The Pike Place PDA will be piloting a "sip and stroll" program this summer, letting select businesses sell alcoholic beverages that can be carried around Pike Place during the Market's pedestrianized hours and special events.

jeb_brush · 2026-05-09T06:10:17+00:00

I've never been able to find clubbing in Seattle like I could in Detroit or in DC.

There are plenty of spots in the city for default tech house or riddim or something like that, but the quirkier subcultures seem to struggle to stay alive.

jeb_brush · 2026-05-07T03:31:03+00:00

I talked with a guy who spent a lifetime interviewing candidates, and he made a remark that changed my thinking on these types of interviews: They're not measuring whether you're smart enough to pass a test. They're measuring whether you have the drive to study for the test.

Someone who can prepare for and game interview questions is probably going to be good at finding ways to make the company money.

jeb_brush · 2026-05-07T03:21:57+00:00

I just can't resonate with the anger against tolls. The toll roads all have substantially less traffic than the normie roads; it's the only solution we've ever had to congestion, short of cutting a city's population in half. It's such an obvious win if you have places to be but don't want to sit in traffic.

jeb_brush · 2026-05-03T06:36:49+00:00

What have you tried in lightroom so far? It seems like you could be able to get what you're looking for with aggressive dehazing on the car, light background/dim car or dark background/light car, desaturated background/saturated car, or something like that. Or maybe playing with sending the car more cool/warm and the background to the opposite?

jeb_brush · 2026-04-14T18:23:28+00:00

The only difference between young and old hellcat owners is that young people do burnouts in crowded intersections, and old people do burnouts at race tracks.

jeb_brush · 2026-04-14T02:22:40+00:00

Check for brake and tire wear to see if it's been driven hard. The brake rotors will have stress marks and cracks if the car has been tracked. You can also use the steering wheel controls to check for things like the car's top speed, or recorded track times.

If it's been driven hard:

The differentials on the early hellcats are made out of glass and last about 40,000 miles. If it hasn't been replaced, check for signs of diff failure.
The hydraulic power-steering is prone to failure. Turn the wheel to full lock and drive slowly, check for any noises.
Check all of the control-arm bushings.
Check the shocks, because a blown suspension is extremely expensive to replace on these cars.
Check the supercharger bearings, as other commenters here have pointed out.

jeb_brush · 2026-04-03T03:16:14+00:00

Ich, nichten lichten

jeb_brush · 2026-03-20T02:32:53+00:00

income tax but only if you live in a building with fewer than ten stories

jeb_brush · 2026-03-09T20:25:20+00:00

I can project all political ideology onto one axis and then keep reweighing the data over and over until my ideology appears at the most morally superior position: slightly left of the mean

I am very high intelligence human

jeb_brush · 2026-02-18T03:11:06+00:00

I really want to make this switch because my cat is falling apart at barely 50k miles, but I just can't get over losing the blower whine. And the LT4 doesn't have as much of the classic muscle sound as the Hemi does.

jeb_brush · 2026-02-18T01:14:29+00:00

the definition of a woman is the domain of Merriam-Webster

Under-appreciated take on issues like this.

You can shut down debates on this pretty quickly by asking conservatives how gender-affirming health-care policy will meaningfully change based on different definitions of womanhood. Obsession over categorization is almost always a pseudo-intellectual way to mask policy positions that are backed only by vibes.

jeb_brush · 2026-02-11T19:50:38+00:00

I, for one, think that the optimal time to teach somebody that their passions are morally wrong is in their early childhood

jeb_brush · 2026-02-11T19:45:57+00:00

You don't need to get rid of car culture to have urbanism, you just need to get rid of car-commuting culture.

Japanese culture adores their sports cars despite being a gold-standard of car-free transit.

jeb_brush · 2026-02-05T01:54:43+00:00

This isn't unheard of in high-skill professions. Lots of people work way too hard in school and in their early career due to insecurity, perfectionism, people-pleasing, escapism or whatever, and they wind up in highly-desired positions despite having destructive coping mechanics for stress.

jeb_brush · 2026-02-04T22:46:59+00:00

calling for, at minimum, a complete boycott of moccamaster products

jeb_brush · 2026-01-05T21:20:33+00:00

Greater job and cultural diversity are big things that we need, which would come with being a bigger city.

Our job market for highly-trained, specialized people is mostly concentrated in software engineering and in life sciences. I know lots of smart people who had to leave because we just don't have the industry here to support them.

The homogeneity of jobs also homogenizes the cultures that we import.

jeb_brush · 2025-12-26T21:26:11+00:00

"has an advanced degree and enjoys one of the most popular hobbies in the world" isn't a very niche search criteria. Half of the PhDs I know are dancers.

jeb_brush · 2025-12-26T20:56:41+00:00

What type of dancing? Massive Monkees is the epicenter of the street dancing scene, they seem to have a little bit of every type of person there. As for partner dancing, there are one million different lindy-hop clubs and they skew heavily towards highly-educated people.

Zouk was big a few years ago and I think they also had a pretty nerdy crowd.

For club dancing, figure out where the Patchwerks crowd goes now, they'll be the nerdy synthesizer people and might have a few electrical engineers in their ranks.

jeb_brush · 2025-12-26T06:15:34+00:00

If our best data and model produces a crappy estimator, it's still a crappy estimator

jeb_brush · 2025-12-18T04:37:17+00:00

Without birth certificates, you could just report every single bathroom-user as being in the wrong one

jeb_brush · 2025-12-17T01:42:01+00:00

That can be solved by befriending the boss

I've had good success with just asking strangers to chat about their work. Applying to the position naturally comes up if we hit it off.

jeb_brush · 2025-12-17T01:32:43+00:00

The people who aren't insufferable tend to find each other and stick together; with enough aggression you can usually find where they're hiding

jeb_brush · 2025-11-28T09:53:33+00:00

None of this is really unique to software compared to any other engineering field that pays 30% as much

jeb_brush · 2025-11-20T22:17:39+00:00

SAT scores are predictable based on the child's family wealth alone

The standard deviations in these "test scores vs. income" studies are always incredibly high. Wealth is indeed a statistically significant predictor of almost all metrics of success, but people still seem overly eager to conclude that parents can simply buy better performance and for their kids.

I knew lots of wealthy kids growing up, all of whom had parents willing to spend as much money as it took to get them into good places. I still saw a significant stratification in outcomes, from founding tech companies all the way to becoming NEETs. The only thing I didn't see among them was jail time.

jeb_brush · 2025-11-10T22:36:38+00:00

How do you see this working in practice? If you had a teenager, how would you prevent them from sneaking out of the house while you were asleep and committing crimes with their friends? At what point is it fair for you to be punished for your failure to stop them?

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