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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"Had the courts failed to take such action ... as many as five million votes might have been lost" newyorker.com/talk/comment/2…
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@stubbornella @pamelafox @getify That's true for :hover and :active in quirks mode only (in at least some browsers). Not in standards mode.
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A good proposal from @mattyglesias to end the massive government subsidies for living in hurricane-prone areas: slate.com/blogs/moneybox/201…
I made a substantive update to dbaron.org/css/intrinsic/ to better explain width distribution to columns (plenty more work needed, though).
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@meyerweb Unfortunately some people have a totally different solution in mind: theatlantic.com/politics/arc… (makes me angry)
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@krnasz Did you add in property taxes too? (Less depressing that way.)
On US broadband inferiority: harry-lewis.blogspot.com/201… by @HarryRoyLewis reviewing book by @scrawford
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@sayrer en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:S… shows runway heading 192.2°, with 15.6° magnetic declination (true heading 207.8°). (How's that for geek out?)
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@sayrer It's really closer to north than east, especially when you use magnetic north (which is what runway headings use, hence 19L/19R).
The gun violence that doesn't dominate the national news for a week: truth-out.org/opinion/item/1…
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Acronym of the week: Synthetic Personnel Using Dielectric Substitution (SPUDS): economist.com/blogs/babbage/…
@rcabanier Sure, setlocale() racing across threads might not crash. But if thread 1 changes locale temporarily, thread 2 gets it too.
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New-ish blog post: Beware of locale-specific behavior in the C library: dbaron.org/log/20121222-loca…
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Not so new blog post: Eating dogfood and shipping software: dbaron.org/log/20121119-dogf…
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@tabatkins @sgalineau I offer a few more links in the first paragraph of dbaron.org/log/2006-08#e2006…
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@TedMielczarek One could argue that it includes nuclear weapons. Just wait until we argue whether a >25 kiloton ban is constitutional.
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Prelim. 2011 numbers: US has 95 motor vehicle deaths/day, 105 suicides (54 by gun), 44 homicides (30 by gun) cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr6… p41-42
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