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dafelst··on Breaking Claude Code Opus 5 Auto Mode
This is exactly what I do - I run my agent inside an isolated podman container and mount the workspaces on a shared volume.
dafelst··on Bun 1.4 Rust rewrite is not looking good?
It is yet to be determined whether or not the bun rewrite is a success, though.
dafelst··on Show HN: Automatically detect and patch walking-dead states in Sierra games
This is so cool, what a great project!

I remember using a single save game and soft locking myself in Space Quest 2 by not getting the glowing gem, and in Space Quest 1 I think by not picking up the shard of broken glass, and being so pissed off about having to replay.

The LSL dip and sunscreen issues you fixed were particularly egregious, by that point I feel like they should have fixed things.

While Sierra should absolutely be recognized for spawning an entire genre of games that were legitimately fun, it is crazy that they were fine with shipping games with these broken states, when it was eminently preventable.

dafelst··on LLMs reward expertise
You can read the manual all you want, but if you don't know basic algebra, trig, calculus, etc, you are not going to have any idea how to apply or use much of anything that the manual describes with regards to actually doing math with a graphing calculator. There is a base level of knowledge required.
dafelst··on Postmortem for Kernel Soundness Bug #14576
Feels appropriate for bugs in a formal proof system:

> Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it.

-Knuth, 1977

dafelst··on Casio Moflin
Great concept for a horror film
dafelst··on I'd not buy a LG monitor
I am very happy with my BenQ monitors, they are great value and high quality.
dafelst··on A missing underscore sent innocent man to prison for 18 months
It's a proxy for reach, which is what GP is talking about.
dafelst··on Orasort: 5x faster column-sorting with an expired patent from Oracle
Oh this is much more novel (comparatively), that makes a lot more sense. Kind of an amalgamation of a bunch of optimizations.

Thanks for sharing.

dafelst··on Orasort: 5x faster column-sorting with an expired patent from Oracle
It's kind of insane that such an obvious optimization can be patented, I have to imagine that it has been invented independently dozens if not hundreds of times.
dafelst··on Kirkland Roundabouts
I drove on this for the first time yesterday, once from 405 S to 85th W, then back on 85th E and 405 N. Super easy, the lanes are fairly nicely signed and there is ample signage. No issues at all.
dafelst··on The Butlerian Jihad Has Begun
I strongly prefer the original to your edit.
dafelst··on Microsoft announces Scout, an autonomous AI agent built on OpenClaw
You don't need to be the gold standard to make obscene amounts of money. Product quality and financial success are only loosely correlated at best.
dafelst··on Strace-ui, Bonsai_term, and the TUI renaissance
Tightly integrated sure, but I wouldn't say tightly coupled, their framework (GPUI) is available standalone and is being used to create other apps.

https://www.gpui.rs/

dafelst··on Xilem – An experimental Rust native UI framework
FWIW Slint was founded by a group of long time Qt alumni, so brings a lot of that know-how into the space.
dafelst··on Finnish sauna heat exposure induces stronger immune cell than cytokine responses
I have not, what is it?
dafelst··on Finnish sauna heat exposure induces stronger immune cell than cytokine responses
Saunas are very cheap to buy and/or build, certainly within the budget of an average research grant.
dafelst··on Oracle slashes 30k jobs
More victims of AI.

Not actually of "AI is replacing jobs", more "oh shit we are spending too much and the product isn't good enough for us to ever make a return on our absurd over-investment".

dafelst··on Talking Liquid Glass with Apple
There is good, useful content in this article, but it is seriously overshadowed by the LLM-isms indicating that a nontrivial part of it is AI generated.

I'm obviously channeling my inner boomer here, but as soon as I start seeing the tells of AI authoring, I just give up on the article altogether. To the author, please consider that I and many others want to see your thought process, warts and all, there is no need to hide behind the facade of the LLM screed.

dafelst··on The Resolv hack: How one compromised key printed $23M
But guys, what you don't understand is that the code IS the contract!!! That means you don't even NEED regulation!!
dafelst··on Show HN: Duplicate 3 layers in a 24B LLM, logical deduction .22→.76. No training
Why are people running AI bots to make comments on HN?
dafelst··on Working and Communicating with Japanese Engineers
Yeah, the concept of "nemawashi" (根回し) is very important there, this idea that all the groundwork and decision making is agreed upon before the meeting happens.

The term literally comes from the concept of "preparing the roots", that is, the process of softening the ground and trimming around the roots of a tree (often a bonsai) in preparation for moving it safely.

dafelst··on Nintendo Sues U.S. Government for Tariff Refunds
Trump is too useful to Ellison right now, he isn't going to derail that gravy train over a few tens of millions of dollars.
dafelst··on I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a supply-chain risk
TACO
dafelst··on Dark web agent spotted bedroom wall clue to rescue girl from abuse
The term "agent" with regards to law enforcement substantially predates "agent" in the context of AI.
dafelst··on Oxide raises $200M Series C
High capacity, super reliable box that you could run your entire business stack on, if you could afford it.
dafelst··on Fil-Qt: A Qt Base build with Fil-C experience
Sure, if the memory error is an immediately crashing one like a null per deref, but if is (for example) a memory corruption (e.g. an out of bounds write or a write-after-free) then this would be super helpful in exposing where those are happening at the source.
dafelst··on Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team
So you're saying that just because they can't pay everyone, they should pay no one?
dafelst··on The Delete Act
The big US credit score trio, Transunion, Equifax and Experian, have all had multiple, massive data leaks. This is not very good at all.
dafelst··on The Garbage Collection Handbook
Unreal Engine has a GC for its internal object graph, so GC is already in use in a ton of games.
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