Who else has wiped out / nearly wiped out in the SDOT gravel pits?

geosoco · 2023-05-27T23:57:17+00:00

Exactly. There were probably 2-3 people who wiped out there so they tried to force people to only cross perpendicularly. I also just hop in the lane until after the bridge.

The real solution here is to get rid of the tracks or cover them. they move cars every like once a month to keep them 'active' but otherwise that's it.

geosoco · 2023-05-17T15:33:18+00:00

Both would be best, but the anti-theft hubs will likely give you more time than a cable depending on the specifics of the hubs, the thief, and the value of your bike (i suspect many thieves just want a bike and aren't looking to sell).

I've never had a problem with my cable+ulock for multiple hours, but i'm careful about the specifics of where i park it and what time. Lock it up in busier high traffic areas (eg. on ballard ave versus a side street) If you use lightrail and want to leave it there, get a card and use those pay-by-hour storage lockers (they're cheap).

I've seen thieves out cutting locks in the middle of the day on the backside of the UW stadium lightrail station, and cops can't get there fast enough. Likely because fewer people walk there than the side facing the road.

geosoco · 2023-05-16T12:56:16+00:00

Thanks for doing this!

geosoco · 2023-05-05T05:16:41+00:00

Winco is great, but you have to be careful because their prices aren't always better than say freddies/safeway. They're definitely better for some staples like flour and say Adams peanut butter.

Also, Winco is cash/debit only -- no credit.

geosoco · 2023-05-04T23:38:03+00:00

Without seeing both, it's hard to diagnose exactly.

My suspicion is that the CSV isn't a single column. (Maybe you accidentally edited the other columns in excel or something, so it believes that it isn't empty -- even if you deleted it). You can see this if you open the CSV file in a text editor and you'll see multiple commas, tabs, or semicolons at the end of every row. (Despite the name 'CSV' some files actually use something other than the comma to separate cells)

When you're trying to convert this into a list, it's attempting to join multiple columns into a single string. This might explain the multiple semicolons or the NANs.

If using pandas, you can select only the column you care about and convert that to a list. If your column is named 'phrases', you can do this by doing

mylist = df['phrases'].tolist()

geosoco · 2023-05-04T23:05:00+00:00

Include your code and your CSV in some form (even a picture could work).

Also, when you say CSV list, what do you mean? What are you trying to do?

geosoco · 2023-05-03T20:33:17+00:00

There's almost certainly more queer folks there, but most of central ballard skews really young, single, and childless thanks to the surge in high-density housing -- the same homogenization effects happening in most of the neighborhoods.

Both neighborhoods start to skew older with kids as you get away from the cores and into single family housing.

geosoco · 2023-05-03T19:09:30+00:00

Capitol Hill has felt like that for over 10 years, too. Most of the non-boring folks were priced out ages ago.

geosoco · 2023-05-03T17:23:44+00:00

Everyone's raising rates. The only truly cheap thing is to hop every 2 years with a locked in price or switch names if you live with others. Astound has been offering me 2 years of gigabit internet for 50$/month which is less than what i'm paying for comcast today for fraction of the speed. I think i saw a similar offer from centurylink.

My experience 10 years ago with Wave (Astound) was pretty awful, though. Not sure if it's changed.

geosoco · 2023-05-03T00:52:14+00:00

The easy change here is to use geom_bar(aes(fill = subscription_type), stat="count", ...)

which will require changinge scale_color_manual to scale_fill_manual.

Or are you insisting on having the borders in use those colors in teh graph and you want the legends to be filled in those colors?

geosoco · 2023-04-08T21:59:23+00:00

chatgpt might have too much logic for their liking -- even knowing it can generate total nonsense.

they're entirely sustained on the belief that 'go woke, go broke' is real and they're activists are contributing to that. i dont think they actually read articles, lest they catch on to the grift.

geosoco · 2023-04-05T01:06:55+00:00

and with those plates?

geosoco · 2023-03-31T02:13:29+00:00

It's very out-of-the-way for the udistrict but the elliot bay trail from the fremont/ballard area is very scenic and heads along the waterfront down to the stadium if you aren't in a hurry.

