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
By ordering the killing of a top Iranian general, Trump picked the most extreme response to growing showdown with Tehran, stunning military officials w/@helenecooper, @maggieNYT, @rcallimachi nyti.ms/2Qpxb1C
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I think summer time changes are a good idea if you're between about 20 degrees and 45 degrees from the equator. (Closer to the equator and there's not enough seasonal change; further and the seasonal change is so big that summer time's bonus is minor.)
My favorite is when 2038 stuff regresses and nobody cares: bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1773…
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Hello from the DC DMV, where, after presenting my documents—passport, birth certificate, Social Security card, copy of my parents’ naturalization certificate—officials have refused to issue me an ID under the new regulations of the Real ID act. 1/
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The non-live version (i.e., take a picture, select the text you want) is often much more reliable than the live version. It also, if you have some understanding of the writing system, lets you correct the characters it got wrong.
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If Klobuchar wants to find voters who voted for Obama and Trump, there are likely more in a town that went from 70% Obama to 55% Clinton or a town that went from 45% Obama to 30% Clinton than in a town that went from 52% Obama to 48% Clinton.
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It seems like that exception confuses either candidates or reporters (maybe both) into thinking about elections that way -- in terms of winning pieces of geography rather than getting the most votes.
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In elections you generally want to maximize the number of votes, not the number of towns/cities/regions that you win. The big exception, of course, is states in the US presidential election -- a broken system that means most voters' votes don't matter.
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This seems like either a weird strategy, or an incorrect presentation of a strategy.
To find voters who voted for Obama and Trump, you should look at the difference in votes (or vote %) between Obama and Clinton.
Looking at which towns were won or lost doesn't make sense.
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Amy Klobuchar is focusing on towns that voted for Obama before flipping to Trump in 2016 politico.com/news/2020/01/02…
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Putting air filters in classrooms increased test scores by 0.20 standard deviations. That's a huge effect.
(via @MargRev)
edworkingpapers.com/ai20-188
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
This piece by @ConorDougherty is a lucid, elegantly written recap of the hard realities in California. I realize some egos are bruised. But we need to confront 70 years of land use decisions that got us here. nytimes.com/2019/12/29/busin… via @nytimes
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WebRender is new and scary, so we're rolling it out gradually. Much better than shipping buggy stuff to everybody on the release channel.
If you know how to use about:config you can probably try it out, though, and it may well work.
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
I'm sorry but eff u @ConsumerReports. SUV drivers are STILL twice as likely to die in rollover crashes AND 2-3 times as likely to kill pedestrians.
This is a group that could have been a rational voice against this massively destructive consumer trend
consumerreports.org/suvs/ame…
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
FACT: SUVs are 30 percent less efficient on average than sedans. nytimes.com/2018/03/03/clima…
We lost a decade we couldn't afford to lose in decarbonizing transportation thanks to this kind of pablum from groups like @ConsumerReports
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I guess when it was originally discussed we got into such a big argument about pseudo-element versus pseudo-class that we never really discussed the styling:
lists.w3.org/Archives/Public…
lists.w3.org/Archives/Public… (twice!)
lists.w3.org/Archives/Public…
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The one update I did get was Fenix -- but that's probably because I have Fennec beta installed versus Fenix nightly.
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Seems like a reasonable ruling, but at the same time it seems likely to lead to more clicking though really long documents that only a miniscule fraction of people actually read.
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