L. David Baron @[email protected]

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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social

L. David Baron @[email protected]

@davidbaron

Engineer on @googlechrome. Involved in CSS and W3C standards. Previously @mozilla, @w3ctag. Mastodon: @[email protected]

Rockville, Maryland, USA Katılım Mart 2008
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Ana Tudor 🐯 (find me on Bluesky/ Mastodon)
@bramusblog To make it clear: I cannot think of *any* use cases for the `:is(.b .c)` part in isolation and the only use case for the whole `.a :is(.b .c)` would be precisely to also select `.b .a .c` in addition to `.a .b .c`.
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zeynep tufekci@zeynep·
Yes! Just *today* I saw a viral tweet referring to the Y2K bug as a "conspiracy." Just the US spent ~$100 billion to fix it—a multi-year effort. When infrastructure functions as it should, it recedes from our attention. That doesn't mean it's not there. twitter.com/EverythngIsDat…
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zeynep tufekci@zeynep·
Southwest's antiquated scheduling software had caused meltdowns before. Unions begged for modernization. Didn't happen. $8.5 billion excess cash went to stock buyback. After the storm, pilots & crew had to call in—manually. Hours on hold. Couldn't fly. nytimes.com/2022/12/31/opi…
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Greg Shill
Greg Shill@greg_shill·
Thrilled to share "Regulating the Pedestrian Safety Crisis," just published The motivation was simple: ped deaths are up 50%+ since 2010, but @NHTSAgov is the only responsible agency that has failed even to notionally prioritize pedestrian safety. Short 🧵ssrn.com/abstract=41765…
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social
@EmilyKager It really starts to feel like the cost of housing would lead to some sort of societal collapse where many of the professions that society depends on would no longer be present in the region.
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Emily Kager
Emily Kager@EmilyKager·
i love San Francisco a lot but if you start to think about it too much it's extremely depressing thinking about the long term realities and restrictions of living in a VHCOL area
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Kyle Huey
Kyle Huey@khuey_·
@opinonhaver There's no way median household income in Scranton is 78k.
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Benjamin Ross
Benjamin Ross@BenRossTransit·
@greg_shill @Jeffinatorator In DC area, the vacancies are worst in the suburban office parks. Which are not where you want your work-in-the-office startup. Suburban walkable centers seem to be doing best, landlords there may be waiting for relocations as office park leases run out.
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Greg Shill
Greg Shill@greg_shill·
The great thing about this is that it works regardless of how you value the 8+ hours x 5 days a week in person model. Eg, if you’re a founder who can get more value out of that than hybrid or remote, you have oodles of great office space available to you at attractive prices.
Adam Ozimek@ModeledBehavior

Office vacancies are at a 30 year high, tech layoffs are creating a supply shock of skilled labor, and there are tons of skilled remote workers eager for remote jobs. What a great time to do a startup!

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Ali Sapirman
Ali Sapirman@AliSapirman·
I was in downtown Willow Glen today. They gave this flag system for crossing the street, have you seen this anywhere else?
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social
@drvolts A system like the UK's that has fewer checks and balances might help. The Tories don't campaign to end the NHS because the NHS is popular, and people know that if they wanted to end it, they could. US Rs campaign on things they don't intend to do; it gets the base excited.
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David Roberts
David Roberts@drvolts·
But I would put it to you that that's only half the story. Liberal democracies also need ways to *end* arguments. When one side obviously has the right of it, there needs to be some way to wrap it up, to incorporate the winning argument into our shared knowledge base & act on it.
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David Roberts
David Roberts@drvolts·
Rather than doing something useful, I feel like writing a thread that's been on my mind for a while. You will not be shocked to hear that it's related to epistemology. Yes, I'm on that old bullshit again. So, let's talk about arguments.
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Myles C. Maxfield 🇺🇦
I don’t understand how to sign up for Mastodon. I have to choose a server? What happens if the people running the server take it down? Is my account just gone? Why do I have to distinguish between “game developer litherum” vs “social litherum” vs “tech professional litherum”?
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social
@Scholars_Stage I saw much more military presence visiting Seoul than I did visiting Taipei. Though there is always the warning about photography being forbidden during approach to Taoyuan Airport, which gives an expectation of it...
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Henri Sivonen
Henri Sivonen@hsivonen·
And, yet, when I read the New York Times on the Web, the site tries to get me to switch to the app and requires me to tap away the annoyance to stay on the Web. I guess whatever NYT gets out of readers using the app outweighs the risk to journalistic independence.
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Alex Danilo
Alex Danilo@alexanderdanilo·
@robinberjon @rocallahan @hsivonen Sadly the leadership went on a tangent and built Firefox OS which in hindsight was a mistake - engineering resources taken away from the browser to an ultimately failed project. Meanwhile, Opera caved and killed off Presto as the main engine while reinventing itself as an ad mob
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Greg Shill
Greg Shill@greg_shill·
Is that bird site Armageddon out there? Well, it feels like a good time to say how grateful I am to have been a part of your community—a place virtual in name only, where I’ve kept up with old friends, made new ones & found collaborators. 🙏 On Mastodon: @gshill@econtwitter.net
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