Engineer on @googlechrome. Involved in CSS and W3C standards. Previously @mozilla, @w3ctag. Mastodon: @dbaron@w3c.social
Rockville, Maryland, USA
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As a California voter, I'm used to getting a lot of election-related mail, but not from presidential campaigns. But this year I got 6 pieces, all from Mike Bloomberg 2020... and most of them came after I voted.
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Not too surprising that @NWSBayArea, whose forecast area includes @Twitter HQ, is near the top (#3).
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By my standards for New Zealand, "accessible by paved roads from either Auckland or Christchurch" isn't all *that* remote...😜
One thing I accomplished at this week's @w3ctag meeting in Wellington🇳🇿 was landing a PR to add the beginnings of a new section to our design principles document, on some principles behind the design of features on the Web: w3ctag.github.io/design-prin…
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It's not just about tech trends, but also about changing how information moves. I've seen journalists speculate that the end of Google Reader pushed journalists to depend less on feeds of trusted sources and more on things they get from social media (& click-driven algorithms).
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I can no longer describe Wuhan to people as "probably the largest city in China that you haven't heard of". More than 2 months ago, I think there was a decent chance of that being correct.
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But the PDF I have bookmarked (and generally prefer) is cityofpaloalto.org/civicax/f…
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I don't recall finding useful layers for drawing a map, but I remember getting data out of it when clicking on individual parcels. (I'd found it helpful when dealing with areas in the SOFA area plan, but now prefer PDFs.)
I think I found the URL, too: data.cityofpaloalto.org/visu…
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Also, the WHO report that came out today-ish seems like a particularly trustworthy summary of the situation: nitter.vloup.ch/coopesdetat/stat…
One of the reports (based on a case in Germany where a traveler from China spread COVID-19) that said that the disease is spread by asymptomic individuals was retracted. I haven't seen a for-sure statement either way (i.e., can transmit or can't) since that report...
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Seems more clearly worth the investment if it's shown to improve learning rather than improve test taking (or be unknown which it improves).
Colder classrooms when learning, or colder classrooms when taking the test? Or did it distinguish?
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We'd at least need to install air conditioning in schools in pieces like Pennsylvania where schools don't have it today but are intolerably hot for much of June, July, and August. Or at minimum better cross-ventilation.
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How about Taipei?
I think Taipei and Tokyo have a strong major street versus minor street/alley distinction, like Paris does. But Taipei and Paris hold to pretty uniform density across the distinction, whereas Tokyo drops to lower density in most areas off major streets.
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The United States has done only 445 tests for COVID-19, or 1.36 per million people in the country.
New Zealand has done 121 tests for COVID-19, or 24.4 per million people in the country.
Sources:
cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-nco…
health.govt.nz/news-media/ne…
populations from Wikipedia
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