Hmm well if I'm forced to choose between education and "business concerns".
I think I'll pick education. They claim that Washington State has a spending problem not a funding problem. The state spends a lot of money on education supposedly ($14k per student yet we're still having to close schools) so taking away funding definitely won't help the matter.
Unfortunately I don’t have good news on the state of the android app: I am retiring it. The last release on Github and F-Droid will happen with the December 2024 Syncthing version. Reason is a combination of Google making Play publishing something between hard and impossible and no active maintenan...
Announcement by the creator: https://forum.syncthing.net/t/discontinuing-syncthing-android/23002
> Unfortunately I don’t have good news on the state of the android app: I am retiring it. The last release on Github and F-Droid will happen with the December 2024 Syncthing version.
> Reason is a combination of Google making Play publishing something between hard and impossible and no active maintenance. The app saw no significant development for a long time and without Play releases I do no longer see enough benefit and/or have enough motivation to keep up the ongoing maintenance an app requires even without doing much, if any, changes.
> Thanks a lot to everyone who ever contributed to this app!
Yeah there's a few reasons why the offer that wins the buy box (the term for which merchants offer is shown to the customer prominently) and is complex, but I wouldn't consider it particularly sinister or designed to mislead. If one person has prime and the other doesn't, it might weight more towards a prime offer which may be more expensive, a price from a merchant may have changed, or gone out of stock.
Sound Transit offers e-mail and text alert subscriptions. This service is free (text message charges may apply depending on your mobile service plan) and you ca
Watch out for the light rail going north. It's moving slow and the driver actually said to take a bus if you have time sensitive appointments.
1 Line trains are sharing one track from University of Washington Station to Northgate Station until further notice due to a mechanical issue. Please board all trains on the platform to Angle Lake Station.
In effect: Oct. 19, 8:45 a.m.
Routes: 1 Line
They're forging the GPS to look like it's in the EU. Do we turn off all the EU terminals too?
I'm a little surprised they can't identify spoofing by comparing the incoming signal to the proposed location. They already have antennas that can be steered using the phased array.
It's possible, but it costs money to design the hardware so it's accessible, it has to use a connector which has to be robust against vibrations (is m.2 robust?), then there needs to be a standardized protocol to communicate with the card. Does the car computer need to know how to authenticate against the cell network or does the card? Is it industry standardized or specific to the manufacturer? All kinds of things need to be designed and car manufacturers have no reason to invest in they.
The problem is the cell modem in the car, which is hard to replace. Cars last a lot longer than phones do. When whatever network that the car uses shuts down, then you can't remote start your car. That's a marginal cost that the car company has to pay for.
CDs have an advantage over USB drives in that they can't actually secretly be USB HID devices like a fake keyboard or mouse that runs a bunch of commands when it plugs in. It's only a storage device.
A super secure environment might then lock down all USB devices to ones known by them and then epoxy all ports and devices.
Great if only my family would even believe this as opposed to just saying something about FEMA using DEW and HAARP and space lasers to actually create hurricanes to be able to extract lithium or something.
ICANN specifically set aside all two character TLDs to be for country specific codes. There's only a few cases where they kept ex countries TLDs around and phased them out over several years. It would be an entirely new precedent if they did keep it. So I wouldn't depend on it
I have my doubts that a company would be able to just abandon a live and operational nuclear power plant. I'm no nuclear or power engineer, but I am familiar with data center power consumption. There are companies in the region that would absolutely build more data centers, but are power constrained from the utility companies in the area, that are not just for AI, but for general compute. Even then, it's low carbon production energy. If you have a ton of excess power, just start forcing high carbon production facilities in the area to close and now you've greened the grid.
Computer algorithms solve problems all over the world for companies already. I bet airlines already have teams of people using computer algorithms to figure crew management, flight routing, cost optimization, etc.
The fact that they're exploring quantum computers and non-classical algorithms just suggests that gate allocation is NP-Hard. Sure things go wrong when computers fail already, Look at Southwest or Delta's recent meltdown, but to act like this a bad thing is just nonsense. This should be looked at as a good thing that airlines are working on.
Why do you think this is going to replace air traffic control work? It's picking which gate to park the plane at. This was done by airline and airport operations teams, not ATC. Imagine if you could automatically pick gates to reduce the time a plane spends taxiing and/or minimize time passengers spend walking. That's 100% a useful application for computer optimization algorithms. Humans aren't going to do that better and it's not a function of safety that tower or ground control needs to do.
While I'm not a fan of the loan nor the massive waste of power most LLMs are, I actually think that's its a good thing because if Microsoft can break through some of the excessive red tape on nuclear plants then they'll bring this online and hopefully prove that nuclear power can be safe and a good source of large amounts of power, when the huge demand for AI dies down, then maybe they'll keep the plant around and provide power to the grid.
