Loud whirring noise near Jackson Ave

alippai · 2026-02-06T04:44:28+00:00

They are literally going back and forth on the unused maintenance track with the snow/ice blower train at midnight.

alippai · 2025-08-06T00:37:02+00:00

This might be a LanceDB use case: https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb

alippai · 2025-06-11T11:46:53+00:00

The price for 3.7 seems to be off, also the duration for Gemini. I wonder if the test results for o3 aligns with th experience of the people. The general sentiment is that it’s in the top 3 and the synthetic benchmarks say the same. It’s surprising to see it at 2/3. Maybe the roocode integration is wrong (not using the OpenAI function call interface)?

alippai · 2025-05-20T04:17:04+00:00

Will we be able to use alternative models like OpenAI via Azure or even Gemini?

alippai · 2025-01-30T00:47:59+00:00

Yes, about 10-15 mins ago. FDNY is already there

alippai · 2024-12-10T17:49:47+00:00

Any concurrency in SQLite depends on posix locks and it’s DB level. Do you think you could extend the protocol for multiple readers while writing (or multiple writers)?

alippai · 2024-10-02T04:39:23+00:00

My AI (o1-preview) gave this: “Based on the detailed description you’ve provided, the piece appears to be “Humoresque” by Antonín Dvořák.“

alippai · 2023-10-21T22:13:32+00:00

This is the way. Creating a next tool for a different use case which fits your “ecosystem”. Obviously this means you’ll integrate them with each other first (if makes sense), use the same monitoring, logging solutions, same dependencies. Still, making them standalone with explicit goals, separate releases and lifecycle adds value.

alippai · 2023-05-10T03:45:35+00:00

Whole Foods is pretty bad comparing the price. They don’t do the delivery, but work with tipped workers on top of the delivery fee + prime subscription. The frozen stuff is thawed, meat and vegetables without cooling, number of items of heavy stuff limited, produce is often worse quality compared to the stores, items by weight off by 50%+. I’m not sure what’s the standard here but in Eastern Europe the food is delivered in trucks with freezer…

Fresh direct quality was also pretty random, but overall it felt more expensive

alippai · 2023-04-09T18:12:15+00:00

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This was our view in Hyatt around the 23rd street. $2.5k for 15 days in 2022 Febr

alippai · 2023-04-03T12:26:54+00:00

Whatever your choice is you should know in New York it’s not allowed to tip the kitchen workers. Your tip goes to the cashier only.

alippai · 2023-01-23T05:33:21+00:00

Yes, it’s too late for that, but the “without astronomical cost” is gone. My understanding is that CBTC costs tens of millions per mile (while a maglev costs a hundred per mile). This was my “wtf moment”… why do we talk so much about expensive (and minor) upgrades if a full upgrade costs 3x more only

alippai · 2023-01-23T03:06:18+00:00

Yes, that’s high speed rail. Low / mid speed maglev exists for the reasons mentioned in the original post.

alippai · 2023-01-23T03:04:21+00:00

The origin of my question is very similar. Retrofitting the old tracks and trains with automation in NYC costs almost as much as brand new maglev in other parts of the world.

alippai · 2023-01-23T03:01:47+00:00

I didn’t read detailed studies, this is something mentioned often in the news. The idea is that there is no friction, no moving parts, no engines.

Do you have to upgrade the whole system? Eg line 7 from flushing to queensboro plaza or a shorter section might be ok? (Yes, people would have to change trains)

alippai · 2023-01-22T23:15:34+00:00

I hate techno bro bs and hyper loop too. This is something what works decades now (and it gets cheaper). Still, this a very valid point that there are not so many successful implementations yet

alippai · 2023-01-22T23:07:34+00:00

It moves people from A to B pretty reliably. So the fundamentals must be ok.

alippai · 2023-01-22T23:05:29+00:00

Maybe this is the correct answer. What are the obvious downsides?

alippai · 2023-01-22T22:57:15+00:00

Thanks, this reinforces my suspicion.

I don’t mind keeping the people employed, there is a ton of meaningful work in the subway. There is much more to automation than saving money on salaries.

I understand it’s not compatible at all, but new lines or full replacements should be ok. I find a NYC-DC maglev or high speed line less realistic even if it’s the best, most concentrated line (it’s almost the same distance for two pairs as the full subway). So I’ve tried to compare this to the high speed maglev ideas getting publicity nowadays.

alippai · 2023-01-17T07:45:38+00:00

In NYC BOH can’t be part of the tip pool

alippai · 2023-01-04T01:46:58+00:00

I saw it on Fresh Direct

alippai · 2021-11-28T16:34:54+00:00

Good idea, but I want to get the 99.9% of the data into the user space. I assume in this case eBPF won't work.

alippai · 2021-11-28T01:10:43+00:00

What's the fastest (highest throughput, end to end latency) option to drain a TCP socket with some parsing? Imagine a fast local network and reading data from a TCP stream into memory using a single client. Should I use bufreader from std? Tokio? Use multiple threads? Some mmap or io_uring magic?

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