Uh, that’s a pretty weird thing to say matter of fact without any further discussion. How does one get injured physically by reinstituting some public guidelines about masks and public consumption of services which had been briefly relaxed? Like I’m not even saying there’s not a story there, I’m genuinely curious what it is.
I think it’s reasonable to say policy changes around Omicron limited your exercise options. It seems clear from your comment that you’re persistent in exercising consistently. (Props for that! I know it can be challenging.)
My confusion, possibly influenced by locale and my own exercise impulses: I don’t understand how running would be safer than cycling in icy conditions. I’m in a hilly section of a hilly city, and I’ve fallen at least half a dozen times through this winter just walking my dog, so admittedly that’s part of my risk assessment. But I’m similarly cautious about level surfaces when they’re icy, and I’ve injured myself on them too. I’ve biked on level surfaces in winter storms on narrowish road bike tires, and for me the risk feels about the same. None of this means your risk assessment should be different!
But where the causal relationship doesn’t add up to me:
> so I had no choice but to go running
Yeah you did. Obviously you would prefer a different form of exercise, and it’s a shame that wasn’t available. But closing pools didn’t dictate you run. It didn’t even directly lead to that choice, as you say you would have biked if it weren’t so icy.
While both of those are lower knee impact activities, this:
> but I thought it got better
Is a common factor in re-injury. And it can happen swimming and cycling too. The likely reality is that your healing was going well enough that you pushed too hard, too soon. It happens! And probably your choice of a higher impact exercise exacerbated that.
But attributing that to covid restrictions feels… like it disconnects your own risk assessment and your own reaction to signs your body wasn’t ready for the exercise you chose.
I want to be clear, I’m not judging that! But I’m coming from a place of experience where I’ve compounded harm to myself because I wanted circumstances to be better faster than they were improving.
The article is a bit rambling and could get to the point much quicker:
* RDF can be used as a standard of data exchange
* Silicon Valley co. don’t have incentives to share data while other entities do
No real conclusion or anything out of it… it’s be nice to see something thought out there. At the same time, it’s naive to think any one standard of data format is going to get adopted, as pointed out many times by https://xkcd.com/927/
One aspect that didn’t get covered is that not all data should be open/shared, privacy is a thing.
If you’re new to data and data issues, it’s a nice explanation (esp the video). If you’re an old hat/grey beard, skip.
The prevailing view, even ("especially"?) among people who make their living doing Web work, is that a website is not actually supposed[1] to serve as a document store for the organization it ostensibly is set up to serve. Instead, it's boondoggle; the primary purpose is to signal maturity. "Do we have an app?" "Yes, we have an app." "Do we have a website?" "Yes, we have a website." These are the questions that people are interested in, like checkmarks on a line item list. The utility of these things is not a concern. It doesn't actually matter that there's a calendar or whether anyone ever looks at it, or whether that SMB's listed opening hours are accurate and stay up-to-date over time, or whether the lunch menu is available, let alone at a stable URL. Because where is the heavy lifting really supposed[1] to happen? Answer: somewhere else. On the Facebook page, or via Twitter, or through Substack, or in Office 365 or Google Workspace[2]. Sure, you hire someone to make a website, maybe you have an IT department that can "maintain" it so you can periodically file tickets to get something changed when you want to feel like you put in some work today. Of course. Of course! That's what you do. But to expect it to actually be useful? What are you, nuts?
1. Related reading: Ra <https://srconstantin.wordpress.com/2016/10/20/ra/>
2. Or, as in the case with many of the people who are in the industry: on GitHub. ("Why would we document the processes related to foo.example.com in the document depository we have running on foo.example.com? That's what the README in the associated ghost repo on GitHub is for.")
But then that somewhat affirms your point about the yes-ministerization that occurs the second information systems (which are technologically invariant) touch computers.
