Dirk

@dirkolbrich.de

I do stuff. https://bento.me/dirkolbrich

#Flixtrain holt zur DB auf. Naja, zumindest in Teilbereichen. Echt jetzt? Die Reservierung von 3 nebeneinanderliegenden Plätzen auf 3 unterschiedliche Waggons ändern? WTF 🤬

screenshot of a FlixTrain information about change in seat reservation. 3 seat reservations next to each other where changed to all seats in different cars of the train

In anticipation of  TVs January series batch I started to read Necromancer. Want to be on top of the content when the bashing starts. Just kidding.  seems to have a lucky hand when adapting sci-fi books.

Building regulation: That's a tricky piece of land. You have to keep a safe distance on both sides. Owner: No problemo.

Thin sliced house on the Belgian coast.

Half of Lego Reddit posts their BDP7 builds. Meanwhile my account says „your order is processing“ since 2 weeks. 😤

re/ Books app on iOS. WTF, it doesn’t render MathML correctly, respectively not at all. How? That is like ancient technology. Which proves my earlier point, no one at Apple actually uses the Books app to read on their devices. That is sad. 😔

This is getting ridiculous. The exploration path into how to implement a SPPF into my naive Early parser implementation let's me really consider instead writing an EXPRESS language pack for Tree-sitter. 🫣 Alice, I'm right behind you.

Love the FreeForm app on macOS, use it all the time. Would also love if  would love their product as well and give it some more love: - 3rd party mouse enabled zoom - actually controllable arrow lines for better rerouting - exact snapping if helper lines are enabled

New hobby weekend deep dive which keeps me busy into the week: ambiguity in Early parsers. So, if someone is keen enough to discuss ambiguity in parsing with regards to the Express specs language, I am all ears. And yes, I already asked the thinking machines, but guess what …

Always nice to search for a solution to a coding problem, finding a possible solution on StackOverFlow and, after some scrolling, see a „thank you“ comment from myself a couple of years ago 🫠

Kind of satisfying to bring an Early parser from 1.500+ sec (duuh 🙄) down to 0.5 sec. And yes, AI did help. Because sometimes a blind and a one-eyed one find a way too. In short: splitting the input -> concurrency -> state lookup -> eliminating protocol existentials -> batching did the trick

The shittiest UX on any Apple platform is the Books app. iCloud sync randomly deletes my books at the most inconvenient moments. In iCloud folders I can mark a document to keep on device, but no, not with Books. That’s how you know that no one at  uses the app and reads on their devices.

Benchmarking different open models to run local on my machine. I thing I somehow like Dense models more than MoE models, at least for brainstorming or writing plans. Is there any „objective“ measure possible?

I absolutely HATE YouTube's auto-syncronisation feature. Can't turn it off. Total enshitification to extract subscription money.

Was jetzt charmant wäre: Ein Staatsoberhaupt, das sich klar dagegen positioniert, wenn der mächtigste Mann der Welt damit droht, eine komplette Zivilisation auszulöschen. "Mr. Trump, Sie überschreiten damit eine Grenze. Deutschland unterstützt solche Aussagen nicht.". Ehrenlosester Kanzler ever.

Das erste mal bei Otto-Office bestellt. 1 Kilo gratis Altpapier dazu bekommen. Soll ich den Müll Retour senden? Wenn ich einen Katalog gewollt hätte, hätte ich wahrscheinlich nicht Online bestellt. Sondern wäre mit meinem Bestellformular losgezogen. Inklusive Durchschlag.

So Autodesk now uses scamming like tactics and calls me to remind me of renewing my Revit subscription. After a wall of emails and the daily pop-up when opening the app. That's just annoying.