Engineer on @googlechrome. Involved in CSS and W3C standards. Previously @mozilla, @w3ctag. Mastodon: @dbaron@w3c.social
Rockville, Maryland, USA
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I admit that I thought it didn't work, and only learned that it did when I went to double-check when you asked. That's probably because, before, I hit option instead of command.
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Yeah, it does. I sometimes still have to look at the keyboard to get the right hotkeys on the Mac, though, since it's so different from the keyboard layout that I've been using for the past... 16 years or so.
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Not on Mac it doesn't.
(Also, I'm regularly switching between Linux and Mac, so I'm pretty confused by hotkeys these days.)
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For me, the most confusing thing about switching between Chrome and Firefox is finding "Reopen Closed Tab":
- in Chrome, it's in the context menu for the empty space on the tab strip, but not in the one on a tab;
- in Firefox, it's the reverse.
I regularly click the wrong one.
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Somehow the ad seems appropriate given the topic (though poorly targeted). Seen on nytimes.com/2021/09/24/opini…
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That said, a Maryland DL has *two* other numbers on it -- a 9-digit number next to the photo on the front, and a 10-digit number below (and hopefully matching) the barcode on the back. Maybe one of those is unique?
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Oh, apparently Maryland numbers are similar (except skip gender and eye color):
highprogrammer.com/alan/numb…
... which I can confirm is accurate for my new Maryland DL.
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Reminds me of chinese national ID numbers, which are:
* 6 digit code for birthplace or place of issue
* 8 digit YYYYMMDD date of birth
* 3 digit order code disambiguating multiple people with the same numbers above, using even numbers for women and odd for men
* 1 digit checksum
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Does Maryland (population 6.2 million) have a good reason for issuing drivers licenses with ID that are one letter and *twelve* digits, when California (population 39.5 million) finds one letter and seven digits to be quite sufficient?
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Also, at a good bakery such as maps.app.goo.gl/yLCevWZ5CoNk… the baguettes are warm.
leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/f… says:
Except as described in paragraph (3) of subdivision (b), if a vacancy occurs in an office after a recall petition is filed against the vacating officer, the recall election shall nevertheless proceed.
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Explainers are also useful for iterating on a solution at a high level, before everyone agrees what the right solution is, and well before it's time for precise spec text. To be useful for that, they need to be understandable. They might also need to go deeper on key questions.
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Agreed. I think the movement to have explainers has similar motivation, although some folks feel strongly that explainers should be separate documents (I don't). Whether separate or not, there's significant risk that the non-normative part gets out of sync.
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Relevant law is CIV 1947.12 (g): leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/f….
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I think that "Bay Area" number only applies to the San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley MSA, which is not the whole Bay Area and excludes areas such as Santa Clara County. (I think the others are for MSAs as well.)
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