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markdog12on The V Programming Language

I didn't say they couldn't criticize the project. From the comment, it sounded like they had some good knowledge on the subject. Was curious if they ever designed a language, or helped out on one.

markdog12on The V Programming Language

I didn't say it was. From the comment, it sounded like they had some good knowledge on the subject. Was curious if they ever designed a language, or helped out on one.

markdog12on The V Programming Language

Can you share any programming languages you created?

markdog12on The Easy Ones – Three Bugs Hiding in the Open

> Nobody ever looked at the monitoring dashboard

> The fix was a few lines of code to stop traversing after twenty navigation nodes, presumably saving a few million dollars in server and power costs

I wonder if this is Stadia?

EDIT: Whoops, I don't think so:

> needed to move on to a different company

markdog12on Kubernetes 1.19

Didn't IngressClass change that?

https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/ingr...

markdog12on Chrome just got faster with Profile Guided Optimization

I wonder if PGO were at least part of the "toolchain optimizations" mentioned here: https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2020/02/13/performance-o...

markdog12on Facebook account now required to login to Oculus devices

I've always thought it was odd how they can advertise Google Assistant, Siri, etc.., as if it's some magical thing that understands everything you say, but in practice it's worse than useless. It gives you hope that it works, but it never does, it only frustrates you. In my experience, anyway.

markdog12on Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses on commercial products

Looks like Servo may be done, :(

https://twitter.com/lindsey/status/1293243218331439107

markdog12on Single Page Applications using Rust

Firefox Nightly and Chrome Canary both recently landed multi-value and reference types: https://webassembly.org/roadmap/

markdog12on BuckleScript Is Rebranding

Still no async/await?

markdog12on Thomas Sowell interview

> There is nothing simpler than misusing statistics

Lining up strawmen and knocking them down, maybe.

markdog12on Laws of UX

Doherty didn't go far enough.

markdog12on Understanding null safety in Dart

Yeah, I'm not a huge fan of the current code gen methods. They're pretty hackish and ugly. I understand it's prob the only option right now. Need partial classes: https://github.com/kevmoo/language/blob/5a1e560bb0871f07f682...

markdog12on Understanding null safety in Dart

To be picky, and for those reading, Dart no longer uses the same "threading" approaches. Dart 1 used Isolates for the vm and web. Dart 2 uses Isolates for vm, aot, but web workers for the web. Of course with Dart 1 it compiled to web workers, but had the same Isolate abstraction.

Unfortunately, the Dart web worker implementation isn't very convenient and I think some work could be done there to make it nicer to use. It's a very important use case for today's devices.

markdog12on Understanding null safety in Dart

newtype dart proposal: https://github.com/dart-lang/language/blob/master/working/st...

markdog12on TSMC plans to halt chip supplies to Huawei in 2 months

I figured it must be islands, but didn't know there were some so close.

markdog12on TSMC plans to halt chip supplies to Huawei in 2 months

> swam to Mainland China

Really now?

markdog12on Comparing AVIF vs. WebP

> I guess it will be another ten years before we see AVIF support on Apple’s platforms?

And there it is.

markdog12on The most logical explanation is that it comes from a laboratory

Thanks, I hadn't seen those. I did a search, but I guess flagged submissions don't show up. It might be handy to have a link to see the flagged ones. If that was the case, I wouldn't have re-submitted.

Edit: Just did the search again, for "laboratory", and this flagged submission showed up. Not sure why the original one didn't show up for me.

markdog12on The most logical explanation is that it comes from a laboratory

I've also linked to an article that dismisses the study in question, and links to it.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidnikel/2020/06/07/controver...

But why would it be deleted? I guess because it has already been on here? Maybe multiple times? But wouldn't people just link to previous discussion(s)?

markdog12on The most logical explanation is that it comes from a laboratory

Article which refutes the findings: https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidnikel/2020/06/07/controver...

markdog12on The most logical explanation is that it comes from a laboratory

I came to this link from HN, but noticed it was deleted? Not sure why?

markdog12on iOS14 reveals that TikTok may snoop clipboard contents every few keystrokes

Yeah, not just "what you've copied into your clipboard", but "Careful! Sometimes you have important confidential data in your clipboard, such as passwords!"

markdog12on 3K, 60fps, 130ms: achieving it with Rust

There's a section in the article about it: "In the beginning (or: why we're not WebRTC)"

markdog12on Complex landscapes helped land animals evolve higher intelligence: study

https://twitter.com/justsaysinmice

markdog12on Apple Plans to Announce Move to Its Own Mac Chips at WWDC

Looks like it was ported from Carbon to Cocoa:

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2009/08/mac-os-x-10-6/18/

markdog12on Speech to Text on iPhone vs. Pixel

Must be a Pixel 4. My Pixel 3 result is arguably worse than the iOS one. It's too painful to ever use.

markdog12on ZSH Aliases

Is using WSL an option for you? I'm using oh-my-zsh with it just fine.

markdog12on MacOS Catalina: Slow by Design?

Can we get a MacOS @BruceDawson0xB up in here?

https://twitter.com/BruceDawson0xB

markdog12on MacOS Catalina: Slow by Design?

What changes permeated into macOS? What did your team do to improve iOS perf?