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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 …

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 th…

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…

Deeply, deeply insulting.

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?

Not the most gracious post, I suppose.

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…

Really tired of reading LLM blog posts, especially ones used to hock SaaS.

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…

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 s…

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 w…

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 datab…

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…

Nice article. Really gets to the heart of what's been troubling me the past decade or so.

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 usa…

Not in the US.

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 i…

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 …

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.

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 advert…

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 adva…