Engineer on @googlechrome. Involved in CSS and W3C standards. Previously @mozilla, @w3ctag. Mastodon: @dbaron@w3c.social
Rockville, Maryland, USA
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I also think the description of temperate climates has a regional bias. Interior North America is quite unusual globally in its summer versus winter temperature variation; only interior north Asia (Siberia, central Asia, Mongolia, inland north China, etc.) is comparable.
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That said, there's also disagreement on whether the minimum perceivable increment should be valued as 1, 5, or 10...
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One thing I like about °C is that it's a good match for the minimum perceivable increment. I can tell the difference (maybe not reliably) between a room heated to 19°C versus 20°C. @tabatkins argues that increment should be bigger, but I think °C is about right.
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Two months after John Lewis died, Florida's top Republicans propose felonies for people who protest in the same manner as John Lewis.
And, because it's a felony, they could lose their right to vote, which is what John Lewis was marching for.
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
We urgently need to focus on ventilation. Six months into a respiratory pandemic, we're still not given sensible and practical guidance against short-range aerosol—airborne—transmission of COVID. I wrote about the science & what it means we should do now. theatlantic.com/health/archi…
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Forecast verification: pretty good, although I was actually expecting even a bit cleaner than this.
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Never a good sign when Chinese media is touting and promoting the TikTok restructuring as a model for what should happen globally.
What's clear is that the US has bumbled its way into a precedent the consequences of which it hasn't anticipated. (h/t @EBKania for flagging!)
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In general, these HRRR smoke images can be found at:
rapidrefresh.noaa.gov/hrrr/H… for the southwest US or rapidrefresh.noaa.gov/hrrr/H… for the whole country. The 48 hour long runs are done only every 6 hours; other runs just extend 24 hours.
Both the 12:00 UTC (5:00 PDT) and 18:00 UTC (11:00 PDT) runs of the HRRR smoke make it look like the smoke will clear out of the Bay Area on Monday, bringing non-fire air quality by Monday evening.
near-surface: rapidrefresh.noaa.gov/hrrr/H…
vertically integ.: rapidrefresh.noaa.gov/hrrr/H…
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
This stems mostly from the urban vs. rural composition of the country. Nationwide, there are about the same number of people living in big cities and rural areas. But in the Senate, rural areas get 2.5x more representation (!) than big cities.
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
I can't say this enough: the issue isn't one person's death or one bad president. The institutions are fundamentally bad, and if we don't change them we will be right back here again and again and again
We're looking at the possibility that Republicans will have nominated 6 of the 9 Supreme Court justices, despite winning the popular vote just once in 32 years.
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
EXCLUSIVE: Mother Jones reveals video deposition of Trump in Trump University fraud case. Watch Trump on the defensive, saying he cannot recall boasting he had the best memory in the world and claiming false statements are not "false."
motherjones.com/politics/202…
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Could just go through en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ky%C5%… in order. But then the question... on'yomi or kun'yomi?
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And we made it to Tropical Storm Beta. Also, today three names were consumed in a 6-hour interval (Wilfred at the regular 15:00 UTC advisory, Alpha in a special 16:30 UTC advisory, and Beta at the regular 21:00 UTC advisory).
Tropical Storm #Beta Advisory 5: Depression in the Gulf of Mexico Becomes Tropical Storm Beta. go.usa.gov/W3H
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I was thinking about that, but a number of the Hebrew letters are relatively confusable with the Greek letters (e.g., Alpha/Aleph, Beta/Beth, etc.) when spelled out in English.
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OK, TD 22 didn't get Alpha either. We might get to Beta today.
If you were away for a couple of hours, you might have missed the two latest Atlantic storms. #Wilfred is no threat to land, while #Alpha is just offshore of Portugal. For more on Alpha's hazards see ipma.pt & the NHC advisories are at hurricanes.gov
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