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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Good they're ending it. A month late is better than a year and a half late, like with the travel restrictions for China.
The Nov. 29 ban barred nearly all non-U.S. citizens who had recently been in South Africa, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Lesotho, Eswatini, Mozambique and Malawi.
to.pbs.org/3FrsGKZ
From Palo Alto or Mountain View, I remember seeing snowcaps visible on the hills to the east quite a few times, and once (I think December 7, 2009) on the hills to the west.
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Many of those places haven't had snow since February 5, 1976.
(Not that they'll necessarily get any next week...)
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That sounds pretty different from what I was demonstrating (debugging browser bugs rather than web content bugs); @replayio is more relevant to that.
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
New: The U.S. has one agency that regulates cheese pizza and another that oversees pepperoni pizza. Efforts to fix the food safety system have stalled again and again. propub.li/3pnaNHv
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Does:
(gdb) watch -l foo
have the exact same semantics as:
(gdb) p &foo
(output is $n = ...)
(gdb) watch *$n
?
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I'm aware... but at the same time I've come to expect things to have behavior subtly different from what I want. And the documentation wasn't very clear to me.
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3/3 I hope to do a similar video sometime soon showing Pernosco pernos.co/ (a commercial product), which is even more powerful, and what I've been using for most of my debugging lately. My first attempt at a video didn't work out that well, though.
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2/ Some relevant links:
rr-project.org/ is the open-source debugger I was using.
bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium… is the bug I was debugging.
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1/ Record-and-replay debugging has changed the way I work as a software engineer working on browser engines. I made a video showing how I used rr to debug one bug in Chromium.
drive.google.com/file/d/15Ef…
Some Chromium colleagues found this useful, so I'm sharing it here too.
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If I had been less jetlagged+tired (it was just a few hours after getting off a mostly-sleepless EWR-HAM flight), and she had spoken more slowly, I might have even understood the German. (I did eventually understand the Spanish.)
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This reminds me of the somewhat unrelated incident in a coffeeshop in Hamburg, where the employee behind the counter insisted on negotiating a language we could speak in common, after I had successfully ordered without using language, in order to ask if I wanted anything else.
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OH-muh krahn
It leads people to mentally split the word as omi-cron... and then change omi into something else like omni.
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For those who have trouble spelling omicron:
Divide it up by the two pieces in Greek ("o micron", or "small o"). (Think of the "micron" length unit or "micro" prefix.)
Contrast this with omega ("o mega", "big o").
(This is also clearer with the Greek pronunciation.)
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So have we ended the travel ban from southern Africa yet?
It might have made sense for the 3 (?) days from when it was announced to when it took effect, but it doesn't make sense now.
Omicron is now the dominant coronavirus variant in the US. Last week, it accounted for 73% of new cases, according to the CDC.
cnn.it/3GXxzM4
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In case anyone was following along and curious what this discussion was about, the slightly abridged and edited version of the message is lists.w3.org/Archives/Public…
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Seeing so many people saying “I did everything right” as they say they have a breakthrough case of covid. It is dangerous to moralize contracting a deadly disease. You cannot personal responsibility your way out of a public health disaster.
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I haven't (to my knowledge) had covid, but I do know people who currently have long covid, and hearing their complaints about being (a) significantly disabled as a result of a mild case and (b) effectively ignored by the medical system don't give me confidence in risk being low.
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