clairity

as someone with many tabs across many windows across many desktops/spaces, one weird trick i found is that when firefox starts up (on an intel MBP, 2019), it will churn CPU at over 100% until you go and foreground each of the windows in each of the workspaces. then the CPU usage becomes normal. perhaps it has to do with extensions like noscript or ublock origin, or my propensity to start firefox without internet access, but i don't think that matters here. not sure why this happens, but it's been required across at least the last few firefox restarts for me.

yah, that was my experience at b-school as well, via core courses in leadership and OB (organizational behavior) that taught us how to build effective teams, set up humane incentive structures, effect organizational change (which happens through people, not process or technology), and more. i'm sure a number of my classmates glossed over that part, but it is taught and even emphasized.

the MBA degree simply teaches you the various aspects and phases of managing businesses, and about leadership (but doesn't create leaders). selfishness and greed, the basis of bad management, is in all of us, so it's misplaced to vilify the degree rather than the bad management itself.

ranked choice is a primitive form of conjoint analysis, so that might be an avenue for exploration. marketers aren't always statistically rigorous in how they poll and analyze markets (which is one of the reasons product management rose in prominence, because of the promise of more analytic rigor). even simple versions of conjoint can be an informative tool in the toolbox, but the studies and the existing tools are expensive.

i don't know for sure that there is a big enough market there for VC, but i'm sure a good marketer could make a nice business out of it.

you can get an airthings device like the view plus[0] (i actually have the older wave plus) for continuous sampling of your radon levels.

[0]: https://www.airthings.com/view-plus

while you're technically correct, it's a rebranding from the (zigbee) consumer's perspective, via the CSA being a rebranding of the zigbee alliance. within that context, thread is the most direct analog of the zigbee protocol, as they're both implementations of 802.15.4 for low-power local mesh. consumers won't need to (and most won't want to) understand it deeper than that.

yah, for datetime, i was mostly thinking about styling the widget via css (and perhaps a bit of configuration via json), with the flexibility that all those datetime components had from the jquery days. month and week are indeed just text fields in firefox (just tested it).

and for validation, i'd like it to be js-less, as it's such an integral part of the form use case. there are recent features that help, like :user-invalid and :focus-within, but it's still far from ideal for default behavior. something as simple as styling labels based on validation state of the input is only possible with the advent of :has(), which is still incomplete/experimental in firefox, but even that's still clunky (there's a combinatorial explosion of possible states to cover, having to consider :disabled, :hover, :required, :focus, etc.).

i remember doing stuff like that too, but now it's official! ha.

it's exciting to see web standards (finally) taking direction from web developers rather than corporate interests, despite chrome being so prominent. as a random aside, i'm especially hoping forms get more love, like the common behaviors (datetime entry, combobox, validation/feedback, etc.) that every developer has to wrangle with over and over. and it's great to see things like the <modal> element becoming almost fully usable without js (it still needs to be triggered via js, but can be closed with a method='dialog' form button).

yup, i should have noted that wrinkle in my original comment. some devices will have wifi connectivity built in because they need the bandwidth (and maybe the wider access too), but many won't, because they don't need the bandwidth nor the higher power consumption that comes with it. zigbee/thread-only devices can't route to the wider internet directly because of protocol differences, which is why it needs the border router, but obviously wifi connected devices can. what matter does is standardizes this combo behavior across devices for interoperability.

no, there's a belief of value (and fomo), but not concrete proof. there's little correlation between the price of an ad and the value of attribution beyond the value of the ad itself.

no, thread is a rebranding (and evolution) of the zigbee protocol, which is a low-power, local mesh network with no inherent internet connectivity. zigbee/thread devices work offline first, with switches that are an integral part of the local mesh network. these devices can also be connected to the internet through a hub/border router, if you so choose. matter is the umbrella brand name for the combo of BLE, wifi, and thread that provides a complete IoT ecosystem.

i have a bunch of zigbee devices (mostly ikea tradfri) that i'm eager to upgrade in the hopes that i get more reliability and speed out of my connected devices (mostly lighting).

last time i researched mac email clients a few years ago, i found that spark was one of the worst in terms of privacy and tracking. i settled on canary mail (https://canarymail.io/) as it was better in that regard, while still supporting gmail (which i no longer use).

canonical link is https://csa-iot.org/newsroom/matter-arrives/ but it's stuck in an endless redirect loop currently.

right, but again, those are very likely probabalistic, population-level models that make assumptions about how to attribute credit--does it all go to the first view/click? how likely is the first view/click really the first view/click? do you instead apportion credit across clicks/views? how? it's somewhat useful at a population level, but not at all at an individual level, especially not for the tradeoff in privacy, anonymity, and autonomy.

but the kicker is, is it better than just doing studies without the more invasive attribution data, especially in relation to the higher price and market consolidation? very unlikely. ad monopolization means more of the value in the value chain goes to the monopolist regardless of the proportion of value they provide in the chain.

monopolies seeming to be efficient like that is only true in a limited static analysis. in a dynamic and complex economy, there's great value in the flexibility, ingenuity, resilience, price discovery, and creative restructuring provided by multiple competitors in a given market.

yes, but you haven't shown that that translates into more precise and accurate ROI. marketers and advertisers believe it should, but there's no solid proof. that's because markets (and any human endeavor) is complicated beyond our ability to model (and solve) it deterministically. attribution models (such as incrementality studies) can sometimes give you clues, but can't really tell you why any given person bought something with any certainty. it's the old adage of half of advertising dollars are wasted, but you don't know which half.

