Engineer on @googlechrome. Involved in CSS and W3C standards. Previously @mozilla, @w3ctag. Mastodon: @dbaron@w3c.social
Rockville, Maryland, USA
Joined March 2008
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I realized I've been a member of the @csswg for more than half of my life (as of sometime late last year).
One of the results of getting involved with something when young, and staying involved...
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"It’s not good to be breaking records from the busiest season on record!" says @DrJeffMasters on Tropical Storm Elsa's becoming a named storm. Read more @CC_Yale @bhensonweather #weather yaleclimateconnections.org/2…
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(Also, I have a vague sense that git identifies things other than revisions by these hashes as well, so there may be other things I should be examining for collisions. But I'm not that much of a git expert.)
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It turns out that for the Chromium repository, 12 digits is not enough. There are two revisions in the repo whose initial 12 digits are the same, 72d496d75536. (If it weren't for that pair of revisions, 10 digits would be good enough. But 9 digits has quite a few collisions.)
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A random discovery today about the Chromium git repository at chromium.googlesource.com/ch… . git varies the length of the short hashes it shows based on an estimate of the repository's size. For Chromium it shows 12-digit short hashes.
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Left: a #PaloAlto fourplex, before the city adopted minimum parking laws.
Right: a Palo Alto fourplex, after the city adopted minimum parking laws.
Same block. Same lot size. Minimum parking laws make cities ugly.
#AB1401 #MissingMiddleHousing
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"But buying in the Bay Area has always been hard!" "NYC is dense but still unaffordable!"
Reality check: From '91-'21 it became nearly *2x HARDER* to buy here! Compare the ratios to NYC!
It was even easier in 80s when they bought!
Help stop the lies!
tinyurl.com/HomePriceIncomeR…
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If you can't imagine something like this happening in the US within the next decade, you aren't imagining hard enough. washingtonpost.com/world/eur…
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Based on my very limited understanding of the spec, it seems like both implementations are both quite incomplete (in different ways) and have a number of bugs. But the spec is quite complicated, and I'm really not sure.
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Some of the things I tried are in the demo at dbaron.org/css/test/2021/off… . Interoperability is not good... and wpt.fyi/results/css/motion?l… doesn't have very many tests.
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It turned out interoperability of CSS Motion Path (drafts.fxtf.org/motion-1/) is not very good... and I couldn't actually find a value that did what I wanted without falling back to a degenerate path ("M 0 0").
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So I wanted to test the stacking context and grouping effects of offset-path, so I thought I'd look for a value of offset-path that: (a) was supported in Firefox and Chrome and (b) didn't cause the element to move at all.
(The goal was a row in dbaron.org/css/test/2018/sta… .)
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Bullshit. It doesn’t matter if we build renewable energy if all that energy is wasted.
Replace *all* energy generation with clean, climate neutral sources, then we can talk about using the excess for play money (and after we use all that processing to cure all diseases, etc).
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Covid-19's "urban exodus" spawned a suburban scramble for slots in daycare centers, and the U.S. child care industry is now enduring a serious staffing shortage.
@patrickcsisson reports: trib.al/01Cx5Eh
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Breaking: Facebook plans to stop shielding politicians from the content rules it applies to everyone else, a sharp reversal from its position that all speech from elected officials is inherently newsworthy.
Could have big ramifications globally! theverge.com/2021/6/3/224747…
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san francisco is currently debating a shadow study of a six-story building next to transit in an affluent area.
it literally casts shadows on a maintenance facility taking up 0.1% of the park. seriously, look at this, this is the MAXIMUM shadow impact during the summer solstice
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nytimes.com/2021/05/31/world… blames proportional representation in general, but the specific rules seem likely to matter. Israel's threshold to get seats is 3.25%. In Germany it's 5% (or 3 seats), in New Zealand 5% (or 1 seat), in Sweden 4%. Denmark is 2% but also has many parties.
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Bennett: “I’m going to work with all my strength to form a unity government with my friend Yair Lapid. All the parties are invited to take part. None of us can fulfill all our ideologies but this will be a government that will not be against any part of society, but for everyone”
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May 25: While much of CA is in extreme drought, exceptional drought expanded in northern CA. Extreme drought spread from central OR into southern WA. Exceptional drought persists in southern CA, NV, UT, AZ, and NM. drought.gov #DroughtMonitor #CAwx #NMwx #AZwx #NVwx
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