Engineer on @googlechrome. Involved in CSS and W3C standards. Previously @mozilla, @w3ctag. Mastodon: @dbaron@w3c.social
Rockville, Maryland, USA
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As I suspected, not much demand in the US:
A lack of public awareness about the shots or the prevailing narrative that the pandemic is ending might have hindered the vaccine rollout, a Yale Medicine infectious disease specialist says. nbcnews.to/3R8D7rC
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I was always suspicious of the change when it went from being relatively straightforward to go from Mozilla's homepage to figure out how to get involved... to being nearly impossible.
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There's reading cursive... and then there's doing genealogy research and finding records that are written in Russian cursive on the left page and Hebrew on the right page. (I'd have substantially less trouble with upright Russian than with either.)
In my dotage, I somehow assumed that students who don’t learn cursive would still be able to read it. This, from Drew Gilpin Faust, is mind-blowing. theatlantic.com/magazine/arc…
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The old fashioned API for this is routing number and account number. Not the best API by any stretch, but much better than username and password.
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The new terminal at the north end of Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport looks operational, based on Google Maps "satellite" view.
Boarding a 747 by stairs from the tarmac is quite impressive, though.
(I think that was United at Frankfurt.)
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The extreme case of this is Philadelphia airport terminal F, which was built to be 100% jet bridges to small planes.
It was built to serve as the small planes part of US Airways's hub. (They since merged with America West and were acquired by American.)
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More like an enclave within the Google campus. Though it's maybe a 3-5 minute walk from the building that's considered headquarters.
From 2005-2008 I worked in the complex it was at the entrance of, when Mozilla's office was there, and the complex wasn't yet part of Google.
The data are now out, and my assumption was correct. Begich would have won in the final round against Peltola. nitter.vloup.ch/AaronBlake/statu…
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He reasonably (for him, not reasonably for those blaming him) expects to be blamed when Europe doesn't have enough fuel to heat houses this winter, large numbers of people die of cold, etc. He doesn't have an easy job right now (even more so than normal).
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In the US, I suspect the reason *anyone over 12 who wants to* can get a BA.4/BA.5 booster is that not many people want to.
It was pretty quiet where I got vaccinated yesterday and I can't imagine they could roll out this quickly if there was more demand.
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You think New Zealand is going to become a republic when they couldn't even change their flag to something that is recognizable to most outsiders as different from the Australian flag?
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Lack of access to health care is also a big problem in the US.
My impression is that the rural health system in China is not great, but it seems believable that it's more effective health care than what the uninsured get in the US.
I think there were a few weeks in 2018 when the waters off San Diego county were probably warm enough to support a hurricane. With global warming, at some point all the factors might line up and an actual hurricane could hit San Diego...
Another sea-surface temperature record was broken today, August 8. Scripps scientists with @shoresta100 measured a water temp of 79.2°F (26.3°C) at the end of Scripps Pier.
In the US BA.4/BA.5/original boosters are widely available this week. The latest date I've heard, from a few parts of the country, is "couldn't get an appointment until next week."
Probably that's a sign of low demand.