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
We love streaming video. But what's fascinating is how patent-encumbered that tech is. My new post explains to folks (like you!) what video codecs are, and why better video might cost a lot more. blog.mozilla.org/blog/2018/0…
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
S.F.'s new Salesforce Transit Center is set to open on Aug. 12. Here's an in-depth look at the terminal's development over the past eight years, from @JohnKingSFChron: sfchronicle.com/transbay
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XMLHttpRequest was introduced to Gecko in github.com/mozilla/gecko-dev… by Vidur Apparao... but I'm not sure whether the casing of the name came from its Microsoft ActiveX predecessor.
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Attributing emissions to the country of production rather than the country of consumption makes many of those statistics rather suspect, though.
I'd reframe it this way... although perhaps it's also worth mentioning laws and regulations that apply at a smaller scale, e.g., affecting land use.
Blaming it on companies feels like it absolves us of the responsibility to change the laws and regulations that govern those companies, which is the only way we can get meaningful change.
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Blaming it on companies feels like it absolves us of the responsibility to change the laws and regulations that govern those companies, which is the only way we can get meaningful change.
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Yet another way that US bills and coins are among the worst: all the people on them are there because they were politicians.
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@MozSheriffMemes Trees in orange, red, and green: flickr.com/photos/dbaron/303…
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That said, I think summer time changes *do* make sense, particularly if you live between about 15 and 50 degrees from the equator. I think it's a decent approximation for (otherwise mathematically harder, but nicer) sunrise-relative time, rather than noon-relative time.
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Moving Europe to the Chinese-style (at least for Mandarin speakers) single timezone?
If so, maybe it would make more sense to use UTC+1 rather than UTC+2, given that so much of CET (Spain, France, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg) really belongs in UTC rather than UTC+1?
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Walking around Sydney, there's clearly a lot of high rise construction. It might be doing its part to keep prices down, though I don't know what the actual numbers are...
L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
What really worries me about the opening of the China front on the trade war is the absence of any end game. In every trade dispute I have watched over nearly three decades, it was always clear what the US wanted. The goals were explicit and deals were possible. Not this time.
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Filed github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/… as an issue against the spec.
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
🌐 WebAssembly has some surprising performance characteristics! We've been working with all major browser vendors and created a WASM benchmark that better reflects real-world usage, based on our popular Web SDK. pspdfkit.com/blog/2018/a-rea…
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On the flip side, maybe the software ecosystems that companies create *are* their responsibility. I think some people have moved to seeing things that way, and as a result are more careful about extensibility and the platforms they're building.
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Calling it a recession when the GDP growth rate is negative makes it much easier for countries with slowly-growing populations to be in recession. But that just reflects a weaker recession threshold for those countries (e.g., Japan), not their people being worse off.
Counterargument: the way we describe growth numbers is silly.
We should describe the rate of change in (GDP/person), not the rate of change in GDP. That's maps much better to how much better off people are.
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You (@fantasai) were definitely dropping "r"s when you were drawing the static-position diagrams on the whiteboard earlier. Not the first time I've heard you do this...
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gcmap.com/mapui?P=SFO-YVR-SI… is a series of shorter hops that might work?
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