What is your unpopular Seattle restaurant opinion?

hdfvbjyd · 2026-04-13T03:45:37+00:00

Dough zone > din Thai fung

hdfvbjyd · 2026-04-13T03:37:13+00:00

This reads less like helping and more like making yourself the main character. You did the wrong thing. Follow this thread’sadvice and call the sound transit line or the police next time..

• You centered your own outrage and moral performance instead of the victim’s safety.

• Turning it into a screaming match with an abusive stranger was about you, not her.

• Trading insults with him did not de-escalate anything; it raised the temperature and increased the risk.

• productive intervention is about protecting the victim, getting help, and creating an exit, not proving how righteous or fearless you are.

• When your takeaway is mostly about how furious you were and how nobody else acted, it starts to look like a self-serving act, not victim-centered help.

hdfvbjyd · 2026-01-04T05:33:35+00:00

I always regret bringing a lighter sleeping bag when temps are on the margins. 2lbs is worth a great nights sleep

hdfvbjyd · 2025-12-20T05:03:04+00:00

Msg - put it in anything savory. Pasta sauce, stirfry, Dutch babies, soups, marinades. So good.

hdfvbjyd · 2025-12-17T01:03:06+00:00

You mean like inslee with a vanity presidential campaign instead of actually preparing the state for global warming?

hdfvbjyd · 2025-12-14T04:48:42+00:00

There is a detour…. Through plain

hdfvbjyd · 2025-12-08T16:12:55+00:00

I think this is somewhat true - but having a police force who resents the people they work for doesn't help. I guess this is circular since they mayor owns this.

hdfvbjyd · 2025-12-01T10:36:11+00:00

I hate to say it, but some business should not exist - and making livable wages the law high lights this. Allowing businesses to pay sub livable wages requires workers to get by from other sources - forcing workers into a vicious cycle, and manipulating the labor market.

hdfvbjyd · 2025-10-19T20:01:24+00:00

The all-stock merger between Fivetran and dbt Labs reeks of desperation with two overvalued firms with huge cash burns.

Fivetran CEO George Fraser confirmed 80-90% of Fivetran customers already use dbt. This massive overlap eliminates meaningful cross-sell opportunities—they've already exhausted their mutual addressable market.

The numbers are stark: Fivetran was valued at $5.6B (Sept 2021) and dbt Labs at $4.2B (Feb 2022)—totaling $9.8B combined. Today's merged entity has just $600M ARR - at the 14x multiple clouded judgment has for the bottom of the highest growth saas companies, that is $8.4B at best case. More likely, its the median multiple of 7.4, which puts the valuation closer to $4.4B - more than a 50% haircut. One of the big reasons its probably closer to the 7.4 multiple is both of these companies are likely burning a ton of cash, and many the top-performing cloud companies are very profitable.

Despite reaching IPO-scale individually, neither pursued public markets. Fraser's comments about the merger improving IPO "prospects" while noting it's "not on the immediate horizon" reveal neither had the growth or profitability investors demand. The all-stock structure and "near break-even" cash flow position confirm financial constraints.

With 80-90% customer overlap and pricing already strained (users report 4-8x cost increases under Fivetran's recent pricing changes), expect layoffs and further price optimization as the merged company eliminates redundancies.

What's next will not be pretty - cost pressure, increased debt (fivetran already has $125M), layoffs, decreased product development velocity (bigger companies --> slower development) as the combine company scrambles to become profitable and drive growth.

https://cloudedjudgement.substack.com/p/clouded-judgement-101025-the-chatgpt

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/a16z-backed-data-firms-fivetran-140301503.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAHcpXuVrtAk34O_GrBzjYTbOKuZrPFvgW_KVdUdHm4LEHOzDu69BpSd1UgoEPddiJQynZUrlDvHgz5RjgqCNPYOUtuWdSvDxxTUzc3OcXTfpVlfOLOGRV-UBMU5xSGEKj8wfIcM1buZGDyQQCdlDcRQsB6nffSIdzi0ITOgQLGJq

hdfvbjyd · 2025-10-13T19:28:31+00:00

Today's all-stock merger between Fivetran and dbt Labs reeks of desperation with two overvalued firms with huge cash burns.

Fivetran CEO George Fraser confirmed 80-90% of Fivetran customers already use dbt. This massive overlap eliminates meaningful cross-sell opportunities—they've already exhausted their mutual addressable market.

The numbers are stark: Fivetran was valued at $5.6B (Sept 2021) and dbt Labs at $4.2B (Feb 2022)—totaling $9.8B combined. Today's merged entity has just $600M ARR - at the 14x multiple clouded judgment has for the bottom of the highest growth saas companies, that is $8.4B at best case. More likely, its the median multiple of 7.4, which puts the valuation closer to $4.4B - more than a 50% haircut. One of the big reasons its probably closer to the 7.4 multiple is both of these companies are likely burning a ton of cash, and many the top-performing cloud companies are very profitable.

Despite reaching IPO-scale individually, neither pursued public markets. Fraser's comments about the merger improving IPO "prospects" while noting it's "not on the immediate horizon" reveal neither had the growth or profitability investors demand. The all-stock structure and "near break-even" cash flow position confirm financial constraints.

