Engineer on @googlechrome. Involved in CSS and W3C standards. Previously @mozilla, @w3ctag. Mastodon: @dbaron@w3c.social
Rockville, Maryland, USA
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dime (0.10 USD) / quarter (0.25) / half dollar (0.5) have consistent weight/value, and were mostly silver pre-1965. nickel (0.05) and penny (0.01) were less valuable metals and thus worth less.
I'm struggling to think of a country where coin size strictly increases with value.
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(I get most of my news on Caltrain from caltrain-hsr.blogspot.com/ and @alevin's posts on greencaltrain.com/ .)
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Still have to hope they pick a not-horrible route for the downtown extension, make the right technology choices for joint HSR/Caltrain operations on the tracks, find funding for the rest of the pieces, and aren't shot down by local governments...
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* Caltrain electrification construction is underway caltrain.com/projectsplans/C…
* new electric cars to have doors at 2 levels
* Downtown extension (DTX) funding is in regional measure 3 (RM3) for June ballot mtc.ca.gov/our-work/advocate…
* haven't heard concrete plans for level boarding
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Menu cards. Menu cards! Like on real airlines.
My usual response to “Chicken or Pasta?” is “Sorry, what did you say the sauce on the pasta was?” because I couldn't hear the inaudible announcement.
(Recently had a @united attendant ask dinner choice as "Chinese or Italian?”)
Delta recently began offering complimentary sparkling wine and "upgraded flatware" to its economy-class flyers econ.st/2IBKSVh
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nitter.vloup.ch/BenRossTransit/s… disagrees with the claim that human-driven cars are (so far) deadlier
US has 1 traffic fatality per 85 million miles driven. Uber's self-driving cars have driven ~3 million miles & killed one person
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Though I think there is some element of customer dissatisfaction, but maybe it's only among the technological and political elites?
Sure. But I also think that concrete definition is substantively different from what it was in 2000, both in including more types of low level techniques and in including attacks that depends on the user's interaction with the interface.
I'm not entirely sure what the equivalents would be in search and recommendation algorithms. I'm not an expert in those fields. But I think if the best minds in those fields see it as a problem to be solved, there will be serious movement towards solutions.
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And to be clear: norms in the browser engine world are moving towards multiple layers of protection: writing code in safer languages, aggressively fixing even potential vulnerabilities, tools for software auditing, sandboxing that prevents many APIs from being called, etc.
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Around this time, I think Microsoft stopped feature development for an extended period of time and focus on software security across Windows and Internet Explorer. This made a big difference to security. (It may have had interesting effects on the progress of Web technology.)
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I'm starting to wonder if social networking sites (@facebook, @Twitter) and search sites (@Google) of today are similar to web browser engines around 2003 (?) or so, around when use-after-free had just been demonstrated to be a reliable security exploit.
If you work at a social media platform and you're not spending most of your day agitating for internal reform—on so many fronts—what are you doing?
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If the logistics weren't so hard, I think it would be better to use sunrise-based time rather than noon-based time. DST is a compromise that gets a bit of the way towards that, but makes sense primarily at latitudes between 20 and about 45-50 degrees from the equator.
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I think sunrise-relative time makes more sense than noon-relative time, and DST gives us a bit of an approximation of that.
I tend to think DST makes the most sense for places that are about 20 to 50 degrees from the equator. Much of Europe is outside that.
Daylight Saving Time (summer time) begins in most of the US, Canada, and some nearby countries, this weekend. groups.google.com/d/msg/mozi…
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