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negativegateon Newpipe/yt-dlp stops working

Would it be feasible to patch firefox or chromium to add the ability to dump the stream from <video> elements?

negativegateon I used YouTube as unlimited storage by storing files as videos

All the more reason to keep posting this stuff. People who do this seriously are why we can't have nice things.

negativegateon Stable Diffusion on AMD RDNA3

nod-ai/SHARK from the original submission is by far the fastest way I've found to run Stable Diffusion on a 5700 XT.

For 50 iterations:

* ONNX on Windows was 4-5 minutes

* ROCm on Arch Linux was ~2.5 minutes

* SHARK on Windows is ~30 seconds

negativegateon Welcome to C# 10

File-scoped namespaces is nice to not have every class already sitting at one level of indentation. I don't see what it has to do with nested folders.

negativegateon Xiaomi Redmi Note 10 Pro: flagship features at half the price

I wish these phones had better US band support. Or that there were comparable phones for specs / price.

negativegateon NIH study offers new evidence of early SARS-CoV-2 infections in U.S.

If you've also been vaccinated is it possible to distinguish that?

Edit: I suppose in this case they could test prior samples, but if you don't have any, you're out of luck?

negativegateon Windows 10 nagging users with Bing advertisements (push alerts)

Settings > Personalization > Start, turn off Show suggestions occasionally in Start

negativegateon Google have declared Droidscript is malware

This is the first I've heard of Termux and now I'm curious what you use it for. Like are you SSHing into other environments?

negativegateon Computers Aren't Fun Anymore (2020)

It looks like it's broken dark mode support.

negativegateon Deskreen – Turn any device with a web browser to a second computer screen

Huh, I never knew about this.

Go to Settings > Projecting to this PC to enable it. You may need to install the Wireless Display optional feature first.

negativegateon Fortnite’s battle with Apple and Google could have an impact on news publishers

Unreal Engine (and Unity) can target HTML5 / WebAssembly. I expect the main issue is the download size of the assets.

negativegateon U.S. states lean toward breaking up Google's ad tech business

You're saying you can't visit any https sites without adding this certificate to your device's trusted certificates?

negativegateon Embrace, Extend, and Extinguish

Locked in ... to a game?

negativegateon Embrace, Extend, and Extinguish

Did you think Typescript would be the native language in Deno?

Yes? I thought that was the whole point. Actually I'm confused about the use of "native" here. It supports running both TS and JS files? And the TS files must be compiled to JS before they can be run anyway. So I'm not seeing any choice that was lost.

That’s what we all do now

I mean, some people do, but I don't. Not everyone uses React / Vue / etc, and afaik it's only React that is forgoing stylesheets. And it's not like stylesheets are dead or that styling elements through JS is non-standard. (I do use Vue, with stylesheets)

negativegateon Embrace, Extend, and Extinguish

I'm not following this train of thought.

First of all C# doesn't run in the browser without compiling to WASM which has all sorts of caveats.

Second, I don't see how the fact that one could compile TS to C# would suddenly put everyone "on the .NET stack". Does the same risk exist if we can compile JS to C#? Which would work about just as well (i.e. not). And TS is also open source and produces reasonably readable JS, so it's not like there's even any lock-in.

Wouldn't it make more sense to be worried about compiling C# or other languages to WASM? Which I'm also not worried about.

negativegateon Show HN: Canvas engines performance comparison – PixiJS, Two.js, and Paper.js

PixiJS is the only one to reach above 100 FPS on my desktop, though that's inbetween frequent GC pauses. Two.js gets ~70 and Paper.js gets ~48.

There would probably be less GC pauses if the benchmark code wasn't doing things like

  [...Array(this.count.value).keys()].forEach(...)

instead of a for loop.

negativegateon Pointermove event latency in web browsers

I'm seeing <2ms in Edge Chromium and ~10ms in Firefox on a 144 Hz display. I'm curious how that compares to what other people are seeing.

I've been doing some WebGL work recently and I've noticed that while it reaches ~144 fps using requestAnimationFrame() in Firefox, there's a lot of stuttering. It's very smooth at 144 fps in Edge Chromium, while Edge Legacy is below 80 fps. As far as I can tell it's not CPU bound, and it's definitely not GPU bound. It would be nice if I could get it running smoothly in Firefox but I don't know what to investigate.

negativegateon Firefox 75.0

Fixed but it looks like it is still hiding behind a toggle on about:config.

negativegateon Firefox 75.0

It looks like you currently need to go to about:config and enable layout.css.backdrop-filter.enabled. It worked for me without enabling web render. Not that this does much good until it's on by default.

negativegateon Firefox 73

Data-uris don't make network requests.

negativegateon Luna – A WYSIWYG language for data processing

Cool, I started working on something similar a while back but I didn't get past handling generics. Like if you have a node<T> with two T inputs and a T[] output, then when you attach a number to an input, the other input's type becomes number too and the output becomes number[]. That could need to propagate to connected nodes, too. Also when you disconnect a node, you would want to determine whether T must still be a number.

Is that something you're handling in your project? Do you have any pointers?

negativegateon Files UWP: An enthusiast’s take on what Windows File Explorer explorer should be

The bundle also seems to include dependencies for multiple architectures and PDBs for debugging. Files.dll which would contain most of the application is ~18MB. And since it does not seem to be a managed dll, it has probably been AOT compiled and likely contains the original bytecode in addition to the native machine code.

negativegateon TypeScript 3.5

Interesting, though it does flag the push() as an error if you use "Array<string> | Array<number>" as the argument type.

It almost seems like some sort of co/contravariance issue?

A function that reads from an Array<string | number> should be able to accept either an Array<string> or an Array<number> (or Array<string | number>), but a function that mutates it should only be able to accept Array<string | number>?

negativegateon Impossible Foods' next product is sausage

> Beef is pretty much as natural as it can come

It being natural doesn't have any bearing on how healthy it is.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_nature

negativegateon Salesforce enables ‘modify all’ in user profiles

While many companies were affected by downtime, only those that were using or had previously used Pardot were affected by the permissions issue.

negativegateon Mozilla is giving up on their IRC server

Hipchat is dead so you don't need to worry about that.

negativegateon Announcing AMP Real URL

So is this basically the server okaying a replay attack? I'm looking through the technical post but it hasn't clicked yet.

negativegateon Microsoft Edge and open source collaboration

Maybe there will still be a UWP version on Windows 10?