On Android, you can specify which applications you want included or excluded. Or you can specify that you only route your home LAN IP ranges through wireguard. Both of those would accomplish your goal.
Kind of but it's not fair to put it all on the manager. Multiple people decided to hire the person. Somebody else approved that code review. People approved the technical design. Why didn't the tech lead raise concerns with the manager about someone's under-performance, etc. it's unfair to just put all blame on the manager.
The idea of extreme ownership is about not saying "not my problem I won't do anything" or blaming your reports. It's about saying I can and should do anything and everything in my ability to fix problems.
But then you've got cities like Morro Bay, CA that are trying to stop a plan to replace a coal plant with a battery storage facility because batteries are supposedly dangerous.
The co-op will open its first ever small format store, serving city center office workers and downtown residents.
PCC is returning to the Rainier Square building focusing on lunch foods and a "limited selection of grocery and pantry items."
That's unfortunate that they won't be able to put that money to better use, but I hope they use this opportunity to improve the system security and reliability.
We will help represent Home Assistant users and the Open Home Foundation values on this board, defining the future of Z-Wave.
I'm excited to see this as I'm pretty much only use Z-Wave. Also interesting is they are developing their own dongle
Summer construction season is coming to an end, but not before we tackle our biggest weekend of construction for the region this year. We're calling it our Monster Weekend. Buckle up (literally) because here's what's going down:
SR 520 CLOSED - highway and trail
-Where: From I-5 in Seattle to 92nd Ave NE in Clyde Hill -When: 11 p.m. Friday, Sept. 27, to 5 a.m. Monday, Sept. 30 -What: Working on lighting and the fire suppression system under the new Montlake lid over SR 520.
NB I-405 in Renton CLOSED
-Where: From Sunset Boulevard Northeast/Southport Drive (Exit 5) to Coal Creek Parkway SE -When: 11 p.m. Friday, Sept. 27, to 4 a.m. Monday, Sept. 30. -What: Shifting northbound traffic onto a new bridge. A signed detour will be available. This work is weather-dependent and may be rescheduled.
SB SR 167 in Kent CLOSED
-Where: From SR 516 to South 27th Street -When: 11:59 p.m. Friday, Sept. 27, to 4 a.m. Monday, Sept. 30. -Why: Paving and striping sections of SB SR 167. This work is weather-dependent and may be rescheduled.
Both directions I-5 CLOSED - overnights only!
-Where: Between SR 18 in Federal Way and 54th Ave E in Fife -When: Overnight Friday, Sept. 27, and Saturday, Sept. 28. NB lanes will close by 10:30 p.m. and SB lanes by 11 p.m. On Saturday, lanes begin opening at 7 a.m. (fully open by 11 a.m.). On Sunday, lanes begin reopening at 8 a.m. (fully open by noon). -Why: Setting girders for a new overpass crossing I-5.
Mercer Street on-ramps to I-5 CLOSED
-Where: Mercer Street on-ramps to both NB and SB I-5 in Seattle -When: 10 p.m. Friday, Sept. 27, and 5 a.m. Monday, Sept. 30. -Why: Paving the ramp and adjacent shoulders.
Some of these closures have detours, but a warning: Detour routes cannot accommodate normal traffic volumes, so try to travel during off-peak hours or, if possible, delay your trip to help minimize backups.
It's been a long summer of road work. You've been patient, and we're grateful for that. We need to get this work done now before we fully enter The Big Gray.
Then good luck getting a house mortgage because you can't lend based on future income because it's not guaranteed. When I bought my house they incorporated the value of my brokerage account. I wouldn't be able to own a place if they didn't.
With house mortgages it's collateralized against the house, a physical object, but it has only a fake value until it's actually sold because house prices can go up or down.
I didn't see any references to the homeless in this post and it contained a lot of good insights and discussion about preparedness. Sadly the WA state doesn't open up a thread on Lemmy yet. One day
September is National Preparedness Month. Staff members from King County Emergency Management and Washington Emergency Management Division are...
September is National Preparedness Month. Staff members from King County Emergency Management and Washington Emergency Management Division are here to answer your questions about hazards in King County and how you can be better prepared for emergencies.
This is my biggest challenge with this extension. What's clickbait to one person is not to another. Several times I've come across titles that get mangled when rewritten to lose key points. Or the image gets replaced with a random screen grab. There's a difference between somebody doing the YouTube face and a title with "the craziest stunt you've ever seen" and an artist photo with a title saying the "a crazy stunt jump through a burning hoop". I'm okay with the latter but dearrow will often remove crazy. The is just an contrived example
One person could still say "crazy" makes it clickbait, but having some adjectives are fine
The commitments were part of a tentative deal the planemaker struck with a 30,000-plus-member union that could avoid a debilitating strike
If you are a commuter or just looking to visit a new neighborhood, here are tips on bus connections, and attractions including a beach, a stadium and parks.
