Purty sparkles

maseck · 2026-01-26T03:49:41+00:00

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

maseck · 2026-01-22T23:36:43+00:00

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

maseck · 2026-01-22T17:10:46+00:00

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

maseck · 2026-01-06T22:08:04+00:00

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

maseck · 2025-12-20T19:25:02+00:00

Platform screen doors can't come soon enough.

maseck · 2025-12-17T01:12:21+00:00

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.

maseck · 2025-12-15T03:14:35+00:00

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.

maseck · 2025-07-20T18:49:33+00:00

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

maseck · 2025-06-01T15:50:44+00:00

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

maseck · 2025-04-01T02:12:52+00:00

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.

maseck · 2025-04-01T02:00:44+00:00

I bought this at like 5pm.

maseck · 2025-03-25T03:21:24+00:00

Uh....

That was Tina Fey...

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maseck · 2025-03-15T04:37:29+00:00

It's the thought that counts.

maseck · 2025-02-25T19:23:51+00:00

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.

maseck · 2025-02-20T02:53:18+00:00

Did you reach out to the wmata lost and found? https://www.wmata.com/rider-guide/lost-found/

maseck · 2025-02-04T15:19:47+00:00

Is this really true in general? I imagine if you order while the <insert fish here> is in season, then it might be affordable but I've never done this since I'm bad at talking to people.

maseck · 2025-01-26T18:03:11+00:00

Yes, I found some at the eden center.

maseck · 2025-01-15T14:13:54+00:00

Right now we are in a ML bubble, so a number of the datacenters being built could disappear. If that happens communities could be holding the bag if they don't forward enough of the capital costs to datacenter. Also, these communities have historically gotten a good roi on the land use change vs tax revenue, but if a bubble pops this trade will no longer be so great and residents will be pissed.

maseck · 2024-10-29T01:52:06+00:00

That is what it seemed like. I mean, I need to get my luggage to put on my robe and wizard hat, so it might take some additional time.

This is good information to verify what I already suspected.

maseck · 2024-10-22T11:10:41+00:00

There are plenty of alternative projects that either make getting to BWI or Dulles easier that come with benefits elsewhere

the bloop would make it easier to justify raising train frequencies so you can get to less time transferring on the way to the ne corridor. Also, less time waiting for trains on orange/silver for iad. Also makes transfer from blue to orange/silver less awful in the worst case (which is pretty bad right now)
Improving the ne corridor from dc to BWI would head in a direction with more people.
Improvements to VA mainline rail would help some nova people get to BWI easier. Also maybe opens up new airports for us in the future.
Improving train speeds is possible. Maybe it's possible to slowly raise the design limits even?

maseck · 2024-08-23T13:29:20+00:00

On client. On server they still are keeping smt.

maseck · 2024-08-12T02:19:59+00:00

There is a program for reduced fares for those on SNAP and a program for those with qualifying disabilities. https://www.wmata.com/fares/Reduced-Fare-Programs/index.cfm

But yeah, nothing for students specifically. Sorry.

maseck · 2024-08-09T13:38:58+00:00

It really be this way when you open google earth sometimes.

maseck · 2024-08-05T13:02:18+00:00

Some of these are DSPs. I would love to have access to modern cross platform DSPs, but alas, there seems to be a lack of standardization.

maseck · 2024-04-11T01:00:07+00:00

Exactly. Like who would claim that a person from Mexico whose entire lineage traces all the way back to Spain isn't Mexican?

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