{"id":13707,"date":"2024-04-21T01:05:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-21T07:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=13707"},"modified":"2024-04-21T14:54:49","modified_gmt":"2024-04-21T20:54:49","slug":"__trashed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=13707","title":{"rendered":"4.21"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This post covered my experimentation with the technical aspects of Apple\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mikeswanson.com\/post\/747761863530528768\/apples-mysterious-fisheye-projection\">fisheye projection format<\/a> (Vision Pro). Along the way, it\u2019s been fun to collaborate with Andrew, Paul, and others to work through the details. And while we were unable to arrive at a 100% solution, we\u2019re most definitely within range.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Port of Oakland Board of Commissioners unanimously voted this week to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2024-04-13\/oakland-officials-vote-to-rename-airport\">change the name of Oakland International Airport<\/a> to San Francisco Bay Oakland International Airport, infuriating San Francisco officials who&nbsp;<a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sfcityattorney.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/CAO-Ltr-to-Port-of-Oakland-re-OAK-Renaming.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">promised to sue<\/a>&nbsp;over the decision.<\/p>\n\n\nA conference on National Conservatism is proceeding today in Brussels after a <a href=\"https:\/\/gript.ie\/court-overrules-attempted-shutdown-of-brussels-conservative-conference-following-legal-challenge\/\">Belgian court ruled in the event\u2019s favour<\/a> against a police shutdown ordered by the local mayor, in what has been hailed as a \u201cvictory for free speech\u201d.<br><Br>\n\nBarcelona bus route <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/apr\/16\/barcelona-bus-route-removed-map-apps-tourist-overcrowding-park-guell\">removed from map apps<\/a> to tackle tourist overcrowding.<br><Br>\n\nTake, for example, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.neh.gov\/article\/joseph-priestley-created-revolutionary-maps-time\">A Chart of Biography<\/a>, which is considered to be the first modern timeline. This unusual, and unusually beautiful, pedagogical tool, which was published by Priestley in 1765, while he was in his thirties and working as a tutor at an academy in Warrington, England, tends to get lost in the shuffle of Priestley\u2019s more notable achievements\u2014his seminal 1761 textbook on language, The Rudiments of English Grammar, say, or his discovery of nine gases, including oxygen, 13 years later.<br><Br>\n\nI went to Cairo, Illinois, the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dlknowles\/status\/1781024835709141104?s=12\">capital of the fastest-shrinking county<\/a> in America, and wrote about why in the future, much larger parts of America are likely to lose population.<br><Br>\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/videos\/politics\/2024\/04\/10\/the-lead-trump-biden-presidential-accomplishments-tapper.cnn\">Report card comparing<\/a> Biden &#038; Trump&#8217;s accomplishments.<br><Br>\n\nHow Amazon built an <a href=\"https:\/\/theprogressplaybook.com\/2024\/04\/15\/how-amazon-built-a-massive-ev-charging-network-in-just-two-years\/\">unrivalled EV charging network<\/a> in just two years.<br><Br>\n\nHospital prices for the <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/2024\/04\/hospital-prices-for-the-same-emergency-care-vary-up-to-16x-study-finds\/\">same emergency care vary up to 16X<\/a>, study finds.<br><Br>\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2024\/04\/16\/john-eastman-donald-trump-attorney-debanked-bank-of-america-usaa\/\">\u2018Rather Despicable\u2019<\/a>: John Eastman Speaks Out After Bank Of America, USAA Shut Down His Accounts","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post covered my experimentation with the technical aspects of Apple\u2019s fisheye projection format (Vision Pro). Along the way, it\u2019s been fun to collaborate with Andrew, Paul, and others to work through the details. And while we were unable to arrive at a 100% solution, we\u2019re most definitely within range. The Port of Oakland Board [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13707"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13707"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13716,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13707\/revisions\/13716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}