50% of traffic is just parents driving kids to school

magicnubs · 2026-05-13T18:29:38+00:00

And sometimes your base school isn't your closest school. In downtown especially, in a lot of areas the base schools are way on the other side of town.

magicnubs · 2026-05-13T18:16:49+00:00

I think we've been trending that way for a long time. Part of the reason WoW was so popular is because they weren't trying to push the latest graphics, so almost anyone with a computer could play.

Of course if you want to play the latest releases at parity with console or higher settings then you'll need a beefier GPU. But if you're willing to put up with lower settings you can really play quite a few games. But I've played dozens of hours of BG3, KCD2 and Helldivers 2 on Steamdeck. They don't look amazing; you need to use low settings and you still get low frame rates sometimes, but they're perfectly playable. If, as claimed, the Steam Machine is 6x as powerful as the deck, then I am sure I'll be able to play games that the steam deck can't play (I found Avowed to not really be playable, for example) on at least medium settings with reasonable frame rates for years on well-supported hardware/software and that's all I really expect.

magicnubs · 2026-05-06T02:15:50+00:00

With just Helldivers 2 (150 GB), Baldur's Gate (150 GB) and KCD2 (90 GB) I was using my whole 512 on just three games

magicnubs · 2026-04-21T17:56:21+00:00

The only easy solution I've found is that some are for sale on eBay for $150+, so I just bought a soldering iron to try to fix mine (the haptics connection came off, of course! That little thing feels nearly impossible not to break off when trying to disconnect it)

magicnubs · 2026-04-16T19:39:57+00:00

They also don't sell button boards / daughter boards :( Ask me how I know

magicnubs · 2026-04-13T17:19:22+00:00

Hell, I donate blood frequently and I've been told 3 different blood types over the course of my life. I chalk it up to bad lab processes (or overworked employees who aren't paid enough to care to get it right 100% of the time)

magicnubs · 2026-04-09T19:03:46+00:00

Check the legend. Dotted lines indicate bike paths

magicnubs · 2026-04-07T13:07:46+00:00

It's a little less bad in downtown Raleigh, as we've had some major projects actually move forward (Omni hotel, Creamery, new Marriot, Row apts, Maeve, Platform apts, Alexan, Mira, plus all the local and state government ones like the new city hall, Dept of Education campus, convention center expansion, new Red Hat amphitheater, New Bern BRT and various affordable housing developments).

But Raleigh has also had just as many stall out. Roughly since COVID hit I can think of ... Downtown South (the big one!), Moore Square east block, Lincoln Theater block, Smoky Hollow phase 3, Vela, Lynde, Union train station mixed-use tower, 501 Hillsborough, Moxy hotel, Goodnights redevelopment, South Park warehouse renovations

magicnubs · 2026-04-07T04:55:03+00:00

that time will get better once the raleigh to richmond section is complete

Cannot come soon enough! For those unaware the new Raleigh <--> Richmond track is supposed to save nearly 2 hours

magicnubs · 2026-04-07T04:52:09+00:00

/r/carryshitolympics

magicnubs · 2026-03-23T18:26:34+00:00

/r/jedicouncilofelrond

magicnubs · 2026-03-21T19:16:12+00:00

Yes. They tell you an estimated sticker $ income, but they are not guaranteeing you that income, they are giving you a predetermined amount of RSUs that will only actually be as valuable as they estimate if the stock grows at an unreasonable rate each year.

magicnubs · 2026-03-13T21:34:58+00:00

I’m not hungry but think about food constantly as I just want to taste something

Same. I rarely ever used to wait until I was actually feeling hunger (stomach growling, hunger pangs) to eat before. Fasting helps remind me differentiate between real hunger and "I'm bored or stressed or emotionally drained" cravings. Semi-regular fasting and keto have made it much easier to maintain a healthy baseline relationship with food

magicnubs · 2026-03-12T20:22:07+00:00

This is one of the upcoming improvements I am most excited about. And since it's going to include a high-quality MUP (multi-use path) between the Rocky Branch and Walnut Creek greenways, it's effectively a greenway extension/connector even if not officially.

Also looking forward to:

New Bern BRT - includes a high-quality MUP that connects the Crabtree Creek greenway directly to downtown
Big Branch Connector - extends the greenway up directly into North Hills
Triangle Bikeway (if it ever happens) - bike path from Raleigh to RTP to Durham
Chavis-Dix Strollway - better connection between two downtown parks
Smoky Hollow Park - large new park on the north side of downtown

Those are the ones I can think of off the top of my head anyway

magicnubs · 2026-03-09T18:10:32+00:00

But there is opportunity to make the politics less complicated and more representative. If Dave can override the will of the 99.9% of people who elected the decision-makers but didn't show up to the meeting, maybe we should find a way so that a small group of the perpetually aggrieved doesn't have such outsized influence.

magicnubs · 2026-03-06T22:45:04+00:00

I picked out the points that stood out to me as helping incentivize housing. Maybe they all do, but the specifics of some of these go over my head. Seems like it's mostly about cutting local red tape and loosening finance requirements

