/lounge/ - sushi social

Stick to feeding pigs, oh wait that's a person? Exactly. Itsomnivorous a fucking reason, dammit. What cactus?;yea,fibrous, what else? Misreading.

take it easy on the drugs

>>22417
one of my favorite activities

>>18790
i'm not sure yet.
i'm building a robot, so there's that.

Being worried about school starting again. I should probably not do that though lol

>>22423
>building a robot
To Mars and back!

This is the summer of our discontent - 2025 -06

i went to a broker yesterday to borrow money, subject to the seller accepting my offer. it feels really scary, and also just felt insane to have gone from being a hikkineet to now trying to buy a place

I own a house that I am currently renting to a family member who is grateful to be able to rent from soneone they trust rather than a slimy landlord, but buying it was probably a bad idea for me. Getting a loan like that is way worse than I ever expected in a lot of different ways. Up front cost, down the line cost, slowness of actually paying it off, time, bureaucracy, privacy violation, etc.
It's not like animal crossing and now I feel a bit tied down by it now that my plans have changed.
I think its probably still something that will do me well in the far future, but I think I rushed into it and its going to stay a burden for awhile.

In house time a year or two isnt very long, so I suppose my advice is… if you've been in one spot for a couple years and are comfortable with that being permanent and want to focus on improving your future, then maybe it's a good idea to get a place there. If your life is still subject to change within that time scale and you want the flexibility and resources to accomplish things in the short term, maybe seeing how things go first is best.

>>22230
Are you talking a whole apartment building or just a condo? Not sure what country you're in, but maybe re-consider the low appreciation rates for condos if so

>>22283
I settled earlier this week and have moved into my tiny apartment. Feels really weird to have come this far… There's also a really unbelievable sense of security in it… Changing your hikkikomori ways is possible I guess.

>>22491
good for you!

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Thank you sushis for having given my blogpost the time of day.

Let's play some games

>>19623
like fishing?

Hey, I often have these issues as well. I'm really sorry you're dealing with it right now. It often feels like nothing you do can offer anything other than a distraction. I think it's helpful to remember you aren't morally responsible for these feelings. The best we can do is get lucky to have a few people in our life who accept us for who we are.

Stay free.

>>22319
is it me?

>>22247
Sorry for not being a direct reply to your post but this has been something that's been on my mind for several years now. I have several online friends I've known for quite some time, some I even met in real life. But on the back of my mind, the fact that I can't realistically stick my neck out for someone or vice versa gives me doubts about how genuine the relationship actually is. It's not even that they're not the type of person to do it but the physical distance still changes that dynamic to a certain degree. The lack of risk may not matter at the moment, but who knows how that may change in the future. Overall, I do somewhat agree with the sentiment that online friends aren't the same as real friends. But as someone that's been on the other end of a situation where I could've done something for someone I've met online but haven't, still feeling haunted about having never done enough makes me believe that it's real enough to at least not be meaningless. Not that I think that's what you're implying, but something I want to put out there.

>>22337
Yeah I get what you mean, maybe online friends are a type of convenient relationship? It's super easy for them to break as well, if one person is busy and doesn't have time to check online anymore, then that friendship is lost. In this sense, an online relationship only lasts as long as people are willing to put in the bare minimum effort. In contrast, friendships in real-life require more constant upkeep to maintain, but they can maybe be more deeper as a result. I think both types of friendships have their merits though!

>>22422
I'm not sure if convenient is the word I'd use personally but I do think you hit the point I wanted to make. Online friendships don't have the real life aspect to it which gives the individual freedom on how they want to approach any situation they see themselves in. Since relationships are a two way street, this by itself changes how the dynamic develops. As boring as it may come off as, it isn't so much that online friends are better or worse but rather that they're different. But having the right expectations goes further than one might realize so in my opinion it's a good thing to consider.

Have had quite a few net friends, lost touch with most of them because of growing up and the internet in general changing as well. The one I did rekindle contact with somewhat recently things drifted apart again because we made plans to start a kind of intimate relationship which never got realized because long distance stuff is hard to plan and expensive. Hard to go back to just being friends, pretend we never made those plans, and she didnt stay single so we cant revive those plans either.

I got neutral good

>>21308
ngl this was breddy accurate.

Went into this already knowing what I'd get given my personal ideological leanings, but I still love quizzes like these.

Daaaaaaaaaaaamn, I kinda forgot about this thread up until I was just lurking around. I look to see the answers here! ^_^

>>22121
>chocoalte flavored shell
Sounds disgusting.

I don't feel like posting here anymore.