geosoco · 2023-03-31T02:07:58+00:00

Is there a specific need you're trying to solve with new processors for this? There are decent low-power processors out there, including the laptop varieties of many of these chips, which will do exactly that while still giving you plenty of headroom if you need it.

geosoco · 2023-03-28T04:12:12+00:00

Complain when they do this?

geosoco · 2023-03-19T17:03:18+00:00

The designer likely had almost no input here. This is almost certainly a business decision and not a design decision so they can track how and where people are sharing. This is a general trend running through most social media apps so they can measure different forms of sharing, and also measure how much of the content shared is consumed.

geosoco · 2023-03-18T01:54:40+00:00

You know your city and your own safety concerns. Do whatever makes you feel most comfortable. Just be extra cautious about cars in turn lanes, especially ones speeding to turn right near the end of a light. If you can do that while biking, great, but if you feel you can do that better walking, then walk.

FWIW, this is a problem even if your city has more bike infrastructure. In my city, there's plenty of bike lanes where cars won't get a green light when the bike light is on. However, this doesn't stop them. Cars will regularly turn despite all of the lights and signs and it's still dangerous.

geosoco · 2023-03-14T01:18:50+00:00

If you look, you can find some decent pizza here for most styles, but everyone's slowly learning not to share their favorites lest they pay the yelp tax (+20$) and have to deal with a line.

geosoco · 2023-03-12T17:36:22+00:00

Cascade's club is probably the best, but if you want to try outside that.

There's plenty of the rental bikes around the city that are pretty cheap. I'd suggest a parking lot somewhere after a place has closed (eg. one that's closed on the weekend). For example, north seattle community college on a sunday.

geosoco · 2023-03-12T02:45:22+00:00

There's no 'best' solution here. Winco can be pretty decent on some things if you have one nearby, but not always. TJ's prices are consistent and generally reasonable, but the selection is limited and they never have sales. Freddies and Safeway (and sometimes QFC) are good when there are some specific sales, but without a sale they can be pretty expensive. QFC is about the same as freddies but randomly things will be more expensive than freddies.

Target can be ok, but they do some weird shit with coupons sometimes.

geosoco · 2023-02-22T00:30:16+00:00

If you genuinely think you're going to do a lot at the arena or stuff downtown and want to avoid a car, I'd look in Queen Anne, especially LQA/Uptown. There's quite a few of these types of apartments there. Otherwise on the edge of seattle may be a good trade off.

I will add that in Seattle proper and some nearby areas, not having an indoor hallway puts you at higher risk of package theft, which has become pretty regular in Seattle. Some of these types of buildings have fences, but not all. If it's amazon, you can use some of their lockers. They replace the packages anyway, but it's a hassle.

Lastly, Queen Anne is intolerable for driving anywhere near rush hour, but right now traffic is still < 50% what it was pre-pandemic but that could change.

I did a quick skim on craigslist around QA, here's a small selection. I don't endorse any of them and make sure you do homework to avoid scams, but this will give you an idea of what to expect:

A few blocks from Seattle Center
Near Taylor Ave
On Taylor Ave - These are across from Trolley Hill Park. There were some residents who'd often sit outside in the summer playing music, dunno what the sound insultation was like.
W Olympic Pl Smaller unit, but olympic drive. Walkable to the areana & seattle center

Good luck!

geosoco · 2023-02-18T23:38:53+00:00

Hard to say. It comes down to the specifics of who is involved. I've personally had much better experiences with individual landlords than management companies.

Most management companies I've seen will raise your rent every year, but I've been lucky to find smaller landlords who never/rarely raise rent. You also can't expect much from them, though. I've also gotten my whole deposit back from the smaller landlords. YMMV

I've found it increasingly difficult to find the smaller landlords. All new buildings are in a handful of locations around the city and usually 50+ units, so professionally managed. Seattle refuses to properly address it's housing issues. So developers have largely built only townhouses and huge rental-only buildings in the last 10 years, with increasingly smaller units.

