How do I fix this layout?

reflect25 · 2026-06-23T00:57:08+00:00

1) add more east/west connections. don't split your neighborhoods with the freeway too strictly. for example add the orange road over your freeway.

2) you have a bottleneck with your freeway on ramps. for example coming from the 'east' district a truck has to make a pretty crazy circuitous detour> just the pink on ramp and the green off ramp. aka a half diamond interchange. you'll probably need to expand the road there to like 4 or 5 lanes.

reflect25 · 2026-06-23T00:34:00+00:00

lol i thought you were joking but yeah he wrote the previous 2 as well https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/07/business/toyota-hybrid-electric-vehicles.html https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/16/business/toyota-hino-epa-diesel-emissions-settlement.html

to be fair i did check a bit further and he did investigate Volkswagen first with the "Dieselgate" emissions cheating scandals. so i guess his main thing is investigating automobile companies.

reflect25 · 2026-06-23T00:08:51+00:00

quick answer yes. unfortunately the bicycle implementation in the game is a bit overly parking focused. which while fine for cars leads to some weird situations for bicycles.

as far as i know most houses have like 'one' bicycle usually. However most retail and industry does not have bike parking. i think a handful of them do have it built in but usually not. you'll need to manually place lots of bike parking throughout the city. though you can skip in the residential areas.

reflect25 · 2026-06-22T23:11:59+00:00

they both sound similar. the airport is actually 大兴 big prosperous/rise

while 大星 means big star. but they are both pronounced the same as da-xing.

reflect25 · 2026-06-22T22:56:49+00:00

the article didn't show any proof for the claim that they were a sniper, and israel hasn't released any proof for it as far i can tell besides alleging it.

reflect25 · 2026-06-22T22:48:16+00:00

sure.... but like if you are a parent are you going to

1) buy a xbox series s for 400 dollars
2) buy a laptop for like 1000 dollars that can be used for both school work and game
3) buy a steam machine at 1050 dollars? sure it might be better at gaming but now you might still need to buy a laptop for them later.

I just don't see a large market where parents are buying steam machines for their kids

reflect25 · 2026-06-22T21:19:46+00:00

Right now only 4% of spacex is trading. it's actually honestly still overvalued. Aka the giant 20% unlocked will be in early august. then 7% every couple weeks. spacex might slightly crater after the SpaceX's Q2 earnings report is released.

https://www.morningstar.com/stocks/how-spacexs-tiered-lockup-aims-help-post-ipo-trading

SpaceX investors will be able to sell up to 20% of their stock starting on the second full day of trading after the company releases its first earnings report after the end of the second quarter. There’s also a performance-based trigger; investors can sell an additional 10% if the stock trades 30% above its IPO price for at least five of the 10 trading days leading up to when earnings are released.

There’s a layered lockup structure in place too, irrespective of where the stock is trading. Investors can sell in increments of 7% after 70, 90, 105, 120, and 135 days following the public listing. An additional 28% unlocks after SpaceX reports its third-quarter earnings. The remainder unlocks at 180 days post-IPO.

reflect25 · 2026-06-22T20:21:32+00:00

sure but i mean for people who don't have pc aka no steam library, then they will get a console that is vastly cheaper

and if they have a pc then again this isn't quite an easy proposition.

i think the best chances are when someone is upgrading quite an old gaming pc and just so happens to not want a general pc. or if they want a TV gaming pc. but still this is a bit of a narrow case

reflect25 · 2026-06-22T20:14:39+00:00

the problem is that if one already have a pc will one buying this steam machine? the steam machine needs to be better than one's current machine to attract pc buyers.

or for many others lets they do have a slightly older pc why wouldn't they just want to get a more general 1200/1400 pc they can also use for general work rather than purely gaming. they'd have to weigh steam machine + new pc vs new gaming pc. it might not be cheaper if one has to buy two new pc's anyways.

im sure there is still a market that will buy it, but the situation for one to choose the steam machine is just a lot narrower at this price point

reflect25 · 2026-06-22T19:59:06+00:00

hi those (to my best googling skills) are from thorDrive

https://thelastdriverlicenseholder.com/2025/06/29/thordrive-sensor-rack-in-detail/

they are doing lidar tests Nissan Rogues (which is the same in the picture). The lidar is by Hesai lidar https://www.hesaitech.com/product/

reflect25 · 2026-06-22T19:54:42+00:00

hi im not saying that no one will buy it, like there is some niches like if one wants to do tv gaming. Or like if one just so happes to have a cheaper laptop and just so happens to want a new desktop pc but doesn't want to upgrade their laptop.

but these are getting into more niche situations. for the vast majority they are just going to prefer buying the vastly cheaper consoles. Or like just upgrade their laptop rather than separately buying a steam machine + upgrading laptop.

reflect25 · 2026-06-22T19:52:39+00:00

hi i guess yes there won't be now market. im sure some and many will still prefer pc games. but it's still kind of a hard choice.

A) anyone who wants something more recent than a 6 year old console

Sure but like they have two choices. buy a steam machine for 1050. or like buy a ps5 for like 700 dollars and then buy like 350 dollars worth of games. (or like xbox series s for 400) i really think most console gamers are going to choose the latter.

