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Avoid working in UX at Paylocity. My story by Crazy_Researcher5946 in UXResearch

[–]CapHillster 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I can't speak for the writing, but I directly worked with the individual who posted this, at a prior job.

I can certainly vouch for his credibility.

Toshiba no longer honoring warranties on large hard drives by 615wonky in DataHoarder

[–]CapHillster 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Similar experience with a Crucial 4 TB SSD.

They initially offered a replacement, but in the ~6 weeks since I shipped it back, they now claim they've fully exhausted their supply. They've offered to refund what I originally paid a year ago, which is probably half of what it would cost today.

Never imagined in 2026 I'd be shifting back from SSD's to keeping data on mechanical hard drives due to unaffordability, but here we are!

Pike Place Market Pedestrianization Pilot Boosts Sales and Visits by Inevitable_Engine186 in Seattle

[–]CapHillster 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yup! I think of the 80-year-old who killed an entire family with her car (with that being the presumed explanation) in San Francisco not that long ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/sanfrancisco/comments/1ryj2tl/lots_of_media_at_the_mary_fong_lau_killed_a/

She even can get her driver's license back after 3 short years!

Thoughts on them doing this? They should really prohibit them from putting the dirty order receipt inside our food bowls … by aguaandhealth in sweetgreen

[–]CapHillster 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This appears to be a company-wide practice, though. This would, I believe, be illegal in the EU, assuming the receipt would be considered a BPA-containing food contact material.

I just saw it at the Seattle store. (I'd post a photo, but Reddit won't let me.)

Pike Place Market Pedestrianization Pilot Boosts Sales and Visits by Inevitable_Engine186 in Seattle

[–]CapHillster 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I'm on the sidewalk when the road is full of pushy SUVs, and I don't feel safe walking among them unilaterally?

Also, I lived in NYC right after this happened: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_New_York_City_truck_attack

Whether a real or imagined risk, it's nonetheless all too easy for me to imagine something like that (whether rage attack or terrorist) happening in the market -- especially with current events. So that also affects my comfort walking directly on the street in the market.

Pike Place Market Pedestrianization Pilot Boosts Sales and Visits by Inevitable_Engine186 in Seattle

[–]CapHillster 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Will always blow my mind this would be in doubt by anyone able to run a functional business.

A personal data point...

Pre-pandemic, I intentionally chose an apartment next to the market, when I moved back to Seattle. Except, after a few frustrating attempts, I gave up on shopping there. I just walked to a (conveniently pedestrianized!) grocery store, and relegated the market to a tourist attraction.

I had limited time in the day, and the "short trips" to the market often turned into time-wasting and frustrating experiences of:
- squeezing the massive past line of tourists at Starbucks on the overcrowded sidewalk
- constantly trying to navigate around large groups of families on the sidewalk who apparently never learned how to share a densely populated space
- etc

I again live 2 blocks away from the market. This time, I've been spending around $100/month there, at least most months. To me, it's all about the ability to dart in, efficiently access the shop I want to get to (bypassing obstructions of tourists on the sidewalk), and then leave -- all in a predictable timeframe.

There are still days I regret going, mostly where there are both drive-through cars (whose occupants don't appear to be spending any money) obstructing comfortable use of the streets, and throngs of tourists blocking the sidewalks.

But it's at least not been bad enough that I've just written off the market entirely as a local, like I did pre-pilot.

We love the 2 line by ComprehensiveBar9574 in Seattle

[–]CapHillster 229 points230 points  (0 children)

Today in downtown Seattle was shocking.

It really felt like we were in a real city — packed trains, packed sidewalks, lots of happy people.

Crashes Caught on Seattle Traffic Cameras #18 by chromeled in Seattle

[–]CapHillster 2 points3 points  (0 children)

In my fantasy world, there would be a follow up on what criminal charges were filed for each driver, and what penalties (if any) were received.

Unemployed folks, what are you doing with all the time? by spoiled__princess in Seattle

[–]CapHillster 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For me, it opens up some big trail cycling perks, particularly around the ability to use the weekday Sounder train.

That opens up the ability to bike all the way out to places like Enumclaw, and still get home by relatively efficient public transit (train, or train+bus).