I'm really drunk rn and I'm going to get drunker but I genuinely believe the best course of action knowing that my parents don't want me to be with the love of my life I've known for a full decade is just to kms honestly. I've deleted all my messaging apps so no one can contact me, I refuse to talk to my otl because it just reminds me no matter how much we care about one another it'll never happen, I'm ready to end it. Maybe my thoughts will be different when I'm sober. I love you i kove you i love you ibloveyoi i love you i lo e yoi

>>22351
No, my thoughts on this didn't change. You deserve someone who isn't worthless and I don't deserve love. Time to get drunk again. I don't want to feel my body at all.

It's Saturday and I'm already stressed by the thought of work on monday.

Someone taught me how to crossfade and loop and stuff in audacity and it's incredibly easy, so I'll try to take you up on this mixtape idea.

Also if you're really cool you'll make your own album cover.

Säkkijärven Polkka
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Znxy03j9gT8
Sweden Symphony Orchestra & N3 Symphony Orchestra
Soloist Linda Lampenius
Conductor Ulf Wadenbrandt
Video and Sound Jonas Wadenbrandt

Bôa - Duvet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uoox9fpmDP0

Caritas Abundat - Hildegard Von Bingen

Viva la Vida – Long Live Life!

>>19339
The punch line here is… remember what my husband said about the golf cart we saw? GEM makes carts that seat five in addition to the driver, with a higher seating position and open sides or optionally large doors for faster board/deboard. Even with the 25mph stock speed limiter for NEV/LSV regulatory compliance (and believe me, with some adjustments to the motor controller they can go faster), I suspect that switching the Loop entirely to GEMs would increase its total capacity. And the GEMs honestly suck, in the world of light electric vehicles. They just kind of pulled off a regulatory capture move and got the NEV rules written to pretty much require something that sucks as much as they do for street legality.

Subjective Experience
So as I said, this is not a review, just trying to focus on some things of interest to transit, communications, and policy dweebs. Which I assume pretty much describes my core readers. But I do want to point out a couple of oddities that add to the "wow, this is cheap" sensation:

The ride is surprisingly rough, even in a Model Y with highway-grade suspension. I am concerned that they may not be able to do much better when paving in the confined tunnels, given that I don't think standard paving equipment would fit in the loading gauge. The ride experience was not "oooo electric car luxury," it was more on par with the Orlando Airport APM100s with sketchy steering gear.

For the segment that requires tickets (to Resorts World), the ticketing system is based on a QR code. The customer-side implementation is fine enough, but the ticket checking is laughable. It's an iPad where you have to show a QR code to the front-facing camera, meaning you have to present the QR code with your phone facing away from you, looking at the image on the iPad for alignment. It is very awkward and there is no reason for it besides cheapness. Plus there's not really any way for the attendant to see if the ticket is valid without standing awkwardly close to you to look at the same iPad screen you are, and indeed, I accidentally scored a free ride by merit of the attendant's inability to see the actual result of the ticket check.

The stations are not especially well thought out. People walking in and out of the stations have to cross the path of the Loop vehicles in some places. The attendants are supposed to dPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

California’s new electric train makes for a shockingly better trip—we tried it
Caltrain’s electric trains started rolling out last week. The advantages go far beyond just cutting CO2 emissions.
California’s new electric train makes for a shockingly better trip—we tried it
[Photo: Caltrain]
BY ADELE PETERS

If you ride on the newest commuter trains from San Francisco to San Jose, the first thing that you might notice is how quiet they are: Instead of the rumble of a diesel engine, the trains now run on 100% electricity.

By switching to electric trains, Caltrain, the rail service, can eliminate 250,000 metric tons of CO2 emissions a year, roughly as much as the pollution from 55,000 cars. But it’s also just a better experience for riders. That might convince more commuters to stop driving to work, cutting emissions even further.


[Photo: Caltrain]
ELECTRIC TRAINS ARE FASTER
First, the electric trains run faster than the diesel trains that they’re replacing. Instead of a single locomotive in the front pulling the entire train behind it, each individual car is now an “electrical multiple unit,” or EMU, with its own engine, connected to overhead electric wires. “It’s generating power throughout the system,” says Dan Lieberman, a public information officer for Caltrain. “It just allows it to get up to speed much faster.”

Because the train can start and stop faster, Caltrain can add more stops to its express trains, and still shave minutes off the route. The new express route between San Jose and San Francisco will stop at 11 stations instead of seven, and take 59 minutes instead of an hour and five minutes. (The local train will take 75 minutes rather than 100 minutes.) During peak commute hours, more stations will now have trains every 15 to 20 minutes, even though Caltrain won’t use any additional trains. At off-peak hours, trains will run every 30 minutes, rather than every hour. (Caltrain started rolling out the new trains last week; they’ll be fully in service by the end of September.)

>>19367
If you ride on the newest commuter trains from San Francisco to San Jose, the first thing that you might notice is how quiet they are: Instead of the rumble of a diesel engine, the trains now run on 100% electricity.

