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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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
New: White House officials struggled to convince Trump that Ukraine didn't interfere in the election. When asked why he believed otherwise, Trump told one senior official, "Putin told me." washingtonpost.com/national-… by me, @jdawsey1, and @CarolLeonnig
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
The three hottest days on record in Australia are now Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday of this week. #ClimateChange
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It's interesting that the New York Times is paying (I think) to advertise a tweet to me that I've *already* retweeted...
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The Gregorian calendar has a 400 year pattern of leap years. It turns out that that 400 year pattern happens to have a number of days that's a multiple of 7. This means date on day-of-week is not evenly distributed, but is a function of the pattern in that 400 year cycle.
Sometimes bash is the right tool:
$ for ((YEAR=2000; $YEAR < 2400; YEAR=$YEAR + 1)); do date --date="$YEAR-12-25 12:00" +"%w %a"; done | sort | uniq -c
58 0 Sun
56 1 Mon
58 2 Tue
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56 6 Sat
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Trump is impeached and finally faces a moment of accountability.
And here's my piece: His decades-long record of misdeeds and wrongdoing made this moment inescapable. Please read, RT, like, and share.
motherjones.com/politics/201…
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What is the probability (across all years) that Christmas falls on a Wednesday?
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14.2̅8̅5̅7̅1̅4̅% (1/7)
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90 votes • Final results
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I'd add that while there was a time when only Chrome supported the older FIDO U2F API, there wasn't a time when only Chrome supported WebAuthN, since Firefox shipped WebAuthN support before Chrome did (though only by a few weeks based on the versions in developer.mozilla.org/en-US/… ).
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
the 2010s will end up with the lowest number of housing units started in 6 decades, by a wide margin
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We should build the new housing in dense patterns that allow us to build good transit systems and environments where people can walk.
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Man, if Trump is mad about the lack of due process present in impeachment, I can't WAIT to hear how heated he's going to get when he hears about immigration proceedings!
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
BREAKING IMPT NEWS: The ACA deadline is being extended thanks in large part to everyone pushing for this.
“Beginning at 3:00PM EST December 16 we are extending the deadline to sign up for January 1 coverage until 3:00AM EST December 18."
BUT, no one knows unless we tell them.
BREAKING: On the last day of the ACA, the website is down. Hundreds of thousands can’t enroll.
The Trump Administration should extend the deadline or so many will get hurt.
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So I think 5% thresholds work reasonably well and 3.25% ones don't. Given that you could argue that lower thresholds produce a more representative/democratic result, I guess you could frame those as two points along your continuum, though. I'm a fan of the ~5% one...
I think different sorts of proportional systems have different problems, though. Set the threshold too low, and it's too easy for small parties to get in the legislature, which makes it hard to form coalitions (e.g., Israel uses 3.25%, compared to 5% in Germany & NZ).
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
GOP mailers to Alabama voters resemble Census form al.com/news/2019/12/republic…
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... but those are the changes since you last opened it, not since you last actually reviewed it.
And once you've looked at that view of changes since you last opened the document, and closed it, you can't get it back.
So you're just supposed to review all 20 pages again?
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Google Docs is such a pain sometimes...
If you don't have "Edit" access (i.e., only comment access) to a document you can't see its revision history.
Though when you first open the document, it offers to show you the changes since you last opened the document...
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
“I don’t want to say no one should drive those vehicles.” Why not? Isn’t this exactly what we should be saying as a city? nydailynews.com/new-york/ny-…
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