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I agree! (Though you cannot call just any method asynchronously; the interface's IDL needs specific annotations and the underlying object needs to implement ICallFactory.)

Cancer is not the only complication...

There are projects such as Halide[1] that actually allow you to achieve performance without needing to resort to asm. [1] https://halide-lang.org/

They've been available natively on Nightly with some basic UI support since they were first implemented a decade ago. Some other pre-release builds have them too but it's been too …

Ah, that explains why there is still NPAPI plugin support.

The modern native frontend APIs aren’t exactly lightweight themselves…

Yak shaving is only fun when you don't have managers who don't care about the circumstances breathing down your neck.

> Plus privacy.resistfingerprinting isn't enabled even when selecting "Strict" "Enhanced Privacy Protection" in the settings, great job there Mozilla. That pref is there for the To…

The SpiderMonkey team always had t-shirts made up of these.

Respectfully to the American "this isn't that big a deal crowd": you're looking at it from the perspective that this is a commonplace occurrence in your country. IANAL but I have f…

I mean, it's not really optional for Canadians _not_ to sign up for the list. It's the official list of electors. If you're a citizen, you're going to end up on the voter list one …

I don't know whether is still does this, but 8-9 years ago I discovered that Acrobat overwrites the COM registry entries for Microsoft Active Accessibility (oleacc.dll) such that a…

And if I may add a corollary: Measurement doesn't need to be held off until the end of the project! Start doing it as soon as you can!

I too learned this the hard way, via a supposedly concurrent priority queue that did quadratic-time work while holding a lock over the entire thing. I was told that "premature opti…

Agreed. Nitpicking about indirection is definitely a "premature micro-optimization is the root of all evil" moment. When I worked on Firefox, we eventually had to remove a bunch of…

Essentially, yeah, but of course you wouldn't want to use any Tailscale trademarks. Tailscale is engineered under the assumption that any client connected to our control plane coul…

I really love VFX in the period between Star Wars and Jurassic Park. To me it will always be the "golden age" of VFX.

Essentially this: OSS operating systems get OSS GUIs.

(Tailscalar here) To be clear: it's only the GUIs that are closed source on selected platforms.

This is a terrible idea! _Maybe_, _maybe_ using only the documented APIs with only the documented parameters. Unfortunately it makes too many false assumptions about interoperabili…

I'm not trying to troll here, asking seriously: are there any immediate-mode GUI APIs with good a11y?

> Well, it's not. It's barbaric and primitive. A warning is no justification. It's actually Singapore that turned me against the death penalty. I saw a photo on a news site one day…

Citation needed.

Similarly, I've seen this in enterprise IAM software, but again as data, not as code. Imagine a very large company that has a heterogeneous setup: say it has plain LDAP for *nix ma…