Engineer on @googlechrome. Involved in CSS and W3C standards. Previously @mozilla, @w3ctag. Mastodon: @dbaron@w3c.social
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I'd note that I'm giving these instructions from memory without testing them... because the site in question is tedious enough to use that I wasn't about to go through a round of getting a dataset. But if you want a bunch of historical climate data, NCDC is the way to go...
L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Here are the forecast gusts from our internal 1km fire weather focused wrf model. This is the best model data we have. The gray dots represent recent hotspots from the #KincadeFire. This data shows the strongest wind gusts (~80mph) developing near these hot spots. #cawx #cafire
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Then probably query for the daily summaries data at the same URL, unless you're looking for hourly. (e.g., looks like it has data for SF downtown from 1921-01-01 to 2019-10-15)
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I suspect you can get the daily normals data from ncdc.noaa.gov/cdo-web/datato…
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Also interpretation of European arrow symbols for things like "turn around and go the other way" or "go up/down this escalator" is a bit different from American ones. (I *think* East Asia tends to match America reasonably well on this, though.)
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Now is the time
to open the box
of the air purifier
that I bought in January
when the price was (perhaps) lower
because I knew
there would be another fire
burning another part of California
and sending smoke into the Bay Area.
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So I think the basic problem was that there wasn't obvious-enough signage at the escalator that you needed to go up in order to get to the departures level to get to BART.
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Also cc @RebeccaForBART (mainly for @torgo's original message in this thread; I doubt BART has power over the signage inside SFO).
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I guess I'm familiar enough with the airport to not need signs, so I don't notice if there are/aren't any. In any case, BART is attached to the *departures* level of the international terminal, so from arrivals, you need to turn right from the customs exit & go up the escalator.
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
”After 100 years, San Francisco is calling for an end to its disastrous pilot project for dockless personal vehicles, colloquially known as cars.” medium.com/@oliviagage/san-f…
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Yet *another* crazy paper on the adverse impacts of air pollution, this time on crime: sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
Coverage in @TheEconomist: economist.com/graphic-detail…
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
If Taylor's silence is understandable, even sympathetic, think of all the well meaning people in key government jobs around the world trying hard to keep things on the rails who are sitting on secrets because they think they’ve prevailed to stop some hideous corruption.
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I just replied as well -- with a slightly different take, I think.
(I saw the twitter mentions before, but I was on vacation and was trying to vacation correctly!)
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Anecdotally, the comment in nytimes.com/2019/10/05/world… that Paris congestion and pollution are worse now seems spot-on; drivers seem more aggressive than even a year ago, such as by routinely gridlocking intersections. Is that illegal in Paris? Would more enforcement help?
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Remarkable: @IEA is calling out #SUVs as No 2 contributor to the increase in global #CO2 emissions since 2010 after the power sector -- but ahead of heavy industry, trucks and aviation. Time for regulatory action! iea.org/newsroom/news/2019/o…
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
it would be really great to have an agency we could trust to address public safety concerns
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It's more fun to change gauge and voltage *without* changing rolling stock. Forward one car. Clunk-clunk. Clunk-clunk. Forward one car. etc.
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This reminds me that there are some good hikes connecting Taipei Metro terminals (e.g., Xindian to Maokong, although probably better to use a cab/bus to shortcut a bit at the Xindian end).
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