gabiruh's comments

On: GLM-5: Targeting complex systems engineering and long-horizon agentic tasks

[gabiruh]

It's interesting how some features, such as green grass, a blue sky, clouds, and the sun, are ubiquitous among all of these models' responses.

[btown → gabiruh]

If you were a pelican, wouldn't you want to go cycling on a sunny day?

Do electric pelicans dream of touching electric grass?

[Magniquick → btown]

Do electric pelicans dream of touching electric grass?

That would be shocking news to me.

[davidwritesbugs → Magniquick]

Please leave the Internet :)

[derefr → gabiruh]

It is odd, yeah.

I'm guessing both humans and LLMs would tend to get the "vibe" from the pelican task, that they're essentially being asked to create something like a child's crayon drawing. And that "vibe" then brings with it associations with all the types of things children might normally include in a drawing.

On: GPT-4o

[gabiruh]

It's weird that the "airplane mode" seems to be ON on the phone during the entire presentation.

[arthurcolle → gabiruh]

This was on purpose - they connected it to the internet via a USB-C cable it appears, for consistent internet instead of having it switch WiFi

Probably some kinks there they are working out

[OJFord → arthurcolle]

> Probably some kinks there they are working out

Or just a good idea for a live demo on a congested network/environment with a lot of media present, at least one live video stream (the one we're watching the recording of), etc.

At least that's how I understood it, not that they had a problem with it (consistently or under regular conditions, or specific to their app).

[hbn → OJFord]

That's very common practice for live demos. To avoid situations like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lqfRx61BUg

[_flux → arthurcolle]

And eliminate the change of some prankster affecting the demo by attacking the wifi.

[simoes → gabiruh]

They mention at the beginning of the video that they are using hardwired internet for reliability reasons.

[sitkack → gabiruh]

You would want to make sure that it is always going over WiFi for the demo and doesn't start using the cellular network for a random reason.

[rightbyte → sitkack]

You can turn off mobile data. They probably just wanted wired internet.

On: .ing TLD now generally available

[gabiruh]

drugdeal.ing was cheap, though...

On: Paredit 25 released, after 8 years

[gabiruh]

Yeah... a couple GIFs would.

If I was them I would've just embedded this video from "Emacs Rocks!":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6h5dFyyUX0

It shows how incredible paredit is.

[losvedir → gabiruh]

Wow! That looks pretty amazing. Makes we wish I used both a lisp and emacs... Does anyone know if there is anything similar that works for non-lispy languages (using syntax like do/end, {}, etc?) and in VSCode?

On: Kaitai Struct: A new way to develop parsers for binary structures

[gabiruh]

I like Perl's Data::ParseBinary (https://metacpan.org/pod/Data::ParseBinary)

    my $s = Struct("foo",
        UBInt8("a"),
        UBInt16("b"),
        Struct("bar",
            UBInt8("a"),
            UBInt16("b"),
        )
    );
    my $data = $s->parse("ABBabb");
    # $data is { a => 65, b => 16962, bar => { a => 97, b => 25186 } }

[matheusmoreira → gabiruh]

How does it handle length-prefixed data?

  length u32
  data   u32[length]

This is a huge problem for traditional parsers since the input modifies the grammar dynamically.

[boardwaalk → matheusmoreira]

It’s right here: https://metacpan.org/pod/Data::ParseBinary#Meta-Primitives

[matheusmoreira → boardwaalk]

I see, you can pass in a function that computes the length. I wonder if a declarative or formal solution will ever exist.

On: Airborne laser scan reveals Arran's ancient sites

[gabiruh]

Yeah. That’s pure Dog-whistle politics.

[dooglius → gabiruh]

Can anyone explain...?

[gabiruh → dooglius]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog-whistle_politics

By saying that they can scan buried ancient sites it resonates to the "enemy" that they can see everything it is trying to hide.

What, at a first glance, may sound like celebrating science is just warfare.

[dooglius → gabiruh]

I know what the term "dog-whistle" means. The parent comment you responded to is "TIL there's a place called the Firth of Clyde", what is the dog whistle in that name?

On: Pattern Matching Without Regex – Introducing the Rosie Pattern Language

[gabiruh]

Yeah.. that got me thinking too. I would not have called it "new".

As of version 5.10, Perl regex engine implements a complete recursive-descent parsing. Allowing things like Regexp::Grammars[0] to exist. Perl also has a nice PEG parser framework called Pegex[1]

-- [0] - https://metacpan.org/pod/Regexp::Grammars [1] - https://metacpan.org/pod/Pegex

On: How to Fall Asleep in Two Minutes or Less

[gabiruh]

Shit.. that's almost exactly how I've been doing since I was a kid. The difference is that I do the other way around, starting from my feet.

On: The Problem with the iPhone's Home Button

[gabiruh]

Is this guy nuts? I'm on iOS 4.3 and I only need to hit the home button twice in a row to get from Safari to the home screen. One hit to send Safari background, and another hit to scroll from the current screen to home screen.

[kissickas → gabiruh]

If so your Safari is not in a folder.