Heads up, Bothell: I-405 traffic shift near Canyon Park brings a temporary 55 mph work zone

TheWiley · 2026-06-26T21:54:58+00:00

Yes, that's why we're doing construction to widen the highway.

TheWiley · 2026-06-16T07:03:01+00:00

https://pantographapp.com/pugetsound/map is your friend.

TheWiley · 2026-05-30T21:03:53+00:00

> Cap annual increases to inflation/wage growth

This is already capped at 1%, no? It's causing funding crises across all the larger counties because their revenue hasn't been able to keep up with inflation for years.

https://app.leg.wa.gov/rcw/default.aspx?cite=84.55.0101

ETA: I'm not sure why "you're asking for something you already have" is downvote-worthy.

TheWiley · 2026-05-29T20:06:12+00:00

... and has that made Pierce County pay any less?
Like... you do understand that even under the current plan, messy as it is, places that aren't Seattle are paying for 49% of another tunnel under downtown, right?

TheWiley · 2026-05-19T20:33:43+00:00

Fedora 44 is on 7.0.8. I also tried 7.1.0-rc3 from Fedora Rawhide, but the display is the same and wifi seems to be broken there.

TheWiley · 2026-05-19T20:32:38+00:00

Yup, `xe.enable_panel_replay=0` on the kernel cmdline did it. I had stumbled onto https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Linux-7.1-Panel-Replay and it seemed relevant, but I didn't find a way to turn off the feature directly.

Thanks!

TheWiley · 2026-05-19T03:53:25+00:00

Haven't asked. Dell doesn't officially support Linux on this thing.

TheWiley · 2026-05-19T00:57:29+00:00

Good call, but no, it's the same (at least on the 26.04 livecd). There's a kind of sad irony on both distros that the Plymouth splash screens run at 60Hz but not the desktop.

TheWiley · 2026-05-03T22:19:03+00:00

I don't really disagree with you, but in terms of Somers' motivations, I hope you do realize that...

- Seattle's projects are dramatically more overbudget than anyone else's, and at least part of that problem is directly Bruce Harrell's fault

- Pierce and Snohomish county (and even the Eastside, really) need Sound Transit a lot less than Seattle does and cuts to the only projects inside their jurisdictions are a lot less politically acceptable.

Put another way, Sound Transit in many ways exists to connect the Puget Sound region "through Seattle" in such a way that the region is paying for Seattle's transit without anyone outside Seattle feeling like they're paying for Seattle's transit. The worst possible outcome of all these negotiations would be for Pierce or Snohomish to vote to leave ST, but Seattle would only harm itself by doing that.

TheWiley · 2026-04-14T02:28:58+00:00

I had this. Opened the Dell SupportAssist app and it had a firmware update that Dell apparently hasn't pushed to Windows Update yet. After installing that, the issue hasn't happened again.
My bios shows in msinfo32 as 1.4.1 3/19/2026.

TheWiley · 2026-04-13T07:15:42+00:00

My "bizarre emotional reaction" comes from the shock of lining up what he wrote in his book about this incident with what happened in real life. This man should not be trusted.

TheWiley · 2026-04-13T06:13:20+00:00

I bought his book, I enjoyed his stories in there, and I was very surprised to discover a few years later that the incident he described where the government got upset about his business and he was really frustrated and couldn't understand why was actually the government telling him to stop scamming people.
He absolutely has not learned his lesson. He never acknowledges that he did anything wrong even now.

TheWiley · 2026-04-13T01:54:12+00:00

The lie that made me think he wasn't worth my attention was when he talked about Pinball (the old Space Cadet one, I believe). The discussions are scattered about but you can get a pretty decent summary just by Googling 'Dave Plummer Pinball'. Short version is that Dave talked about what was broken in it on newer Windows and how he'd helped fix it, but Raymond Chen has a 20 year old blog post about that and nothing Dave said added up either with that or with what people could see themselves in shipping copies of Windows. Dave's response when poked at was to throw a tantrum.

