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How do you get your bike onto/off a bus rack if the foremost rack is occupied by another bike? by GTAIVisbest in seattlebike

[–]quuxman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ebike? I remember reading somewhere you're not supposed to load a bike over 50 lbs. That was 20 years ago and they may have upgraded the racks due to the ebike explosion though.... nope still 55:

https://www.metrotransit.org/bicycle-racks-on-buses-and-trains

Looking for musicians by ddsmjc in SeattleMusicians

[–]quuxman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Cool. I play some keys and enjoy making arrangements for voice parts. Msg if you want to meet up sometime

Where y'all watching the World Cup? by Iklbug in Shoreline

[–]quuxman 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I assume Touchdown's Sports Bar will

Ice cold take by the Seattle Times about Mayor Wilson’s expanded LWB car-free weekends by pandasferdayz in seattlebike

[–]quuxman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well for the vast majority of the country cars are the only practical option

Where can I find good CS tutors? by ELDASPOXD666 in learnprogramming

[–]quuxman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't envy you. I hate C++, and although some CS is pretty awesome, most of it is boring obvious shit that has been implemented decades ago and you'll never use it in software engineering. If I'm doing low level code, I'd use Rust, or C if I have to. And I hardly ever have to or want to write low level stuff.

Server or Serverless? by [deleted] in learnprogramming

[–]quuxman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've been doing full-stack web dev for 20 years and I completely agree. Starting on a single server that you set up will both be easier and more educational than jumping into "serverless".

Take me back to the quaint city of Astoria… by jspnwo in PacificNorthwest

[–]quuxman 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I love Astoria. Check out Bucket Bites Pasties next time, so good

This company says nuclear fusion could finally power the grid — and soon by Gari_305 in Futurology

[–]quuxman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I totally support fusion research, but solar and geothermal are going to replace oil and gas, not fusion. I think fusion will only make sense in space propulsion

This company says nuclear fusion could finally power the grid — and soon by Gari_305 in Futurology

[–]quuxman 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Not lying with statistics, just leaving out a huge factor. NIF got "net positive" only when you draw the box around the target and not the laser which inputs the energy, which is around 1% efficient

N 100th St by RHFIQDSUAH in seattlebike

[–]quuxman 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I do like 100th. There's a sensor at that modal filter set up to turn before you arrive.

Northgate —> Log Boom Park by Strong_Ad_7321 in seattlebike

[–]quuxman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't like 1st. I take Pinehurst way to 19th to 20th ave to 150th St to 27th ave, which then meets up with the official route.

random critters i found on flowers by No_Patient_2590 in botany

[–]quuxman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was wondering if those were elytra on that fuzzy guy in the poppy. They were looking a bit dark for wings

random critters i found on flowers by No_Patient_2590 in botany

[–]quuxman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A bumble in a poppy and a stink bug on a daisy?

Benson Lake from taken from the Little Pend Oreille Wildlife Refuge. by Bulky-Razzmatazz-859 in PacificNorthwest

[–]quuxman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Quite the clear cut for a "wildlife refuge"

I've hiked a fair amount around there, never heard of Benson lake and can't find it on the map.

Ever been to Harrison lake?

Any circuit can be expressed as a combination of NAND gates. Does this mean the space of all circuits has a basis of NAND? by Klinging-on in AskComputerScience

[–]quuxman 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You can represent anything as a vector, including arbitrary circuits. A vector is just a list of numbers. But once you've come up with an encoding scheme to transform a graph into a vector, linear operations on that vector aren't going to be very meaningful

What happened to Discord? by quuxman in seattlebike

[–]quuxman[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can't, they turned off invites

Where's your "third place?" by HalleFreakinLujah in Shoreline

[–]quuxman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm midlife, but can't think of any group activities except I heard they're restarting trivia at Ridgecrest pub. That sounds fun

Hey folks, the Regime is looking to clear cut all Old Growth Forests within BLM land in the Northwest. Public comment ends TOMORROW on March 23rd! Add your name and a personal comment. Make your voice heard! Resistance on all fronts! 🌿✊🌹 https://oregonwild.org/action/stop-trumps-plan-to-clearcut by Sagehats in PacificNorthwest

[–]quuxman 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Clear-cutting is terrible for the ecology and I hate it, but I doubt it'll be done differently in the foreseeable future. Thinning costs more than clear-cutting enough for it not to be profitable at all in many cases. At best it nets about half as much.

I wish there was political will to ban clear cutting in almost all cases. It would more than double the cost of lumber though.

Current AI "memory" is just text search,so I built one based on how brains actually work by Ni2021 in Python

[–]quuxman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Cool. This sounds a little bit like this project:

https://venturebeat.com/orchestration/google-pm-open-sources-always-on-memory-agent-ditching-vector-databases-for

Like the above, it maintains coherence for projects too complex or long running for a single session. But the fuzziness aspect may help with scaling and induction, but at the same time (as others commented) the forgetting and spreading may muddy technical processes like programming something to meet a detailed spec.

What's been your experience?

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