Oh look it's a paperclip manufacturer

Figured out why cross-compilation for Windows wasn't working. So, now there's release binary available for that, too.
Completely untested, good luck.

Cross-compiling for macOS is prohibited by Apple, so even more good luck to you guys. 🫠

Animation using an obscure jpeg file format feature!!!

I mean like, 98%+ of the world's "AI" runs on Linux... people get so focused on desktop environments they lose sight of the big picture.

Edit: Wasn't following the "news" this week, didn't realize this was about code commits.

Yup, it's really the only approach that makes sense. AI is just a tool a human uses, and the final decision along with the responsibility should always rest with the human using the tool.

yeah that too

I guess computers are that much more powerful now.

Modern browsers can compute fractals quickly using the GPU because a WebGL fragment shader can operate on every pixel simultaneously. For each pixel, the shader maps the screen coordinates to the complex plane and iterates the equation until the value escapes. And all the pixel calculations are then done in parallel.

Tbf my setup was already a few years old when I did this, and the quality of this site is a lot lower than a lot of the deep zoom YouTube videos including mine. After I saw this I saw videos in the e^thousands range from years ago.

Don't these things take like ages to compute? how is it doing this so quickly in a web browser? This is insanely cool

Thias why I somehow have the impression that this tool is faking it to some extend. Maybe by using AI?

I got into these like 15 years ago and did a pretty deep zoom on my computer I think it rendered for a few days.

I zoomed to e^144

I prefer music in foreign languages while im working so I dont have the language overhead.

I do podcasts covering leftist political theory and current events.

I’m questioning the near-religious devotion people have to a tool because it gives them a “hacker vibe”—which is basically the whole appeal for newcomers to vim or emacs.

You lost me here. SSH was the whole appeal when I first started using vim.

Also, nice emdash

nifty

Two or three lifetimes ago I worked with an expert systems platform that NASA released to the public domain https://www.clipsrules.net/index.html

It’s apparently still actively developed & used, over thirty years later.

now i want this shirt! lol

using metadata to guide the compression algorithm is definitely a neat concept

OpenZL takes a description of your data and builds from it a specialized compressor optimized for your specific format.

It provides a set of primitive codecs that can be composed in a DAG. Additionally, it allows for user-defined control flow to modify the DAG based on the data, at any point in the compression. OpenZL also provides a universal decompressor that can decompress anything produced by the compressor, independent of the compression DAG.

Conceptually very cool. Information theory says that the more one knows about a dataset’s format, the more one can compress it. If you describe the data’s encoding and overall shape using non-recursive enumerable languages, then you can safely use them as compression hints.

Instead of making twenty custom compressors for twenty different data formats, they’ve generalized it, and presumably decompression doesn’t require separate copies of the same hints used for compression.

there have been some really neat projects using it too like this one https://github.com/biokoda/actordb

Or if you want too host it on NFS backed storage

we have more performance issues developing gotosocial with postgres than with sqlite. if we supported multinode deployments or horizontal scaling such that sqlite's concurrency got harder to reason-about I'm sure postgres would shine, but for a single process sqlite has been generally much faster and it hasn't required anywhere near as much prompting to get the query planner to behave as required.

i also think when people assume sqlite is better for simpler applications, they think smaller. but no, for the same 25+GB databases sqlite has mopped the floor with performance.

single-process multi-threaded sqlite is fantastic.

That's my take as well, PostgreSQL is amazing, but in simpler DB schemes SQLite is undefeatable.