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
“Middlename” field left blank because you don't have a middlename? No address for your dad b/c he's dead?
No siblings listed because you’re an only child? Sorry, your immigration applications have all been rejected
USCIS's Kafkaesque "no blanks" policy washingtonpost.com/opinions/…
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
we can recognize the recklessness and seriousness of the Trumpian upping of the tech war without ignoring the fact that China launched it in the first place.
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I cleaned it out with a corner of a folded thick piece of paper, as suggested in support.google.com/pixelphon…
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I think someone (but I forget who) told me that cable connections to my phone's USB-C jack were loose and not connecting well because there was lint etc. in the jack. I didn't believe it at the time, but it turns out they were right. So thanks, whoever it was.
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I also dislike using the dateline for this, and would prefer relative to where I live (and the range of longitudes I've traversed the least), giving:
E: Stockholms östra station, Stockholm, Sweden
W: Ngong Ping, Hong Kong, China
If I use a broader definition, then some would change to:
N: Umferðarmiðstöðin BSÍ, Reykjavík, Iceland (an airport bus)
S: Invercargill Airport, Invercargill, New Zealand (an intercity bus)
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If I restrict to a narrow definition of public transit:
N: Badebakken, Oslo, Norway
E: either Greenlane or Ellerslie station, Auckland, New Zealand
S: Kelburn cable car station, Wellington, NZ
W: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
A twist on that furtherest N, S, E, W you've been meme... the furtherest you've been using public transit (E/W determined by intl. date line).
Mine:
N: Copenhagen
S: Melbourne
E: Sydney (Brisbane if we count interstate trains)
W: Portland, OR
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
As we head closer to peak of Atlantic hurricane season, ocean temperatures are at/near record high levels in key region. Seasonal forecasts have suggested high risk of severe hurricane season in 2020, and current level of potential "hurricane fuel" in MDR certainly supports that.
Not to beat a dead horse but, the Atlantic Main Development Region is exceptionally warm atm. Here's a plot of the OISSTv2.1 SSTa percentiles for the week ending July 20th.
Grid points that exceed the 95th percentile (within the top 3 ranks) are contoured in white
#Tropics
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
was bad for you & bad for everyone. If your understanding of the rights at stake is that those rights are & ought to be reserved for citizens, & that this protects citizens, you now have very immediate and tangible evidence for why this is a problematic way to think about rights.
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Some people's takeaway from the Portland fiasco will a commitment to dismantling CBP, ICE, and/or DHS.
This is not wrong. BUT...the real takeaway should be this:
Largely ignoring what DHS has been doing when your understanding was that they were doing it to non-citizens
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This sounds like an excellent use of the data Google has. It prevents real people from getting sick. Consent shouldn't be needed for this. The only harm I see is encouraging us to like that one company has all this information.
you know:
- google knows where you are
- google knows what you search
you probably don't know: when you search for food poisoning symptoms, google looks back in your location history the time that food poisoning takes to incubate and guesses which restaurant poisoned you
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This is quite the map (courtesy @NHC_Atlantic) for still being in July. It's well before the peak of the Atlantic hurricane season, already up to H, with one Cape Verde tropical storm now and maybe another one coming.
1. Bill Clinton
2. Al Gore
3. Nelson Mandela
4. Richard Nixon
5. Barack Obama
(I'm being a bit generous with "a few feet"; I'm including "in the same auditorium as" and "saw their motorcade go past from the sidewalk". But that makes it a little more interesting.)
List 5 famous people you've either met or have been within a few feet of, but ONE is a lie. Then let your friends guess which one they think is a lie.
1. Mickey Rourke
2. Al Pacino
3. Bobby Orr
4. James Earl Jones
5. Charlie Sheen
Who is my lie?
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
He killed George Floyd over a $20 counterfeit bill while he underreported $464,433 in joint income and owes $21,853 in taxes.
My god.
Fired Minneapolis officer Derek Chauvin and his wife are charged with tax crimes allegedly dating back to 2014. strib.mn/3fMC6nn
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Obama didn’t brag half as much about winning a Nobel Peace Prize as Trump is about passing a dementia test.
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
There is a #tsunami #warning for South #Alaska and the Alaska Peninsula for a 7.4 magnitude #earthquake. No warning yet for anywhere else. #PTWC #NTWC.
tsunami.gov/events/PAAQ/2020…
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Philly @DA_LarryKrasner is threatening to criminally charge federal agents if they are sent to Philadelphia and "assault" or "kidnap" people.
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
"In 2017, the idea of unidentified agents in camouflage snatching leftists off the streets without warrants might have seemed like a febrile Resistance fantasy. Now it’s happening," writes @michelleinbklyn. nyti.ms/3eUa6Nz
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
I should be more specific. What are Democrats going to do given that the House is voting on a DHS appropriations bill next week?
Unidentified stormtroopers. Unmarked cars. Kidnapping protesters and causing severe injuries in response to graffiti.
These are not the actions of a democratic republic.
@DHSgov’s actions in Portland undermine its mission.
Trump & his stormtroopers must be stopped.
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Old code (before tokio/futures update):
github.com/dbaron/wgmeeting-…
Old code (after tokio/futures update):
github.com/dbaron/wgmeeting-…
New code:
github.com/dbaron/wgmeeting-…
Much nicer.
(I admit I don't write a whole lot of rust, so I'm sure my code is non-idiomatic in various ways.)
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