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bel8··on Gemini 4 Argon
I didn't say it wasn't.

Still impressive that it did so much just to answer my simple question.

bel8··on Gemini 4 Argon
I had a similar but less impressive experience recently with Muse Spark 1.3.

Asked pi agent it to identify the main hero sprite size of game I was running. It had a ton of shader effects so it was hard to determine.

It used some cli tools to identify that it was a game made with Godot, decompiled the executable but data was encrypted, broke the encryption after writing a brute force tool to test keys extracted from the exe, then proceeded to extract the game gd scripts and assets, only to answer the question of the sprite size.

bel8··on Gemini 4 Argon
I wonder if Google bans internal use of Claude/Codex.

And I wonder if Google's main monorepo is already in Anthropic/OpenAI training data because of some stubborn dev.

bel8··on You Said No MCP
that seems more niche and also covered by extensions.

Even Anthropic moved to auto-approve by default and they are kings of fearmongering.

bel8··on The AI Race Just Got Awkward
They certainly thought. But were they able to do it now without DeepSeek papers?

timeline suggests not.

bel8··on The AI Race Just Got Awkward
Why wouldn't you? It's the most plausible interpretation given what we know.

Had western labs figured that out before, they would have used it to make kv caching cheaper before and not only now.

The burden of proof here is on western labs. But I doubt they'll try to lie that much.

bel8··on SDF vs. MSDF vs. Slug: GPU Text Rendering
MSDF looks better than Slug for me in the first example.

But slug wins in perspective in my eyes.

I use MSDF to render crisp text in my webgl hobby game. Hope to publish it with source code when I get the time.

thanks for sharing the article. I'll take a deeper look at it later.

bel8··on GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price
The premium price is only worth fo the hardest problems.

For CRUD shoveling, models like DS4.1 are enough.

And the intelligence gap between cheap and premium is closing, as can be seen from the title of this post.

bel8··on Does Reddit have an astroturfing problem? What the data suggests
My friend told me the same phenomenon happens in Brazil's canonical subreddit /r/brasil

I'm told that their mods tolerate left leaning hate speech much more than right leaning counterpart so unaware visitors think current left leaning government is beloved by a great majority and that it has been for years.

But they told me that last election ended very tight, something like 49/51% and I'm told current imminent election is at similar 50/50 split.

Same probably happened with German election.

bel8··on MongoDB CEO resigns to join Meta
$322 to $130. ouch
bel8··on What makes Lisp difficult to read?
Lisp is more diffucult to read for most devs because most devs are used to C/Java -like synthax.

If most devs were used to Lisp, it would be the other way around.

It's a chicken and egg problem, at this point.

bel8··on Microsoft abandons personal AI chatbot race with Copilot reboot
the honest answer is Apple users are historically more gullible. For example, Apple's failure with AI is twisted as a genius move by some, they are quick to forget that Apple had a keynote about the coined term Apple Intelligence and it was a big letdown. So the investment was there but it didn't work.

Siri is still subpar despite leveraging third party AI. What a genius move.

bel8··on Meta Blocks President Lula's Facebook Page, Campaign Ads 2 Weeks from Election
To you, perhaps. But it works for the thousands that use it to study and work.
bel8··on Meta Blocks President Lula's Facebook Page, Campaign Ads 2 Weeks from Election
Didn't t Brazil also ban discord screen sharing and camera?

I often use Study Together which is a large discord server (50k users online) for folks to work and study in groups/body doubles, but someone told me a lot of Brazilians have to use VPN to circumvent the ban.

https://www.studytogether.com/discord

bel8··on How to keep enjoying programming in a world of LLMs
Out of curiosity I saved one of the images to my disk (the first image on this page: https://fmjlang.co.uk/fmj/tutorials/IterationAgain.html), then asked LLM about it, without any context:

> prompt: /tmp/iterReverse.png what could this image be?

Thinking:

> Identifying the visual dataflow language from the node layout and iterReverse label, likely Prograph.

> Confirming Prograph identification and mapping node roles to list deconstruction and reconstruction.

Answer:

> This is a Prograph method window, for a method called iterReverse.

