ITHCWY Newsletter for March 2022
Exclusive transcript of the speech that Biden should have delivered: Build Back Betterer.
What is the San Francisco Rent Board Fee?
Catfood WebCamSaver 3.27 is out. This has a big increase in the list of working webcams and so definitely worth upgrading (or trying for the first time).
Code: I fix a pet peeve with Todoist so the Alexa Integration sets a due date. Also, here's how to use the new Google Search Console API to monitor the index status of your pages. Both in Google Apps Script.
Timelapse: San Francisco Shoreline. Sunsets 8 (Nice Pacific view from my roof) and 9 (the March 27 storm in San Francisco). Both sides of the Golden Gate.
Hikes: I don't recommend the perimeter of Treasure Island (at least not trying the whole of it). I absolutely do endorse Mount Davidson. And San Bruno Mountain.
Previously:
- 2021: One Year of Tides Animated (with Sun and Moon)
- 2020: Backup locked files on Windows 10: Volume Shadow Copy Update
- 2019: Age and Life Expectancy Weighted Voting
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Links for January 2022
The New York Times: Twitter Permanently Suspends Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Account
Do they mean revoked?
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ITHCWY Newsletter for December 2021
Some Catfood updates - WebCamSaver has been migrated to .NET 4.8 and has a code signing certificate (less nagging from Windows during install) and updated notifications. The list of webcams has also been updated. Catfood Earth for Android now supports Material You. This was so painful that there is a companion 'making of' post so I can whine about it.
With all the news about San Francisco's crime tsunami I decided to look at the data. Here's an animation of all the crime from 2003 to 2021. Spoiler alert, the only really interesting trend is that there is less of it, and 2020 was a massive dip which makes all of the year on year increase statistics being paraded around at the moment a little less interesting. There is a good contrarian take in The Atlantic as well: The Great Shoplifting Freak-Out.
A few hikes in southern California: Sawmill Flats (in Mount San Jacinto State Park), Ladder Canyon and Painted Canyon (amazing) and Barker Dam and Wall Street Mill (in Joshua Tree NP). One in Sonoma: Creekside Trail to Big Leaf Trail Loop.
Windows 11... it's great except for the bits you need to use.
Also a Barn Owl.
Previously:
- 2020: Accessing Printer Press ESC to cancel
- 2019: Winter Solstice 2019
- 2018: Pulling the plug on Facebook and Twitter, Tweet Archive
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Links for December 2021
Pluto should be reclassified as a planet, say some scientists
Yes.
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Links for November 2021
Mimica, which automates RPA, raises $6M Series A funding led by Khosla Ventures
I'm holding out for the company that automates robotic process automation automation.
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ITHCWY Newsletter for October 2021
Continuing my Catfood Software refresh I have added a detailed WebCamSaver Guide as a companion to the Catfood Earth post. I also released Catfood Earth 4.20. This is a minor feature release (with the 2021d time zone database) but has a lot of upgrades behind the scenes. I've migrated to .net 4.8 and renewed my code signing certificate both of which make it much easier to install on Windows 10 (and 11). Upgrade notifications died when I moved Catfood Software to ITHCWY, with this release there is a new web service so Earth can tell you when thee is a new version available. Similar changes will come to WebCamSaver soon.
Are US schools too obsessed with sports?
Some fun with crystals and Adobe super resolution - I don't think they trained the AI on crystals.
Hikes: Adobe Creek, remnants in the sunset, Twin Peaks and Sugarloaf Ridge State Park.
I might buy more of your podcasts if you stop making them too long.
A milky way timelapse from Sugarloaf Ridge State Park.
Fleet week came back to San Francisco. Photos and timelapse.
Previously:
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Fog Heart
Sometimes even Karla The Fog leaves her heart in (or near) San Francisco. Seen on the excellent fog.today.
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Links for September 2021
Snap Out of It, America: Give Kids the Right to Vote
So I disagree with this but it's interesting and well argued. A better idea is my life expectancy weighted voting plan.
