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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And one of the pieces of the Peninsula that is included looks like it's because it's full of Stanford grad students and postdocs...
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Just snow is easy. I'd like to see BART deal with the January 17, 1994 storm as it affected the western suburbs of Philadelphia:
- 6-8 inches of powdery snow
- temp to above 50°F for about an hour, turning snow into 2-3 inches slush
- temp down to 10°F, turning the slush to ice
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I think it's more the change in wind direction that's associated with the change in weather... but yes.
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When I took cryptography (CS 220r) from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michae… the teaching assistants needed to tell us that the things he taught us called "x squared mod n encryption" and "randomized primality testing" we should call "Rabin encryption" and "Miller-Rabin primality testing"
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HRRR Smoke model suggests smoke could *begin* clearing out of the bay area late this afternoon (Saturday), starting at the coast and moving inland.
GEFS has been reasonably consistent about having a real rain event Wednesday-Thursday-Friday (middle part may be N Bay focused).
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They can't *possibly* have an accurate count since the deadline for *postmarking* the ballot was election day (and must arrive by Friday), so many are still in the mail and haven't even arrived yet. sos.ca.gov/elections/voter-r…
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How reliable are these voter turnout estimates? Accurate numbers in California seem hard to know for sure at this point given how many ballots are still in the mail...
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I don't see anything in the ballot initiative's description or summary that it's about permanent DST. The substance of the initiative (and its official description on the ballot and in the voter guide) and its marketing were very different, which makes it a very poor referendum.
Senate results look weird because only 1/3 of the Senate is elected each cycle.
Ds won 21 states, Rs won 9, and 3 still uncalled.
2012: 25D, 8R (being replaced)
2014: 11D, 22R
2016: 12D, 22R
2020 & 2022 have good Senate opportunities for Dems.
Maps at dbaron.org/senate-classes/
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Pennsylvania results in this US House election shouldn't be described as pickups/losses for a given seat, since the seats are all on new (court-imposed) boundaries relative to the previous election. And the new/old district numbers are mostly unrelated, too.
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Why I'm voting NO on California's Proposition 10: medium.com/@ldavidbaron/mixe…
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On the other hand, I detest the use of train numbers. It's the mark of a world where trains are infrequent enough that you should know which is which. If only we had a system worthy of the RER's 4-letter codes...
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In the Caltrain world, it seems more typical to refer to the trains by number... and there really is no train #404. (Did they switch to a different set of weekend numbers when they switched to 90 minute headways?)
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Both national and regional flags? Underneath they use different sets of codepoints. Compare emojipedia.org/flag-for-unit… and emojipedia.org/flag-for-cali…
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