- https://archive.is/vaaUl
- https://www.soundtransit.org/system-expansion/lynnwood-link-extension
The Lynnwood 1 Line extension is scheduled to open on this Friday, Aug 30th, 2024
This entire situation has been wild. From Miles' public defender turning to him and telling him to stop talking in courts, to the idea that renaming your Instagram profile gets around court orders, to just loaning your car out to friends.
Officials are offering tax breaks and regulatory relief as fewer office workers return to once-busy areas. In Seattle, nearly a third of downtown office space is empty or available for sublease.
Location: 3rd and Union. The Joseph Vance Building
Pay-wall link: https://archive.is/fNbTv
Seattle Police locked down the grocery store and the corner of 15th and John after a reported exchange of gunfire at the Capitol Hill Safeway early Sunday evening.
No victims were found at the scene.
25 minutes later, a 911 caller reported a male with a gunshot wound to the leg at 12th and Fir.
Police were called to the reported 15th and John shootout just after 5 PM as people in the parking lot and customers inside the store scrambled for cover.
SPD taped off a large area around the parking lot and Williams Place Park where they reported finding multiple shell casings and at least one unspent round.
According to East Precinct radio updates, the shootout involved at least two armed assailants with one reportedly fleeing northbound on a rental scooter.
About 25 minutes after the Safeway call, police were called to 12th and Fir where a male was reported with a gunshot wound to the leg.
Seattle Fire was at the scene to treat the victim and transport him to the hospital.
It was not immediately clear if the incidents were separate shootings though at least one 911 caller described a group of possible suspects leaving the 12th and Fir scene.
There were no reported arrests.
According to a radio update, Seattle Police were investigating the possibility a Glock handgun reported stolen earlier in the day was used in the Capitol Hill shooting.
The Washington State Transportation Commission (WSTC) has adopted new toll rates for the SR 520 Bridge.
Beginning August 15, 2024, toll rates will increase by an average of 10 percent, rounded to the nearest nickel. Depending on the time of day and day of week, tolls will either decrease by 10 cents or increase by up to 70 cents. In addition, the new rate schedule will feature six rate variations throughout the week instead of the current eight.
Please see the table below for a breakdown of the changes:
Weekday rate changes \(Monday-Friday\)
Weekend rate changes \(Saturday & Sunday\)
State law mandates that tolls generate sufficient revenue to meet the bridge’s financial obligations, such as operations and on-going maintenance costs, and repaying construction bonds used to build the bridge. Tolls are also required to be set in a manner that helps maintain travel time, speed, and reliability in the corridor. These rate adjustments aim to streamline the toll structure while ensuring toll revenue meets the bridge’s financial requirements.
For more information about the new toll rates and schedules please visit our website.
Windows and macOS have similar clients (Hass.Agent for Windows and Home Assistant for macOS).
I've found these kinds of clients useful because I can remotely wake-up or sleep computers, track how long they are turned on for, and automatically pause my lights and music when my webcam turns on.
Sadly, WSDOT's social media hasn't discovered Lemmy yet, so cross posting:
Good news, late-night downtown Seattle travelers – we’re about to finish one of our construction projects in the area! From 10 p.m. to 4 a.m. nightly Tuesday, July 9, through Friday morning, July 12, we’ll reduce southbound I-5 to three lanes between Yale Avenue and James Street, close the Yale Avenue/Howell Street on-ramp to southbound I-5, close the southbound I-5 off-ramp to Union Street (Exit 165B) and reduce the southbound I-5 off-ramp to James Street (Exit 165A) to one lane. The usual signed detours will be available around the Yale Avenue and Union Street ramp closures.
This work marks the last of 23 guardrails and barriers we will be updating in King or Snohomish counties as part of the Northwest Region Breakaway Cable Terminal Replacement project.
The Seattle Department of Transportation's 15th Avenue W/NW and Ballard Bridge Paving and Safety Project will include paving, maintenance and preservation work.
Google Maps is testing a new ad format that gives users the option to add a stop for a sponsored location during navigation.
Overview of Python's Package management ecosystem in 2024
MicroWakeWord v2 brings huge improvements, and we introduce advanced timers.
I thought the model of 3D printing models of the chips to be a really cool way of visualizing how these chips work.
From the YouTube summary
How does your phone track its position in space? MEMS devices! Phones use small micro mechanical chips called MEMS, to monitor accelerations and rotations. These are fabricated using semiconductor technology, but are tiny little moving mechanisms.
Today we're decapping a six axis IMU (MPU-6050, on a GY-521 breakout board, containing three accelerometers and three gyroscopes), looking at it under the SEM, printing up some models, doing some high speed video recording, and talking about how these little MEMS devices work.
CAD/STL models (fair warning, it's a very challenging print!): https://www.printables.com/model/413667-mems-model-six-axis-imu-device
Deliveries would begin in 2028 under the current timeline that will accept bids from shipyards across the country.
