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
Color vector fonts on @googlefonts make it easy to embed a full emoji font into your page and show your emoji consistently without missing glyphs and without replacing them with images. Make your headlines pop out with Nabla and custom palettes.
We just added a whole bunch of new fonts and they’re all #colorfonts! This is just the beginning for the COLRv1 file format, which supports gradients, customized color palettes, and more. Check out all 9 and find out why 6 of them are for Arabic scripts. bit.ly/3xkfPYI
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Why is someone with 168 violations not permantly banned from driving? Why have driver licensing or vehicle registration at all?
Tragic NYC case: Paulina Nrecaj, 59, was fatally impaled on a fence when “an SUV jumped the curb” (written as if no one was driving the car.) Protected bike lanes were blamed for “confusing” the driver of the car, WHICH HAS 168 VIOLATIONS.
nypost.com/2022/09/10/nyc-wo… @StreetsblogNYC
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The data are now out, and my assumption was correct. Begich would have won in the final round against Peltola. nitter.vloup.ch/AaronBlake/statu…
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He reasonably (for him, not reasonably for those blaming him) expects to be blamed when Europe doesn't have enough fuel to heat houses this winter, large numbers of people die of cold, etc. He doesn't have an easy job right now (even more so than normal).
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In the US, I suspect the reason *anyone over 12 who wants to* can get a BA.4/BA.5 booster is that not many people want to.
It was pretty quiet where I got vaccinated yesterday and I can't imagine they could roll out this quickly if there was more demand.
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You think New Zealand is going to become a republic when they couldn't even change their flag to something that is recognizable to most outsiders as different from the Australian flag?
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Lack of access to health care is also a big problem in the US.
My impression is that the rural health system in China is not great, but it seems believable that it's more effective health care than what the uninsured get in the US.
I think there were a few weeks in 2018 when the waters off San Diego county were probably warm enough to support a hurricane. With global warming, at some point all the factors might line up and an actual hurricane could hit San Diego...
Another sea-surface temperature record was broken today, August 8. Scripps scientists with @shoresta100 measured a water temp of 79.2°F (26.3°C) at the end of Scripps Pier.
In the US BA.4/BA.5/original boosters are widely available this week. The latest date I've heard, from a few parts of the country, is "couldn't get an appointment until next week."
Probably that's a sign of low demand.
I have some hope that the new boosters might change my personal situation. It's clear we've given up on treating this as a public health problem; it's just a personal health problem now.
We'll see how effective they are against current variants.
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I'll be attending @w3c TPAC next week virtually rather than going to Vancouver.
I'm expecting I'll continue attending things virtually for a while, although I'm still hoping the bivalent COVID vaccine boosters will change the situation substantially. 4/4
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I realized this after discussions about different people's views of the COVID rules for meetings that I've been involved in. Thinking about the big difference between those two situations has made me much more pessimistic about in-person standards meetings & conferences. 3/4
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I'd trust many colleagues not to come to the office they go to every day if they have COVID symptoms or a positive test... but I've realized that I wouldn't trust many of the same people to do the same at a meeting they've flown across the continent/world to attend. 2/4
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As in-person web standards meetings have been starting again, one thing I've been thinking about is the level of trust around following COVID rules that we're placing in our colleagues. 1/4
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"Climate Best by Government Test", eh?
Six Bay Area & Central Coast climate sites set their all-time record maximum temperature this afternoon. Today's heat was anticipated to be the peak of the event with some slight cooling expected on Wednesday. However, the interior will remain hot through late week. #CAheat
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Simple "vote for any number" is called approval voting and I think it's substantially better than IRV or First Past the Post (FPTP).
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Every time I'm in Tokyo I'm again amazed by how their subway signage is reliably best in class.
If Tokyo Metro has a line map above a stairway, you can be sure the left end of the map is the platform on the left, etc.
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