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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For a start, Sydney has great weather. January average high 26.5°C/80°F, average low 19.6°C/67°F (though there are serious hot spells sometimes). July average high 17.4°C/63°F, average low 8.7°C/48°F. 1.2m/48" of rain per year, so pretty green. And pretty sunny.
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So I spent almost 2 weeks at the beginning of July in Sydney. Sydney is one of my favorite cities (probably my favorite English-speaking city), and I want to explain some of the things I like about it in this thread.
The set of photos from my trip is at flickr.com/photos/dbaron/alb…
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I don't know why newspapers use correct name ordering for Chinese politicians but backwards name ordering for Japanese politicians, though. But it bugs me...
I guess I look at the probability of US democracy entering some catastrophic failure mode (e.g., dictatorship, civil war) within my lifetime as higher than you do. And if that happens, I'd like to think we'd exit from that failure with something better.
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Why should people need to move elsewhere for their vote to matter? Shouldn't we have a system (say, a mixed-member proportional parliament) that actually makes all votes count?
Living in denser places is better for the environment. Why should people move to less dense ones?
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My problem was that I picked out a set of shippable things to add up to $35, and then at the checkout screen they changed their mind about 2 or 3 of them being shippable, and said I needed to pick one up in Fremont and another in Pleasanton or something like that.
Yes, sure, the second time you'll actually use walmart dot com.
And then the third time, having tried to use walmart dot com, you'll go back to using the third-party reseller on Amazon...
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Somebody studied this problem in the UK:
paulplowman.com/stuff/house-…
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Some top issue filers (those over 50 I found by guessing names, so probably missed a bunch):
140 @fantasai
117 @davidbaron
113 @frivoal
86 @upsuper
79 @brianskold
73 @tabatkins
60 @Litherum
52 @svgeesus
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Only 213 of them, apparently, if issue search is to be believed. (It's a bit annoying that the Insights tab doesn't have issue statistics, only code statistics.)
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2200 block of Delancey is a pretty close second, if memory serves. But yes, the 1800 block is great. 2000 block not bad either.
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So with sea-surface temperatures this warm, are we going to have to start worrying soon about the possibility of hurricanes hitting San Diego or Los Angeles? (See the SST maps at ospo.noaa.gov/Products/ocean… .)
Another sea-surface temperature record was broken today, August 8. Scripps scientists with @shoresta100 measured a water temp of 79.2°F (26.3°C) at the end of Scripps Pier.
cc @lmeyerov who I think was looking at very related things back when he was a grad student.
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OK, I decided to break with tradition (of just uploading photos and not videos) and add (after my previous tweet) one video to the album as well, of a Yellow-bellied marmot *at the top* of Clouds Rest. flickr.com/photos/dbaron/299…
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I finally finished going through my photos from backpacking in Yosemite in June:
flickr.com/photos/dbaron/alb…
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Residents of San Jose, Campbell, Cupertino, Los Gatos, Monte Sereno, and Saratoga who care about housing: it might be good to ask your State Senator questions.
(Could include questions about how housing relates to transportation, environment, affordability, segregation, etc.)
Next week on Saturday I will be streaming a live Online Housing Town Hall on my Facebook page. Please participate by submitting any housing related questions to the following link: goo.gl/ygtBFG
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This is limited to public companies, right? If private ones were included, wouldn't Saudi Aramco still be at or near the top of both lists?
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I think (without thinking too hard) I'd be fine with a within-grid exclusions model, i.e., an exclusion created by one grid item (and its shape) excluding space from line boxes in the normal flow of other items of the same grid.
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