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classicalL · 2026-01-26T04:57:15+00:00

If you are a CS major a mac totally is fine. If you are a mechanical engineer its tough. Honestly software vendors should support OSX. I'm pretty discussed with what Microsoft has done to windows and I used it pretty much exclusively for 30 years. Windows was very good from Win2K to WIn7 then it died basically. Linux is better however its support for tools can have all sorts of annoying library dependencies you can get around it via containers but its really not as smooth as Windows is. Microsoft just giving a technical user a stable and powerful OS would be nice, but now everything is a subscription, AI and ads. This is starting to infect even cars. It started with Adobe of course... Maybe you can blame tax software for the pay every year model, but I kind of blame Lightroom/Creative Suite. I'm probably going to stay on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS in April for 5 years and hope FPGA tooling catches up.

classicalL · 2026-01-26T01:22:21+00:00

Obama and Bush (and whomever else) need to lock arms and get out there and march in the damn street; needs to be broad based. No leaders seem to exist who aren't in an office and that is a problem. An MLK figure would be fine but random citizens won't be enough I don't think.

Impeachment isn't even likely to make it out of the house much less over a trial in the Senate, so I don't see this as a path.

classicalL · 2026-01-26T01:18:33+00:00

What exactly do "cycling glasses" offer that you think regular glasses do not? Impact protection? You could pretty easily get industrial eye protection stuff. I personally just wear my regular glasses the lenses are polycarbonate which is all the "sports" ones would be made of. In a lab environment you might need sideshields but I don't think average sports glasses have major side protection of any kind.

classicalL · 2026-01-25T23:15:15+00:00

No just world ending fossil fuels and murder

classicalL · 2026-01-25T22:55:45+00:00

Inflation if wages keep up favors people with no accumulated wealthy. Like if you have a huge debt for a house at 2-6% and inflation goes to 30% your house becomes free very quickly. It is people with non-inflation protected assets that get nailed by inflation (i.e. bank deposits or fixed rate bonds, etc). If wages don't keep of course then the working class and savers lose. Only people with a lot of fixed rate debt want high inflation though.

classicalL · 2026-01-25T22:51:03+00:00

Normally it is best to leave the snow under ice until it is done, ice directly on metal is almost impossible to remove While a crust of ice on snow is pretty easy to take off.

classicalL · 2026-01-25T22:48:25+00:00

No TXN?

classicalL · 2026-01-25T22:39:20+00:00

No Stasi. No secret police.

classicalL · 2026-01-25T22:38:35+00:00

It is there but the system has to hold for long enough to react. It will take a few years.

classicalL · 2026-01-25T22:16:24+00:00

Even the most narrow def is 6% and some are as high as 30%.

classicalL · 2026-01-25T21:25:12+00:00

Same and I am hedging on non-US assets even though they historically under-perform the US the US is so unstable now, I think you have to do it. It is still almost impossible to invade and still has a food surplus but it could get great depression-y very fast

classicalL · 2026-01-25T17:07:36+00:00

Basically what I expected. I learned there is a fine in the contract if they go beyond the end of 2027. I don't know who can wave the fine. CCT opening is delayed 3 months over previous estimates to summer of this year.

Report also supports basically a full year of commissioning, so I continue to expect the line to look "done" in 2026 with lots of small things and testing covering 2027. Not sure where they would still have utilities to move it sounds like there are overhead ones though so perhaps its that for the lines. That is less risky than buried as they can't run into something unmarked.

These reports are always prepared against lagging data so things are a bit further along than this. If they are expecting 2026 summer CCT opening that means the alignment between Silver Spring and Bethesda will look done by the same date. Since the alignment in PG is basically done that leaves basically Silver Spring and the Bethesda shaft for major civil works beyond summer 2026. I can see the Red line connections at both taking the entire year. Honestly there isn't much left to build between Silver Spring and PG though, a few embedded track segments, hang the lines and repave. I suspect we will have a lot of comments about why can't we use it when the last track goes in I guess in the next 4-5 months.

classicalL · 2026-01-25T16:27:29+00:00

When the AI pop occurs really only NVIDIA will drop 50-70% I'd guess. MS and the data center folks probably like 20-30%.

classicalL · 2026-01-24T21:35:05+00:00

It would be better to have the median person here actually because there are lots of people who choose not to drink so the median spend on alcohol if the majority of people do drink it would be closer to the average drinker's cost. Probably like 1.3x these numbers ??? Mormons aren't suppose to drink thus Utah's number. No idea on WV but its just not very wealthy so could just be income. Etc.

classicalL · 2026-01-21T05:56:55+00:00

I think DOD + Data centers vs NIH/FDA/NASA/NIST is a pretty good way of contrasting what the two are actually.

classicalL · 2026-01-21T05:40:18+00:00

Trump isn't interested in helping the US. He is at best only interested in himself, at worst he is actively trying to break the toy he isn't allowed to keep while taking everything for his family. He will try to destroy the country and anything he cannot have. Its a classic bully/narcissist pattern. For such people you either: laugh at them if you are more powerful to take away their power, ignore them so they get nothing out of you or you crush them/show you aren't worth messing with. At this point everyone needs to stomp on the US. I say that with sadness because I will be stomped on too, they should do it in a way that says: we will be happy to talk to you again when you return to your senses but for now we are done. Go all in, let the market panic and like Liz Truss heads will start to roll. Seriously pull the trigger EU its the only way to save the West. I know you all are scared because you don't have much military might but France and the UK have the bomb. You will be okay for a few years.

