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Phoenix: A modern X server written from scratch in Zig

https://git.dec05eba.com/phoenix/about/

#zig

Why doesn’t #mastodon support mixing tags and users in the lists?

Simplistic Comptime Column Safety in SQLite Queries https://lobste.rs/s/lbpxep #zig
https://kristoff.it/blog/simplistic-comptime-sqlite/

Lmao. This is funny.

I doubt that anything resembling genuine "artificial general intelligence" is within reach of current #AI tools. However, I think a weaker, but still quite valuable, type of "artificial general cleverness" is becoming a reality in various ways.

By "general cleverness", I mean the ability to solve broad classes of complex problems via somewhat ad hoc means. These means may be stochastic or the result of brute force computation; they may be ungrounded or fallible; and they may be either uninterpretable, or traceable back to similar tricks found in an AI's training data. So they would not qualify as the result of any true "intelligence". And yet, they can have a non-trivial success rate at achieving an increasingly wide spectrum of tasks, particularly when coupled with stringent verification procedures to filter out incorrect or unpromising approaches, at scales beyond what individual humans could achieve.

This results in the somewhat unintuitive combination of a technology that can be very useful and impressive, while simultaneously being fundamentally unsatisfying and disappointing - somewhat akin to how one's awe at an amazingly clever magic trick can dissipate (or transform to technical respect) once one learns how the trick was performed.

But perhaps this can be resolved by the realization that while cleverness and intelligence are somewhat correlated traits for humans, they are much more decoupled for AI tools (which are often optimized for cleverness), and viewing the current generation of such tools primarily as a stochastic generator of sometimes clever - and often useful - thoughts and outputs may be a more productive perspective when trying to use them to solve difficult problems.

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Re: #EpsteinFiles
"These documents are more blacked out than Pete #Hegseth on New Year's Eve." - - feral streeep

"Shared block lists" are a common ask but I keep hearing on #bluesky there are lots of problems with them (e.g. someone can get on a list too easily with no recourse)

Has anyone written up an analysis of these issues, both pro/con of shared block lists? I'm not asking for a huge discussion, I just expect there are a few writeups on this topic and I'm looking for links.

#hn articles with true titles. Very funny.
https://dosaygo-studio.github.io/hn-front-page-2035/news-honest.html

#ClickHouse impressed the hell out of me. It's truly a work of art.

This is natively loading an .xz compressed dataset over the Internet.

George Clooney is an actor.

Put him in the role of a surgeon in front of a camera, and he will do and say things the average non-surgeon viewer will agree are surgeonish. After an hour of that, we are, as average non-surgeon viewers, satisfied and entertained.

Put him in an operating theatre, and the patient will fucking die because he's not a surgeon and knows nothing about really doing surgery.

This is a post about LLMs.

After doing #AdventOfCode in #Zig, I don't think I've ever missed writing #Rust more.

I feel like often people see Rust just as a memory-safe alternative to C/C++ and miss that is a genuinely enjoyable language to work with.

Available now in tip releases on macOS: tab colors! Right click the tab bar, select a color. This was a surprisingly popular feature request (I guess used a lot by iTerm2 users?). I'm already digging it to mark diff projects, agents, etc.

Only mouse flow for now, command palette and keyboard to come later. Also only macOS to start. We have to think about this a bit more on GTK, and it seems like this was most heavily requested on macOS so shipped it there first.

Enshittification of #JetBrains has begun.

> People who experience sleep paralysis sometimes hallucinate a demon-like creature sitting on their chest, and one explanation is that the subconscious mind is trying to understand why the body can’t move, and instead of coming up with “I’m still in REM sleep so there’s not enough acetylcholine in my brain to activate my primary motor cortex”, it comes up with “BIG DEMON ON TOP OF ME”.
https://www.experimental-history.com/p/bag-of-words-have-mercy-on-us

It would be a real shame if this photo of President Barak Obama receiving the *actual* Nobel Peace Prize goes viral today for no apparent reason

#scotland #seascape #Photomonday #silentsunday

@dabiddo highly recommend reading

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45947810

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46093518

https://lobste.rs/s/pbn3zy/zigbook_learn_zig_programming_language

https://lobste.rs/s/y6hggq/zigbook_is_plagiarizing_zigtools

Before reading it or sharing.

Starting today, our little game Fruits and Tails is officially released to the public! Thank you to everyone who came to see our presentation at FRAME today, as well as the organisers!

The game is playable at https://fruitsandtails.fghj.cz/ using any web-enabled device. Let us know what you think!

(Side note: source code release coming soon)

#gamedev #indiegame #zig #ziglang #programming #art