today on how to tell a king his plan is stupid in the Warring States:

(The King of Wei wanted to attack the capital of a rival nation. One of his citizens said to him: ) So, a funny thing happened on my way here. I was at the Great Crossing, and I saw a guy heading due north. He said to me: "I'm going to Chu!"

I said to him, "Sir, if you mean to make for the southern kingdom of Chu, how are you going to get there heading north?"

He said, "I've got a good horse." Sir, no matter how good your horse is, this isn't the road to Chu.

He said, "I can spend whatever it costs." Sir, no amount of money or means can make this the road to Chu.

He said, "My driver's great." Yeah, great at driving you further and further away from Chu! This guy, he really needed to TURN AROUND.

original text: https://ctext.org/pre-qin-and-han?searchu=%E7%8A%B9%E8%87%B3%E6%A5%9A

#classicalchinese #translation #localization #history

For the 1,000th time: "AI" does not have agency and cannot think and cannot act.

Chatbots cannot "evade safeguards" or "destroy things" or "ignore instructions".

They do literally only one thing and one thing only: string tokens together based on statistics of proximity of tokens in a data corpus.

If you attribute any deeper meaning to this, it's a sign of psychosis and you should absolutely never use chatbots, possibly you should even touch grass.

Resumen del 1er debate presidencial

https://piefed.social/c/peru/p/1913286/resumen-del-1er-debate-presidencial

New post on the @ohmjs blog —

Inside Ohm's PEG-to-Wasm compiler
→ https://ohmjs.org/blog/2026/03/12/peg-to-wasm

v18 is now more than 50x faster for real-world grammars while using about 10% of the memory 🔥

…this post goes into the details of how it's built.

It's Friday again and therefore time for another update on Diesel, a Rust ORM and query-builder.

This was again a quite week, we got one new issue and one new PR. I nevertheless still struggle to go through all the PR's and suggestions from February.

I still came around to publish diesel-async 0.8.0, although there is no big announcement blog post this time. The release mostly contains smaller fixes and quality of life improvements. See the GitHub release for more details.

#rust #rustlang