By switching to electric trains, Caltrain, the rail service, can eliminate 250,000 metric tons of CO2 emissions a year, roughly as much as the pollution from 55,000 cars. But it’s also just a better experience for riders. That might convince more commuters to stop driving to work, cutting emissions even further.


[Photo: Caltrain]
ELECTRIC TRAINS ARE FASTER
First, the electric trains run faster than the diesel trains that they’re replacing. Instead of a single locomotive in the front pulling the entire train behind it, each individual car is now an “electrical multiple unit,” or EMU, with its own engine, connected to overhead electric wires. “It’s generating power throughout the system,” says Dan Lieberman, a public information officer for Caltrain. “It just allows it to get up to speed much faster.”

Because the train can start and stop faster, Caltrain can add more stops to its express trains, and still shave minutes off the route. The new express route between San Jose and San Francisco will stop at 11 stations instead of seven, and take 59 minutes instead of an hour and five minutes. (The local train will take 75 minutes rather than 100 minutes.) During peak commute hours, more stations will now have trains every 15 to 20 minutes, even though Caltrain won’t use any additional trains. At off-peak hours, trains will run every 30 minutes, rather than every hour. (Caltrain started rolling out the new trains last week; they’ll be fully in service by the end of September.)

Among the decades-old Windows apps to get renewed attention from Microsoft during the Windows 11 era is Notepad, the basic built-in text editor that was much the same in early 2021 as it had been in the '90 and 2000s. Since then, it has gotten a raft of updates, including a visual redesign, spellcheck and autocorrect, and window tabs.

Given Microsoft's continuing obsession with all things AI, it's perhaps not surprising that the app's latest update (currently in preview for Canary and Dev Windows Insiders) is a generative AI feature called Rewrite that promises to adjust the length, tone, and phrasing of highlighted sentences or paragraphs using generative AI. Users will be offered three rewritten options based on what they've highlighted, and they can select the one they like best or tell the app to try again.

Rewrite appears to be based on the same technology as the Copilot assistant, since it uses cloud-side processing (rather than your local CPU, GPU, or NPU) and requires Microsoft account sign-in to work. The initial preview is available to users in the US, France, the UK, Canada, Italy, and Germany.

If you don't care about AI or you don't sign in with a Microsoft account, note that Microsoft is also promising substantial improvements in launch time with this version of Notepad. "Most users will see app launch times improve by more than 35 percent, with some users seeing improvements of 55 percent or more," reads the blog post by Microsoft's Windows apps manager Dave Grochocki.

Microsoft is also adding generative fill and erase features to Paint in this update; the Paint app has already picked up several AI-powered image-generation and editing features. The generative fill addition allows users to select part of an existing image and type a prompt to fill in that area of the image with something AI-generated. Generative erase does the opposite, removing objects from a selected area of the image and attempting to recreate the background. The difference between the two is that generative fill is only available on Copilot+ PCs with Snapdragon X Elite chips in them, while generative erase will work on any Windows 11 PC.

On the technical end of things, a new Windows Insider Canary channel build released yesterday adds some new features to Prism, Microsoft's rebranded x86-to-Arm app translation layer for Arm-powered Windows PCs like the Snapdragon X Elite-powered Surface Pro and Surface Laptop.

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"The Microsoft Store" app is such a strong example of what happens when nobody cares about performance. It misses UI events most of the time, regardless of what hardware it's running on. Although, in this case, I don't think a Pentium 166MHz would help. The UI event processing is just fundamentally flawed.
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Usually, but not always, it ignores scroll events while an animation is playing…and hovering over a tile in the list cause a pointless zoom-in animation (the result of which occludes parts of adjacent tiles). Sometimes, the animation won't start immediately, but will still play. To prevent the cannot-scroll-while-animating problem, the only safe place for the mouse pointer is over the scrollbar.

Clicking the (completely invisible) track of the scrollbar has random multi-second delays.

Most of the search filters are hidden by default…and can't be shown without waiting for a slow animation. You can click the show-filters widget over 30 times if you're in a hurry, and still the animation hasn't even drawn the first frame. That delay before it starts means that even if you try to wait, you might click one extra time, and then see both the show-filters animation and then the hide-filters animation…all while none of the rest of UI responds. …And then you might realise you want to refine your search terms…which will reset all filters and re-hide the filter options.

Once you find a tile you want to click, be prepared for another two animation delay: one, if the tile isn't already zoomed in, and another while the app mysteriously animates a slew of placeholders instead of just dumping the items information directly into view. It's slow like a 33.6 moder on a noisy phoneline, but now you finely have details about the item you clicked on maybe 7 to 40 seconds ago.
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