Engineer on @googlechrome. Involved in CSS and W3C standards. Previously @mozilla, @w3ctag. Mastodon: @dbaron@w3c.social
Rockville, Maryland, USA
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I'm going to say the airplane ride full of just-got-off-a-cruise passengers was "after" and thus the last photo is this one.
(I'm curious if someone who hasn't lived in the country in which it was taken recognizes the view.)
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I don't think you'd like the location. Not much in short walking distance; nearby zoning is all R-1 and PF (public facilities). Though I guess it is a 15-20 minute walk from good 小笼包.
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Was thinking about turning off TLSv1.2 (in favor of 1.3-only) on dbaron.org/, but it turns out 1.2 is still 30% of my traffic.
Also, amusingly, tls.imirhil.fr/ doesn't support 1.3, so it says a 1.3-only site doesn't support TLS.
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"This provocative juxtaposition serves to examine what it is we ask of the world around us, and then to not provide that"
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Not an answer, but... there may also be things that Congress revokes using en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congre… . Apparently the time window is pretty large since Congress has been out of session a good bit.
California is now the state with the largest age difference between its two US Senators (39y 9m), ahead of Iowa (36y 9m 14d) and Oklahoma (33y 3m 17d).
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If he had the same seniority date as Ossoff and Warnock, Padilla would end up more senior because California has a larger population.
But en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senior… says that for appointed senators it's the date of appointment that matters.
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In other postal service news, I just today (January 19, Palo Alto, CA) received a standard-sized first-class mail envelope, postmarked Philadelphia, PA on December 26.
A few years ago first class mail between Philadelphia and Palo Alto typically took 3-7 days. Now 24!
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Seems like @MarketUrbanism came pretty close to getting his wishes, with #2 as DOT secretary (
buildbackbetter.gov/nominees…) and #1 as deputy secretary (buildbackbetter.gov/nominees…).
Hopefully a good sign for transportation policy in the Biden administration.
Of those floated for DOT secretary, here's my ranking:
1. Polly Trottenberg
2. Pete Buttigieg
3. Elaine Chao
4. Rahm Emanuel
5. Eric Garcetti
6. Earl Blumenauer
∞. Sarah Feinberg
L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Dr. Offit told me we should be greeting the Covid vaccines with the same enthusiasm that greeted the polio vaccine: “It should be this rallying cry.”
Here’s my attempt at summarizing what we know – and don’t yet know – about the vaccines. (fin)
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Good coverage of the latest messaging disaster, in a year with many. We are dramatically underselling the amazing vaccines, exaggrating the uncertainties and people trying to emphasize the good news are being drowned out, or worse. nytimes.com/2021/01/18/brief…
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@Scott_Wiener has had it right for over five years:
I made #FoxNews, telling the "reporter" that I wouldn't talk to him on immigration b/c "Fox News isn't real news."
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In the SF Bay Area, just having guaranteed (i.e., without low probability lottery or multi-year waitlist) childcare would be huge, never mind free.
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Animals interrupting wildlife photographers. A thread:
1. 📸 Dan Dinu
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One of the 7 (!) Senators in that seat between Knowland (1945-1959) and Feinstein (1992-present). Longest serving of those 7 was Wilson (8 years).
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A year into the pandemic, a big, simple difference between China and the West is clear: on average Chinese people are far likelier to think catching Covid would be a disaster. My Chaguan exploring possible reasons why... economist.com/china/2021/01/…
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