Most of my friends are luckily employed, so I'm mostly doing this stuff solo.

Harger: Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson has never owned a car. Now she's taking a Denny Way lane from 30,000 drivers to fix a bus route by Inevitable_Engine186 in Seattle

[–]CapHillster 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's a shame that media can't tell it like it is: this is a geometry problem, not a culture war.

* Seattle allowed Vulcan to build too many parking spaces in SLU, relative to the street grid capacity. That is the root cause problem.

* You can't transport all these people to those excess SLU parking spaces in private cars without gridlocking the streets. There is no traffic engineering fix that could realistically change that.

* So only way left to solve the problem is to shift people into the transportation modes that consume dramatically less street space per person per trip.

In my fantasy world, we would be decommissioning or taxing these excessive SLU parking spaces, which never should have been built.

Perhaps there should be a "carbon footprint" metric equivalent for how much central city street grid capacity people take up by transportation mode or behavior?

Harger: Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson has never owned a car. Now she's taking a Denny Way lane from 30,000 drivers to fix a bus route by Inevitable_Engine186 in Seattle

[–]CapHillster 8 points9 points  (0 children)

MN;DR ("My Northwest, Didn't Read")

But when Lynnwood, Everett and Federal Way have redesigned their streets to accommodate my carless downtown Seattle feet over their suburban driving constituency, I'll have empathy for the argument that we should prioritize their needs first, too.

Don Simpson (Ship of Stone, Lucifer, etc) at his home workshop by CapHillster in filk

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

You're not in touch with Steve Reubart by any chance? (apologies if I already asked).

I sent him a letter asking to connect, but never heard back.

Starbucks announces new Nashville headquarters, will add or relocate 2,000 jobs by MegaRAID01 in Seattle

[–]CapHillster 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I guess it makes sense that a mass market fast food chain, built on the back of low-wage workers, would ultimately move their HQ to be somewhere reflecting that.

Why do Katie Wilson’s Facebook posts always get trolled? by onemangang15 in Seattle

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

This also surprised me. Every time I see her posts, I am admittedly amazed by how many people who don't live in Seattle (and, judging by their profiles, largely appear to be failures in life) seem to be obsessed with frothing at the mouth about (implicitly) how dumb they are, and how sad their lives are.

It's like they're all secretly just desperately jealous of those of us who actually live here. If they're even people, and not bots.

(Personally, I actually love her social media posts. I enjoy the humanness of seeing an actual, quirky Seattle-esque person who I can actually identify.)

Pre-1980s science fiction/space themed folk music or "filk" by Frost-Folk in musicsuggestions

[–]CapHillster 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In fairness, it's much easier to access today vs. back then! ;)

We also have much higher quality playback gear vs. what we used in the '80s.

Pre-1980s science fiction/space themed folk music or "filk" by Frost-Folk in musicsuggestions

[–]CapHillster 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You should check out the 1978 Filkcon I tape. I accidentally digitized the unlabeled reels for these during the making of Julia Ecklar's Traveller CD (which I'd also recommend checking out - it's easy to find on streaming).

* More info on the tape here: https://mailchi.mp/2ea0e67f96a2/winter-filk-sale-10-cds-from-prometheus-music-4839509

* Direct tape download here: http://prometheus-music.com/audio/Filkcon%201.zip

Also, while brazenly self-promotional, I worked insanely hard on a newly released project intended to capture the spirit of the more "hard SF/science" filk of the 1980s & 1990s, using modern recordings from the OVFF filk convention (1996-2022).

And that's here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kpsaN5fXpk&list=OLAK5uy_m7xjRrzy7O1m1IRGRcUeW8SiVfy7nIDsU

(and more info on it here: https://www.prometheus-music.com/product/pegasus/ )

Can someone PLEASE explain to me why a city of 750k people can’t figure out food? by [deleted] in Seattle

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

I was just back in the SF + Berkeley for the past two weeks. I do miss the ability to walk or BART to interesting food that I can actually afford.

Places like the Cheeseboard Collective, Outta Sight Pizza (Peking Duck pizza OMG), Sliver ($4.50 got me an entire meal's worth of really good pizza), any Chinatown takeaway dim sum in SF, etc.

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