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Very cool.

I noticed the fox demo's wasm_example_bg.wasm is 22MB. That seems large? Is there code splitting?

Also, seems streaming is broken:

wasm_example.js:285 `WebAssembly.instantiateStreaming` failed because your server does not serve wasm with `application/wasm` MIME type. Falling back to `WebAssembly.instantiate` which is slower. Original error: TypeError: Failed to execute 'compile' on 'WebAssembly': Incorrect response MIME type. Expected 'application/wasm'.

markdog12on High Performance Browser Networking

A bit of an oldie, but a goodie, highly recommend!

markdog12on Dart 3

> That is about to change however examples here https://youtu.be/yRlwOdCK7Ho 28:30 mark)

But it doesn't explain what js.window IS. I assume it's implemented via static interop (https://pub.dev/packages/js#staticinterop), but not sure.

Is it out of some secret library they have somewhere, generated from Web IDL? Do I have to implement every function/property on window myself via static interop?

Btw, you can link to youtube with a timestamp: https://youtu.be/yRlwOdCK7Ho?t=1724

Update: I did find this package, which seems to generate bindings from Web IDL: https://pub.dev/packages/js_bindings, but it's not from the Dart team, and prob not what they're using here.

markdog12on Dart 3

Firefox also has it behind a flag in about:config, javascript.options.wasm_gc

markdog12on Dart 3

Appreciate all the hard work, great release. Can't wait for wasm, macros, and inline classes. Macros will be such a game changer, avoiding so much boilerplate you have to go through today.

markdog12on FSF Slams Google over Dropping JPEG-XL in Chrome

Interesting, why not?

Found this: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/75459594/why-doesnt-edge...

markdog12on Chrome ships WebGPU

Note that this has not shipped to stable, it's currently in beta.

I read an unqualified "shipped" as "shipped to stable", but maybe that's just me.

markdog12on Mozilla.ai: Investing in Trustworthy AI

Tangent: Header is 2MB png: https://twitter.com/jaffathecake/status/1638529320435195905

markdog12on Sucralose is a negative modulator of T cell-mediated responses in mice

Last sentence in abstract:

> Overall, these findings suggest that a high intake of sucralose can dampen T cell-mediated responses, an effect that could be used in therapy to mitigate T cell-dependent autoimmune disorders.

markdog12on Google Invests Almost $400M in ChatGPT Rival Anthropic

How is this not the top comment?

markdog12on Two surprises in browser crashes

I don't see in Sentry where you can set up "Report-To", "NEL" headers.

markdog12on Two surprises in browser crashes

You can't handle browser crashes.

markdog12on Two surprises in browser crashes

https://report-uri.com/ does.

markdog12on Zstandard – Fast real-time compression algorithm

Chrome issue: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=124697...

markdog12on Argentina Wins the World Cup

> No diving

By what standard was there "No diving"? Do you mean by the standard of "they all dive all of the time, so this wasn't bad relative to that"?

As someone who doesn't watch soccer, saying there was "No diving" beggars belief.

markdog12on The road to Dart 3: A fully sound, null safe language

Update: One of the Dart devs says it's because macros are higher risk and harder to get right.

markdog12on The road to Dart 3: A fully sound, null safe language

You're not the only one. They actually started work on macros before pattern/records, but for some reason it seems priority changed. I would have much preferred macros came first.

markdog12on The road to Dart 3: A fully sound, null safe language

Yep, Dartium. That ship has sailed years ago.

markdog12on Porting 58k lines of D and C++ to Jai

> And the most important reason: I just feel like it!

markdog12on Why Twitter didn’t go down: From a real Twitter SRE

Don't forget conspiring with the government to censor what can be seen/thought: https://theintercept.com/2022/10/31/social-media-disinformat...

markdog12on Chrome Responds "No" to JPEG XL

I posted it because there has been a lot of activity, interested parties, etc.. on https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=117805..., waiting for some kind of reply from the Chrome team. Despite interest, it looks like they haven't changed their mind, given the link I posted, and I thought it merited discussion.

markdog12on The case for JPEG XL

They did. image.jxl.enabled in about:flags

markdog12on Functional programming should be the future of software

Tangent: article has a useless 13.2MB gif at the top, with a "high" fetch priority.

markdog12on Chrome drops JPEG XL, “not enough interest”

Chrome issue tracker: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=117805...

A lot of pissed off people in there, and some very good points being made against this decision.

markdog12on Chrome drops JPEG XL, “not enough interest”

Interesting comment in that thread that's essentially saying the main person involved in the decision is involved with webp and avif:

https://twitter.com/jonsneyers/status/1587052403936972801

(Not sure if it has merit or not)

markdog12on Optimizing images with the HTML <picture> tag

WTF!? Jpeg xl was looking awesome, with lots of community interest: https://jpegxl.info/

This sucks.

> - There is not enough interest from the entire ecosystem to continue experimenting with JPEG XL - The new image format does not bring sufficient incremental benefits over existing formats to warrant enabling it by default

markdog12on macOS Ventura is now available

Every time I get a notification, Notification Center pegs to 100% CPU and locks up. Can't even get rid of the notification. Gotta kill the process.

markdog12on “Women are wonderful” effect

> participants had a much less positive response to articles favouring men over women than those that favoured women over men – and, again, this effect was stronger in women, as well as in left-leaning participants

> They also felt more strongly that male-favouring findings should be kept away from girls and not mentioned by teachers and the media.

markdog12on Overzealous Destructuring

Extremely sad the comment is warranted these days, but yep, nice and fast.

markdog12on Google CEO tells employees not to ‘equate fun with money’ in heated meeting

Similar thing happened to me with Stadia, signed up for free month, cancelled, noticed they billed me 2 months. Pointed it out to them, they said they wouldn't reimburse me. They'll never get a cent from me again.

As a sibling commented: "WE STOLE YOUR MONEY, NOW FUCK OFF."