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The ease of mail-in voting may increase turnout in California’s recall election.
NYT finally twigs.
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A woman is suing S.F. for $50 million over a parking ticket, saying tire chalk is unconstitutional
In one of the cases, filed Sept. 4, plaintiff Maria Infante seeks $50 million and class-action status after a San Francisco parking enforcement officer wielding chalk on a residential street gave her a $95 ticket.
The second case, filed the same day against San Leandro, demands $5 million for class members whose tires were chalked to financially benefit the city.
Civilization continues to collapse. I had my tongue in my cheek for this proposed constitutional amendment but I'm not so sure any more...
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How to Call Customer Service and Actually Get What You Want
Wired has this generic article on getting support with some insights that might have been cutting age a decade ago. I'm still waiting for CAPTGUAs.
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ITHCWY Newsletter for August 2021
ITHCWY voter guide to the 2021 gubernatorial recall. Keep Gavin!
Improving my storage habits with folder insights.
Time lapse of stars over Redding, California.
Adventures growing crystals from a National Geographic kit.
A small WebCamSaver update.
Hikes - around the perimeter road of Angel Island, Teague Hill Preserve, and Echo Lake in Lassen.
ITHCWY interviews every coronavirus expert.
Previously:
- 2020: West Portal Sunset
- 2019: Life, Non-locality and the Simulation Hypothesis
- 2018: Draw the rest of the Hummingbird
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Every Coronavirus Article
As a public service we interviewed every coronavirus expert from every hospital and public health department to get definitive advice on how to think about COVID-19 and navigating the current state of the pandemic.
ITHCWY: With the rise of the more infectious Delta variant, how should the vaccinated approach returning to bars, restaurants and even the office?
ECE: Great question. I think people should be asking themselves two questions. First, how vulnerable are you to infection? Do you have comorbidities brought on by having been alive for more than a few years? Do your cells accept or reject spike proteins? Second, what is your personal tolerance for badly quantified risks?
ITHCWY: What about families where the parents are vaccinated but there might be younger kids who aren't eligible?
ECE: Families are in a tough spot. As well as considering your own unknown vulnerability and appetite for risk, parents should also consider how likely their children are to get infected and the various articles they have read about unprecedented increases in vanishingly rare side effects that are overwhelming health providers at unconcerning levels.
ITHCWY: Your education and career have prepared you to quantify absolute and relative risks for infectious diseases, correct?
ECE: That's right. Not sure why you'd be interviewing me otherwise.
ITHCWY: Let's move on to outdoor risk. Last year there was a lot of talk of maintaining six feet of separation. Is this still the best advice?
ECE: It was the best advice we had available at the time. It turns out that six feet came from a Japanese marketing campaign in the '60s and has been passed on from public health expert to public health expert until the origins were entirely forgotten. The Japanese character for 6 looks a lot like a man standing to one side while a virus particle lands harmlessly next to him and so it kind of stuck. Cute, but it turns out there is little data to suggest it should be 6 feet rather than 4 or 20.
ITHCWY: So in 2021 what sort of distance should we leave when passing others?
ECE: It's a heavily populated planet. If you're moving further away from one person you're getting close to another. Instead of absolute distance I'd consider if that total stranger is vaccinated, what their hygiene habits are like, do they look like they'd cough into their elbow or directly at your face. That kind of thing. And as always you should consider your likelihood of infection from that specific person as well as the risks you've already taken and may yet take that day.
ITHCWY: More and more businesses are installing carbon dioxide sensors. Do you think this is a helpful trend?
ECE: As we all know ventilation is incredibly important in an indoor environment. It's also important that we use common sense. If you think 400 parts per million is a good level of CO2, good for you. If your spider sense thinks it should be more like 20%, knock yourself out.
ITHCWY: Is there a level of CO2 that would make you, for instance, stand up and leave a restaurant and go somewhere else?
ECE: Yes.
ITHCWY: Thanks for your time today. I'm sure our readers feel that all of their questions have been cleared up.
ECE: You're welcome.