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markdog12on 63 Cores Blocked by Seven Instructions

Bruce Dawson does some of Microsoft's most valuable work for Windows. Doesn't even work for them.

Love to see more devices using higher refresh rate.

markdog12on V8: Workaround for Intel Gemini Lake Processor Bug

Bruce Dawson is one of the programmers involved. I'd highly recommend some of his fantastic blog posts, usually Windows-oriented perf pitfalls.

This is a great one to start with, "24-core CPU and I can’t type an email": https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2018/08/16/24-core-cpu-and...

markdog12on Crafting Interpreters: Closures

Then you should check his book on game programming patterns:

http://gameprogrammingpatterns.com/index.html

markdog12on Facebook Horizon

It's disturbing to me that there are people who created, ok'd, and released this video, prob thinking, "hey, this is great!"

markdog12on Nim 1.0

Asking a question in plain English like this shouldn't require further clarification.

markdog12on Nim 1.0

Which just makes things worse. Having to qualify everything by default is a whole lot of foolishness.

markdog12on WebGPU and WSL in Safari

https://twitter.com/gfxprogrammer/status/1171553288681996288

"We're collaborating with Dean and the WebKit team to use ANGLE for WebGL's backend in WebKit, which will allow an easy upgrade to WebGL 2.0 on all platforms. Follow https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=198948 for updates on the work."

markdog12on WebGPU and WSL in Safari

Anyone from other browser vendors care to comment? Would love to know their progress and what they think of SPIR-V/WSL.

markdog12on WebGPU and WSL in Safari

No, the other browser vendors are on board too. In the case of Apple, the API backend will be Metal. It'll be Vulkan or DX12 on other systems.

markdog12on WebGPU and WSL in Safari

It's mentioned in the article, GPU calls (and validation) are done up front instead of in the draw loop. If the gallery is accurate though, looks like there isn't any validation right now.

markdog12on Perils of Constructors

It also has named constructors, factories, const constructors for compile-time constants.

https://dart.dev/guides/language/language-tour#constructors

markdog12on Fast Software, the Best Software

> How fast is your connection?

200 Mbps

markdog12on Fast Software, the Best Software

Users (desperately): "We need fast and correct software!"

Most companies: "Here, have this shitty UI redesign that makes our product worse and 50x slower!"

markdog12on Fast Software, the Best Software

Gmail is now crazy slow for me. Used to be nice and snappy, I dread even clicking a button in there now. I even pay for it with GSuite.

> I sigh — actually sigh — whenever I have to open Photoshop

Yep, quad-core laptop with fast SSD and I dread opening it. I remember being an early adopter with an SSD and I just used to open PS to see how fast it opened. They took that feeling away.

markdog12on CanvasKit – Skia and WebAssembly

They should use the desynchronized canvas flag for lower latency on the ink example.

canvas.getContext('webgl', {desynchronized: true})

https://www.chromestatus.com/feature/6360971442388992

markdog12on Building the New Twitter.com

I don't like it either. How do I use the older version?

markdog12on Rust async-await status report 2

> I'm actually asking this sincerely

Why do you have to say this?

markdog12on WebAssembly AV1 decoder demo, multi-threaded, SIMD

SIMD works on Chrome Canary, you can enable it in chrome://flags

markdog12on Reinventing Firefox for Android

WebRender doesn't work for me, "Unsupported Vendor" :(

Moto G4, Qualcomm Adreno 405, OpenGL ES 3.2

about:config doesn't work either

markdog12on Show HN: Gravitle – 2D soft-body engine built with Rust for the web

Site freezes on Moto G4, latest Chrome after about a second. At least back button still worked.

markdog12on Penn Jillette fasts 23 hours a day to maintain his 100lb weight loss

Mad respect. Really like this interview.

Maybe my favorite part is when the interviewer takes the predictable "but you're special" angle:

> Maybe that’s easy for a renowned Type A guy with a nonstop life of shows, acting and bestselling books. But does it apply to the rest of us?

And he just shuts that down

> I don’t consider myself special. For anybody, there’s no pride in doing things easy.

markdog12on Chrome extension manifest v3 proposal: comment from uBlock Origin author

Thanks, I'll check that out!

Update: Couldn't find it on the Play Store

markdog12on Apple Pro Display XDR

Sounded more like gasps of disbelief it wasn't included + price of it.

markdog12on Chrome extension manifest v3 proposal: comment from uBlock Origin author

Really hoping WebRender, and eventually Pathfinder make a big difference here.

https://github.com/servo/webrender

https://github.com/pcwalton/pathfinder

markdog12on Google and Binomial Open-Source Basis Universal Texture Format

Three.js already supports it: https://github.com/mrdoob/three.js/pull/16522

markdog12on Google and Binomial Open-Source Basis Universal Texture Format

> beyond games

Accept: image/basis

markdog12on Google and Binomial Open Source Basis Universal Texture Format

Three.js supported already added: https://github.com/mrdoob/three.js/pull/16522

markdog12on When Boris Yeltsin Went Grocery Shopping in Clear Lake

That's because it is genuine. Take it from a Canadian who has had to wait many months multiple times for MRIs. Right now I have a tear in my hip joint that needs an MRI, been waiting since November, still nothing. Meanwhile I'm yelping in pain when I try to stand up from sitting down.

Here's a Canadian woman with cancer that went undiagnosed for 2 years because she couldn't access a family doctor: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/health-care-plea-...

Note that she also tried to get access to mental health services to cope, in January, and has to wait until the summer.

Health care access is one of the major issues in Canada right now.

markdog12on Firefox 67.0 Released

I'm on FF nightly, dav1d enabled.