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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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
I'm really happy about how our AudioWorklet impl turned out, it took a long time to spec and implement it with the level of quality we wanted. In this post, we talk a bit about what happened behind the scenes, and what you can expect in the future, that will make it even better!
🔊Audio Worklets landed in the release of #Firefox 76.
Developers can now leverage Audio Worklet to write arbitrary audio processing code. This exciting new functionality raises the bar for web experiences like 3D games, #VR and music production. 🕶️🎮🎵 hacks.mozilla.org/2020/05/hi…
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
it seems like people internalized the "flatten the curve" argument but never quite grasped the test-trace-isolate stuff that would cut it down to nothing. Trump wasted 8 weeks not doing that and so now people are getting antsy
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Did anybody else go to check if this is *actually* what the Google Trends graph look like?
It basically does match: trends.google.com/trends/exp…
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
In times of crisis, the American people deserve a president who tells them the truth and takes responsibility. Donald Trump has not been that president.
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
If you look at the country minus NY, from April 25 to May 1, cases have GROWN from 24322 to 28437. So outside of NY, positive cases are increasing by 17%/week.
EVEN IF CASE GROWTH DOESN’T GO UP, that would put us over 50,000 new cases every day outside of NY by Memorial Day. 13/
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For example (numbers need tuning!), set the gas tax each week to the larger of:
- the tax that makes the post-tax price its 50th percentile over the past 5 years
- the smaller of (a) 50th percentile tax *amount* (not %) over the past 5 years or (b) relevant externalities
I'd love to see a tax on carbon-based fuels structured to auto-rachet up when oil/gas prices dip. This would let us gradually ease in increasing the prices to account for the negative externalities that we should be including in the price.
A gas tax makes sense with the dip in oil prices and Berkeley should put one up on the ballot.
A rideshare tax is pointless on an industry that's on the verge of total collapse right now. A gas tax is a secure revenue source and is in line with our climate and transpo. goals
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The "unusual alliances" here are the Supreme Court aligning by age. The majority is the 5 justices age 65 and under; the dissent is from the 4 justices age 70 and older. (Seems likely to hold up, at least!)
Maybe not so surprising on a technology-related issue? cc @jswalden
Georgia Can’t Copyright Its Entire State Code, the Supreme Court Rules nytimes.com/2020/04/27/us/po…
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
The Supreme Court's decision is a vindication of the ACA's original structure. If the money had been paid out years ago as intended, it no doubt would have stabilized the marketplace and given consumers more choice. Now, it's basically a $12 billion windfall for insurers.
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Hidden feature not mentioned: uses same version number on Windows (previously 4.6), Mac (also previously 4.6), and Linux (previously 3.5) so that you can stop being confused about what the current zoom version should be.
(Anyway, if you have an old version installed, update!)
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
YOUR WEEKEND READING: A very speedy team of people put this together on just what happened during the unprecedented collapse in oil markets on Monday (special h/t to The Architect aka @jfarchy) --> The 20 Minutes That Broke the U.S. Oil Market bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
For the last month, I’ve been trying to figure out why New York and Seattle fared so different in the pandemic. The result came out today in @NewYorker:
newyorker.com/magazine/2020/…
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Hurricanes at home? Maybe the kids' parents already have enough to deal with without a hurricane. 😜
That said, 5th or 6th grade me would have been excited for this.
ATTENTION 4th, 5th, and 6th GRADERS! Our hurricane forecasters will be hosting a series of #HurricanesAtHome webinars over the next several weeks. Click the link below for more information on registering and to find the dates for where you live!
nhc.noaa.gov/pdf/Hurricane_a…
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After I got back, it didn't seem like it was a good idea to go to the office if I didn't need to... so I haven't been to the office since February 21.
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And then, interestingly, the most recent colleague I saw in person was @rocallahan, who I saw on March 6 when I took a 7 hour layover in Auckland in order to stop by for the morning plus lunch before my flight home.
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Later on March 5 was the most recent time I saw others I currently work with, @w3ctag colleagues @cssrossen @sundress @kennethrohde @plinss @wz43rtx and @hober.
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In particular, they're interesting because I traveled for a @w3ctag meeting in Wellington as we were realizing the magnitude of community spread in Santa Clara County.
The other Mozilla employee who I've seen in person most recently was Matt Woodrow, in Wellington, on March 5.
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