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
Job sprawl is worse from the perspective of getting people out of their cars than housing sprawl, @MarketUrbanism's right.
We need concentrated, very dense employment centers with little parking located within 1/4 mile of frequent transit to reduce transport emissions.
The oceans are boiling and downtown San Francisco is one of just a handful of neighborhoods in America where workers won’t necessarily drive miniaturized oil-fired power plants to work every day. Job sprawl is REALLY bad for transit
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
The oceans are boiling and downtown San Francisco is one of just a handful of neighborhoods in America where workers won’t necessarily drive miniaturized oil-fired power plants to work every day. Job sprawl is REALLY bad for transit
Would capping office space ease San Francisco's housing crunch? trib.al/p8UigoX
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
1. 🚨 NEW: U.S. history textbooks are shaped by partisan politics, and then shape the next generation of voters. See how California and Texas teenagers encounter different American stories. nytimes.com/interactive/2020…
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@adrianfine was encouraging "whoever might make the motion" to add wording that Molly Stump (city attorney) suggested, which would say that if there are conflicts with state law, then individual provisions of state law would override, rather than invalidating the whole ordinance.
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Kou's extended discussion about ADUs that are too close to the street blocking people's visibility when making left or right turns was... interesting.
Would she ask those same questions about on-street parking?
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I'm looking forward to another 2 years on the TAG.
And for the totally irrelevant trivia: in what is rather usual for me (given my height is pretty close to average for adult males in the US), I think I might be the tallest member of the TAG following this election.
Congrats to @cssrossen (@microsoft), @davidbaron (@mozilla) and @kennethrohde (@intel) for their election to the @w3ctag 👏👏👏
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I say this (re low density suburbs comparison) because my stereotype of Bay Area suburbs is places with land use like this goo.gl/maps/MjUum5V5WXXp3RWg… (Mountain View, CA) whereas my stereotype of NYC suburbs is places with land use like this goo.gl/maps/NyFpq4PiifL3c1MU… (Rye Brook, NY).
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The Bay Area has a natural advantage in the amount of energy needed for climate control, though.
Also, I'm not sure about the low-density suburbs thing. census.gov/dataviz/visualiza… is hard to read, but I think it shows pop-weighted density higher in SF at 25-40 miles out.
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Wait, I thought we bought 2 persimmons at the farmer's market. Where did the other one go...?
Looks in bowl with pile of oranges...
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
"SIM swap" attacks have been in the news for years. They’ve enabled serious financial crimes and even a hack of the Twitter CEO's account. We spent 6 months researching how vulnerable wireless accounts are to these attacks. Our draft study is out today. issms2fasecure.com/
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I'm amused that the sunset times chart for this month is basically 17:[day of month], with occasional one minute errors. timeanddate.com/sun/usa/palo…
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Wait, you mean I can take the VTA to London and transfer to the Circle Line or the District Line? 😀
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If only the bay area would get new RHNA numbers sooner than 2023... although I guess 2023 now seems a lot sooner than it did a few years ago, and ABAG's process has already started...
L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
My 2020 nightmare scenario: Arizona is the tipping point state in the Electoral College, Trump holds a lead on Election Night even though we know late-arriving mail ballots (over 3/4 of AZ votes by mail) are likely to put Dems over the top. Trump then cries fraud, and then ... 😬
evergreen reminder: IF the Dem nominee has won Arizona by 1-2%, it's highly likely Election Night ends with Trump still ahead there—even if we'd know that he's likely to fall behind when all votes all counted.
Press needs to be on top of how it's going to cover the AZ results.
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So the cycle matching day-of-year to day-of-week repeats every 400 years. For any given day of the year (other than February 29), there is either a 56/400, 57/400, or 58/400 chance that it's on a given day of the week.
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However, in the *actual* 400 year cycle of the Gregorian calendar (which is close to matching the length of the mean tropical year), the number of days in the 400 year cycle *is* a multiple of seven. January 1, 2000 is a Saturday. So is January 1, 2400. And 2800, etc.
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If the number of days in the 400 year pattern isn't a multiple of seven (the 6/7 chance), then matching of day-of-year to day-of-week would form a 2800 year cycle, as the 400 year cycle repeated itself on different days of the week, and probabilities above would be uniform.
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Given an arbitrary pattern of year lengths that form a 400 year cycle, there would be a one out of seven chance that the number of days in that 400 year cycle is a multiple of seven.
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The Gregorian calendar uses years that are 365 days, but 366 days in years that are multiples of 4, except 365 in years that are multiples of 100, except 366 in year that are multiples of 400. See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregor…
So the pattern of year lengths is a 400 year cycle.
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I guess it's time to explain this somewhat cryptic poll I posted a few weeks ago.
The correct answer is 14.25% (exactly), or 57/400.
For all days of the week, the answers would be:
58/400 Sun
56/400 Mon
58/400 Tue
57/400 Wed
57/400 Thu
58/400 Fri
56/400 Sat
Why?
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