Engineer on @googlechrome. Involved in CSS and W3C standards. Previously @mozilla, @w3ctag. Mastodon: @dbaron@w3c.social
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On the other hand, if the goverment in California were *actually* on top of things, they'd be doing more about the massive shortage of COVID-19 testing capacity in California right now, since fixing that is one of the prerequisites to ending shelter-in-place. 5/5
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So I wonder if the sense that the rest of the country isn't here for us helped prepare places like California and Washington better for the federal government being totally unprepared to handle a crisis. 4/5
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If something like 9/11 happened anywhere west of 98°W, would it have had the overwhelming national reaction that it did happening in New York? In California, I don't think we're ever quite sure it would. At least, I'm not, and I wonder if our elected officials think so too. 3/5
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Whether it's the constant attacks on @SpeakerPelosi for being from SF, or the difference in national coverage between an East coast hurricane or snowstorm vs. a similarly-disastrous California wildfire or Alaska earthquake, out West it feels to me like the country cares less. 2/5
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So I was thinking about the different responses to COVID-19 by governments in different parts of the United States, and wondering if state and local governments in the West did better because they make less of an assumption that the rest of the country cares about them. 1/5
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In addition to being generous, commercial landlords waiving the rent seems like good business. Better to have viable businesses as tenants once the shutdowns end, rather than a bunch of empty storefronts or new-and-unproven businesses that might be more likely to fail.
Huge shout out to Joe Cotchett for his compassion & generosity in waiving rent for his 65 retail tenants in downtown Half Moon Bay who have been forced to shut down during the #COVID19 pandemic. Our small businesses are really hurting. This is huge. #ad24 smdailyjournal.com/news/loca…
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As a school bus driver told us on a field trip through rural Delaware:
I tried chicken farming, but it didn't work out. Later I learned that the problem was that I planted them too deep.
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Agree, but downsides:
- buildings near the mall too big and too far apart midsummer or midwinter
- restaurants that treat you as less important than everyone else unless you act like you're more important than everyone else
(I spent 3.5 months there within Aug 2008-Mar 2010.)
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Yeah, agreed that R makes sense for a journalist. It's also an unusual language -- partly in ways that are useful for its domain, and I suspect partly... not?
It also depends who we're choosing to test. If we're testing people who are hospitalized with pneumonia, it's not necessarily serious trouble. If we're testing random medical staff...
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At his (our) age I think the correct question is Pascal or C++. (I think the last test in Pascal was May/June 1998 and the first test in C++ was May/June 1999.)
I'd hope that enough of the concepts you learned (in whichever of Pascal or C++ you took it in) would transfer to other programming languages today. (R is... relatively unusual. They'd probably transfer a lot better to something like Python or Javascript.)
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- anything to do with terminal 1 is very crowded
- check-in / passport control / security at terminal 2 can be very slow (took me 3 hours once)
- no or very few water fountains in terminal 2E
- have to go through security again for many transfers because of airport layout
First flight I remember: PHL-Stapleton (then DEN)
Last flight: AKL-SFO
Shortest: SZS-IVC
Longest: SFO-SYD
Favorite large airport: HKG
Least favorite airport: CDG
First that I remember: ONT-LAX (yes, in a plane!)
Shortest: ONT-LAX
Longest: SFO-SYD
Favorite airport: SFO
Least favorite airport: TXL
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Yeah, if it's brand new, maybe wait for the next rev of the distro? Running a distro/kernel older than the hardware can often be a bad time, but it generally gets better pretty quickly.
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That said, my experience running Ubuntu 19.10 on an X1 has had none of those problems, although haven't tested audio stuff on it so I can't vouch for that one.
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By "trackpad doesn't work on 50% of boots", do you mean nothing at all, or just gestures like 2-finger scroll not working? If the latter, try bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s… then bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s… ?
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