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 want to oppose policies for being regressive, then you should be calling for our many regressive tax expenditures to end or be made less regressive. These include 529 plans, 401(k) and IRA accounts, FSAs, HSAs, and the mortgage interest deduction.
Policy initiatives billed as benefiting the middle class that largely cut taxes for the wealthy:
HSAs
FSAs
529s
mortgage interest deduction
401(k)s and IRAs, especially (but not only) Roths
I benefit from many of these, and believe they should all be abolished or transformed.
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
I spent most of my summer researching our Long Covid response—I plan more pieces, an essay can only fit so much—and I cannot really find words to express how much I despaired on behalf of the many patients I talked with.
It's just not okay to abandon so many people like this.
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There's some relevant spec discussion on this in github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/… and github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/… although it's not specific to cascade layers.
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There's a good bit of CSSWG discussion of this in github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/…
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
CSS style() container queries for custom properties will be available as an experimental feature in Chrome Canary once this is picked up: chromiumdash.appspot.com/com… @bramus @TerribleMia @Una
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
so much depends
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baseline
to score against
current
policy or current
law
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The entire value of the 'transform' property (even if it's 'matrix() rotate() scale() matrix() matrix() perspective()') ends up as a single transform node in this tree. The things that have separate nodes are the 'rotate'/'translate'/'scale' *properties* (not *functions*).
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Serious crashes should generally trigger serious consequences for design. Consequences for the driver should vary, and serious ones aren’t always warranted, even for deaths. But automatic “no consequences” is closer to what we have, in this domain alone, and it’s indefensible.
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Using 'will-change: rotate' means we'll create a node in the transform tree for the 'rotate' transform for that element, which means when you actually set 'rotate' the node will already be there, and less work will need to happen.
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The nodes for 'rotate' and for 'transform' are separate so that they can be animated independently.
There is various work that happens when these nodes are created or destroyed. (There are perhaps some cases where some of it could be optimized away...)
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We have a data structure called the transform tree that represents all of the "interesting" transforms. (There are actually two different versions: one in blink and a more limited one in the compositor.) This is the data structure where the compositor animates transforms.
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
We used to have a Center that tried to Control Disease. Imagine if the agency that responded to the 2003 Monkeypox outbreak in the Midwest was with us today. When, exactly, did we go off the rails? Well, let's take a look at the last time Monkeypox came to 🇺🇸
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
There is a huge misconception found in most people outside of the health industry— people think that there are many scientists studying all aspects of health, especially diet and “things that are good for me and things that aren’t.”
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
The march of the seasons. Normal daily precipitation for each day of the year based on station data.
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Is environmentalism the main obstacle to infill housing in California?
Over last 2 years, I've done significant pro bono work on CA housing bills & the sausage-making I've observed points to a very uncomfortable answer: Yes. 1/🧵.
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
After almost a decade without a polio case in the US, there is increasing evidence of local spread in NY after today's announcement that poliovirus has been found in New York City sewage.🧵👇
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Agree. Often does nothing, often works.
When I worked on the top (7th) floor of the Hills Brothers Building, when leaving work, I generally stood by the buttons on the side with good view of those waiting, and used the close button to get the elevator down 10-15 seconds faster.
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