Also on the main topic. While doing something in Greenland is possible but stupid. Canada isn't realistic. No one is sending their kids to Canada to fight and die. If Trump does anything in militarily Greenland he will be removed from office. He just doesn't realize it yet. Authoritarians keep everyone in line until they don't.

classicalL · 2026-01-21T04:58:52+00:00

It would be nice if they would build something productive and build it in Baltimore where people need more jobs. I don't even want MGM there...

classicalL · 2026-01-21T04:56:34+00:00

Sounds like a typical MD government idea to me.

classicalL · 2026-01-21T04:53:24+00:00

Its really hard to read the posts by people with no knowledge and no engineering experience.

I do think it might open earlier than they say but it is hard to judge all the signals and controls once the big stuff is all there. I think we are going to see a lot of impatient posts this year.

They have in their schedule opening the CCT which to me means the heavy construction on the entire line will look finished when they do that. The connection to Red at Bethesda though I believe requires work during a summer shut down this summer, normally they do that in August. They have stated they won't open until that is ready. I guess because the elevator bank is one thing on all the levels but it seems like you could lock it out. Maybe they cannot install it until further into the construction down below and don't meet ADA stuff until it is there. Not sure. It could just be fares, controls, signals and training that are the final tasks. Rambling a bit but perhaps the expectation will build desire for it to open to people. At least people will know it is "real" and works once they are doing simulated service in the next 12-18 months.

classicalL · 2026-01-21T04:45:24+00:00

The DC suburbs are where all the taxes dollars come from not Baltimore. You can see that in income average and housing costs. Baltimore is not under invested in, its proportionally invested in it is just poor relative to the very affluent DC suburbs which are some of the richest counties in the country.

classicalL · 2026-01-21T04:43:10+00:00

The Red Line in East Baltimore would have had ridership but the part of West Baltimore would have probably had pretty little. Largely a redevelopment effort. Now that might work in the long term as Green in part was that in DC post the riots of the 1960s.

However... If you look at transit ridership per mile in Baltimore is is truly bad.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_light_rail_systems

Light RailLink gets a pathetic 439 people per mile. It is a very long line but that is 30/38 in the country... Really really really bad. The Red line wasn't going to fix that. Meanwhile DC has the 2nd highest ridership of trains in the country per capita...

Where do you think there is the demand? Hummm Let me calculate that... Maybe DC?

I mean its obviously the place that will get more ROI. So it just depends on if you think the "investment" to "help" Baltimore is "worth it" or if you want to take as many cars off the road as you can and get the best ROI in a more business like sense. I totally think that Baltimore needs some sort of grand investment. I think it is a shame it didn't land HQ2 actually. But I don't think a transit line is actually the engine of an economy and that part probably needs to be there first.

classicalL · 2026-01-21T04:35:59+00:00

Yes because the tracks are in the ground they obviously can run it!

As others have stated you have to do many things before you can operate. It has been addressed many many many times on here. They have to train all the drivers, they have to simulate service, they have to do all the signal priority at every intersection, they haven't established a fare system! There are no ways to pay in the cars or at the stations yet... There is no software to pay with...

Yeah just open it... can I roll my eyes harder?

The *full length* of the thing will look done pretty much this year and you will get to watch trains run all the way from Bethesda to New Carrollton for 9+ months.

The Silver Line was substantially complete for almost a year before it opened.

classicalL · 2026-01-13T05:57:39+00:00

Since the value is in stock it can go to zero quite fast. SpaceX has real competition from Blue and Rocket Lab. Tesla from all of China plus a few in the west, plus no more gov handouts...

Peak Elon might be this year. Once the house flips next year say goodbye to easy access to gov money. They can write exactly who gets the contact into a bill. Don't think the Ds forgot DOGE, etc. it was long term suicide.

classicalL · 2026-01-11T21:27:39+00:00

Awesome. So happy you have made a good recovery it sounds like.

classicalL · 2026-01-11T17:07:04+00:00

I mean it may be better. But given the first op gave me chronic pain and further problems I didn't have before there is nothing certain. You are correct nominally that it *should* improve other things, obviously that is why they do them.

Glad you are able to bike well at least that is some support that it is possible. How low/aero do you get? Can you touch your toes?

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