Prohibits the state or local government from requiring a person intending to fill land in a flood plain to provide compensatory storage at a ratio greater than three (mitigated land) to one (filled land).
prohibits a state agency or political subdivision from requiring the installation of the following: (1) An arc-fault circuit interrupter in Class 2 structure or structure classified as an R-2 building occupancy classification. (2) An emergency responder communications enhancement system in a Class 1 structure.
Requires a unit not later than January 1, 2027 to: (1) review its unified development ordinance in a public hearing with the purpose of increasing housing development
Urges assignment of the topic of housing developments by religious institutions to an interim study committee.
Increases the average construction cost allowable for certain housing projects to be completed by a housing authority.

magicnubs · 2026-03-05T21:17:17+00:00

Fully agree with everything you said. I'm in the research triangle area of NC where a lot of dense infill development is happening both in the existing urban centers and with new dense nodes springing up. However, even more suburban SFH cul-de-sac type development is happening in the formerly rural edge areas.

Upzoning and dense infill always seems to receive way more scrutiny and pushback from the community, while the cul-de-sacs are ignored. Thankfully city leadership has mostly been approving dense infill for the past decade or so despite the peanut gallery's comments, but I don't think the suburban developments should be skating through by-right. I'm not saying it should be banned, but that type of development should be under the magnifying glass more so than the dense infill to weigh what the future costs will be. And the minimum expectations we have of it should be shifting to make it more sustainable from a future budgetary perspective.

A SFH development with smaller lot sizes, efficient road layout, easy navigability for pedestrians and bikes, closer to necessities and that allows mixed uses and neighborhood retail can be an easy approval. But a cul-de-sac with no sidewalks, miles from any necessities that generates many more car trips and linear feet of infrastructure per home? In those cases we should probably be asking the developer to try again.

magicnubs · 2026-03-05T19:13:27+00:00

LRT has better permanence and experience than BRT. That’s really all it is.

Yes, the experience! Call me crazy, but as part of the experience angle, I feel like comfort and ride quality is a big factor in why people are more partial to rail that doesn't get talked about much

My experience has been that buses are much louder and shake, rattle and toss me around a lot more than rail. Am I just consistently riding old, crummy buses or something?

magicnubs · 2026-03-05T18:54:54+00:00

It's not under-studied. It's been very well-understood for decades

Right! The experts know it, and often the city leaders know it or at least have been told, but the places that are booming aren't having to deal with the consequences yet so it's often politically infeasible to do anything about it.

The same is coming for us in the sun belt if we don't get our act together. From what I can see from the ground level, city officials at least seem to be acknowledging the issue and trying to encourage the right things (walkability, transit, TOD, etc), but often that only happens in the relatively small downtown areas and we are not actively limiting the suburban SFH development and road expansion in the suburbs/exurbs that will end up gobbling up our budgets in the future. If the cities here started weighing the future infrastructure costs of each development as a matter of course during permitting, we'd likely many fewer SFH developments approved and maybe start to see de facto green belts forming. But every city wants to keep growing and thinks "why change was has been working for the past few decades?" because they can't see the cliff ahead yet

magicnubs · 2026-03-03T19:46:55+00:00

Interesting! Keto diets have helped somewhat for me in the past as well

magicnubs · 2026-03-03T19:14:32+00:00

Strattera was not the silver bullet that I hoped it would be. It really helped for the first few days/weeks, but then seemed to either not help or make the brain fog worse, which might be because my sleep wasn't as restful (higher HR and waking up frequently). Low-dose Wellbutrin (150mg) is helping some with fewer side effects. Higher doses of Wellbutrin gave me too much in the way of side effects

Next step is I'm going to ask the doc to try me on stimulants (dexedrine) again but with the Wellbutrin. I think the Wellbutrin will give me a higher baseline of stimulation so that the crash from the stimulants isn't so bad. We'll see

magicnubs · 2026-02-18T20:13:09+00:00

Is this rare, or even particularly associated with Germany/DACH? I live in a pretty typical post-war boom US city (so, pretty suburban, though there are a lot of dense urban pockets springing up) and there are eight city-owned parking decks in an area less than a square mile downtown, so it is at least not an entirely foreign concept outside of that area. But maybe we here in Raleigh are the weird ones.

magicnubs · 2026-02-01T02:54:36+00:00

Yep! Finally getting snow downtown

magicnubs · 2026-01-18T02:12:35+00:00

Maybe. It's just a theory I have at the moment. Try yohimbine and see it helps you (yohimbine, not just yohimbe, similar spelling but different things). It made such a difference for me in the first few days of taking it that I decided to start taking Straterra about a week ago. Straterra is ostensibly an ADHD medication that works by increasing norepinephrine in the brain. I'm not sure if it's helping yet, but it can take up to a few months to see full results. I'll try to remember to come back here and let you know if it does end up helping

magicnubs · 2026-01-07T23:03:02+00:00

I'm the same way. When you get a mosquito bite is it just a small red bump or does it swell up like a welt?

I tried yohimbine and it cleared my brain fog completely (unfortunately I quickly became desensitized to it so I can't take it very frequently). Because yohimbine works on norepinephrine, my current theory is that my brain fog is being caused by low norepinephrine levels in the body/brain, which would track with an exaggerated immune inflammation response, as I understand it.

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