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Tue Aug 31 06:00:01 EDT 2021 ======================================== Slept from ten-thirty to six-thirty. Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 70s. North winds 5 to 10 mph. Thirty-five-minute walk in the morning. Sunny. Saw and heard morning doves, blue jays. Heard crickets. Saw a chipmunk. Work ---------------------------------------- - disable AD accounts of maintenance guys who never log in Done. - investigate Entrata PO's for Jo Done. Home ---------------------------------------- - Pick up groceries 12–1 Done. Dishwasher stopped working. Sigh. All the cheap crap in this apartment has broken, and I haven't felt like having it fixed because of the pandemic. https://daid.github.io/EmptyEpsilon/ > EmptyEpsilon is a spaceship bridge simulator game. It's fully open source, so it can be modified in any way people wish. https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/08/teacher-with-covid-symptoms-went-maskless-making-her-class-an-experiment/ > The school in question was a small one, with only a bit over 200 students and 24 staff. It is an elementary school, meaning that its student population is also younger than the cutoff for approved vaccine use. The school did a number of things right, though. Class sizes were kept small, and individual classes were kept in separate rooms, with doors and windows kept open and air filtration equipment installed. There was also a standing policy requiring mask use in place. > But not everything was ideal. The CDC notes that two of the 24 staff members were unvaccinated. While the vaccinated can clearly transmit the delta variant, they are likely to be less infectious, and in a worst case they'd be infectious for a shorter period of time. > One of the unvaccinated staff members, a teacher, began experiencing congestion and fatigue on May 19, problems that they ascribed to allergies. (The "allergies or COVID?" internal conversation is one I suspect most of us have had within the past year.) The individual went for a test but ran into a systemic problem: It took two days for the results of the test to come back. This problem was then compounded by a couple of poor choices. The teacher put too much stock in their self-diagnosis of allergies and continued going to school. And during that time, while reading to class, the teacher removed their mask. > On May 23, the test results came back and confirmed that the teacher was infected. > At this point, the school district again responded well, shutting classrooms and starting widespread testing. But by this point, at least 12 of the 22 students in the class were infected (the parents of two students declined testing). In the two rows of seats that were closest to the teacher, eight of the nine students who were tested had infections. For the rest of the class, 28 percent of the students were infected. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28351618 https://dotplan.online/ > Dotplan is an API specification through which the technically capable can express their personalities (or lack thereof) with one another. A modern, decentralized re-imagining of the Unix plan file. It uses minisign to verify authenticity. Good sources of N95 masks in this thread: https://ask.metafilter.com/356940/What-mask-to-upgrade-to https://ppe.honeywell.com/collections/respiratory/products/honeywell-df300-disposable-respirator Read more of Effective C. Servings: grains 3/6, fruit 1/4, vegetables 3/4, dairy 1/2, meat 1/3, nuts 1/0.5 Brunch: orange, cucumber, bean burrito, coffee Dinner: ramen with vegetables and sausage

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