Engineer on @googlechrome. Involved in CSS and W3C standards. Previously @mozilla, @w3ctag. Mastodon: @dbaron@w3c.social
Rockville, Maryland, USA
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I don't think per-jurisdiction jobs/housing balance is a good metric. If you want more transit commuting and less driving you don't want the jobs spread thinly over the whole metro; you want jobs to be in central places. (Am I channeling @alon_levy here?)
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Video of the study session: youtube.com/watch?v=RiW5JfrY…
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Yeah, this was an interesting meeting... although it didn't do very well at its intended purpose (study session, learn about what's happening at the state level). A few of us pro-housing folks did also speak during public comment.
Video should be online within a few hours...
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Much of the fuel economy gains from the last few decades have been eaten away by increases in the size and power of vehicles.
Cars today are A. too big B. too powerful and it's an environmental problem.
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In particular, I'd expect a bunch of cases using that part of the law may be more valuable than using the jobs-rich/bus rules.
Also, the neighboorhood multifamily project rules ("duplexes, triplexes, and fourplexes") also limit parking minimums to 0.5 parking spaces per unit.
After looking at this & reading the amendments, I'm thinking that the "Everywhere else" on "duplexes, triplexes, and fourplexes" is misleading, since that section of the law also has ministerial approval, and may thus be used even where other parts could be.
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We went with the other approach:
bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bu…
which we're working to get out in a dot release as well, for those users/products that don't get the update from Normandy.
fwiw, we may or may not ship that approach. There are two approaches being worked on in parallel.
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I believe the addons will disable themselves even if you disconnect from the network.
Most likely workaround is bumping the app.update.lastUpdateTime.xpi-signature-verification preference to a timestamp in the *recent* (minutes) past while Firefox is *not* running. Untested.
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It's not tied to startup; there's a record of when this was last checked, and it gets rechecked if it wasn't within the last 24 hours. So that's likely to happen at startup (with probability related to how long Firefox wasn't open), but will happen while running as well.
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A photo of an urban environment I like [14/N]:
Yongkang Street, Da’an District, Taipei City, Taiwan
台灣台北市大安區永康街
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... though (assuming you're looking at the Yìngchéng photo and not the others in the thread) it's in a more peripheral city, not the central city in its metro area (Wuhan is 90 minutes away by car or train, questionably same metro area).
Also, many more photos in the thread...
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Himawari-8 0340Z enhanced infrared satellite image of #TropicalCycloneFani (#01B) along with the latest JTWC graphical advisory information.
For additional information on #Fani please visit, metoc.navy.mil/jtwc/jtwc.htm…
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A photo of an urban environment I like:
rue du Pas de la Mule & rue des Tournelles, 75004 Paris, France
October 2013
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You remind me that I should continue my series that does the opposite: photos I've taken of places abroad that I think are good urban environments. Currently up to nitter.vloup.ch/davidbaron/statu… ...
A photo of an urban environment I like:
中国湖北省孝感市应城市城中街道粮贸街南路
Liáng mào jiē South Road, Chengzhong Subdistrict, Yingcheng City, Xiaogan City, Hubei Province, China
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Grass is the largest irrigated agricultural crop in America, more than corn, wheat, and fruit orchards combined.
Combined, lawns cover 63,000 sq mi, bigger than the state of Georgia.
It's time to culturally stigmatize them. We can do so, so much better.
grist.org/article/lawns-are-…
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Grimacing look of #Fani as the eyewall approaches the India coastline.
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