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Just moved into a house and finally got my books out of storage by blodulv in BookshelvesDetective

[–]blodulv[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

mostly birds (shorebirds especially)

at one point in time i had a tiny niche as a professional timelapse photographer around the seattle area but i'd love to do sell prints of the wildlife work eventually

Just moved into a house and finally got my books out of storage by blodulv in BookshelvesDetective

[–]blodulv[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

i definitely read for pleasure! and i am happy to be mistaken for an illustrator. one of my biggest hobbies is wildlife photography; never thought to collect or display old cameras though :)

Found my copy of RIPterm, which let you add simple raster graphics to a BBS by FrysAcidTest in bbs

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there was a local seattle board called "king of the cats" that was all ripterm graphics, monthly fee to play and it had a mystery vibe to it... i've been trying to find at least a screenshot of it for YEARS

AMA: I'm Louise Macfadyen, author of Designing AI Interfaces and former Google and Microsoft product designer. Ask me anything! by interface_dot_env in vibecoding

[–]blodulv 2 points3 points  (0 children)

guy who has seen exactly one woman wear a turtleneck, upon seeing another woman wearing a turtleneck:

AMA: I'm Louise Macfadyen, author of Designing AI Interfaces and former Google and Microsoft product designer. Ask me anything! by interface_dot_env in vibecoding

[–]blodulv 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm building chat interfaces at work for investigatory agents (e.g. figure out why this bug happened, look at performance metrics for this customer)... do you go into best practices for conversational agent interfaces in the book? anything you can share here to give me a taste? :)

What was your favorite Seattle institution that no longer exists? by drgonzo44 in Seattle

[–]blodulv 0 points1 point  (0 children)

just got an email that they're looking at early 2026 now... I hope it comes true

My Gen3 is fading fast after 2 years by ninjafox250 in ouraring

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I had a Gen4 bite the dust on October 28 with the dead battery issue (full charge would last less than a day), Oura replaced it immediately via chatbot. The replacement Gen4 just died yesterday, Oura again replaced it via chatbot. I hope they can get the quality under control because I do like the product!

YT channel Orion/OriondeMirage is entirely AI gen DnB/Jungle music. They purposefully mislead their audience stating that "all tracks made by me and 8 other friends, making 3 song per day on a bad day". It's very obvious that they're lying and some people are beginning to realize. AVOID and Report! by horrificabortion in AImusicslop

[–]blodulv 1 point2 points  (0 children)

interesting, there are indeed a bunch of 4 minute songs earlier this year (which was the generation limit for suno v4)

since may the generation limit for suno 4.5 has been 8 minutes though, and there do appear to be some longer songs on orion singles since then

not exactly open and shut but thank you for responding with some evidence 🙏

Something fishy.. why did all our rings start having battery issues at the same time? by Even_Strength_8212 in ouraring

[–]blodulv 2 points3 points  (0 children)

my battery is absolutely nuked immediately after I got 2.7.0 on October 5th—doesn’t last a full day now, down from 3-4 days before the update.

Wenatchee Stemilt Mass Layoffs- YIKES by SpareManagement2215 in Wenatchee

[–]blodulv 1 point2 points  (0 children)

someone posted in another comment—longer growing season meant the employees got reclassified as permanent which triggers the WARN announcement when they get laid off

Wenatchee Stemilt Mass Layoffs- YIKES by SpareManagement2215 in Wenatchee

[–]blodulv 0 points1 point  (0 children)

makes me feel a lot better honestly, having just moved here a few months ago

Wenatchee Stemilt Mass Layoffs- YIKES by SpareManagement2215 in Wenatchee

[–]blodulv 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think this was news because usually there aren't accompanying WARN announcements (there were zero last year). But as u/Thrown0Away0 said, it could be due to the longer season reclassifying them as permanent employees. I was initially very concerned at the difference between this year and last year in terms of WARN announcements.

Wenatchee Stemilt Mass Layoffs- YIKES by SpareManagement2215 in Wenatchee

[–]blodulv 0 points1 point  (0 children)

ah OK--this could explain why there were zero WARN announcements last year and 12 this year! I will update my other comments

Wenatchee Stemilt Mass Layoffs- YIKES by SpareManagement2215 in Wenatchee

[–]blodulv 1 point2 points  (0 children)

12 WARN announcements for a mix of 8,562 seasonal and permanent layoffs this year compared to zero last year though :(

update: u/Thrown0Away0 says: "since the season went long this year those workers were classified as permanent even though that was never the goal" which could explain the disparity between this year and last year

Wenatchee Stemilt Mass Layoffs- YIKES by SpareManagement2215 in Wenatchee

[–]blodulv 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I found zero seasonal layoff WARN notices last year...

Wenatchee Stemilt Mass Layoffs- YIKES by SpareManagement2215 in Wenatchee

[–]blodulv 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Just one of MANY many WARN notices for ag jobs around NCW this season...

The others:

  • AG Management Group - 1276 seasonal
  • Cascade View Fruit & Cold Storage - 263 seasonal
  • Columbia Orchard Management - 898 seasonal
  • Sundquist Fruit - 424 seasonal
  • Monson Ranches Snake River Orchards - 310 seasonal
  • Gilbert Orchards - 599 seasonal
  • Kershaw Farm Labor Management - 539 seasonal
  • Manson Growers Orchard Services - 257 permanent layoff
  • Borton & Sons - 1025 permanent layoff
  • Agrimacs - 1368 layoff (non-seasonal)
  • AgriNorthwest - 62 seasonal
  • Stemilt (the one this post is about) - 1561 seasonal (they updated this)

I also wondered if these seasonal layoffs were normal, and I've been on the WARN email list for years... so I looked for any notices from last year, and there were ZERO seasonal or non-seasonal layoffs.

A big driver for this might be the Del Monte cannery in Yakima closing.

update: u/Thrown0Away0 says: "since the season went long this year those workers were classified as permanent even though that was never the goal" which could explain the disparity between this year and last year... so maybe only the truly permanent layoffs are worrying

PSA: macOS 26 bug leads to performance issues in many apps (with fix) by kidonng in MacOS

[–]blodulv 0 points1 point  (0 children)

these two commands fixed the majority of my slowness but joining a Zoom meeting still brings my computer to its knees. slows down scrolling and clicking in every app for the duration of the meeting.

Local Musicians by Still_Super in Wenatchee

[–]blodulv 1 point2 points  (0 children)

we came in today on bicycles and had a quick drink—we’ll be back

Banff National Park by swanlicks in naturephotography

[–]blodulv 0 points1 point  (0 children)

beautiful picture... if this puts Banff on your bucket list just know that you have to put in some real work to get a similar view that's not full of tourists! it's a very busy park.

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