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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@tabatkins Sure, spectrum is 1-D and our vision is a 3-D subspace of an ∞-D space of functions from that 1-D space to reals.
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@tabatkins Functions from {1, 2, 3} → ℝ form a 3-D vector space. Functions from ℝ → ℝ form an ∞-D vector space.
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@tabatkins No, I don't buy that distinction. They're both the result of a 3-D space.
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@tabatkins Right, and I think that any 3-D vector space is spanned by any bases is a simpler explanation for that.
@tabatkins Do you mean overlapping ranges (still independent) or that one response curve changes when another responds?
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@tabatkins Why not? Each of our 3 response curves is a vector in the ∞-dimensional vector space of possible response curves.
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@tabatkins Doesn't it just come down to that a 3 dimensional space can be spanned by any 3 orthogonal vectors?
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Why we need net neutrality: Verizon denies customers what they paid for so it can get $ from Netflix: arstechnica.com/information-…
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@helloanselm P3 is the highest I'd mark a new feature; see dbaron.org/log/20090120-bug-… . Also, messing with fields doesn't change reality.
@JamesFallows @jadmouawad I remember reading a few months ago about lack of clarity about which country running ATC over Crimea. Related?
@McMillanSean That fixes problem of 1 page acting every 10ms by slowing it to 1s, but doesn't fix 10-100 pages acting every 1s.
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@indygreg Mostly agree. But some of the info belongs in code comments. Commit messages should be about change.
...and doing something means both making tools for users to see the problems and acting on the findings.
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The Web community needs to do something about Web pages that do lots of work in background tabs when users expect them to do nothing.
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@LeaVerou Well, font-feature-settings is a very low-level control; not sure I'd expect that with dev.w3.org/csswg/css-fonts/#…
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@LeaVerou I read that as meaning ligatures for English as opposed to ligatures for Arabic.
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@LeaVerou That should happen automatically per dev.w3.org/csswg/css-text/#l… . Do you know if bugs are on file?
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@sama With the count complete sfelections.org/results/2014… it's over 15% of population (or 29.7% of registered voters). Still too low.
So Much for Obamacare Not Working (The Incompetence Dogma) by @NYTimesKrugman nyti.ms/TCNjfx
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