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Hrmm. I really like the compact TQ motor and I wouldn't have thought it was cool if some Eurocrat had standardized the chonky Bosch frame interface.

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If these things had been standardized by statute ten years ago wouldn't we have missed out on a huge variety of innovation?

major holiday tomorrow

Jeff Baker @jwbee.bsky.social · 16h

Let's just celebrate the fact that these sciencers are out here predicting the weather 6 months in advance.

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With the same qualification about my reading of the record on its face, it also appears they have paid $7 million in application fees altogether, so far.

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Jeff Baker @jwbee.bsky.social · 16h

The way I read the record across their 4 different building permit files is that the demo permit was not ripe until they got this "phase 1" permit sorted, and they changed the details several times with many back and forth rounds. That unblocked the demo process.

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Jeff Baker @jwbee.bsky.social · 18h

Usually these things have several.

Jeff Baker @jwbee.bsky.social · 18h

You will need the serial cable within a week if you throw it away.

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Jeff Baker @jwbee.bsky.social · 18h

The ultra NIMBYs are giving to Aidan Hill's campaign.

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The point I was trying to make is the difference in perception between commodities and scarce goods.

I personally don't.

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The demand isn't that high. The builders can shop jurisdictions. So the cities/counties are offering things like equipment tax abatements to convert some worthless dirt into tax-productive land, often with the property taxes prepaid for decades in advance.

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But people are universally satisfied with market pricing when supply is plentiful. Nobody thinks tomatoes are sold at auction, but they are.

Jeff Baker @jwbee.bsky.social · 20h

Many have been wondering

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Jeff Baker @jwbee.bsky.social · 21h

Very nifty science recognized today. One of my early summer jobs involved assembling photo detectors for neutrino experiments and I still have warm feelings for this field of research.

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Jeff Baker @jwbee.bsky.social · 21h

Why can't the Amtrak app running on my phone ever remember my phone number

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Jeff Baker @jwbee.bsky.social · 22h

This parade of "literally anything except homebuilding" is really irritating.

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I think removing an entire category of capital from the market would probably have the effect of reducing production and raising rents.

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This seems somewhat ironic since I'm locked in a low-grade legal battle with my city, Berkeley, to acquire a report that you wrote and they refuse to share with the public.

Here is all the data: s3.amazonaws.com/baywheels-da...

s3.amazonaws.com

I make them. Data comes out in arrears, so trip data for HSB won't be available until November. The whole system including SF had 608k trips last month, +33% annual growth rate.

Agriculture isn't perfect just because its products are edible. Google offset 100% of the water needs of their Las Vegas facility by converting 1500 acres from flood irrigation to drip irrigation. That's right, flood irrigation in Las Vegas, and they didn't take it out of production, they fixed it.

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That's the way it looks to me.

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If I run into anyone who governs El Cerrito, ima tell 'em

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I imagined this to be why Hudson McDonald was against missing middle.

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Yeah it's really weird because I get nothing from any of Meta's products. It feels like the scale of these things is completely out of proportion to their utility. Which is the opposite of how I feel about Google; their products are useful and their buildings are normal.

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This is Avalon Hill-level attention to detail. At the start of every turn, if it is daylight, defenders must roll for Walk Reluctance.

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The number of parameters that Portland TriMet's trip planner is willing to optimize is pretty amazing.

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It sounds like the missing Decembrists album. With the great single, The Riveter's Dirge.

What's notable? The expansion stations at Clark Kerr and on Hearst at Gayley are now top-ten stations. It's clear that campus is still under-served.

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Berkeley Neighbors for Housing and Climate Action @bnhca.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Lyft Bike activity by station, September 2026. (Whoops, the map I posted a few minutes ago, and then deleted, was drawn from August data)

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Reposted by Jeff Baker

We are very proud to announce our endorsements for local Berkeley items! Vote - but also volunteer, talk to your neighbors, donate - make it happen!

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Every school facility fee nexus study in California says the exact same thing. They're not even wrong about the slope of student generation on the margin, but they are wrong about the Y intercept, the amount of housing production that produces no net students is surprisingly high.

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That's uh +61% year-over-year growth for Berkeley.

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Pretty clear what's driving this.

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Settle down, Lyft Bike! That's a lot of trips!

Chart of Lyft bike share trips in the East Bay—Berkeley, Oakland, and Emeryville—showing record-breaking September 2026 ridership over 55,000 trips.

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In that context, I agree. In a professional context, it is clear to me what my role has become. I am the very last person who knows how the computer works.

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Considering that my entire full-time job now consists of un-slopping the behaviors of large-scale slops, I feel like there isn't much mystery about it. Perhaps your clankers are working better than the public's?

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Waymo was operating under special rules last weekend in SF during Hardly Strictly Bluegrass. It had designated drop-off and pick-up nodes that seemed to have been developed in cooperation with either the SFMTA or the festival. Concentrating the job of driving onto organizations unlocks this stuff.

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Man that photo of Meta's El Paso data center just keeps on giving. What an eyesore.

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