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by zbrozek 4y ago
I came here to post about LDVs but was beaten to it. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_Doppler_vibrometer They're sensitive to very small vibrations. A friend of mine used them while working at a hard drive ma
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by zbrozek 4y ago
To a point, anyway. https://www.builderonline.com/land/local-markets/californias...
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by zbrozek 4y ago
I keep trying to convince my parents to sell it. They're spending a lot of money on it for property taxes and HOA fees (it's a condo unit) but they simply don't care enough. On the bright side, it's in a town that hasn&#
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by zbrozek 4y ago
I've got a backpack-wearable one from Ego and I love it. That said, my comment above was mostly a joke. :)
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by zbrozek 4y ago
Don't worry, in those neighborhoods we have leaf blowers.
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by zbrozek 4y ago
I don't follow. If you don't have a problem (in this case expensive housing) why would you need to do something about that problem (in this case rent control)? It's extra complexity serving no purpose. And that will inevitabl
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by zbrozek 4y ago
My parents own three, none of which they keep as an investment. One is their primary home, a second is their winter escape, and a third was supposed to be a place for my grandmother. But she died shortly after my parents bought it, and they
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by zbrozek 4y ago
Specular reflection (a mirror) would be ideal for sending energy back out into space most of the time but would occasionally death-ray your neighbors. White paint isn't quite as good (some of the diffuse reflection will hit non-refle
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by zbrozek 4y ago
I bet a lot of how applicable you feel the labeling is will depend on where you are. SF Bay Area and NYC are probably the US epicenters of this problem and will see a bit more polarization on that front. California in particular is estimate
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by zbrozek 4y ago
I definitely think that's NIMBYism because it stifles construction, and lack of supply is the problem.
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by zbrozek 4y ago
I see almost all of our housing problems as direct descendants of the original sin of making it too hard to build and use structures. Any form of rent control is another form of NIMBYism, just this time with a progressive coat of paint. Thi
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by zbrozek 4y ago
St. Paul enacted rent control and saw -80% permit application rates. Minneapolis (immediately adjacent) saw permit applications rise in the same time. It should be plainly obvious that reducing the utility of housing units reduces the deman
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by zbrozek 4y ago
From my interactions it's mostly frustrated renting millenials rather than developers in the movement. And that aside, I don't see why people think developers are evil. Someone built the place you're living in. Personally (as
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by zbrozek 4y ago
Yes.
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by zbrozek 4y ago
They're typically much lower. PG&E customers are mercilessly fleeced. Silicon Valley Power and Palo Alto charge around $0.14/KWh. PG&E averages around 3x as much, though their base rate (whose quota most people handily exc
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by zbrozek 4y ago
I often joke that after the next big earthquake levels everything that it'll take a hundred years to rebuild half of it, and the folks who finish the first half will vote down the second half.
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by zbrozek 4y ago
Count me in. I have a lot of the same feelings and would like to see it seriously tried. Speaking of signal flows, I've almost never managed to put together a flow graph in gnuradio companion that wasn't a visual nightmare.
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by zbrozek 4y ago
My understanding is that you can insulate your way to Title 24 compliance. You just have to have a total ingress performance over some level. Now that said, it would still be better for our communities to reflect this energy back out into s
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by zbrozek 4y ago
That they're among the only things that you can legally build in a lot of places. They're totally fine if that's what the owner wants to build. They're not totally fine if the owner would rather build something else bu
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by zbrozek 4y ago
I don't know, but occupational licensing is right up there with zoning law and civil forfeiture for my most-hated aspects of Americanism.
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by zbrozek 4y ago
Stanford is self-insured and has weirdly inconsistent ideas around riskiness of various activities. And no risk appetite, tolerance, or ability to reevaluate once something has received its scarlet letter. As far as I can tell, the only way
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by zbrozek 4y ago
My interactions with Stanford administrators convinced me that I didn't need a graduate degree and that I would never donate to the school. Beyond that, I also got totally fed up trying to figure out how to get definitive positive perm
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by zbrozek 4y ago
I'm more than 2 years in and no physical progress has been made. "Local control" is a huge problem and it needs to go away.
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by zbrozek 4y ago
Until next year! It doesn't get better.
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by zbrozek 4y ago
Probably, but I still expect it to be slower than the film camera sunset. If memory serves, it took about a decade for film to evaporate once film camera sales were dominated by digital cameras. I think it'll take 2-3 decades for trans
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by zbrozek 4y ago
That cycle will undoubtedly be slower for vehicles than cameras. Much larger, much more expensive population, covering a broader range of niche cases. I think very highly of my EV, but I'm not under the illusion that all fossil fueled
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by zbrozek 4y ago
This is exactly what gets car-centric infrastructure built in the first place. It makes sense. But then as an American metro area grows, the car-centric solution is sticky and public transit seems impossible to build later. I one-way commut
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by zbrozek 4y ago
This is a new attitude. There used to be significant interest in upward mobility. Some folks still "buy up" frequently. I couldn't handle moving that often, but there are folks who do.
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by zbrozek 4y ago
We need supply side solutions. The market would totally take care of demand if property rights were strong enough to allow folks to build housing. We need to get a federal level right to build housing on your land. We also need to overturn
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by zbrozek 4y ago
I used about 8 KWh/day when I lived alone in a 1550 sqft townhouse with gas heat and cooking. That ran my IT equipment, refrigerator, and blower fans for heating and exhaust. No AC usage. Now I'm in single family home and my energ

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