ProfessorLayton

> The proposal was to charge for public street parking so we can make Muni free.

My proposal is to make Muni free full stop. Via taxes is fine with me, I provided another way that doesn't necessitate that. We are already paying for the vast majority of each Muni trip from taxes.

>That's not (at least not obviously) a "fair" allocation, it's just a transfer from one group to another.

You're saying we're just transferring from one group to another, well SF was built for people before cars became commonplace, with excellent public transit before it was torn out for cars. I'm arguing that some of that needs to be transferred back to the people for better use (Bigger sidewalks, bike lanes, restaurant parklets etc.)

>If you're spending on transit, why not spend the money on expanding service instead?

Expanding service is great, but you'd be hard pressed to pay for it via parking meters/tickets and it costs even more to run a system on top of that, particularly the metro system.

It's both. Why should the public 100% subsidize private vehicle storage in vast swaths of the city (And greatly undercharge when it's paid), but not public transit?

SF has some of the most valuable private[1] and public land in the US. Why is it so pressing to charge the last 13¢ on the dollar for a Muni rider, but not for drivers to pay for the public space they're storing their property on?

[1] Private land owners know this, which is why they charge a lot to use their parking garages/parking lots in SF.

The costs may be fixed but so is ~87% of the revenue via tax money.

Muni can be 100% free without increasing taxes too. The people using public land to store their private vehicles are not paying their fair share. Proper parking pricing and enforcement could easily pay for Muni’s deficit.

>I wish they could do something about fare evasion.

Reminder that vast majority of the fare is covered by taxes (Roughly 87%). I wish they just funded the remaining 13% instead.

It might not even cost that much more considering all of the expenses involved with hiring more staff (Salary/healthcare/pensions etc.) to collect the last 13 cents on the dollar.

I haven't run into this on macOS yet, but on iOS the space is not reclaimed in time to avoid running out of space even with Apple Intelligence turned off:

- Not enough space to update iOS without a computer tether, even though there would have been if that ~13GB on my phone was actually freed up. Instead I had to delete several GB on my phone.

- Recordings stopping due to lack of space, and again the 13GB LLM model on my phone was not removed before running into this.

I'm actually not where if/when I'll ever get my space back, and this is on iOS 26. It takes up even more space on iOS 27, and I don't have enough free space to waste on my 256GB phone.

Got a new LG washer, but some clothing item with a metal button got stuck between the seal and tore a bit of it off, causing leaks. A new seal from LG isn't too expensive, about ~$70, however, it requires the entire front and top of the machine to be removed, so it's not a cheap operation (When hiring someone to fix it).

I don't think I'd ever pick a top loader still, but front loading machines do seem to fail in more annoying ways.

>We need to bear the brunt of it and be the sacrificial generation.

Who is "We" here?

I'll take a guess: Gen Z, and Gen A.

Gen Z because they went through covid during college, and now this AI boom that's completely wreaked the entry level job market.

Gen A is looking increasingly grim, unfortunately. If any of you know any school teachers, you'd know how disheartening it is to try and teach someone that has a homework and entertainment machine in their pocket at all times.

Millenials went through everything Gen Z has and more ('08), but there was at least a few years of relative normalcy growing up. I don't know what's next, but I'm not very excited about it.

/rant

I agree with you, and this is much better than your previous "canned response". However, this goes back to my earlier point that even historically low rates can cause economic chaos if the debt is high enough.

>My canned response to people being upset at various policies or ratios, whether it is inflation, or bond yields, or market movements, is to ask them what they think the correct value should be.

Maybe find a better canned response? US debt has never been higher, and because of this even rates that are below historic highs can cause economic chaos.

"...Golden Gate needed a whopping 17GB more space on the M1 MacBook Air, thanks to a mandatory multi-gigabyte language model download that kicks in automatically the first time you connect a freshly restored Golden Gate Mac to the Internet."

This is the main thing stopping me from updating iOS/macOS. It's completely unacceptable to park a bunch of space on my devices right when that storage is at its most expensive it's ever been.

My phone is on iOS 26, and even with Apple Intelligence turned off, there's ~13GB made unusable. My phone ran out of space while recording a bike trip, and yet the model I have no use for remained.

