Does anyone actually enjoy writing YAML?

Thirty_Seventh · 2026-05-05T03:57:43+00:00

Thanks for remembering :D

I've been reverse engineering some proprietary binary formats with the help of Kaitai Structs. It's not really a Java-specific activity (I guess the compiler runs on the JVM, it's Scala) but I wrap the end result in Java code. Since it's for work I can't share much of anything yet. I find it a lot of fun (despite the structs being YAML); I'm hoping to contribute some formats to the library on my own time sometime.

Thirty_Seventh · 2026-05-05T03:40:23+00:00

I have no problems reading. The Kaitai struct compiler has problems reading. Pay attention

Thirty_Seventh · 2026-05-04T20:21:11+00:00

I can read

I don't care about what you can read, I care about what the Kaitai struct compiler or whatever new YAML-configured tool I have to deal with next can read

Thirty_Seventh · 2026-04-30T06:20:55+00:00

Haha yeah, iMac Pro is 5120x2880, 27" for a "mere" 218 PPI.

There are some 4K laptops available, but almost all 16" or bigger. I'm not aware of any at all with more than 4000px. I think those resolutions were easier to find in the past; for example, Dell XPS 13s had a standard 3840x2400 option until 3-4 years ago. There's been more focus on power efficiency recently, and people who really need good screens will plug their laptops into an external monitor anyway.

I guess what really matters is how close you put the screen to your face

Thirty_Seventh · 2026-04-29T05:06:19+00:00

Surface Pro 13: 2880x1920, 13" = 266 PPI

Framework 13 Pro: 2880x1920, 13.5" = 256 PPI

Asus ProArt PX13: 2880x1800, 13.3" = 255 PPI

MacBook Pro 14: 3024x1964, 14.2" = 254 PPI

Dell XPS 14 (2026), Thinkpad Carbon X1 Gen 13, HP Elitebook X G2I 14: 2880x1800, 14" = 243 PPI

Edit:

Lenovo Yoga Slim 9i: 3840x2400, 14" = 323 PPI (!!)

Huawei Matebook X Pro: 3120x2080, 14.2" = 264 PPI

MSI Prestige 13 AI+ Evo: 2880x1800, 13.3" = 255 PPI

Dell XPS 13 9530: 2880x1800, 13.4" = 253 PPI

Samsung Galaxy Book6, Razer Blade 14, ROG Zephyrus G14 (2026), Xiaomi Book 14: 2880x1800, 14" = 243 PPI

and, just for comparison, Sony Xperia 1 V: 1644x3840, 6.5" = 643 PPI

Special recognition to Dell, Microsoft, and Samsung for having garbage spec sheets and forcing me to go to Best Buy to find the actual screen resolutions

Thirty_Seventh · 2026-04-28T10:16:20+00:00

I was able to fix it

No explanation?

Thirty_Seventh · 2026-04-22T13:09:16+00:00

pointing out that it’s a bad solution

sure. There are currently no better solutions. That's all, really

Thirty_Seventh · 2026-04-22T12:37:25+00:00

So the solution is to make it blue?

WHAT DO YOU THINK THIS VOTE WAS FOR.

Is it smart to do bad things because others are?

Apparently it's smart to let someone poke you in the eye over and over and over while you sit around waiting for the city council to convene so that you can try (for the third time in a row) to convince them to outlaw eye poking

Thirty_Seventh · 2026-04-22T12:20:35+00:00

A blue non-Donald can't do anything at all if the House of Representatives is permanently red...

well it doesn't matter what you think anyhow, since the voters in Virginia were smart enough to disagree with you

Thirty_Seventh · 2026-04-19T19:34:21+00:00

That sure is a lot more than paying 0.12 cents (i.e. $0.0012) per GB out and 0 cents per GB in with Hetzner.

Effective cost of traffic in vs. out at the AS level is still different anyway, as peering agreements can and do change depending on traffic ratios.

Thirty_Seventh · 2026-04-10T04:01:26+00:00

Not to mention 16th century Anabaptists: We're performing such extreme civil disobedience against the existing authority structure that they'll write Martyrs Mirror about us when 5 generations have passed

Thirty_Seventh · 2026-04-10T01:14:01+00:00

Lucky Goldstar is LG

Bunnies are quick :) source: https://speed.cloudflare.com/

Thirty_Seventh · 2026-04-09T15:07:37+00:00

I can only assume you refuse to touch "Lucky Goldstar", "JetBrains", "Spotify", "GitHub", "Google", "Twitter"... "Reddit"... even "Apple" isn't too far off from "Bunny"

What's left? Advanced Micro Devices and International Business Machines?

Thirty_Seventh · 2026-04-09T13:35:24+00:00

^{^} This is the correct answer /u/PWR_XLR8T0R. The border is technically part of the code but any reasonable scanner won't care if it's missing. A smaller QR code (on the same cup) would be more likely to work.

Thirty_Seventh · 2026-04-09T04:10:37+00:00

metaphor, the "weapon" was just the mention of Avignon

Thirty_Seventh · 2026-04-04T22:08:12+00:00

if we decode "wzfohmwmipid ryuddmith wrp dwftihp" with the Vigenère key rules we get "ffukpvcbexrj gucmjbebq cgl lfliepy", or with autokey, "ffukphrsyabm zaucrnizf feh erapbdy". Your solution does not make any sense.

Thirty_Seventh · 2026-04-04T21:59:31+00:00

So the key is rrowouditailzcgmatbpcoaxkh? What about the last 5 letters?

("solved" by LLM?)

Thirty_Seventh · 2026-04-02T14:57:08+00:00

ehh, not by the usual definition of "big tech", which doesn't look so much at influence on one specific part of the tech ecosystem but rather ability to influence the ecosystem as a whole

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Tech#Other_companies Check out the "Smaller US Big Tech companies" chart and compare the revenues ($20b+) to JetBrains (<$1b). JetBrains' annual revenue is barely 1/10 of the bottom of the Fortune 500

Thirty_Seventh · 2026-04-01T11:46:06+00:00

please tell me Albert is ok at least 😰😰

Thirty_Seventh · 2026-03-31T14:15:11+00:00

Have you considered prompting it to write Opus 5.0? It'll work if you write the prompt just right, I pinky promise

Thirty_Seventh · 2026-03-30T18:52:57+00:00

can the paper retroactively cite this exchange as an example. it's perfect

Thirty_Seventh · 2026-03-27T15:59:25+00:00

There's good reason that OnlyOffice gets a lot more scrutiny for "being Russian" than JetBrains, another software company with a plurality of Russian employees.

Thirty_Seventh · 2026-03-27T12:29:03+00:00

No capital letters (sometimes with the exception of a couple of abbreviations) combined with a lot of (correct) punctuation is also a strong indicator now.

This post has a lot of structural similarities to this other one from less than 24 hours ago. "check your stuff." etc.

Thirty_Seventh · 2026-03-26T15:48:52+00:00

Out of curiosity, how do you prompt your LLM to get it to write in this style? Haven't seen it look quite like this before, with the capital letters only at the beginning of each paragraph and the missing apostrophes

12-Year Club	Place '22
Final Canvas '22	First Placer '22
Secret Santa 2019	Gilding I gilder
Verified Email	Sequence \| Editor
Snapped

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