notorious_pgb

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by notorious_pgb 8mo ago
You're right and I was misremembering (we had only developed against modern mobile browsers), though I am 100% certain we made use of these extensions on iOS Safari, so I honestly don't believe caniuse when they assert that it sup
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by notorious_pgb 8mo ago
Very fair (see my edit), though I would submit to you that this isn't a sufficient polyfill for PRF, since PRF allows for a _secondary secret_ alongside the public key, allowing the server to safely store the public key without storing
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by notorious_pgb 8mo ago
Interesting, but the PRF / LargeBlob extensions already enable just such functionality (and more) without relying on the secrecy of a public key. Why not just use those? Edit: that's what I get for not reading far enough -- the ar
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by notorious_pgb 8mo ago
Deeply, deeply insulting.
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by notorious_pgb 8mo ago
I don't mean to be rude, but what could possibly have given anyone with eyes and ears a positive -- friendly, even -- impression of Google?
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by notorious_pgb 9mo ago
Not the most gracious post, I suppose.
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by notorious_pgb 9mo ago
I would draw a distinction between "working in the tech industry" and "being instrumental to the rise of a terribly consequential corporation over the course of decades". Copyright is a strange thing to bring up, given I
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Shut Up About the Water(prettygoodblog.com)
36 points by notorious_pgb 9mo ago|12 comments
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by notorious_pgb 10mo ago
Really tired of reading LLM blog posts, especially ones used to hock SaaS.
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by notorious_pgb 10mo ago
Respectfully, it's not clear to me what you're saying. You're clearly displeased with both the author of the article and with myself, but beyond that, I'm not sure what your thesis is.
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by notorious_pgb 10mo ago
Primarily poor wording on my part. I think in terms of language features and patterns which actually mean something. OOP doesn't really mean anything to me, given that it doesn't seem to mean anything consistent in the industry. O
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by notorious_pgb 10mo ago
I think that "OOP" is an incredibly overloaded term which makes it difficult to speak about intelligibly or usefully at this point. Are we talking about using classes at all? Are we arguing about Monoliths vs [Micro]services? I do
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by notorious_pgb 10mo ago
With respect, none of this sounds like "amazing" work on DuckDB's part. It's not bad work, either! It's competent work. Comparing it to a naive approach (encrypting an entire database file in a single shot and loadi
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by notorious_pgb 10mo ago
Roblox isn't embedding arbitrary Unity games though; they're exposing an SDK to use the base Roblox multi-player framework for custom game modes -- which Fortnite also already does, no?
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by notorious_pgb 10mo ago
Nice article. Really gets to the heart of what's been troubling me the past decade or so.
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by notorious_pgb 10mo ago
It's certainly not the same, but this reminds me of the "NFTs in video games" lunacy of a few years back. Just add NFTs to your games! An ore mined in Minecraft will somehow be usable in every other game! It's not clear
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by notorious_pgb 10mo ago
Not in the US.
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by notorious_pgb 10mo ago
There's nothing which fills me with despair at the bleakness of the modern digital hellscape quite as efficiently as AI-written articles bemoaning the usage of AI. Hating AI slop is an art, god dammit -- so of course you just had to th
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by notorious_pgb 10mo ago
Do you know, deep down, what a thread is? What it actually is ? If not, I suggest reading this blog post: https://prettygoodblog.com/p/what-threads-are-part-2 (disclaimer: I wrote this)
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by notorious_pgb 11mo ago
Well, not really. They've explained why their existing solutions don't work well for proxies / gateways, which cloud-based AI agents are an example of.
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by notorious_pgb 11mo ago
This blog post is offensive to me on three levels: 1. It is clearly not written with a desire to actually convey information in a concise, helpful way. 2. It is riddled with advertisements for Cloudflare services which bear absolutely no re
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by notorious_pgb 1y ago
It seems to me that once things like Neuralink start being used for more than strictly restoring functionality in injured or disabled individuals -- once there's a competitive advantage to have one -- it'll quickly become an arms
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by notorious_pgb 1y ago
This is definitely the core issue from my perspective.
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by notorious_pgb 1y ago
tl;dr: Yes; at least some of us are. I deeply am. I wouldn't normally post a link to my blog in the comments of another thread -- I'm really not trying to shamelessly plug here -- it's just _incredibly_ relevant, and I'v
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The big secret that Big AI doesn't want you to know(prettygoodblog.com)
3 points by notorious_pgb 1y ago|1 comments
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by notorious_pgb 1y ago
Submission statement: I wrote this as a desperate plea to all those who actually care about craft as craft: keep your ability to do. You are going to need it, and it is easy as hell to lose.
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by notorious_pgb 1y ago
I appreciate your humility in assuming that the term is correct, and your understanding must be off. As a matter of fact, the truth is that this is not an RTOS , and I'm embarrassed that I put that term in the title. It wasn't in
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by notorious_pgb 1y ago
Truly appreciate the thoughtful response. First off: you're absolutely correct, and in ways which pain me to admit, because I do want to create correct analogies, as opposed to ones which mislead or half-inform. I racked my brain, du
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by notorious_pgb 1y ago
Ah well -- the article itself has its own fair share of accuracy issues -- and I learned something from your conversation, which wouldn't have happened without said mistake.
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by notorious_pgb 1y ago
I think this is a pretty damn good metaphor for the introduction of these concepts, especially in a context where the learner(s) might need to imminently apply this knowledge. What drove me to write this post (as someone who didn't a

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