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@asteri.sm
chess engine author and aspiring prince(ss) of the stars https://asteri.sm
vimes is perceptive when it comes to people. he understands that the upper class of ankh-morpork are hardly a meritocracy. he knows that *something* is up. but, i think, as a consummate policeman, it's hard for him to recognize legally-protected stationary bandits as the problem.
I recently read Born Against (blog.fogus.me/llm/born-aga...). I’m a member of the chess programming community, and while “characterized by gatekeeping and slow progress” is simply false of chess programming, I like the article. Even better is 87flowers’ comment: lobste.rs/s/3d3wbr/bor...
Born Against, or why hobby programming communities are aggressively against LLM usage
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Man, the flower of all flesh, the noblest of all creatures visible, man who had once made god in his image, and had mirrored his strength on the constellations, beautiful naked man was dying, strangled in the garments that he had woven. —E.M. Forster, The Machine Stops (1909) @miq.moe
Imagining a social platform where if you use a fraught word like “knowledge” or “consciousness”, it pops up a list of interpretations of that word from the relevant SEP article and you have to select which one you mean. Then you get a short quiz on the common objections before you can post.
slowly slipping away from making graphs for the sake of understanding towards making graphs for the sake of how cool it is to have lots of graphs
Not understanding the thought experiment I'm in, I announce that I will be two-boxing, collect both the £1,000,000 and the £50,000, and flee before anyone can stop me
regex 1.13 now has a `regex!` macro (NOT compile time regex) that encapsulates the common pattern of using something like `std::sync::LazyLock` to ensure it only compiles ~once. github.com/rust-lang/re...
Went to Battle at the Burgh #6 over the weekend and saw some awesome robots tear each other apart ^^
'Obsessive Optimization with String Interning' by Arya Dradjica at RustWeek 2026! www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWRL... #rustlang #RustWeek
Obsessive Optimization with String Interning (Arya Dradjica at RustWeek)
Obsessive Optimization with String Interning by arya dradjica. Low-level performance optimization is a challenging endeavor. It requires a wide breadth of knowledge and can be agonizingly slow. But…
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video game quicktime event where someone says "why shouldn't i kill you" and you have a timed dialog choice of A. appeal to virtue ethics B. appeal to deontological ethics C. appeal to consequentialism
where we're going, we won't need EUV machines
Neurotica@schwarzgerat.bsky.social · 2mo agoAn EUV machine in every home
"The HTTP QUERY Method" by @jreschke https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc10008
RFC 10008: The HTTP QUERY Method | RFC Editor
This specification defines the QUERY method for HTTP. A QUERY requests that the request target process the enclosed content in a safe and idempotent manner and then respond with the result of that processing. This is similar to POST requests, but QUERY requests can be automatically repeated or restarted without concern for partial state changes.
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two chess engine talk videos published within 24 hours! I love the contrast between @asteri.sm doing absolutely wild things to make a cutting edge engine, and us gleamlins bumbling around trying to make them without u64s :) great work to @gearsco.de though, awesome talk! youtu.be/D_HaX_O1TAo
Optimising the hell out of Gleam- Surya Rose - Gleam Gathering 2026
YouTube video by Gleam Gathering
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there’s now a publicly-available recording of our RustWeek talk. it went extremely well, and I’m very proud of our work on it. talk is viewable @ youtu.be/Gx21yYLwn10 slides are hosted @ asteri.sm/assets/pdfs/...
Writing a top-10 chess engine in Rust (Kora & Cosmo Bobak at RustWeek)
YouTube video by RustNL
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the discoveries: i can actually get some color tone depth in 590 false color if i don't totally crush the reds, and i can revive monotone red images by simply making them black and white. standish-hickey SRA and humboldt redwoods, x-pro 1, 590nm, stupid soft ttartisan AF lens i hate.
transsexual gynomorph@freyja-lynx.dev · 2mo agochat i think i've made a big discovery in my IR processing
Looking at stories through the lens of the Monomyth keeps us from considering more interesting interpretations such as
Josephine "beckbook.com" Riesman@josie.zone · 2mo agoStunned myself with the realization that RETURN OF THE JEDI (1983) is a recapitulation of the Biblical Binding of Isaac where Abraham decides to kill God instead of his son
“no silver bullet” is one of those ideas which has poisoned the discourse around programming. You can dismiss any process improvement by just saying there’s no silver bullet. I don’t think I’ve ever read a comment which reminds us of this fact that was worth reading.
HATETRIS for Grice-admissible ambiguities in the Twenty Questions Game/Who Am I?
"succulent chinese qualia" entered awareness unbidden, won't leave,
astra of many handles@astra.pictures · 2mo ago"Ah, Supervenient Chalmers! I hope you're prepared for mouthwatering qualia!"
![Comic. [Saturn near smaller moon with craters. A long line of flat rockets carrying parcels is on its way to the moon.] [caption] After learning that Tethys is exactly 1/12th the size of Earth, the miniature art model builders launched a fleet of ships to begin their final, greatest project.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreiblxo6jhtsbjr4amn27vihpptamlvyl6zasj4yscuzouw6ql4voom)