mostly in commodities markets (almost by definition, ha). if we had an anti-trust division with any teeth, we'd have many more markets like this, as that's the whole point of anti-trust enforcement--to un-distort markets to drive greater efficiencies and maximize value across the economy (not just in large corps and solely for the already wealthy).

advertisers value a way of determining ROI, which doesn't necessarily require pervasive tracking (see: nielsen ratings of yore).

in any case, my point was about the consumer electronics market, which is apple's core industry, and which, in a healthy and well-functioning market, also has a key stake in this conversation (driving it toward non-distorted, optimally efficient outcomes).

to keep track of all of these in my personal css framework, i made an entry in the base stylesheet for every html element, even including a couple deprecated but widely supported ones (i also keep a list of fully deprecated elements in comments), though not every element gets styled beyond the default.

meter/progress can be styled consistently, but it's tricky because of the browser inconsistencies you mention. it took a lot of playing around with weird vendor-prefixed pseudos to get these looking similar across platforms.

sub/sub/abbr just need to be normalized first - normalize.css is a good reference for this. abbr can be useful for providing short "aside" info on a word/phrase in a semantic way.

styling detail/summary is relatively easy and they're pretty useful for FAQs and the like. i see web designers experimenting with more and more these days.

map/area, i don't use, but have seen it used on experimental designs to neat effect. and object is as you said, hard to predict for styling.

ps - it looks like chrome (105) will finally support mathML along with firefox and safari, so perhaps that will impact sub/sup usage in the future.

> "Also, being more privacy-friendly than Google and being privacy friendly are two different things."

in theory, that's ok, if we have healthy, functioning markets that are free from undue influence of any individual participant. the "invisible hand" of the market would drive it iteratively toward more privacy (assuming this is valued by more than minor segment, greater than ~15% of the market). the market would (and should) be an ongoing conversation between suppliers and consumers to reach all the profitable corners of supply and demand, rather than a couple behemoths with megaphones telling us how great they are, rather than showing it through their products and practices.

p.s. - has anyone else noticed adguard doing port-scans on your gateway from their dns service IPs? i haven't dug into it yet, so i don't know whether it's spoofed or whatnot.

yah, both can be repaired to be visually seamless, but plaster can be functionally seamless too. mold seems to love drywall but can at least be scrubbed off plaster. i've done this with bleach, which apparently some mold is resistent to, and then topped it with mold-resistent paint (since it was under/behind sinks/vanities, i didn't really care if the color matching wasn't perfect).

when i was researching how to repair plaster, i learned that old-school plasterers used to make 3 passes to make it perfectly smooth on top while thick and sturdy throughout, starting with a rough "brown" layer for the bulk to a fine white layer for aesthetics and water resistance. it takes skill to do but the results are both visually pleasing and resilient (having lasted ~100 years so far in my building).

oh, right, dunno where that brain fart came from... thanks for the correction!

yah, i think a lot of these IAQ (indoor air quality) products are ok at relative differences (which is mostly what lay consumers care about). the article mainly points out that they're not good at absolute measurements, and for something like VOCs, it's likely using a CO₂ sensor and a lookup table that's static and only really valid for the test room it was created in.

nice, i’m building a personal css framework that builds on top of a classless base that is similar to bare.css, so i’ll have to go raid it for ideas like how/where it employs grid and flexbox. =)

ps - looks like they use some non-standard html elements and attributes to be completely classless. that's ok, but not generally what i'd want, though i'm quite tempted by the non-standard 'grid' tag.

you can just point the facebook page and google to your website. problem solved.

i live in an older apartment building that has plaster and lath walls. it definitely has better sound isolation, thermal mass, and mold resistance in my experience than drywall. what pains me is that the building manager is a moron (short-term cost minimizer) and replaces the plaster with drywall whenever a significant repair is needed. drywall sounds hollow when you tap it while plaster replies with a satisfying 'thunk'.

in fairness, it's harder to repair correctly, especially for large damage, though i have patched the wall myself with anything from patching compound to joint compound to spackle (which i understand as being similar in its constituent ingredients but not quite the same).

i just meant that no future population will see each and every foible we exhibit perfectly, because that's like hitting a trillion heads in a row. effectively impossible. but they could perhaps hit a hundred.

in any case, the hard part is not finding candidates but culling them down, analogous to the halting problem (or the bullshit asymmetry problem). is it an infinite calculation? probably.

and this thread has dropped pretty far into the archives, so i think it might be time to retire it. perhaps we can continue in a future thread.

for sure there will be a subset of humanity looking back and shaking their heads, and some of them will even have legitimate reasons for doing so. for instance, our brazenness around (bio-)chemistry, given that we are at the very beginning of that vast learning curve. that includes drugs, synthetic materials, fuels, combustion byproducts, you name it.

but yes, it's highly unlikely that they could shake their heads at every instance of today's ignorance and hubris in totality.

korean would be great, as it's a language i've tried learning in the past. i sometimes watch k-dramas and can understand about 20-30%, but would love to practice at my leisure so that i can understand more without reading the subtitles constantly.

i've watched enough wuxia/xianxia now to recognize about 10% of the mandarin words/phrases, but have almost no understanding of the grammar. the real key to learning seems to be (going through the often frustrating process of) communicating in real time, not just reading and listening.

well, you always had those two problems, it's just more apparent this way.

you can actually use lulu itself to block sentry for all of their tools (this is what i do). i found that the only other connections they'll make is for updates--both software and rulesets (if you have that configured).

lulu is not nearly as polished as hands off! (may it rest in peace) or little snitch, but it gets the job done. i also have some rules in pf (via murus gui) to block things like google and facebook on a system-wide level.