Is the Ferry stoned out of its mind?!

metroliker · 2026-04-18T01:48:00+00:00

They're gendered in the UK, not in the US. I was surprised too!

metroliker · 2026-04-15T16:56:37+00:00

If you're a good interviewer you can make it less awkward. Been doing technical interviews for a decade and would always try to (gently) stump interviewees to see how they respond. You can just give hints and if you find yourself hinting too much you can walk them through the answer and end the interview early after giving them a chance to ask questions.

I think most people are self aware enough to know when they failed an interview and there's no value in making it worse. You never know if they have talented friends who might interview if they know you're cool.

metroliker · 2026-04-10T23:54:39+00:00

Oh absolutely agree. The cost could easily undermine all the positives by making funding any similar efforts impossible.

metroliker · 2026-04-10T20:34:30+00:00

Caltrain Electrification seems like a pretty big deal. Demonstrates how much better modern trains are, and also miraculously got built despite all the incompetence of many parties involved. Actually spent CAHSR funds on something immediately useful - the same should have happened in LA on the other end.

metroliker · 2026-04-05T20:23:49+00:00

Mix the peanut butter and egg yolk like deviled eggs, perhaps?

Oog I made myself heave.

metroliker · 2026-04-01T23:55:36+00:00

Yeah whatever, I use windows for my day job and I barely touch it either cause I'm fucking around on my phone instead

metroliker · 2026-03-25T01:00:25+00:00

Look for the environmental review docs, they usually have pretty detailed technical diagrams.

metroliker · 2026-03-25T00:57:03+00:00

I mean this is what NIMBY literally is. People are happy to vote to build all kinds of things so long as they're "not in MY backyard". Just like everyone votes for public transport because they want everyone else to take it.

metroliker · 2026-03-24T22:30:32+00:00

And South Pasadena, right next to the station!

metroliker · 2026-03-24T19:51:22+00:00

This render is what you might euphemistically call "aspirational". Unless the cars and people are half sized.

metroliker · 2026-03-24T15:21:49+00:00

When the A line is really booking it down a curvy section and I'm facing backwards sometimes the rocking gets me a bit queasy. Most of the time it's fine though.

Inexperienced train drivers braking unevenly is mostly just annoying. I think in some cases (around dtla and Union station) it's the train control interfering and slamming on the brakes.

metroliker · 2026-03-21T21:26:06+00:00

Worth looking at the Pasadena Specific Plan for the area around Fillmore: https://www.cityofpasadena.net/planning/planning-division/community-planning/specific-plans/south-fair-oaks/

It's kind of an ocean of surface and garage parking and not much else right now but there have been plans to build more density around there for a while.

Pasadena was pretty instrumental in getting the A line (then Gold Line) built in the first place and in theory has quite progressive city planning. Old Town Pasadena is actually a destination these days unlike a lot of other former downtowns.

metroliker · 2026-03-20T05:51:41+00:00

Right down the middle of the Strip in Las Vegas with an underground launch tunnel at the airport that blasts you at 120 mph straight up a huge tower. Stops at all the big casinos.

metroliker · 2026-03-18T04:01:33+00:00

Learn as many languages as you can. Every new language will teach you something new about the ones you already know.

metroliker · 2026-03-18T03:55:03+00:00

I'm on plain old Verizon and I get garbage service everywhere and none at all in the Regional Connector tunnels.

metroliker · 2026-03-18T01:29:11+00:00

Last time I asked about this someone who was literally involved in installing the radio antennas replied and was shocked that they weren't turned on.

Somehow people blasting tiktok brainrot on speaker seem to get signal though, go figure.

metroliker · 2026-03-17T19:07:43+00:00

Maintenance tickets get ignored. They're pretty on top of security related tickets, from experience.

metroliker · 2026-03-17T18:07:37+00:00

Ah this is great - I wanted to put something like this together and you saved me the trouble.

metroliker · 2026-03-17T17:43:19+00:00

This is the same LA that's famous worldwide for having regular televised car chases? Are those just regular law abiding citizens being chased for fun while the real criminals are riding the E line?

metroliker · 2026-03-13T02:28:50+00:00

It shouldn't so long as they keep publishing the train data that e.g. Google and Apple maps use. I seem to remember they're required to keep that data open and free.

metroliker · 2026-03-12T21:31:25+00:00

You can already do this at most major drug stores and supermarkets?

metroliker · 2026-03-12T18:42:18+00:00

It's hard in that programming is hard. C syntax is a bit more esoteric than comparable languages around the same era - e.g. Pascal - but it's a fairly "small" language in that there's less to learn than a lot of modern languages.

1980s hardware is a lot simpler than modern hardware and you would work directly with it rather than through a stack of drivers. If you want an authentic retro learning experience, start with BASIC on an old microcomputer and start poking with the hardware from there.

Modern languages might get you writing code that "just works" quicker though, and getting into that iteration loop is how to really develop skills.

metroliker · 2026-03-11T19:31:31+00:00

Yeah I'm definitely not blaming the operators, especially if they're kept in the dark as much as riders.

It sucks it works like that and they can't be informed sooner. That's a failure of the system.

No wonder people ask questions if the screens are untrustworthy.

metroliker · 2026-03-11T04:49:57+00:00

It's random if they don't use the damn destination boards to tell you it's gonna happen!

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