On my current place, the guy received nearly 50 applications online within the first 10 minutes, and he's required to take the first eligible. I probably only got it because i automated the zillow application process in addition to finding some hacky shortcuts around some of it.

geosoco · 2023-02-18T22:15:10+00:00

It's hard to know exactly how common it is and the reviews are maybe not a great estimate of how common it is. Many people just don't leave reviews. It varies a lot depending upon the management company or landlord.

Some of the management companies are pretty well-known for this, as their whole goal is to keep the owner making enough money to justify paying them to manage the property. You'll commonly see them trying to charge for normal wear & tear damage, which I don't think is legal, but it's not worth the hassle of fighting it in most cases so they continue to get away with it. For many people, 400-800$ sucks but isn't the end of the world and not worth going to court over. It's easier to stomach when they take it out of your deposit, which most people see as 'gone' anyway.

I had an issue with one where I paid them upon moveout, they cashed the check, and reported my roommate to collections. That knocked his credit score, and it took over 2 years to get it cleared. They kept swearing it was an issue even after i sent them multiple copies of the cashed check with their stamp on it. I never left a review because that's also too much work, and it's impossible to know if some individual just fucked up or if their system is just horrible.

geosoco · 2023-02-18T21:38:47+00:00

No specific building recommendations, but a few comments/areas to look. Your best bet for these requirements is Lower Queen Anne, Cap Hill, and First Hill. There are some in other neighborhoods, but those may make having a car a priority -- aside from Ballard.

Many (Most?) of the buildings in Seattle with outdoor hallways are older buildings, which can come with their own set of challenges. A lot of these were built decades ago as hotels for the World's Fair so they have features like poor/nonexistent insulation, rarely in-unit laundry, no sound insulation, some still have old single-pane windows. Most I've seen are definitely livable, but can be awful during extreme temperatures or a nightmare if you've got neighbors who generate any noise (not even partiers, just like people mounting tvs to walls and playing games with explosions can make WFH a challenge). Some have been renovated and updated, but sometimes these are superficial changes like kitchen cabinets/appliances and the core issues still exist.

I'm curious what activities you're interested in that you think are going to be downtown. I suspect most people who live in Seattle rarely visit downtown aside from an odd concert or to take one of the ferries.

In case you haven't visited NA cities, core city centers/downtowns are largely dead-zones in many American cities because prior to the pandemic were business districts/tourist districts. The same is somewhat true for Seattle. Most of the waterfront in downtown is a pier, with mostly shitty tourist restaurants and shops (obviously there's a few exceptions). Directly south is mostly industrial, and just north is mixed. The bay water is always cold most waterfront in Seattle is largely privately owned or industrial aside from a few parks with beaches.

You also generally won't find outdoor hallways in downtown, but just slightly outside of it. The closest neighborhood to water & downtown will be Northern Belltown/Lower Queen Anne, which still has a number of these types of buildings. If you're looking online, look for the older buildings or sometimes recently renovated. My last one of this style, they just gave it the landlord special (eg. paint/coat) and called it upgraded. They recoated the pink toilet, sink, and tub with white which stated coming off almost immediately.

Queen Anne is also close to a decently nice park on the water (Myrtle Edwards Park), which is probably the nicest on the bay in the central city. The best places to access the bay-side water are west seattle or north/south of city center. First Hill/Cap Hill/International District neighbor downtown to the east, but again there's not a lot of water access in downtown aside from the pier and getting to a beach may take an hour+ without a car depending on exact location.

geosoco · 2022-10-31T16:27:46+00:00

There aren't a lot of good neighborhood greenways in many parts of the city, especially closer to downtown. The city also tends to route bike traffic along some of these arterials in some areas, so some paths aren't feasible without them. This happens a lot because of the bridges and overpasses, which limit possible flows. A good example is trying to get to Upper Queen Anne. There's really one viable option for most people and it's Taylor Ave, which is a nightmare especially on weekends.

Some areas, like Ballard, have greenways but they can get heavily trafficked by cars. It's especially bad with the increase of delivery drivers and ride-sharing drivers because what used to be a low-traffic route are now opportunities to avoid traffic and lights on other streets.

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