2.6 Pro: >started 2026-09-15 10:32 UTC

For some reason I thought training took much, much longer than what the progress bar suggests.

This is really neat, I'm currently using mimo 2.5 pro, and it's decent (or great given the price). Hopefully their next one is multimodal.

I wasn't talking about safety issues when mentioning red tape, but even those severely limit housing construction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sfoLUumGnc

Parking minimums are how we ended up with cities that are substantially composed of car storage, instead of housing which people need to live. There's little reason to force developers to build car storage when what people need is housing. People in cities get along just fine without a car, and it's possible to adopt a similar model to Japan that requires people to prove they have a parking spot available before they can register a car.

>Whatever the actual limits of the zoning are, that is pretty much what you see built.

Exactly, the limits are set very low, and so much red tape, that so little housing gets built, which is why we have a shortage.

>Yes building codes are different, but stuff like trim or brick work or generally curb appeal shouldn't affect that.

It very much does, unfortunately. In the US, the places with the highest housing shortages are mired with endless red tape, discretionary reviews, parking requirements etc. that substantially increase costs. This leaves little room for anything else, including aesthetics.

Developers have gotten very good at navigating this, but it has also led to them sticking to basic "good enough" designs like the five-over-ones we see when new apartments are built.

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If I wasn’t talking to you, but you were eavesdropping and taking notes of everything I was saying to another person, yes.

That’s what the wrist computer is doing.

You think we’re talking about functionality and not automation. Got it. Try again.

>How is this different from a privacy standpoint of someone simply memorising what you said in the last fifteen seconds and scribbling it down onto a piece of paper?

The difference is extremely obvious, to the point that you even typed out one of the differences!

So I took issue with the automated note taking of conversations and didn't mention audio recordings. No mention of using Google or Facebook either.

The audio note taking feature is extremely off-putting to me and can't believe it was so prominently showcased.

It's made even worse by the fact that only the newest watches support this, but their external designs are unchanged from past ones, so there's no way to tell who's always listening to everything (I have an Ultra 2, likely my last one).

Is this something most people want?? At the very least I'd appreciate a notification like the unknown airtag thing to tell me I'm being eavesdropped.

>Russia has kind of stolen Spain's gold…

For historical reasons, this is kind of amusing.

2010 was right after the great recession, and after the people that caused it got bailed out by the government.

Some muni busses definitely dngaf, I've gotten cut off by them, the bus driver just deciding it was going to switch lanes into me before making its stop. I had to slam the brakes and ended up pressing my hands behind the bus because I couldn't slow down in time.

I now record my rides.

Outputs can be easily translated from the watermarked language to another, either by just knowing two+ languages, or via non-LLM translation.

Mastering is done with the target in mind. There's tons of great videos by Masahiro Sakurai (Creator of Smash Bros.), one of which covers how they use typical household TVs to tune the audio/video for the game because relying on top-end audio/video equipment will result in worse results for the player.

Notice how you switch from "more energy efficient than most..." when talking about heating, but then switch to "is not always the most efficient..." when talking about cooling.

Both are active temperature control, and both are much more efficient than previous forms of heating and cooling.

There's also the fact that cooling uses much less energy than heating because the temperature differential is usually much less extreme. It takes less energy to go from 100F/37C > 75F/23C than it does to go from 32F/0C > 65F/18C.

You should see the Shrek movie.

That graph looks a lot less impressive when not "annualized". Annualized revenue can be gamed in a number of ways, and is a big reason companies tend to compare YoY to investors once they're public.

Older Blender versions had terrible UX like Gimp does now, their epiphany was realizing that they should fix it.

>I don't think skillfully translating into idiomatic, grammatical, well written text is meaningfully easier then composing the text yourself in the first place.

You don't think so based on what? One does not have to be a subject matter expert to translate from one language to another.

People that know more than one language are translating all the time, both consciously and unconsciously (While they're proficient in language A, they may "think" in language B). It's not as much effort as you think.

>But low quality language translation tools have low quality output.

Perhaps, but no tools needed for those who know more than one language, which is a lot of people.