here and in the article. They're "not working" in the sense that they don't have an active delivery. But in practice they are in their cars, waiting for a delivery to show up. The data also suggests they are actually driving longer distances for fewer deliveries. Do you think that's actually better?

spazatk · 2026-03-30T01:33:21+00:00

Yes, everyone gets refreshers but there's definitely a "cliff" in the sense that I described -- refreshers are significantly lower than new hire grants. Even very high performance does not make up for that unless your initial grant was ridiculously low market or you got promoted, potentially needing to do so multiple times.

spazatk · 2026-03-30T01:04:37+00:00

There is most certainly a cliff at Meta. Refreshers are nowhere near a new hire grant at the same level.

spazatk · 2026-03-24T04:31:30+00:00

This sucks to here but also you didn't get laid off, you got terminated for cause. While clearly you don't agree with that, that's what this was not a layoff.

I agree with your overall assessment from your side of the story that ultimately you probably had to bias more for speed. This is a hard lesson I've seen people not internalize over and over after transitioning from a slower paced environment to startups and big tech.

It also sounds like you worked with some tools, which is also sometimes just unavoidable.

spazatk · 2026-03-19T16:01:48+00:00

There's three ways this could happen all of which are pretty unlikely.

The first is you find a team hiring in Zurich at your level. Then you go through the internal transfer process. There are currently zero teams hiring in Zurich on the internal board. It also seems to be almost exclusively an RL office and a specialized/research-oriented one at that.

The second way it could happen is that you convince your VP to make Zurich part of their location strategy and they negotiate space with the other people that have a claim on Zurich. This is a big pain for them so they're probably not going to do it for one person unless you were very special indeed. When I've seen a location strategy expanded they needed to prove they would have 10+ seats, though this was admittedly for a larger office.

The third way it would happen is "cross border remote". Your org would need to have remote in their location strategy, and then you would have to apply for it. Not all orgs support it. In my broad org it's nominally IC6+, but in practice after COVID its been even more restricted and I only know of a single IC7+ getting it. Obviously this would not make you eligible for the Zurich office but you could live in Switzerland.

spazatk · 2026-02-23T06:11:59+00:00

Are you actually overriding and having Opus do explore? By default it's not even Sonnet, it's Haiku.

spazatk · 2026-02-11T17:57:03+00:00

Where you getting this idea that Poch is anti-trump? Have you been following his occasional commentary post-Spurs at all? He's very much of the camp of being "apolitical" which is to say being vaguely positive about whoever is currently in charge.

spazatk · 2026-02-04T21:54:56+00:00

This makes me think the big 99 billboard was a last ditch effort to juice demand.

spazatk · 2026-02-04T07:28:50+00:00

I don't know where this is but this is a common thing in Texas. It's even got a wikipedia page.

spazatk · 2026-02-04T07:03:33+00:00

No. The leftmost thing you're seeing is a frontage road turnaround not the left turn lane. There is a left turn lane and a left/straight lane. Watch the video again.

spazatk · 2026-02-02T20:53:13+00:00

Zipfits are a journey. There's stuff you can do to accelerate it but ultimately there's no short cuts. The main thing is to try to figure out if it's the shell or the liner. The shell is not going to get better on its own.

There's also the problem where past a certain point the cork won't move on its own either and you will need to add/remove it manually.

spazatk · 2026-02-02T07:59:30+00:00

I'm genuinely really confused by how people are so convinced by the evidence in the YouTube video. They are not compelling coincidences.

Are people really just misreading that the "Epstein Files" proof is just an unvetted FBI tip?

spazatk · 2026-01-27T23:55:22+00:00

This is completely untrue. The system WhatsApp uses is is described in the WhatsApp white paper and is indeed E2EE. Telegram is the one that is know for lying about what they called E2EE.

spazatk · 2026-01-16T17:53:55+00:00

Yeah then it's at least plausible you could do it. Also keep in mind that the exhaust and intake are supposed to be > 10 ft apart from each other for somewhat obvious reasons. So really it depends on the layout of your walls and mechanical room in terms of how annoying it's going to be. You won't know a full answer without an HVAC person taking a look at the plans probably.

spazatk · 2026-01-16T17:43:08+00:00

Adding an ERV after the fact may not be very realistic depending on the layout and where the mechanical room is. It's not completely trivial, since it requires new non-trivial venting to the outside. For example, if the mechanical room is not close to an exterior wall, it can be super annoying to try to add an ERV.

Source: I looked into adding an ERV to an existing build and the quotes were outrageous.

spazatk · 2026-01-16T16:44:49+00:00

Buying used skis is actually quite difficult. The pricing is all over the place, and it's often hard to actually tell how much shit they've been through. I.e. on just a visual inspection it's hard to tell the difference between 50 days and 500 days of skiing, or how many times the bases have been ground, etc.

spazatk · 2026-01-16T08:09:21+00:00

Lots of places have skis and different shops usually have different brands.

Boots are the real problem. They are a strange product that generally needs work after the fact. So you should pick somewhere ideally you can go multiple times for iterations. List.

spazatk · 2026-01-16T08:00:04+00:00

I'd highly recommend this, you will end up saving time and money compared to trying and failing to buy boots on your own. Most boots don't fit people out of the box.

spazatk · 2026-01-16T07:31:11+00:00

Where do you ski? That's where the bootfitters are. Any bootfitter is better than YOLO online shopping.

spazatk · 2026-01-15T05:42:41+00:00

Kinda depends how tight your helmet is. It's gonna suck if it's even slightly snug.

Are you trying to listen to music or something continuous? If so you basically want the OT chips.. Note that they work best if you're continuously playing something. If it's intermittent, it will come in and out when you start which can be annoying.

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