dafelst's comments

On: Working and Communicating with Japanese Engineers

[dafelst]

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.

On: Nintendo Sues U.S. Government for Tariff Refunds

[dafelst]

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.

On: I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a supply-chain risk

[dafelst]

TACO

On: Dark web agent spotted bedroom wall clue to rescue girl from abuse

[dafelst]

The term "agent" with regards to law enforcement substantially predates "agent" in the context of AI.

[palmotea → dafelst]

> The term "agent" with regards to law enforcement substantially predates "agent" in the context of AI.

The GP's account was created in 2019, so being born yesterday is not an excuse available to them.

[OisinMoran → dafelst]

To be fair, I initially had the same thought, and the HN item just two below this as I write also has agent (but the LLM kind) in its title.

[Nextgrid → dafelst]

True, but with every other article on HN being about AI nowadays I assumed there was something to it.

On: Oxide raises $200M Series C

[dafelst]

High capacity, super reliable box that you could run your entire business stack on, if you could afford it.

[panick21_ → dafelst]

The money IBM made with the AS/400 is actually completely mind blowing when you compare it to the rest of the computing industry at the time.

On: Fil-Qt: A Qt Base build with Fil-C experience

[dafelst]

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.

On: Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team

[dafelst]

So you're saying that just because they can't pay everyone, they should pay no one?

[quaintdev → dafelst]

Yeah I know how that sounds but it's the most logical explanation.

[philipwhiuk → quaintdev]

Alternatively, they don't have a viable business model?

This isn't rocket science. If your business can't exist within the law, it doesn't get to exist.

[wiseowise → philipwhiuk]

There’s no law that says you have to pay businesses because you make customers life easier.

If ChatGPT answers a law question for you that you’d have to ask an expensive lawyer, are they supposed to pay the lawyer too?

[taormina → philipwhiuk]

Tell Uber you said hi.

On: The Delete Act

[dafelst]

The big US credit score trio, Transunion, Equifax and Experian, have all had multiple, massive data leaks. This is not very good at all.

[flutas → dafelst]

and for the ones you know about, there's more you don't.

cough un-ecrypted experian backups getting stolen from a UPS truck at gun-point and nothing else stolen cough

On: The Garbage Collection Handbook

[dafelst]

Unreal Engine has a GC for its internal object graph, so GC is already in use in a ton of games.

On: Bikeshedding, or why I want to build a laptop

[dafelst]

Yes! I had a Vizio laptop (the thin one ala a macbook air) and it was absolutely fantastic, probably the best PC laptop I have ever had. It was lightweight, powerful, had a good screen (for the time) plus some things that few other laptops had at the time, like a TPM.