by ezs | Apr 28, 2020 | evilzenscientist
Weekend – 65k dead in the US. With lockdowns being relaxed this is sure to climb again soon.
Friday – more discussion of return to work. Looks like at least half will be “home” and half “office” with strict cohort segregation. This is probably until at least vaccine or herd immunity.
Thursday – blood draw negative. Well – at least I know.
Wednesday – blood draw for the coronavirus antibodies test.
Tuesday – Quick teleconsult with the Doctor to discuss a coronavirus antibodies test. Short version: it’s new, unknown accuracy, no idea if there is immunity from previous exposure. I had coronavirus-like symptoms in early January; we decided it was worth the test. WA State plans limited opening of State Parks and other recreation. Still looking at continued work from home.
Monday – ten hours on the phone. WFH has turned every ad-hoc conversation into a 30 minute call. :\
Reports of COVID related illnesses affecting kids in the UK.
The Guardian and Tom Tom data shows how traffic has decreased. Seattle is dramatic.
Local and global coverage for future reference.
by ezs | Apr 26, 2020 | evilzenscientist
More of a documentation via blog. Here’s the example for PHP7.3 install on SLES 15 SP1
zypper ar http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/php:/php73/SLE_15_SP1/ obs-php73
zypper ref
zypper in php7
For the specific add of the Open Build Service repo for PHP7.3 – there’s some validation, re-installation of uninstalled PHP modules, and re-enabling of php7 in Apache. All scriptable.
by ezs | Apr 25, 2020 | evilzenscientist
The last time I did a major distro upgrade in the cloud (SLES 11 to SLES 12) it was painful.
I’ve been eyeing this blog post for a while – and waiting for a safe time to make the upgrade.
Install two RPMs and reboot? Surely not:
zypper in SLES15-Migration suse-migration-sle15-activation
reboot
Testing first – but looks like this really is that simple.
by ezs | Apr 20, 2020 | evilzenscientist
Weekend – baking, “Fifty Shades of Grain” project. Confusion, angst, anger over relaxation/return to work. 20k deaths in hospitals in the UK.
Friday – drinking/injecting Lysol fallout still ongoing. Off to buy 50lb of bread flour from the mill.
Thursday – well – that might be the end of regular BBC daily rolling summaries. I just can’t find a daily link. WA State Emergency Management had to issue this (a little tongue in cheek)
Wednesday – up early, check emails, new morning ritual is to find the BBC latest news link and post it to the table below. It’s a pain to find retrospectively.
Good chat with the kids about “flatten the curve” and calculus (who doesn’t like some more maths during home-school?) – area under the curve stays constant. Same number of cases; hopefully the peak is lower so there are less deaths. Second wave is going to be brutal.
18k deaths in UK hospitals; at some point the non-hospital deaths are going to be tallied. That will be a sizable number.
Continued discussion about “back to work” and what that might look like. I think cohorts, optional wfh will be the new norm.
Tuesday – 2.5 million global cases, 171k deaths. Trump puts immigration ban in place for 60 days, Green Card holders included. Plenty of fact checking going on.
Monday – it’s nearly May. That means working from home for most of March and all of April.
Negative oil prices (based on future contracts and the need to move crude). I half-joked that negative oil pricing was a story prompt for post-apocalyptic fiction. The Economist had an article several years ago that Russia needed oil >$80 to be viable. June forward looks stable at $20-$25/barrel.
Anti-lockdown protests look like some astroturfing.
No updates from me regarding the WA DOH data – it’s been really challenging – and I’ve found more success with other sources.
Seattle Times has a good summary (read the text)
Local and global coverage for future reference.
by ezs | Apr 14, 2020 | evilzenscientist
Weekend – good reporting from The Seattle Times and ProPublica around the Seattle Sounders game in early March that I decided not to attend. Coronavirus spiking in Yakima and other Eastern WA locations.
Friday – the week went quickly. I didn’t write daily notes. Sixth week of working from home. Lots of graphs plotting the rate of new cases around the globe – this peak seems to be over in many locations. Much discussion at work about what return to work could look like. My best guess is to reduce density there’s going to need to be at least A/B cohorts; and keep them together (i.e A is Mon/Tue, B is Wed/Thu, Fri work from home) so you don’t cross contaminate groups.
BBC News has a horrible search; also searching for “yesterdays live coverage” is really hard.
Thursday – heavy pollen triggering massive allergies for some. Industrial food has caused some hotspots in meat processing plants. There’s a potential shortage of meat coming.
Wednesday – Trump de-funds WHO. 15% funding lost on a pique. 2 million global cases of coronavirus. WA state positive tests peaked on 28 March.
Ran a Zoom meeting for 5th LD Dems with online voting to confirm endorsements. More folk online than would come to a regular meeting. Maybe this is how we run meetings in the future?
Tuesday – “Reopen America” is trending
Monday – I have to admit – the work week (and to an extent the weekends) are becoming somewhat of a blur. This week should be Spring Break; normally we would have headed away for a few days. Instead everyone is at home.
Kids are into the routine of school in the morning, doing something creative and constructive in the afternoon. Today they made dinner and baked challah bread.
Trump press briefing is just trash.
Local and global coverage for future reference.
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