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Probably another few km of side trips and then maybe 8km of GPS error? Calculating distances from a sequence of points is hard because you have to decide what is error to smooth away and what's real.
Anyway, probably still longer than the 60km Yosemite hike (but different GPS).
Maybe flickr.com/photos/dbaron/alb… is also a good answer for the "why". (Day 2, with all the photos of the mountain peaks poking above the clouds, was the highlight.)
(I was actually expecting my 5-day Yosemite hike to be longer, but it wasn't.)
81km. The Kepler Track. strava.com/activities/835747… strava.com/activities/835746… strava.com/activities/835743… strava.com/activities/835740… .
Why? I had two weeks between github.com/w3ctag/meetings/b… and wiki.csswg.org/planning/sydn… , wanted to see the South Island, and @rocallahan invited me.
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
As @photomatt points out here, the Web3 discussion seems to retcon Web2 as if centralization had been its goal.
But Web1 and Web2, like Web3, thought they were decentralizing. Right up until market forces and human behavior started pushing the other way.
People seem to be redefining Web 2.0 as Facebook, etc, that own data, but Web 2.0 at the time was platforms like WordPress, Odeo, Six Apart, Flickr, Technorati, and del.icio.us that had open data and interoperated. flickr.com/photos/ross/49490…
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Here's what this triangle of RE zoning looks like on Zillow. The lot with the SB9 development proposal is the one labeled 4.54M on the west side. It's a 1-acre lot.
The upper-right is "regular" Palo Alto R-1 for comparison.
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I bet the RE zone within Barron Park is even higher:
It's both amazing and appropriate that this has happened in the RE zoning district.
For those unfamiliar with Palo Alto zoning, RE is its most Atherton-like zone. 1 acre minimum lot size, etc.
It's mostly used in the hills, except this small triangle west of Bol Park.
Palo Alto zoning maps: cityofpaloalto.org/files/ass…
Zoning code for RE: codelibrary.amlegal.com/code…
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That little triangle of RE is among the excesses of exclusive zoning in Palo Alto. It's adjacent to Palo Alto's largest area zoned for office, which houses prominent tech companies like HP.
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It's both amazing and appropriate that this has happened in the RE zoning district.
For those unfamiliar with Palo Alto zoning, RE is its most Atherton-like zone. 1 acre minimum lot size, etc.
It's mostly used in the hills, except this small triangle west of Bol Park.
It's official: Palo Alto will be one of (if not *the*) first cities in California to see new housing built under #SB9.
Where a single home stood on a 1 acre lot, 4 new homes will rise. Progress!
paloaltoonline.com/news/2022…
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Palo Alto has counted all ADUs as above-moderate since 2018, presumably so that they don't miss their above-moderate RHNA target (otherwise I think they would have) and end up subject to SB35 streamlining for units with 10% affordable housing.
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Accurately forecasted might be a bit of a stretch. Fredericksburg area got about 14 inches of snow. 9pm Sunday forecast called for 5-8 in, 3am Monday forecast increased to 5-10 in. Most of the snow had fallen by noon Monday.
But the mess happened as/after the snow ended.
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Some of the snowplow drivers here appeared to understand that their goal was to get snow from being on the road to being off the road. Others just appeared to be creating two ridges of snow separated by the width of a snowplow.
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Vandenberg Air Force Base?
Coastal California temperate weather, maybe less earthquake risk than SF or LA, and the chance to build something dense?
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There might be less of a problem when the content people see is what they choose to see rather than what engagement-driven algorithms chose.
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I find city budgets in the US hard to compare given the variation in what's included, and when many of the things sometimes included (e.g., hospitals (recall US medical billing), airports) have large budgets with relatively small subsidy/profit from/to the general budget.
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It's nice to be ahead on rainfall for the year, for a change.
(by enough to keep us ahead for a few weeks I think)
Preliminary station-based precipitation departure from normal in 2021. At the annual scale, a lot of highly impactful seasonal anomalies are muted. Still, an overall drier than normal year.
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