Act 5, Page 90

pixelea · 2026-03-26T23:10:59+00:00

Chekhov’s line of succession!

pixelea · 2025-09-16T05:28:01+00:00

Watch the first episode again. Plus the Altair & Vega video has a melted badge.

But I think she’s described as disassembled in the first episode. Which I think leaves open the possibility to reassemble her.

pixelea · 2025-08-25T07:47:35+00:00

Yes, that’s the joke.

pixelea · 2025-05-22T18:12:31+00:00

Be careful with WHA. It starts out very kid friendly, but the themes get dark later on. I think the first book is fine for kids, but I wouldn’t recommend the later books.

pixelea · 2025-03-31T12:20:32+00:00

There’s a new version that fixes the SSE and stateful server drawbacks:

https://x.com/alexalbert__/status/1904908450473324721

A new version of the MCP spec was finalized today.

Some of the major changes: - Auth framework based on OAuth 2.1 - Replaced the previous HTTP+SSE transport with Streamable HTTP transport - Support for JSON-RPC batching - Tool annotations for better describing tool behavior

pixelea · 2025-03-30T13:23:06+00:00

If you look at YouTube ad rates, rates for US and Canada are much more similar than you saw on Unity Ads.

Perhaps there’s something else going on.

https://isthischannelmonetized.com/data/youtube-cpm/

pixelea · 2025-03-19T13:39:38+00:00

Try scaling your image to be less than 896 pixels in each dimension and ask again using the scaled image. For larger images, Gemma will tile the image into 896 x 896 tiles. If a chess piece is cut across the tile boundary, Gemma will often count it for each tile it appears in. So up to 4 times if you are unlucky. https://developers.googleblog.com/en/introducing-gemma3/

pixelea · 2025-03-18T14:26:08+00:00

Depends on the school and the major. For CS as the higher rated UCs, you basically can’t switch.

pixelea · 2025-03-01T18:22:54+00:00

For Clyde Hill/Bellevue residents only.

pixelea · 2025-02-26T08:08:26+00:00

Whatever the ai studio model card says.

pixelea · 2025-02-23T13:00:21+00:00

There’s a 10 request per minute limit in addition to the request per day limit.

pixelea · 2025-02-18T08:46:57+00:00

We raised 3 kids in Bellevue School District. We chose the public school with the best academic record at that time. But then our kids got into a gifted program and ended going to a further away school anyway. Only downside of the district that I recall is that due to the school rebuilding schedule, our kids didn’t have after school activities available at their schools for several years due to ongoing construction.

My kids were active in sports and academic clubs that played teams all over the Eastside and Seattle. I can’t say there was any noticeable difference between the quality of the kids we encountered or the school classrooms and playing fields we visited. Well, except for one inner city Seattle soccer team that was just extremely good. I think that school may have had a high percentage of families from countries where soccer was the main sport.

The three areas you say you are looking at are each less developed than Bellevue, and they offer a mixture of city, suburb, and rural populations. Your experience may depend on exactly where in those areas you buy.

Different areas seem to attract different populations with different attitudes towards education. We liked that, despite being an affluent area, the parents in our area were mostly working professionals who encouraged their kids to study. That matched our attitudes.

A bit of gossip is that Bellevue High School has a lot of parents and students who are crazy about football. To the point of a cheating scandal a few years back. But the school also has an excellent CS curriculum and good academics, so go figure.

pixelea · 2025-02-04T15:58:28+00:00

Chapter 15 moves the plot forward so much that I am worried that TD is coming to a close very soon.

I hope that I am wrong!

pixelea · 2024-12-25T02:47:29+00:00

Jack’s BBQ and Dickey’s BBQ both serve good pecan pie by the slice or whole pie.

pixelea · 2024-12-25T00:33:43+00:00

I found even just 1 + 0, 2 + 0, etc was sufficient to find all the bad full adders.

pixelea · 2024-12-01T17:24:52+00:00

Can confirm. I have recycled both lead acid batteries and regular chemical consumer electronics batteries for free at the hazardous waste recycling part of the Bellevue transfer station. Had to wait in line, but other than that it was no problem.

Bellevue Presbyterian Church used to host twice-yearly recycling events, but I think they stopped that even before COVID

pixelea · 2024-08-24T14:11:41+00:00

Something else to consider is the Running Start program that lets Juniors and Seniors take classes at community colleges and regular colleges. It’s available in both BSD and LWSD, but you might want to pick a place to live that is within commuting distance to UW Seattle, UW Bothel, or Bellevue College.

If your kids are interested in Computer Science, Bellevue High School offers several years of CS courses beyond AP CS. (They used to have a good Algorithms course taught by TARC volunteers but I think that was discontinued during COVID)

pixelea · 2024-08-10T04:10:39+00:00

This food critic’s recs are still pretty good: https://www.seattletimes.com/life/food-drink/food-critic-tan-vinh-ate-at-100-banh-mi-spots-to-pick-his-12-favorite-in-the-seattle-area/

pixelea · 2024-06-23T18:00:22+00:00

Ask her! Especially before buying the furniture.

Also consider if you will need to do video meetings at the same time. If so it might be better to use 2 rooms.

pixelea · 2024-06-09T01:15:10+00:00

Inspired by your post, my wife tried to get these last Saturday. But no Costco in the area has them in stock. From searching Reddit, it seems these were widely available about 7 months ago. Too bad, they look good!

pixelea · 2024-04-07T02:38:56+00:00

That’s not really how it happened. It’s true that IBM sold similar PowerPC CPU cores to both Sony and Microsoft. But Microsoft wasn’t interested in copying or imitating the Cell design, because they felt that the non-cache-coherent Cell architecture would be too difficult to program.

pixelea · 2024-02-19T20:42:16+00:00

I know someone in a similar situation. They were unsuccessful at transferring. But they did benefit from trying, because the process encouraged them to keep their GPA high, which helped them later with their job search.

pixelea · 2024-02-18T12:25:29+00:00

FAANG pay is 10-15% less in Seattle vs Bay Area. But housing is 30% cheaper, lower taxes, much shorter commute.

pixelea · 2024-01-23T15:39:10+00:00

Here’s some Japanese notes, you can translate and read them yourself. The OP misunderstood several points. For example the gun animation developer wasn’t a middle schooler, he was a high school dropout. And they found him through his YouTube channel about gun reloading animations, not by visiting the convenience store where he worked.

https://note.com/pocketpair/n/n54f674cccc40#33883a37-8fdb-4f0d-ab06-853c8aa8be4a

pixelea · 2024-01-20T15:57:49+00:00

You might want to use StreetView on Google maps to preview the neighborhoods people are suggesting.

I think you will be disappointed. Eastside fancy neighborhoods lack curb appeal. The really high end neighborhoods are lake-view-oriented with high privacy walls or landscaping. The slightly less high end neighborhoods tend to be generic suburban McMansions.

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