Engineer on @googlechrome. Involved in CSS and W3C standards. Previously @mozilla, @w3ctag. Mastodon: @dbaron@w3c.social
Rockville, Maryland, USA
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Another problem I just ran into -- seems like GitHub pages only works on the "master" branch (unless it's a repository old enough to have been from the "gh-pages" era?). Changing the repository's default branch doesn't let you run Github Pages off that branch.
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Yeah, I understood, I'm just wondering about doing more, and also configuring git so I don't have an extra step every time I make a new repo...
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Has anybody requested that git allow configuring the default? (What was the reaction?)
As I understand it, currently the name "master" is hardcoded in the C code for what happens when you create a new repository. Changing that default would would have a larger effect...
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
4/ California managed the pandemic as well as any state.
Today, California is at the highest average number of new cases in the pandemic.
Not just the highest: Very high.
Average new cases:
• Today: 2,700
• May 8, start of reopening: 1,700
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"The protesters are railing against a society that isn’t cohesive enough to summon a response. They’re hammering on a hollowed-out structure, and it very well may collapse," George Packer writes. on.theatln.tc/qMnYHTi
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🚨I wrote about COVID-19 long-haulers—the thousands of people who’ve been struggling with *months* of debilitating symptoms. Many have faced disbelief from friends and medical professionals because they don’t fit the typical profile of the disease. 1/
theatlantic.com/health/archi…
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James N. Miller, former under secretary of defense for policy, has published his resignation letter from the Defense Science Board in @PostOpinions. Here it is. wapo.st/2ACOw1e
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Also, I don't think "general fund" is a useful unit of analysis for understanding breakdown of spending or revenue. Some proposition dedicating a particular sizeable tax to a particular function shouldn't make either that function or that tax disappear from budget analysis.
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Prior to COVID-19, I was supposed to be presenting some early stage research this weekend at the @ClioSociety conference on the the impact of police bargaining rights on killings of civilians by race. I don't normally discuss early stage research, but it feels appropriate today.
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They're also hard to compare because the governmental entities (state, city, county, school district, port authority, etc.) that handle a particular function vary from place to place.
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Maybe it even makes sense to look at the planning department that way, though it requires deciding which of planning fees are for planning's operations and which are for running city services.
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City budgets are hard to make sense of because they tend to include things that are like businesses fully within the budget (e.g. SF hospitals or airport, Palo Alto utilities) rather than accounting for them as a separate business and counting just the subsidy or profit.
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
For those who are interested in research-based solutions to stop police violence, here’s what you need to know - based on the facts and data. A thread. (1/x)
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Trump and advisers calculated that he shouldn’t speak to the nation because he had nothing to say, no tangible policy or action to announce, nor did he feel an urgent motivation to try to bring people together. So he let his tweets speak for themselves. washingtonpost.com/politics/…
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For what it's worth, they stopped including the items sometime between May 23 and May 31 of 2015... and I've been annoyed about it for nearly five years.
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
The Kerner Commission understood what needed to happen to disrupt the cycle of police brutality and civil uprisings: reform the police and remediate structural racism. Unfortunately, our nation largely ignored its recommendations: belonging.berkeley.edu/key-k… (I transcribed them here)
Thinking about riots and state violence? So was LBJ - in 1968. His commission's report identified governmental housing injustice as a major driver of riots, and it proposed solutions. Scholars @SMenendian and Rothstein detail the road not taken since then. belonging.berkeley.edu/road-…
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Yeah, but it may well be an interop bug where in other browsers the canvas image data are stored in sRGB whereas we were trying to store them in device colorspace. Difference seems hard to detect without raw access to the image data (small blending differences, rounding).
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
If Trump were to lift liability protection from Twitter and other social media, then they will have to be more aggressive about policing inflammatory tweets that push the boundaries -- like the president's. @daiwaka nytimes.com/2020/05/28/us/po…
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