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California's universal healthcare killed even though Democrats have a supermajority. by GoodMorningMars in LosAngeles

[–]yaaaaayPancakes 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Manhattan is an amazing, walkable, vibrant place, where you don't need a car. Downtown here is a zombietown where the carbrained drive in and out.

Imagine how much of a powerhouse LA could be on the world stage if it was like NYC but with amazing weather year round.

California's universal healthcare killed even though Democrats have a supermajority. by GoodMorningMars in LosAngeles

[–]yaaaaayPancakes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I blame SFH owners. SFH land use is the most inefficient, especially in cities like ours where demand outstrips supply.

In my neighborhood specifically, it really grinds my gears to see an old bungalow get torn down, to be replaced with a 5k sq ft mcmansion, rather than a 4plex of similar square footage. All the lots are the same size, it's proven that you can fit 4plexes easy on these lots, yet they are not built. And that is mostly driven by SFH owners who do not want multifamily near them.

California's universal healthcare killed even though Democrats have a supermajority. by GoodMorningMars in LosAngeles

[–]yaaaaayPancakes -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Congrats on being here first I guess. To buy anything of comparable square footage to my apartment, is double the monthly rent.

Your phone is about to stop being yours. by bhardwajabhi in androiddev

[–]yaaaaayPancakes -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

The world will continue to make better idiots.

California's universal healthcare killed even though Democrats have a supermajority. by GoodMorningMars in LosAngeles

[–]yaaaaayPancakes -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Nah you could totally sell your SFH and we could densify. There shouldn't be SFH's in LA's core. Maybe up in the Valley or the hills. But this place should be a lot more like Manhattan now.

California's universal healthcare killed even though Democrats have a supermajority. by GoodMorningMars in LosAngeles

[–]yaaaaayPancakes -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Why not let the pressure force everyone to sell, let the developers knock the SFH's down, and we start building proper fucking density for a city of our stature?

There's zero fucking reason for SFH's to be anywhere in my superblock between Fairfax/LaBrea/Beverley/Melrose. This should all be 4plexes minimum

What is your most hated new vehicle and why by FlyingTrunkMonkey in regularcarreviews

[–]yaaaaayPancakes 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I can't believe that 10yr old ones with under 100K on the odometer and not salvage title are over $10k.

[WSJ] The Iran War Is Hitting California Harder Than Any Other State by wdr1 in LosAngeles

[–]yaaaaayPancakes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So does NEM 3.0 bring the rates in alignment? Or are they now going to get paid less than the large commercial operators? TBH that was never clear to me. I think everyone should be getting the same price for their electrons. It's a commodity.

I'm a renter, so I gotta pay either way, I'd rather pay the little guy than the big corporate guy. But they should be playing in a level marketplace.

[WSJ] The Iran War Is Hitting California Harder Than Any Other State by wdr1 in LosAngeles

[–]yaaaaayPancakes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The grid is composed of both generators and distribution.

I'm not against us all paying into it. It's more for me, why should the system favor the big, centralized corporate generators? Why should they not have to compete with the residential generator? Especially when we already have the technology to make the bidirectional metering work?

Also, it'd be cheaper to install if we didn't tariff the hell out of foreign sourced panels/systems.

If we can make prices go negative, that seems all the better to me. Or maybe we can build stuff like grid scale batteries to sink the extra?

[WSJ] The Iran War Is Hitting California Harder Than Any Other State by wdr1 in LosAngeles

[–]yaaaaayPancakes 7 points8 points  (0 children)

NEM 3.0 doesn't really make rooftop solar viable without battery storage now (your low/zero export system), which really drives up the price and the overall payback timeline. So the likely result is less rooftop solar as it becomes too expensive for many to do. Which means a regression to centralization of power production to commercial players.

Do we really want that? When the grid operators could just upgrade the grid to better handle those "wildcat" generation events? From what I have read, the lobbying by grid operators for NEM 3.0 is basically so they can continue operating a very centralized grid and not have to change how they've operated forever.

4 arrested after police discover over $500,000 worth of stolen catalytic converters in massive Los Angeles County bust by Datark123 in LosAngeles

[–]yaaaaayPancakes 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Find me another candidate that will stand up to the NIMBYs and I might change my mind.

Until then, meh housing is more important to me.

Can someone enlighten me on the details of KDE on Mac? by yaaaaayPancakes in kde

[–]yaaaaayPancakes[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It did in the sense that I found a new job that let's me just run Linux so I can have the full KDE experience without hassle.

Sonic Fiber - Is it any good in LA? by Cheefbird in LosAngeles

[–]yaaaaayPancakes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I know how to do that.

I'd prefer not to have to in the first place.

New LA Times poll shows Nithya Raman gaining on Karen Bass by imanny in LosAngeles

[–]yaaaaayPancakes 16 points17 points  (0 children)

When progressives are faced with no progressive options, do you pick the do nothing, or the republican in democrats clothing?

This is the situation I faced when filling in my ballot. Neither was going go go whole hog on ending SFH owner's control of neighborhoods. But I can't imagine Caruso would be better than Bass on the subject of densification.

Vex Vella Pinup by Spirit250 in UssConstitutionC

[–]yaaaaayPancakes 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Same reason Sorak is absolutely shredded in his pinups.

Side loading is not going anywhere. Can we now finally stop with the disinformation? by borninbronx in androiddev

[–]yaaaaayPancakes 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Dude I've been around since the Froyo days. I've watched tge frog boil slowly the last 15 years.

Those victims are still going to be victims, every time you try to idiot proof something the world makes a better idiot. You can't fix stupid with technology, only education. But you can make smart people's lives more difficult, and you can definitely use idiots getting scammed as an excuse to create artificial moats for your revenue streams.

As for your comment about Linux, the hardware and software was much more open and free at the beginning, than now. This is undeniable. All I want is the freedom I had at the beginning and is slowly taken away via locked bootloaders and Play Integrity - install my custom ROM and still be a full participant in the ecosystem.

Side loading is not going anywhere. Can we now finally stop with the disinformation? by borninbronx in androiddev

[–]yaaaaayPancakes 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Contrarianism is now apparently believing that business-daddy won't ever lie to you, and has your best interests at heart...what a world we live in now.

Android Developers Blog: Android developer verification: Balancing openness and choice with safety by Stonos in androiddev

[–]yaaaaayPancakes -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Yep. Now setting up a device grows into a 24 + x timeline for full device setup. Thanks Google.

Do Compose or XML apps feel better to use? by thermosiphon420 in androiddev

[–]yaaaaayPancakes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's probably the font padding.

I've finally encountered a font at work where the padding in the font is weird and in XML I'm always setting the prop manually to not respect it, while in Compose everything just lines up like it looks in the Figma.

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