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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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Very pleased to report that our JAMA paper on public health interventions with the epidemiology of the COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan based on analysis of 32,000+ lab-confirmed COVID-19 cases in Wuhan till Mar 8 appeared on April 10. See below for a summary.
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I'm all for more density, though.
I think Santa Clara county may be benefiting from having a strong public health department, and we're proud of them.
per capita, Santa Clara county (with population that's 2.19x San Francisco's) has lower case numbers (0.95 per thousand versus 1.16) but higher death numbers (3.57 per 100,000 versus 1.92). (Case numbers suffer from systematic measurement error, deaths from small sample size.)
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Proper color management is currently scheduled to be turned on in Firefox 77 (though that could change); the only source I have is bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bu… .
We don't have support for colors outside of the sRGB gamut, though. (Do other browsers?)
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Well, your tweet got me to notice this, and bite:
Back when I was 20, digital cameras did technically exist, but most people still used film cameras (which cost money per photo). Thus most of us had much fewer photos (of ourselves, and other things), and thus much fewer good photos. #MeAt20 #GrandCanyon
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I most likely had this developed at Ferranti-Dege, which closed in 2006: thecrimson.com/article/2006/…
Back when I was 20, digital cameras did technically exist, but most people still used film cameras (which cost money per photo). Thus most of us had much fewer photos (of ourselves, and other things), and thus much fewer good photos. #MeAt20 #GrandCanyon
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Evidence from China was that centralized quarantine made a big difference relative to quarantine-at-home:
Yes. The quarantine-at-home strategy used between 1/23-2/1 in Wuhan ie, some confirmed cases were isolated at home, helped reduce R from 3.8 to 1.25, but not good enough. An important lesson for us to learn. Centralized quarantine of confirmed cases after 2/1 was effective(R=0.3)
L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
The outdated and dangerous 85th percentile rule is dead in Oregon - BikePortland.org bikeportland.org/2020/04/15/…
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Our new website: Model Laws for Deep Decarbonization in the U.S., with links to 1,500+ enacted & model laws & other resources for reducing GHG emissions. A resource for federal, state and local legislators to act on climate change. We're drafting more. bit.ly/3b9PTC3
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
I saw a draft State Department memo that warned pausing U.S. funding to the World Health Organization would bolster China, undermine important global work to stop the pandemic, and risk American lives propublica.org/article/trump…
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
The delivery of $1200 stimulus checks to needy Americans is delayed so that President Trump's name can be printed on the checks (nothing like this happened with any previous president). OK. So I suggest that Trump's name also be put on top of tax bills.
washingtonpost.com/politics/…
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I finally stuck these numbers on the tipping point state of each US presidential election on the Web, and the electoral college's bias, at dbaron.org/presidential-elec…
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
I wrote a few words about a new amazing feature of the Firefox Profiler, which is itself quite amazing, blog.paul.cx/post/profiling-…, and how it helps reporting performance issues in complex scenarios like media playback. If you see something, file something !
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No, but the answer involves either using width:100% (or similar) and box-sizing:border-box, display:flex (as @mike_conley's answer does), or display:grid. Maybe other ways too...
Basically, because nobody has yet written a spec for how CSS works on form controls like input. They're somewhere in-between "non-replaced elements" and "replaced elements" (for which you'd get different behaviors for the above -- replaced elements would use intrinsic width).
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Some of these good policies (test, trace, and central quarantine, which I agree we should do) seem possible in the US only once we have substantially more testing capacity than we appear to have today.
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But all of those state flags are bad. (Watch ted.com/talks/roman_mars_why… on flag design!)
(IMO the only good state flags are New Mexico and Texas, although Texas's flag has the disadvantage of looking too much like many others.)
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
New from me: How Mitch McConnell Became Trump’s Enabler-in-Chief newyorker.com/magazine/2020/… via @NewYorker
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
For all the attention and praise on New York, West Coast was earlier and tougher in fighting COVID-19. The results so far: huge disparity in case and death tolls Story w @jmartNYT nytimes.com/2020/04/13/us/po…
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