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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“the over-coverage is much bigger among national news sources than local papers”
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... and maybe require that the relevant category of drivers license include extra training for pedestrian awareness, etc.? And also cost more to discourage its use...
Thinking more about SUVs being more dangerous to pedestrians: could California fix this problem by requiring, say, that vehicles manufactured after January 1 2021, with a high front that's dangerous to pedestrians, require a commercial drivers license?
Federal safety regulators like @NHTSAgov and @NTSB have known for years that SUVs were killing pedestrians at an alarming rate.
Instead of using their authority to help vulnerable people, these groups scolded and blamed them.
freep.com/story/money/cars/2…
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I've had better luck with hibernate than suspend.
That is, somewhere deep within power settings, I made the power button be hibernate.
Now, before I close my Surface Book, I press the power button and wait for it to hibernate. Now it doesn't get hot when it shouldn't.
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Dear college students. Now is the time to figure out whether/how you should vote in the place where you're from or the place where you now reside. Your decisions could be key in 2018: brennancenter.org/how-vote-2…
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It would be interesting to see the poll results broken down by how competitive the congressional district they live in is. (And maybe also Senate seat, for states with one.)
Seems like fewer than 3 in 10 live in a district where their vote matters.
As a resident of a D+23 district my vote (and I do vote) doesn't matter much.
I sure hope the ones in districts that could possibly swing are going to vote, though.
And maybe we should fix the system.
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Does anybody know any open-source emoji fonts that support US state flag emoji?
(For context, see blog.emojipedia.org/us-state… .)
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If all else fails... maybe try changing the timezone setting in Google Calendar, making the event, and changing it back?
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
🚨🚨🚨 Trump's Federal Transit Administration is basically refusing to award the $2.6 billion Congress sent it for new transit projects in cities, based on far-right ideology. usa.streetsblog.org/2018/07/…
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I *think* that in Chrome, the URL bar is rendered with native UI, not with Chromium. This is different from Firefox, where the UI is written using Gecko so the URL bar is rendered using Gecko.
Then there's the question of why it doesn't work with Chromium's text shaping stack.
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I took the liberty of adding that to the agenda at github.com/w3ctag/meetings/t…
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But bounding the error to at most 10% makes them more clearly meaningful.
That said, my "industry moving to China" was poorly phrased shorthand for "increasing consumption of goods pollutingly produced elsewhere" (i.e., possibly new consumption rather than movement). 2/2
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Thanks. The consumer goods as portion of household footprint numbers are pretty convincing.
I'm asking because the numbers that are widely quoted (emissions in a region) aren't really the numbers that are answering the right question (emissions from people's consumption). 1/
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I'd like to see GHG emission stats that attribute industrial production to the place goods are consumed rather than the place they're produced. Would such numbers still show California hitting targets? Or are we hitting the targets because industry is moving to China, etc.?
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After the Sierra Club's track record in San Francisco (see, for example, forbes.com/sites/scottbeyer/… ), I don't trust them as an environmental organization, since they allow their local chapters to prominently oppose things that would help the environment.
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Are the benefits of agglomeration tied to dense (rather than sprawly) development that tends to happen in more NIMBY areas?
L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
My latest @FinancialTimes investigation, ten months in the making. The tale of the Trump Toronto - and what it means to have a US president who has long exchanged his family name for money with a murky past, no questions asked. ft.com/trumptoronto
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
At the root of so many of our issues is our housing crisis. Our unending systems of laws seems designed as if to say NO to creating more homes, and we've seen the results. It’s time to say YES to more affordable housing, more middle income housing, and more market rate housing.
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