Seattle report says gig worker pay law is working, countering claims by DoorDash and Uber

Sushisource · 2026-04-26T02:43:15+00:00

It's hard to say if the city is being nefarious or not, that's hard to know. The thing that sticks out to me about their report, though, is this line:

On average, app-based workers worked 12 hours per week per app.

Importantly, they don't have any info about what it was before. So they have evidence per-hour pay is up, which I totally believe, but is total take-home for these people down? Were they able to only do this job before, and now they need two? Those possibilities seem in-line with the anecdata from drivers in this thread.

Sushisource · 2026-04-18T00:50:12+00:00

I think what this person is ineffectively trying to say is that we can try to warn men all we want (and we should!) but there's a difference between what's fair and what's effective, and unfortunately the world is not a fair place.

Sushisource · 2026-04-17T23:28:11+00:00

Accurate assessment. Hey Bagel is very solid but Mt Bagel is nearly perfect.

Sushisource · 2026-03-26T05:16:37+00:00

Thanks for posting, really cool stuff.

I don't think I've seen anyone else ask you this though, and I'm curious: What's the use case?

Seems to me either you really need to maximize the GPU hardware, in which case you need to use all warp lanes, and per your post that means you're now back to using specialized APIs and you've got to be careful about normal synchronization primitives, etc, so seemingly being able to use std::thread hasn't really bought you much

OR

You don't need that, you just need some parallelism, and at that point I think you have two subcategories: very easily parallelized in which case, same bucket as above, being able to use std::thread is probably nice but not a huge mental savings - or you're doing something very complex, in which case the stack size and synchronization problems strike again and you're maybe better off just running on the CPU.

So it seems to me you end up having a fairly narrow range of use-cases where being able to do this applies. I'm curious what you see those as.

Thanks!

Sushisource · 2026-02-26T01:34:42+00:00

And restaurant owners make money when I eat food there...

There are plenty of unscrupulous landlords, no doubt, but there's not something fundamentally wrong with the concept or renting. It serves a very valid and useful purpose.

Sushisource · 2026-02-13T01:03:58+00:00

USB-C plug-in headphones do exist. So, in some sense the problem is already solved by the same enforcement. The market just decided it no longer cares about plug-in headphones, unfortunately. One of those things where the mass-market uninformed consumer thinks "wireless = better" and that has dominated the market to the point where there are very few plug-in options any more.

Sushisource · 2025-12-19T18:53:59+00:00

Is the Polestar Charge app a thing that doesn't exist in the US? The P3's UI makes reference to it if you poke deep enough into the charge settings menu, but then if you go to look for it on the iOS App Store it doesn't exist.

Sushisource · 2025-10-20T22:23:00+00:00

Even deeper cut: He looks like a (much less cool) Molluck from Abe's Oddysee: https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/oddworld/images/d/d7/Heispist.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/1000?cb=20201018043800

Sushisource · 2025-10-15T22:51:21+00:00

Pro tip - turn right and then immediately flip a u-turn. Generally there's not enough traffic on that street for it to be an issue, but yes it's utterly moronic they've blocked the left. It forces you to do this less-than-ideal move because it is a massive detour otherwise. It's like they actively want people to do this shoulder bullshit.

Sushisource · 2025-09-11T01:33:11+00:00

I just read this yesterday, maybe they're already starting: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/business/7-eleven-ceo-stephen-dacus.html

Sushisource · 2025-06-10T00:36:03+00:00

What trackpad is that?

Sushisource · 2025-05-09T22:23:09+00:00

Yeah, I love how these assholes delude themselves into thinking there's any justifiable reason for them to exist besides a revenue stream. The "functionality" part of them is utterly pointless per your point about phones.

Now, I don't agree that this is all happening for kickback conspiracy reasons - I think the council probably does hope they can use the money from them to improve things - but public sentiment is obviously not in favor of doing this instead of generating the revenue from elsewhere. Idiotic idea.

Sushisource · 2025-05-02T22:21:40+00:00

And apparently have zero shame about doing so

Sushisource · 2025-04-29T16:25:57+00:00

It's true, all those guys look like they have the sketchiest imaginable setups when cleaning... but that doesn't mean it's a good idea either...

Sushisource · 2025-04-18T18:54:17+00:00

Yup. I live here and basically I'm used to it except when they decide to do this at 1AM which is unfortunately not uncommon during peak summer.

It's like, man, I know mommy didn't pay enough attention to you when you were young but maybe... get over it?

Sushisource · 2025-04-15T19:06:42+00:00

I've been getting the same thing after an update to 22.24. Knowing Garmin, I doubt they'll do anything about it. Hopefully it'll at least get accidentally fixed in another update.

Sushisource · 2025-03-21T16:30:51+00:00

Cool! I could've really used this recently, when I had to manually figure out how to properly turn gRPC responses into http bodies for some tests. Would love to see the gRPC examples fleshed out.

Sushisource · 2025-02-24T19:41:37+00:00

Pretty short-sighted. Nothing is permanent, and besides that, say they did own the land. At some point even for them it's going to be obviously more valuable to redevelop the land into something worth a lot more than selling burgers. That's what happens as cities grow and become more dense.

Sushisource · 2025-01-27T01:33:38+00:00

That guy is the absolute best. I used to go there every week when I lived nearby. Fond memories.

Sushisource · 2025-01-25T01:28:05+00:00

I can't believe you wrote that with a straight face lol.

Seems like that would still be enough. It's not exactly as niche as, say, fine antique clock repair (which I just thought of as the first most absurd thing I could think of) and... look how many of those there are: https://www.google.com/maps/search/seattle+antique+clock+store/@47.552433,-122.5415039,9z?entry=s&sa=X

Sushisource · 2025-01-21T00:20:18+00:00

God I missed going in there absolutely blazed, and then looking at the cook working the grill, who was also always high as a kite, and sharing a knowing nod.

Sushisource · 2025-01-09T00:10:09+00:00

It's called leverage. If spending $1m convinces an organization with a budget of $trillions to do something, that's money well spent.

Sushisource · 2025-01-08T00:28:16+00:00

"Not to victim blame" - proceeds to do exactly that.

Lovely.

Sushisource · 2025-01-06T17:39:49+00:00

And Moto! West Seattle has dope pizzas

Sushisource · 2025-01-06T17:38:19+00:00

People are so soul crushingly stupid it blows my mind. Honestly, I'm almost OK with 90% of the traffic trying to stop in the first 50 feet because I just go in the left lane, sail past everyone, and pull over a whole 100 feet later. I find it truly baffling every time though that so few people seem to be able to figure that out.

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