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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Other temperature and humidity effects could be from how they affect how long the virus survives on surfaces. I'm aware of ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/article… on this effect for other coronaviruses; not sure about research on this for SARS-CoV-2.
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I have different colors, but (a) the settings appear to be separate for desktop (web) and Android and (b) I have too many calendars to remember all the colors.
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Google Calendar feature wish: For each calendar I subscribe to, the ability to associate an emoji (or image) with it that will show up on all the calendar events from that calendar.
(Also, really, other per-calendar settings like setting or ignoring alarms.)
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Y2K is now farther in the past than January 2038 is in the future.
In January 2038, the common signed 32-bit time representation (seconds since January 1, 1970, 00:00 UTC) overflows & resets back to December 1901.
People ought to start being worried about what will break then.
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
For the CCP, even grief is a potential threat to stability that needs to be controlled. In Wuhan, officials are pushing families to bury the dead quickly & quietly, to forget & move on. But many are fighting to preserve the memory of their loved ones. 1/ nytimes.com/2020/04/03/world…
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Windows 3.1 ran on top of MS-DOS, and at the time it was released, the current version of MS-DOS was 5.0.
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I wonder if the people retweeting this are too young to have dealt with viruses on MS-DOS 3.3... or was it 5.0?
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
The biggest thing in this update is that California added 75k+ negative test results and only 1300 new positives. This must be a reporting restatement.
It's a HUGE change in the testing metrics for the state, and it is very good news, if the numbers can be believed.
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It’s the honour and privilege of my life to be elected as Leader of the Labour Party.
I will lead this great party into a new era, with confidence and hope, so that when the time comes, we can serve our country again – in government.
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
This is so key. Everyone has wondered *why FDA didn't reach out to engage industry sooner* on testing. They wanted to - but were overruled by HHS.
Some worried the CDC test wouldn't be enough in case there was a surge of cases. When FDA leaders consulted HHS on whether Hahn should reach out to private companies for help and whether it would be bad optics, they believed they should stand down. washingtonpost.com/national-…
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On the other hand, if the goverment in California were *actually* on top of things, they'd be doing more about the massive shortage of COVID-19 testing capacity in California right now, since fixing that is one of the prerequisites to ending shelter-in-place. 5/5
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So I wonder if the sense that the rest of the country isn't here for us helped prepare places like California and Washington better for the federal government being totally unprepared to handle a crisis. 4/5
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If something like 9/11 happened anywhere west of 98°W, would it have had the overwhelming national reaction that it did happening in New York? In California, I don't think we're ever quite sure it would. At least, I'm not, and I wonder if our elected officials think so too. 3/5
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Whether it's the constant attacks on @SpeakerPelosi for being from SF, or the difference in national coverage between an East coast hurricane or snowstorm vs. a similarly-disastrous California wildfire or Alaska earthquake, out West it feels to me like the country cares less. 2/5
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So I was thinking about the different responses to COVID-19 by governments in different parts of the United States, and wondering if state and local governments in the West did better because they make less of an assumption that the rest of the country cares about them. 1/5
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In addition to being generous, commercial landlords waiving the rent seems like good business. Better to have viable businesses as tenants once the shutdowns end, rather than a bunch of empty storefronts or new-and-unproven businesses that might be more likely to fail.
Huge shout out to Joe Cotchett for his compassion & generosity in waiving rent for his 65 retail tenants in downtown Half Moon Bay who have been forced to shut down during the #COVID19 pandemic. Our small businesses are really hurting. This is huge. #ad24 smdailyjournal.com/news/loca…
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
How the Bay Area got a jumpstart on coronavirus - and the country missed a chance sfchronicle.com/health/artic…
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Scoop: US intel community in a report to White House concludes China has concealed the extent of the coronavirus outbreak in its country, sources tell @nwadhams and me.
Trump officials assumed China’s virus numbers weren’t accurate, now intel shows it.
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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