Engineer on @googlechrome. Involved in CSS and W3C standards. Previously @mozilla, @w3ctag. Mastodon: @dbaron@w3c.social
Rockville, Maryland, USA
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Gosh, if it didn't say "Eat after cooking", would anyone eat them first and then follow the cooking instructions?
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Maybe? Some other defaults might violate laws too?
On the other hand, if a branch of government has basically stopped functioning, maybe we need a constitutional crisis?
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That said, better to just mint a platinum coin and trade it with the Federal Reserve in exchange for some bonds that the Fed holds, and then resell those bonds as though they were newly issued
The government would have to not pay something that it's supposed to pay, given that expenses > income and the total amount of debt wouldn't be allowed to increase. It could default on other bills, though...
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
"COVID-19 has prompted a universal awakening about the power of our buildings to make us sick or keep us well. At this point, really, who wants to go back to a building that isn’t healthy?"
My article in @TheAtlantic
#HealthyBuildings
theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv…
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I admit that I thought it didn't work, and only learned that it did when I went to double-check when you asked. That's probably because, before, I hit option instead of command.
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Yeah, it does. I sometimes still have to look at the keyboard to get the right hotkeys on the Mac, though, since it's so different from the keyboard layout that I've been using for the past... 16 years or so.
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Not on Mac it doesn't.
(Also, I'm regularly switching between Linux and Mac, so I'm pretty confused by hotkeys these days.)
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For me, the most confusing thing about switching between Chrome and Firefox is finding "Reopen Closed Tab":
- in Chrome, it's in the context menu for the empty space on the tab strip, but not in the one on a tab;
- in Firefox, it's the reverse.
I regularly click the wrong one.
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Somehow the ad seems appropriate given the topic (though poorly targeted). Seen on nytimes.com/2021/09/24/opini…
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That said, a Maryland DL has *two* other numbers on it -- a 9-digit number next to the photo on the front, and a 10-digit number below (and hopefully matching) the barcode on the back. Maybe one of those is unique?
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Oh, apparently Maryland numbers are similar (except skip gender and eye color):
highprogrammer.com/alan/numb…
... which I can confirm is accurate for my new Maryland DL.
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Reminds me of chinese national ID numbers, which are:
* 6 digit code for birthplace or place of issue
* 8 digit YYYYMMDD date of birth
* 3 digit order code disambiguating multiple people with the same numbers above, using even numbers for women and odd for men
* 1 digit checksum
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