Generally correct. Here in Washington I could get Signature Solar to ship me 31 excellent Canadian Solar bifacial panels on a pallet for $9200 plus tax and shipping (so add another grand or so). This would be 21kW of…
Increasingly common at smaller businesses in western Washington (have seen this in Seattle, Bellingham, and occasionally elsewhere). Even where it's "technically" possible, it's becoming more difficult. Some grocery…
The number of places one can reasonably use cash anymore is rapidly shrinking. Some places it’s truly impossible. I do believe this is a policy failure and that a law should exist mandating cash acceptance “for all…
At least in the US, mortgages are typically fixed cost (I know this is not the case in many other countries, like the UK). You know when you sign the contract what your monthly cost will be, for the life of the loan.…
Fixing owner-occupied property taxes to the fair market value or sale price (whichever is higher) at the time of last change in ownership (by any means: purchase, inheritance, transfer, etc.), and then adjusting that…
Sure, I meant this more in the sense that my friends' experience trying to very gently and largely unmeaningfully deviate from the petty tyrants' decrees taught me I never want to live anywhere near this type of…
Besides the fact that your hostility is unnecessary, rent prices very rarely decrease. There’s been a good deal of journalism investigating this in recent years, especially in my metro area of Seattle. Landlords would…
While that may be useful, there should never be a necessity to move out of a house you’ve paid off, and quite well may have built up to support your own aging in place. Some people want a “forever home”, and that’s…
My friends lost a battle to paint their garage door a slightly different shade of white than the approved Pantone shade. No private entity should ever have that degree of power over one’s private life. Petty tyrants, I…
HOAs in general are nothing but classic American privatization of that which would otherwise be public, because counties and cities here either lack the tax base (rural), budgeting skills (urban), or both, to provide…
It's not called the Pacific Ring Of Fire for nothing. There's earthquakes all up and down the coast, from Chile all the way to Alaska and wrapping around to the Asian coasts, all the time.
I obviously can't speak for either of them, but in general any time their work ends up on this site, they get a new wave of horrible abuse that takes a toll on them. It seems many folks on this site are incapable of…
Welcome to where this was inevitably all going to go eventually. The entirety of commercial personal computing is going this direction: locking down APIs to make sure you’re not only doing what the company wants, but…
Or it's just bang-for-buck. If a bottle of vodka can be had for anywhere even vaguely in the ballpark of a bottle of wine (and at the grocery store scale, they often are: say, $15-20 for the wine and $20-30 for the…
This sounds... horrible? I mean, it's certainly a solution to the "wake up when this thing happens" problem, but... $SERVICE -> webhook -> $CHAT_APP -> MCP -> remote wakeup sounds both brittle and - as you said - the…
I guess folks' experiences with this stuff will vary wildly by what environment they work in. I use LLMs mostly at work, where I don't have any subscription plans, everything is billed per-token, and there's multiple…
The thing with watching CI in an agent loop is that it burns tons of tokens. At work I ended up writing a deterministic, traditional CLI tool to poll GitLab CI pipeline+job state changes on a branch and exit with an…
The jokes almost write themselves about the knock-on effects of dedicating significant time to debugging your phone running this OS, with the new name.
Depends on whether an ERV/HRV or other fresh air intake system is involved, I guess. In a space like an airport with so many people, you do have to cycle in fresh air somehow, it can’t just be a sealed space.