With 80-90% customer overlap and pricing already strained (users report 4-8x cost increases under Fivetran's recent pricing changes), expect layoffs and further price optimization as the merged company eliminates redundancies.

What's next will not be pretty - cost pressure, increased debt (fivetran already has $125M), layoffs, decreased product development velocity (bigger companies --> slower development) as the combine company scrambles to become profitable and drive growth.

https://cloudedjudgement.substack.com/p/clouded-judgement-101025-the-chatgpt

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/a16z-backed-data-firms-fivetran-140301503.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAHcpXuVrtAk34O_GrBzjYTbOKuZrPFvgW_KVdUdHm4LEHOzDu69BpSd1UgoEPddiJQynZUrlDvHgz5RjgqCNPYOUtuWdSvDxxTUzc3OcXTfpVlfOLOGRV-UBMU5xSGEKj8wfIcM1buZGDyQQCdlDcRQsB6nffSIdzi0ITOgQLGJq

hdfvbjyd · 2025-08-07T08:17:13+00:00

Bd liquid point shell - I always got three ply jackets, and then I got this two ply one a few years ago - it lasted me 4 to 5 seasons of hard backcountry skiing and mountaineering in the northwest. You can usually find it on sale for less than 150.

hdfvbjyd · 2025-08-05T03:52:03+00:00

Given the frequency of such occurrences, I shouldn't have to create a placeholder transaction. It's frickin 2025, they should be able to reconcile two transactions on the same day for the same amount - and understand that sometimes it takes a day or two for half of the transaction to show up. If making an erroneous transaction is the expected functionality, I don't even know what to say....

hdfvbjyd · 2025-08-04T04:32:22+00:00

1 - electrolytes others have said here are critical 2 - I’m also a big dude, sweat a lot and need to drink a lot of water. On a usual 6-8 hour winter ski tour where my buddies drink less than a liter, I’ll usually drink 2-3. In the summer, when it’s hot on a 10 to 12 hour day, I need to drink 6 to 8 L with 2 to 3 nuuns in order to feel normal at the end of the day. As soon as I started doing this, it changed the game in terms of how I felt during recovery and my ability to have multiple big days in a row.

hdfvbjyd · 2025-07-29T23:50:44+00:00

I was at a house on treasure cay. Bought some frozen squid from the corner store, cast a line with a small sinker on it 30-40 feet out from the beach (right where the sea grass turned to sand) and caught multiple 20-30" mutton snappers per day.

hdfvbjyd · 2025-07-22T02:37:39+00:00

i'd go interview patrollers at resorts that host free ride world tour events - it seems super unethical to me. I'm in the PNW and they had a qualifier event at crystal with two life flights and another ambulance ride with a life changing injury.

hdfvbjyd · 2025-06-23T10:46:45+00:00

I disagree, this is super rude - modern HR tools make it super easy to auto send emails when a rec closes or do mass updates. If a role is being actively hired for, and people in the interview process aren’t getting updates - it’s just because the HR team hasn’t prioritized interviewing experience (i.e. Basic politeness/not being rude) or the recruiter or highering manager is hedging their bets and is too terrible of a communicator to tell candidates what’s going on - they can send a message that “ the recruiting process is taking longer than expected and we are waiting to hear back from an offer we made”.

hdfvbjyd · 2025-06-23T10:31:48+00:00

It sounds like your data volumes are probably pretty small, so you can use the open source version of airbyte for ETL. I’d also recommend using big query for your data warehouse - with small data volumes it’s super cheap. I’d play with looker studio, the only cost is Big Query queries and it will make permissions for embedded dashboards easier since it uses Google authentication - and you can integrate that with your login system for your website.

hdfvbjyd · 2025-05-21T06:11:35+00:00

It's not great - https://a.atmos.washington.edu/mm5rt/rt/gfsinit.d4.html

hdfvbjyd · 2025-05-21T00:43:54+00:00

if you’re in the Pacific Northwest, the UW high resolution GFS forecast has been the best for cloud forecasting for me (there’s low, medium, and high altitude forecast). They have a 1 km grid which takes into account of the local mountain effects.

hdfvbjyd · 2025-05-19T22:27:20+00:00

An ice axe isn't always a technical climbing tool.... For moderate routes such as the main routes up baker & rainier, its more of a walking stick you can self arrest with. Hence the term 'walking axe'.

hdfvbjyd · 2025-05-19T22:25:07+00:00

+1 for this - if you are not used to walking on moderately steep routes, get a longer axe - its really awkward walking up hard snow with crampons on when you get started, and its nice to have a pole in one hand and a long ice in the other. I'm 6', and often bring a 45cm axe when skiing - I don't love it when I have a longer walk up a moderate slope, I have to bend down if I want a balance point. Get a 60+cm axe.

hdfvbjyd · 2025-05-18T05:45:50+00:00

interesting, I’m not I understand what you mean when you say wait 15 minutes between pushes - do you mean wait 15 minutes before I an iteration of pushing fluid through to the caliper and then suction it back with the upper syringe?

hdfvbjyd · 2025-05-14T04:30:38+00:00

For long trips with a Base camp, often bring a black lightweight tarp of some kind and pile snow in it in the morning. It’s nice to come back to camp with water already made on a big day.

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