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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My latest problem is notifications of type "push", for which it doesn't appear possible to distinguish between PRs that I've interacted with versus ones where I'm just watching the entire repo. I think it's the only one listed in help.github.com/en/github/re… where I can't tell.
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I keep thinking I have this set up right, and then realizing I don't. Realizing I don't usually involves trying to keep up with my github email and realizing it's still filtered wrong (which may be part of why I tend to ignore it in the first place).
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To put it another way, for *some* repositories, I want my github email notifications to go to a separate (higher-volume) mailbox if it's an issue that I haven't actually interacted with.
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I want to filter @github email notifications based on two things:
1. whether it's an issue I've interacted with or I'm getting the email just because I'm subscribed to notifications for the repository
2. what repository it is.
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Right now the smartest people I talk to want us to push R0 to zero, and be able to contract trace, install thermal indicators, reliable anti-body testing, and out fever tents in the right place.
Armchair experts and economic hacks feel different.27/
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1/ When @nytimes senior health reporter Donald McNeil Jr writes, consider it mandatory reading.
This piece about what Asian countries did right to stop #covid19 - China, South Korea, Singapore etc- is both shocking, and incredible.
nytimes.com/2020/03/22/healt…
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
South Korea and Italy had near-concurrent outbreaks that initially followed a parallel, terrifying trajectory.
Mere weeks later, as Italy reports 793 deaths in one day, Korea has two. Some days it has *zero*.
Me and Choe Sang-Hun report how they did it: nytimes.com/2020/03/23/world…
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
I was surprised to learn a small county in Colorado was planning to offer serological testing for COVID-19 to everyone.
Then, I realized it was Telluride. Then, I realized the biotech execs whose company is making the tests live there theatlantic.com/science/arch…
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
The American Academy of Otolaryngology posted information on its website saying that mounting anecdotal evidence indicates that lost or reduced sense of smell and loss of taste are significant symptoms associated with Covid-19 nyti.ms/2QEGRor
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See my comments from almost 2 years ago, after my most recent visit to Sydney (part of a thread on visiting there):
On the negative side, the city center is pretty car-centric, and pedestrian hostile. Intersections in the core have beg buttons for pedestrians. Sometimes the person at the front of the crowd of 20 waiting to cross doesn't press it... and then it's a crowd of 50.
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It's good to see Sydney fixing their beg buttons. As a visitor, it was a bad characteristic of a city I otherwise quite like.
Too bad it took COVID-19 to do this. (In the long term they should just get rid of the buttons entirely, rather than just making them useless.)
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
14/Finally: if you're in a position to influence what we do to get back to normal, the answer is obvious: testing. Lots of testing. Repeated testing. And, most importantly, TESTING APPARENTLY HEALTHY PEOPLE. Every other approach keeps you home for 12 to 18 months or more.
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Post-exposure prophylaxis trial is open for enrollment. The trial is open to healthcare workers or household contacts anywhere in the USA who have been exposed <=3 days to known #COVID19. Email covid19@umn.edu on how to enroll. @UMNews #IDTwitter
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Everyone knows that we're facing a real crisis from the coronavirus. But do you know how we got here and what we need to do next? Ron Klain, former White House Ebola Response Coordinator, breaks it down for us:
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My intuition is that of the places I've been multiple times, it's highest in Japan (where I think it's an expectation), and probably next highest in New Zealand.
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A travel-related question I was thinking about now that I can't travel...
How does the chance that a randomly chosen hotel has laundry facilities (washer/dryer/detergent) that guests can use vary between countries?
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Indeed, if under comparable circumstances a reporter had asked this question of a Democratic president who gave an appropriate answer telling people to keep up hope, many on the right would have been screeching about a biased press asking softball questions.
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
About the question: @PeterAlexander was inviting Trump to take on the "priestly role" of the presidency--to act as the nation's consoler. He refused. Not only did he refuse, he attacked Alexander for asking for for it. Trump has never been able to perform this role.
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
2020 Housing Legislation Highlights. For the current emergency, California is allowing eviction bans and leasing hotels to shelter people. For the long term, there are dozens of zoning, tenant protection, & funding bills. Details in thread and at tinyurl.com/2020housingbills 1/
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