Funny enough, the only part of Apple Pay I use with any frequency is the browser/app integration part, basically as a much more convenient alternative to PayPal sometimes. IRL I do use it on occasion but everything I…
Unfortunately yes. It's awful, other than that they at least support both open-weight and proprietary models to route to. So I guess their model router is "fine", but the harness? As I said in a sibling thread on this…
Devin CLI is easily the worst-in-class coding harness I've ever been subjected to using, rife with bugs (up to and including dropping answers to the question tool), so I can't say I'm exactly inspired to try anything…
GLM (both mainline and flash varieties), being trained to speak a very similar Claudeish, is also atrocious about this. My AGENTS.md demands all prose be in STE100, which is trying to solve a similar problem as the…
75k bonus? I’ve worked one job ever with a formal bonus structure at all. The annual target for that bonus was less than a third of that amount. Sometimes I wonder if I work in the same tech industry as some of the…
The problem with doing that in Alaska is that there is not really a funding source for… anything. No income tax, typically little to no sales tax, low property taxes… the state’s other income source is a tax on the oil…
Generally correct. Here in Washington I could get Signature Solar to ship me 31 excellent Canadian Solar bifacial panels on a pallet for $9200 plus tax and shipping (so add another grand or so). This would be 21kW of…
Increasingly common at smaller businesses in western Washington (have seen this in Seattle, Bellingham, and occasionally elsewhere). Even where it's "technically" possible, it's becoming more difficult. Some grocery…
The number of places one can reasonably use cash anymore is rapidly shrinking. Some places it’s truly impossible. I do believe this is a policy failure and that a law should exist mandating cash acceptance “for all…
At least in the US, mortgages are typically fixed cost (I know this is not the case in many other countries, like the UK). You know when you sign the contract what your monthly cost will be, for the life of the loan.…
Fixing owner-occupied property taxes to the fair market value or sale price (whichever is higher) at the time of last change in ownership (by any means: purchase, inheritance, transfer, etc.), and then adjusting that…
Sure, I meant this more in the sense that my friends' experience trying to very gently and largely unmeaningfully deviate from the petty tyrants' decrees taught me I never want to live anywhere near this type of…
Besides the fact that your hostility is unnecessary, rent prices very rarely decrease. There’s been a good deal of journalism investigating this in recent years, especially in my metro area of Seattle. Landlords would…
While that may be useful, there should never be a necessity to move out of a house you’ve paid off, and quite well may have built up to support your own aging in place. Some people want a “forever home”, and that’s…
My friends lost a battle to paint their garage door a slightly different shade of white than the approved Pantone shade. No private entity should ever have that degree of power over one’s private life. Petty tyrants, I…
HOAs in general are nothing but classic American privatization of that which would otherwise be public, because counties and cities here either lack the tax base (rural), budgeting skills (urban), or both, to provide…
It's not called the Pacific Ring Of Fire for nothing. There's earthquakes all up and down the coast, from Chile all the way to Alaska and wrapping around to the Asian coasts, all the time.
I obviously can't speak for either of them, but in general any time their work ends up on this site, they get a new wave of horrible abuse that takes a toll on them. It seems many folks on this site are incapable of…
Welcome to where this was inevitably all going to go eventually. The entirety of commercial personal computing is going this direction: locking down APIs to make sure you’re not only doing what the company wants, but…
Or it's just bang-for-buck. If a bottle of vodka can be had for anywhere even vaguely in the ballpark of a bottle of wine (and at the grocery store scale, they often are: say, $15-20 for the wine and $20-30 for the…
This sounds... horrible? I mean, it's certainly a solution to the "wake up when this thing happens" problem, but... $SERVICE -> webhook -> $CHAT_APP -> MCP -> remote wakeup sounds both brittle and - as you said - the…
I guess folks' experiences with this stuff will vary wildly by what environment they work in. I use LLMs mostly at work, where I don't have any subscription plans, everything is billed per-token, and there's multiple…
The thing with watching CI in an agent loop is that it burns tons of tokens. At work I ended up writing a deterministic, traditional CLI tool to poll GitLab CI pipeline+job state changes on a branch and exit with an…
The jokes almost write themselves about the knock-on effects of dedicating significant time to debugging your phone running this OS, with the new name.
Depends on whether an ERV/HRV or other fresh air intake system is involved, I guess. In a space like an airport with so many people, you do have to cycle in fresh air somehow, it can’t just be a sealed space.
Funny enough, the only part of Apple Pay I use with any frequency is the browser/app integration part, basically as a much more convenient alternative to PayPal sometimes. IRL I do use it on occasion but everything I…
Unfortunately yes. It's awful, other than that they at least support both open-weight and proprietary models to route to. So I guess their model router is "fine", but the harness? As I said in a sibling thread on this…
Devin CLI is easily the worst-in-class coding harness I've ever been subjected to using, rife with bugs (up to and including dropping answers to the question tool), so I can't say I'm exactly inspired to try anything…
GLM (both mainline and flash varieties), being trained to speak a very similar Claudeish, is also atrocious about this. My AGENTS.md demands all prose be in STE100, which is trying to solve a similar problem as the…
75k bonus? I’ve worked one job ever with a formal bonus structure at all. The annual target for that bonus was less than a third of that amount. Sometimes I wonder if I work in the same tech industry as some of the…
The problem with doing that in Alaska is that there is not really a funding source for… anything. No income tax, typically little to no sales tax, low property taxes… the state’s other income source is a tax on the oil…