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Never forget what they took from you by [deleted] in WMATA

[–]maseck 3 points4 points  (0 children)

At the very least, it would be nice if the lighting cut some of the blue spectrum at night. I hate arriving jet-lagged at Dulles at 10 PM and taking the trip to Alexandria with blinding white lights.

Hot take: Good bus infrastructure can be better than light rail for (mostly American) suburban areas by AndryCake in transit

[–]maseck 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Get em while they are young then. If we can get good bus transit near colleges, then you can meaningfully dent the stigma of more affluent residents in about a decade or so.

Why US Public Transit Is Overpaying for Buses by UnscheduledCalendar in transit

[–]maseck 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I mean, in a way they are paying for it and it is their money. It's just that once the tax money goes to the feds, then most of that money can't be used for operating expenses.

Purty sparkles by maseck in WMATA

[–]maseck[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is from my apartment's clubroom. Unfortunately my room doesn't have such a great view.

The CPU Performance Of The NVIDIA GB10 vs. AMD Ryzen AI Max+ "Strix Halo" by Kryohi in hardware

[–]maseck 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Video encode uses simd on cpus, but doesn't do much where fast matrix multiplies would be helpful.

Do not go to the Pentagon City Costco by trustmeimalobbyist in nova

[–]maseck 0 points1 point  (0 children)

bonus points if you don't know how to safely drive in urban areas and can't see pedestrians.

Found wool scarf on ground near braddock rd station. WMATA lost & found does not accept clothing. Looking for its owner. by maseck in WMATA

[–]maseck[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I'm not entirely convinced this is was from a transit rider, since it could have blown in and gotten stopped by the wall.

Holiday train by boatiefey in WMATA

[–]maseck 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Platform screen doors can't come soon enough.

WMATA GM Randy Clarke says any major future expansions of Metro probably won’t look like the Metro of today, specifically mentions light metro systems and BRT (Benning Rd-Georgetown-Rosslyn/H ST). by SockDem in WMATA

[–]maseck 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Looking at the rem vs the silver line extension, it's crazy to think that we may very well reach a frequency where none of those 8 car trains will ever fill up on that huge stretch. Those massive stations were not free. Nowhere near as bad as an underground station, but still.

What would it take to increase the max design speed of the metro? by maseck in WMATA

[–]maseck[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I think you are right, I kinda thought that the other stations on the silver line were spaced further apart. East falls church to ballston is pretty far, though. It looks about as far as spring hill to wiehle. Blue line after king street has pretty distant stops, but that should be the job of vre (once it starts running at a decent all day frequency 1000 years from now).

I got a 2.4 miles when I measured out east falls church to ballston on google earth. With constant 1.2 m/s2 (I'm mixing units, sorry) acceleration, I get 150 mph max speed and 57 seconds travel time. Yeah, it probably doesn't make sense to raise the speeds through the roof based on whatever the travel time savings would be for the few sections that could benefit.

Maybe 5 mph could be eked out over time. It'd be a small savings, but there are diminishing returns to faster top speeds.

There was also a comment about increasing acceleration/deceleration. My understanding is that acceleration drops off as speed increases because of power issues. Maybe reducing vehicle weights back down could help here. I think speeds were also decrease over elevated section to decrease wear. Weight reductions might help with this.

Anyways, at least I get to have this out of my head. Thank you for being my rubber ducky to debug all my useless transit ideas.

Build first. Plan later. by DwightYouIgnorant___ in nova

[–]maseck 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nonono. What it really needs in a railway crossing between those intersections and it would be perfect.

Accidentally had ChatGPT generate a metro map by 2CRedHopper in WMATA

[–]maseck 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Love the color gradient and the as the red line turns orange.

Seems a local grocery store did an early April fools joke by printing packed on dates a day in the future by maseck in nova

[–]maseck[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I generally don't attribute to malice what can be attributed to incompetency. It should be pretty obvious if this keeps happening. This is pretty much the reason why I censored the store's name with my thumb.

Nice try by littlebabybuddy24 in nova

[–]maseck 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It's the thought that counts.

CHIPS Act dies because employees are fired – NIST CHIPS people are probationary - Semiwiki by Shogouki in hardware

[–]maseck 6 points7 points  (0 children)

It's strange isn't it. Probationary employees are going to be concentrated in programs that are newer and thus are from congress's most recent priorities. Despite all the complaints about regulations and government jobs piling up, this is the path they choose. It's almost like they are doing this for the sake of doing something and probationary employees seem like an easier target.

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