> Prograph is a visual dataflow programming language - you program by wiring boxes together instead of writing text. What you're looking at is the implementation of iterative list-reverse:

    - big box = method editor, top pins = inputs, bottom pins = outputs                                                                                                                                                                        
    - black circle top-left = method icon                                                                                                                                                                                                      
    - yellow boxes = controls: start*+, when*+, unless*+, repeat*+                                                                                                                                                                             
    - blue boxes = list primitives: null test, decons split list into head/tail, cons prepend                                                                                                                                                  
    - red lines = data links, green = the small control / boolean wiring
> In other words: if input is null, when succeeds, else unless loops with decons / cons + repeat to build the reversed list.

> The window chrome with Save / Close and that style of drawing is the Marten clone of Prograph running on Linux.

bel8··on How to keep enjoying programming in a world of LLMs
Adults do that often.
bel8··on Plan mode is dead
thanks for the info. I'll politely pass on the video though. priorities
bel8··on Plan mode is dead
I'm curious. Who is Theo?
bel8··on Apple iPhone 4 “Antennagate” Q&A (2010) [video]
yes but since it's Apple, it's one of the best 14 days return policy ever!!!

> You have 14 calendar days to return an item from the date you received it.

https://www.apple.com/shop/help/returns_refund

bel8··on Platform-independent SIMD in Go
> like in C# you're always at risk of a nil pointer being dereferenced

That throws a NullReferenceException

bel8··on Meta VR Glasses
~ 65% of steam VR devices are from Meta:

https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/Steam-Hardware-Softw...

bel8··on Meta VR Glasses
meh all of these mega corps do whatever they can to maximise profit. Apple used slave-like labour from China (or still use depending on who you ask) and turned a blind eye until it could no more. Which to me is worse than what Meta did. But they are not Americans so most don't care around these parts.
bel8··on SAML: A fractal of bad design
"You guys"? lol it's just a tool. I don't identify as "a PHP guy" for the same reason I don't identify as a "Rust guy". And labeling others like that is yet another red flag.

I use many languages. Some more than PHP. But that's besides the point.

bel8··on SAML: A fractal of bad design
Yeah it's an instant red flag when someone links that outdated article.

Signals their ease to spit out incorrect information with confidence. That has no place in engineering.

bel8··on I asked Meta’s Muse for its filesystem and it sent me 6.8GB
It will also gladly scan my software for vulnerabilities so I can defend myself. Which is something that Anthropic and Open ai models often refuse.
bel8··on MiMo v2.6
I didn't expect there to be a time limit and I do know benchmarks that don't have a time limit. They just penalize slower models which I think is fair.

In my experience models just don't take forever to mark tasks as done.

For my coding usage I don't set time limit so benchmarks that do so are providing me less interesting use cases.

With that said, I can understand having budget limits for expensive LLMs for those of us that don't have infinite VC money.

As for no internet access, the issue is that for most problems we do want Llms to be able to search docs, API specs, GitHub issues, etc. So not allowing that usually just favours larger LLMs that were able to memorize more data, not necessarily smarter ones when both have internet access.

bel8··on MiMo v2.6
I appreciate that this benchmark is different but it is in no way how most people use LLMs or promote equal grounds when benchmarking:

- capped per-task budget and time limit

- No internet access

- different harnesses mixed

bel8··on M5 Ultra Mac Studio Review
> Claude crapped out on “cyber safety” grounds.

A $10/mo subscription to OpenCode Go would have done the job for you.

They have models like Kimi K3, Grok 4.6 , GLM-5.3, Mimo 2.6 Pro (launched today, already available) which are happy to follow your orders without accusing you of being a terrorist.

https://models.dev/providers/opencode/

bel8··on M5 Ultra Mac Studio Review
I'll try that argument with my wife next time I want to buy a $15k mac.

It's a bold strategy cotton, lets see if it pays off for em.

bel8··on Xiaomi MiMo v2.6
Which model did you have?

I ask because my wife has the 15T and the camera is better than my iPhone 17 Pro. And while toying around with it I didn't notice any bloat.

Plus hers support native split screen which I kinda need to multitask on the go.

I'm so pissed at how bad Siri is compared to her android phone that I'm thinking about selling the iPhone to get a Huawei Pura Ultra.

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