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
This is your state on fireworks.
Air quality levels were typical for most of July 4th, but watch for the explosion of air pollution right around 9pm.
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Somewhere in there there's also a map with estimated MMI values... but the site isn't really working now. (I don't even see where you see the IX.)
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More curious about the max MMI, given
The Richter scale is a (logarithmic) measure of energy released, so says as much about how much area was affected and for how long as about how strong it was at any one place & time. The Modified Mercalli scale is a better measure of how bad a quake is at a particular point.
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Though nitter.vloup.ch/NewEarthquake/st… reports the opposite revision.
Revised (6.9 -> 7.1): 7.1 earthquake, 17km NNE of Ridgecrest, CA. 2019-07-05 19:19:52 at epicenter (24m ago, depth -0.9km). earthquake.usgs.gov/earthqua…
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The Richter scale is a (logarithmic) measure of energy released, so says as much about how much area was affected and for how long as about how strong it was at any one place & time. The Modified Mercalli scale is a better measure of how bad a quake is at a particular point.
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The Richter scale is a (logarithmic) measure of energy released, so says as much about how much area was affected as about how strong it was at any one place. The Modified Mercalli scale is a better measure of how bad a quake is at a particular point.
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Prelim M7.1 Earthquake 35.767, -117.605 Jul-06 03:19 UTC, updates go.usa.gov/xyDfq
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
In some Republican controlled states, gerrymandering has made it all but impossible for Democrats to retake assemblies, even when they win a majority of the statewide vote.
This chart sums it up: bit.ly/2YAcjWP
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I have an exit row seat on a 10 hour flight on a Boeing 767 to offer you...
(The window exits on the 767 are good heat conductors, so starting after about 4 hours at altitude, the exit window housing is just a massive heat sink. I rarely use blankets on airplanes, but...)
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I've dealt with cases where I could identify and explain a skill somebody needed to learn (a skill that comes naturally to some people), but still couldn't figure out how to teach it.
I'd love to see studies as to which teaching methods work and which don't.
I deal with later stages of the same process: CS graduates learning how to work on a software project/ecosystem with millions of lines of code & hundreds of people.
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Trump administration lawyers may have sabotaged his effort to rig the Census.
The lawyers wrote that they are looking for a "new rationale," after SCOTUS declared the last one a pretext.
That gives away the game, a legal expert tells me.
My new piece:
washingtonpost.com/opinions/…
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Satellite picking up a new fire out in the far East Bay, north of I-580 between Livermore and Tracy. Black area with red circle is heat signature. #fireweather #CAwx
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Lhasa in SW China’s #Tibet has for the first time since 1955 entered “summer,” as its daily temperature rose above 22C on June 25-29. Multiple parts of Tibet have set new record high temps since June, according to local climate data.
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
The Anchorage International Airport has just reached 89 degrees. The all time record high temperature for #Anchorage has officially been broken. The previous record of 85 degrees was set on June 14, 1969 (period of record 1952-2019). #AKwx #RecordHeat
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
9 years ago, Europe saw more pedestrian fatalities per capita than did the US. Today, they have half as many per capita as we do stateside. In just one decade, Europe has dramatically reversed what many in the US see as just the cost of doing business. We can change it here too.
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