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
If you think London’s streets are polluted, wait until you go underground. trib.al/q1fLbbJ
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Photos from my trip to China (Húběi Province (湖北省), specifically Yìngchéng (应城市) and Wǔhàn (武汉市)) the past few weeks: flickr.com/photos/dbaron/set…
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FWIW, I'd guess that the percentage of Firefox release channel crashes that are caused by bad RAM / disk / similar is somewhere in the 5% to 50% range. Wish I had a better estimate...
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There's a bunch of history in bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bu… . But now that the test machines are "in the cloud", I don't think we expose a useful concept of machine identity that we can look at to figure this out anymore.
The other question is what portion of crashes are bad memory.
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I think many Japanese systems would use four or six lines per door, painted on the platform to guide riders to line up correctly. (With appropriate variation in the striping for platform obstacles, of course.)
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
IBM announces high-resolution global weather forecast model wapo.st/2CYnOir
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
In which the New York Times fact checkers take as a given that the only function of the federal government is to give federal government workers paychecks
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Congratulations to @sundress @hober & @sangwhanmoon on their election and thanks to @slightlylate & @TravisLeithead for their years of service which have helped to make the web a better place!
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
1/ Emergency powers are supposed to save our democracy in a crisis. But in the wrong hands, they could be used to end it. theatlantic.com/magazine/arc…
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
It would help reduce pollution and slow global warming if more builders used wood econ.st/2CQ7BMh
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Congratulations to @hober @sangwhanmoon & @sundress for being elected to the W3C TAG.
It's been great working with @slightlylate & @TravisLeithead on the TAG over the past few years... too bad we couldn't elect all 4 candidates & keep @TravisLeithead.
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The SF Board of Supervisors shouldn't get into the details of everything. Mostly they should hire executives they trust to run hospitals, airport, etc. without lots of intervention by the Board.
But public attention may lead them to take a deeper look at this area, as it should.
L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
The #PaloAlto City Council marked a fresh start tonight by electing Eric Filseth as mayor and Adrian Fine as vice mayor. bit.ly/2C3VeKW
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If only US taxes were actually this simple...
Back in 2008 I worked out dbaron.org/views/taxes-2007
I should really redo it for the current rules...
No, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez doesn't want to take away 70% of your income. Here's how tax rates actually work in the US: bit.ly/2GZEzxS
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So is the canonical name a hero, a grinder, or a sub? :-)
(There's a bunch of regional variation in what to call that sandwich. But, hey, I'm from Philly, so I have a preference...)
L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Over the last few days, it's become clearer and clearer to me that, without intervention, coverage of the 2020 campaign is likely to be a disaster for everyone except Trump and his core voters, who want to watch it all burn anyway. In this thread I describe the danger I see. 1/
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Also previously failed compilations? Otherwise you'd end up compiling things that... shouldn't compile.