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An important step to avoiding "too light" or "too heavy" is getting consistency from display to display, which requires some form of color management. Though maybe you're talking about some other form of gamma correction?
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This looks heftier than a typical NTSB Aircraft Accident Report. (You've read some of those, right? For some reason I find AAR1201 interesting...)
I disagree with @tabatkins about Fahrenheit being better for humans; I think the size of a degree is better in Celsius, where a degree difference in temperature is perceivable, rather than Fahrenheit where we tend to say "low 60's" and "mid 70's" all the time.
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Today was the latest sunrise this winter in the San Francisco Bay Area (7:25am in San Francisco). Starting tomorrow, sunrise will be getting earlier.
Sunsets in San Francisco are now getting later again.
(But the latest sunrise this winter isn't until January 5.)
See timeanddate.com/sun/usa/san-… . And en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equati… if this is surprising.
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It would be great if we took road, rail, pedestrian, and bicycle safety as seriously as we took aviation safety. nitter.vloup.ch/B_M_Finnigan/sta…
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I don't think locals should have the power to obstruct progress the way they do in the operations of many local governments. Many call that "rights", and I don't agree.
But it would be great to fix the historical inequity of placing the burden on the poor and non-white.
It's the last week of December, so time for Chinese cities to open the new subway lines that were promised to open in 2017.
(If only the US could do this amount of subway construction!)
Guangzhou today:
🚇 Opened 3 new metro lines + 1 line extension.
🚉 50 miles of new lines.
🚃 Metro already serves >7 million riders/day, 5th highest in the world.
🚞 It has now passed New York in metro system mileage.
xinhuanet.com/english/2017-1… thatsmags.com/guangzhou/post…
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AB2299 and SB1069 passed in 2016, no? See, e.g., sfchronicle.com/24hrsale/art…
I don't think we're seeing the effects of this year's housing legislation yet.
Have they done it for trips involving multiple carriers or where the best rebooking is on another carrier? (Think intercontinental travel. Also see other replies.)
My past experiences with cancellations have been pretty reasonable for domestic travel, and bad for international when those conditions hold.
I suspect it all falls apart when there are multiple airlines in the itinerary, or when a reasonable rerouting requires different airlines...
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Why haven't airlines automated the process of rebooking flights following cancellations and major delays? Needing to talk to a human in order to get a new itinerary confirmed is a huge pain for those flying and probably a big cost for the airlines.
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Or just add the * to the end of @overholt's link
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Have a look at drafts.csswg.org/css-variabl… . I'd give you an MDN link, but @Twitter breaks it since it ends with a *.
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Sunsets in San Francisco are now getting later again.
(But the latest sunrise this winter isn't until January 5.)
See timeanddate.com/sun/usa/san-… . And en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equati… if this is surprising.
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Are the proposed housing growth numbers actually big enough to count as taking the shortage seriously? My suspicion is that they aren't:
Proposal from @SadiqKhan for housing growth in London looks like 2% growth per year, which seems pretty weak (considering the demand from people who want to move into London) if you want housing costs to go down. (Baseline from 7.1 of london.gov.uk/sites/default/… .)
I'm really hoping that major sites that support U2F will also support WebAuthN, and soon.
(I bought a FIDO USB key in anticipation over a year ago and still haven't had a chance to use it!)
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I'm running for reelection to the @w3ctag.
If you work for a @w3c member company, encourage your AC representative to vote: w3.org/2017/12/01-tag-nomina…
(Public list of member companies is w3.org/Consortium/Member/Lis… ; private list of AC reps is w3.org/Member/ACList .)
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