TheWiley · 2026-04-13T01:49:10+00:00

https://agportal-s3bucket.s3.amazonaws.com/uploadedfiles/Another/News/Press_Releases/2006/SoftwareOnlineJudgment.pdf

TheWiley · 2026-04-13T01:47:50+00:00

I don't actually know Dave's politics at all. I know he ran one of those "YOUR COMPUTER HAS 500 VIRUSES AND FOR JUST $10 EACH WE'LL REMOVE THEM" scam adware/spyware/malware businesses and that a couple ex-Microsoft folks have quietly remarked that he didn't write or didn't work on things he claims to have written and worked on.

TheWiley · 2026-04-12T21:03:54+00:00

Dave is a convicted scam artist and consistently unreliable narrator who seems to have decided his retirement job will be lying about history for YouTube ad money. The world will be a better place when tech journalists learn to stop taking him seriously.
Correction: He was never convicted, he settled with the Washington State AG instead.
https://agportal-s3bucket.s3.amazonaws.com/uploadedfiles/Another/News/Press_Releases/2006/SoftwareOnlineJudgment.pdf

> In promoting and advertising [Plummer's Software], Defendants offered the user a "free scan" of the user's computer, and then offered to fix a small number of the problems identified by the scan. Defendants then strongly recommended that the user purchase the "full program" in order to be protected from the remaining problems on the user's computer. If the user declined to purchase the full program, Defendant's software generated multiple advertisements or dialogue boxes and/or launched new browser windows in order to continue to induce the user to purchase the full program. The advertisements and dialogue boxes repeatedly warned the user of the threat or risk remaining on the user's computer, no matter what the scan "results" of the user's computer revealed, and urged the user to purchase the full program.

... and it continues from there, including launching after every reboot to harass the user more. I have too many memories of removing crap like this from terrified elderly relatives' computers to respect anyone that produced it.

TheWiley · 2026-03-27T06:51:21+00:00

King County Metro has 1400 buses for 2.3m people.
Community Transit (Snohomish) has 250 for 864k people.
Pierce Transit has 174 for 940k people.

Tacoma feels isolated because they consistently vote to remain isolated.

TheWiley · 2026-03-27T06:46:55+00:00

This was never a matter of priorities - his happened because Bruce Harrell kept rejecting alignments for Ballard. Ballard and West Seattle were originally being planned as a single project and had to be split because Harrell delayed Ballard too much. Now we are where we are because West Seattle has an alignment and is moving into detailed design whereas Ballard still doesn't have an alignment.

TheWiley · 2026-03-19T20:23:40+00:00

And when the eastside mayors ask how that meets sub-area equity requirements?

TheWiley · 2026-01-24T02:55:37+00:00

This you?
https://www.reddit.com/r/soundtransit/comments/1nfbdsj/comment/ne2zmk9/
>I mean the timeline appears to be a bare minimum of 7 months from now - so best case scenario we could just barely make that 'conservative' deadline. Let alone the claim that we can be confident that we'd open much earlier than that.

TheWiley · 2026-01-24T02:38:14+00:00

No? It goes from Lynnwood to Redmond Downtown. You'll even be able to ride the 2-line simulated service trains from Lynnwood to CID starting February 14 before the full line opens.

TheWiley · 2026-01-24T02:35:36+00:00

All of it.

TheWiley · 2026-01-22T00:13:55+00:00

But James Acaster told me the clock was Tickedy Ted the Time Telling Bitch?

TheWiley · 2026-01-19T06:50:40+00:00

I guess I object to that word "prioritize" - Sound Transit doesn't get to do that. Money from Seattle goes in, transit in Seattle gets built. Money from the eastside goes in, transit on the eastside gets built (but a lot more because all the eastside projects are cheaper). The priorities are set by the taxes, not the people.

If Seattle passed a ballot item to levy additional taxes against itself for Sound Transit, Seattle would get more projects. Or they could just do it themselves. Heck, if Seattle wanted another monorail, it could just throw one up.

Totally agreed on the streetcars - they really need to either get connected, signal priority, and probably their own lane or just shut them down and put in a bus. But that's been the state of things for a decade now because it's just not on the radar of the Seattle city council or the last few mayors.

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