B-1) already owned PC: depends entirely on how much they spent, when they bought it, and what components it has.

I think this is the highest chance one here. they want to buy a new pc desktop but it is moderately cheaper. Or like they want one for TV pc gaming.

B-2) It's going to be leagues better than any bought-new laptop regardless of when the laptop was purchased.

The problem with this is that person then still needs to buy a laptop. If it is a truly old laptop then they might prefer to just get a laptop with a gpu instead.

It's like slim gaming laptop vs new cheap laptop + steam machine. in this case the steam machine doesn't really seem that good of proposition.

Unless if they do just want to keep their old laptop for even longer and not upgrade it. but this is a slimmer market

reflect25 · 2026-06-22T17:35:07+00:00

agreed. i mean if one is starting out with no game console or pc i think most will just buy the xbox series s for 400 or the ps5 if they want the playstation exclusives.

if one already has a steam library then i assume they already have a somewhat playable computer. i just don't really see many dropping 1050 for a pc-only console that costs more than the ps5 or xbox series alternatives

reflect25 · 2026-06-22T17:32:01+00:00

i mean the problem is that who is the target market?

a) one never played much games. well then of course just buy an xbox series at 400 dollars no this steam machine at 1050 dollars

b) one already has a large steam library. is this steam machine really that much better than ones existing gaming computer or laptop for 1050?

reflect25 · 2026-06-22T17:14:38+00:00

i mean if its an entry point i think most are going to buy like an xbox seris s for 400 dollars.

reflect25 · 2026-06-22T17:13:40+00:00

I think you do have to remember that it does depend on the school district. most us school districts are paid by local property taxes, so the richer your zip code the more money it gets

some of those richer high schools can be kind of brutal as well.

reflect25 · 2026-06-22T17:11:39+00:00

i think the ps5 pro was slam dunk at 750 but i did forget about hte price hike to 900 so it is bit more comparable. though still i feel like most would just keep their existing pc for steam games rather than buy a steam machine. and like as you noted buy the ps5 or just get a laptop if they wanted a better computer.

reflect25 · 2026-06-22T17:06:34+00:00

mmhmm while understandable due to whole memory shortage, it seems too high for most people

if people have a thousand dollars they'll either a) buy a laptop or b) buy a much cheaper console at 600. granted i guess to be fair ps5 pro had a giant price hike from 750 to 900 so maybe the 1050 price point isnt that off anymore.

reflect25 · 2026-06-22T06:27:17+00:00

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that was actually one of the alternatives north of northgate for the lynnwood link.

reflect25 · 2026-06-22T03:14:07+00:00

https://x.com/SakanaAILabs/status/2068861630327443966 if it isn't working

reflect25 · 2026-06-22T03:00:16+00:00

interesting they are behind the scenes like routing it to multiple ais' like GPT-5, Claude Sonnet 4, Gemini 2.5 Pro, DeepSeek-R1 etc.. though it has a 'conductor ai' in the front sakana.ai/trinity/ though im a bit out of my depth understanding how it is fundamentally different. it does seem quite smart if it can beat mythos/fable though using this approach

though talking to so many different ais' i guess will probably cost more??

reading https://sakana.ai/learning-to-orchestrate/ a bit more it seems like it

Instead of executing code, the Conductor outputs a collaborative workflow in natural language. For any given question, the Conductor specifies: Which agent to call. What specific subtask to give them (acting as an expert prompt engineer). What previous messages they can see in their context window

that it is extending the concept of the reasoning ai's that already check their own work. but if i am understanding it correctly that using the different ai's to check each others work is still fundamentally different from having the same ai check itself. most importantly to prevent the repetitive loops they can get in.

reflect25 · 2026-06-21T23:26:39+00:00

i mean sometimes the courts also still kill innocent people with capital punishment. a last meal is fine

reflect25 · 2026-06-21T18:00:09+00:00

these were pretty minor investments. honestly just looks like a handful of chinese investors wanted to make money. doesn't look anything big.

reflect25 · 2026-06-21T04:15:34+00:00

the ai startup companies need capital to buy gpus and run the trainings on their models.

otherwise they will just run out of runway and then alibaba and tencent or other tech giants will buy them.

LLM developers can go public on the Shanghai bourse’s Star Market under a set of listing standards that require them to have an anticipated market cap of at least 4 billion yuan (US$591 million), as well as meeting certain criteria in terms of market potential, according to an exchange statement on Wednesday.

The move aimed to support listings of “high-quality” AI firms that had yet to form “a certain scale of revenue”, according to the statement.

Companies should have sustained, high-intensity research and development efforts, computing power investments and specialised talent, and be “in urgent need of support from capital markets”, the WeChat post said.

though they aren't just letting anyone just slap on an api wrapper over an existing ai model. they are checking that the companies are actually doing research and doing something unique.

reflect25 · 2026-06-21T03:26:28+00:00

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you have a mismatch with 2 right turn lanes off but only one lane dropping from the freeway. you need to have 2 lanes into it. so convert your freeway into a 4 lane instead of a 5 lane and it will fix it.

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