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manwe150··on Linux 7.3 improves performance when running out of vRAM
The difference is Linux has fork, while Windows doesn’t, so Linux cannot do accurate accounting (without wasting a lot of memory) while Windows can.
manwe150··on It's not empowering to hand off the details
That’s not really the issue. The issue I have (sometimes) is that it might discover it has read-only access to most places (.git, github) and so sometimes when it thinks it “finished” it will discover those are read only and try to find workarounds (erase the read-only files, hand edit the .git folder, make new forks to push to those instead)—none of which a human would normally consider reasonable necessary effort. Most of those attempts do fail, but it turns out that sometimes just being maximally helpful in following orders strictly can be quite surprisingly adversarial, entirely by accident
manwe150··on US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during airport search
Seems like a good court argument too—no destruction of data was even attempted because I know I have my iCloud or Google backup. Personally, my phone has access credentials to information, but not the information itself. So you need a serious warrant before you can get those access, but the data is there.
manwe150··on Show HN: I replaced a $120k bowling center system with $1,600 in ESP32s
But at least now I know why the lane near me just has a physical button next to each lane (and manual scorecards)
manwe150··on Goodbye, and Thanks for All the Bikesheds
The government departments know those things because the parents registered on those lists. It doesn’t automatically just “know”, and that info is historically not usually shared between government departments
manwe150··on Funny item co-occurrences in 3.2M Instacart orders
A few I’ve seen in person are someone buying about a dozen pallets of water and a half dozen of a vegetable (it was cabbage or leek if I recall). But that was more about the absurd looking quantity while only wanting just those two items. I assume most of the “funny orders” I see are restaurant owners who already got most of their items delivered, which makes them a large deviation from the expected family purchaser. This is something I have only seen at specific stores (similar to costco) in specific cities.
manwe150··on The politics of air conditioning in Switzerland
That dehumidifier is also AC, just done much more wastefully (because it dumps the waste heat into your house instead of outside the house)
manwe150··on The politics of air conditioning in Switzerland
That seems likely normally not viable in most warm places because the humidity would quickly rot out the floors. Part of the ‘conditioning’ in the name is that quite a lot of water will ideally get removed from the air to control humidity too, and that needs to be drained away
manwe150··on Notes on Software Quality
Sometimes yes. My dentist explained she recommended Colgate because none of their 30 equal choices used to contain stannous floride, so it was easier to shop by brand than search for which ingredient to avoid specifically amongst the competitors 30 choices
manwe150··on Aluminum foil (2021)
That aluminum beverage can (and also tin cans) is lined with a kind of plastic, so you and food aren’t in contact with the actual aluminum in that case
manwe150··on Aluminum foil (2021)
It probably formed a weak battery electrode with the bowl and electro-deposited it on the substrate (pizza). Happens often with tomato sauces, like lasagnas.
manwe150··on Global review confirms mRNA vaccines are safe, effective and full of promise 
That’s what this article here is about. Yes, FDA is known to make questionable actions, as are other agencies around safety or efficacy of drugs. But here the statistics continue to show they are right about vaccines.
manwe150··on Improvements to Std:Format in C++26
Yeah, but picking utf8 over wtf8 for this in 2026 feels a lot like picking utf16 over utf8 in 1995. You know the choice is broken and you know there is a correct fix already out there.
manwe150··on Global review confirms mRNA vaccines are safe, effective and full of promise 
Why would repeating a study now and getting the same result as when it was first measured in 2020 be a reason to doubt the safety?

I’m also pro-vax, so I don’t think it is correct to equate ignoring the preponderance of current evidence (in 2021 or 2026) for vaccine protection as being careful. That just seems the logical fallacy sold by “vax hesitant” and social media influencers to make people feel smart to ignore statistics and “make their own choice based on intuition”

manwe150··on Global review confirms mRNA vaccines are safe, effective and full of promise 
Having read it, he does cite something for almost every claim. Although almost every source also contradicts his conclusions on some basic, logical, statistical, mathematical, or humane level, if you bother to fact check them. So it’s quite hard to quantify what it means to say it has good citations.
manwe150··on Suspicious Discontinuities (2020)
I was on a jury for a case like that. The charges included committing the other crimes in the presence of a minor. The minor in reference was a few days away from his 18th birthday, clearly acting on his own volition, and my understanding is the minor bad already been given essentially a slap on the wrist and his record cleared when he turned 18. The judge explained after the trial was over that his sentencing has significant flexibility to take those kinds of factors into account.
manwe150··on Extreme Heat conference cancelled due to extreme heat warning
Not net zero exactly, since it’s a flows and rates problem, not static equilibrium. So it could even be strongly positive effect or negative effect based on how quickly the heat gets radiated back into space depending on how the wavelengths interact with the surroundings and the atmosphere.

Our current cities and infrastructure are designed to be black heat sinks to soak up heat and hold onto it and ground level. But there is research into what would happen if we flipped that design around.

manwe150··on Improvements to Std:Format in C++26
> Ill-formed UTF-16 is replaced with U+FFFD by default, or escaped under {:?}.

Silently corrupting the path seems an odd choice in this day and age, when WTF8 has existed for many years and fixes this round trip bug / security vulnerability

manwe150··on Temporary Cloudflare accounts for AI agents
This seems the real answer. The question of whether the billing team can set accurate maximums is largely disjoint from the question of whether the engineering team shuts off service precisely at that moment.
manwe150··on Modos Color Monitor Pushes E-Paper Displays Further
And contrast ratio seems far higher to add on to the benefits. I want to like reflective displays, and there are many new ones lately too, but they just fall a bit short, especially if they try to do color
manwe150··on Show HN: Homebrew 6.0.0
That’s entirely a user package manager though and is GPs point: what uv does cannot be done in a package manager like apt which sees itself as only doing system package management.
manwe150··on Show HN: Homebrew 6.0.0
It’s not horribly broken any more than your toaster is for not needing constant updates. Though I do have such a longstanding love/hate relationship with Ubuntu because of this. It is why it runs everywhere and just works (even powers the WSL2 defaults), but everything it provides also always so very far behind I end up recompiling so much important stuff by hand.
manwe150··on Faking keyword arguments to functions in C++
Wouldn’t c99 also make you name the type there (looking sort of like a cast), further straying from being just kwargs? I thought this was a c++ deduction feature for it to bind the initializer to whether method could take that list
manwe150··on A greyscale iPhone setup that works in everyday life
This is such a clever way to automate so that the setup actually works. I just set it up, and wonder why the author didn’t set it up to trigger grayscale on app opening. I noticed that app switching also isn’t considered closing an app, so it seems most reliable to trigger on app open as well as close
manwe150··on A greyscale iPhone setup that works in everyday life
It’s 1 automation for all apps

The clever insight here is that it automates turning grayscale back on whenever you leave (or alternatively open) an app

manwe150··on Car headlights don't have to be this blinding
Good. I’ve driven with people who learned to drive in a city and so were not taught to use high beams ever, out of fear of accidentally annoying on coming drivers
manwe150··on Car headlights don't have to be this blinding
If you are using low-beams and driving more than about 45 mph, you can hit something (or someone) before you had time to see it (or them). Granted, that doesn't matter if you're following someone else, since they'll hit it first. Which is why you need high-beams on when there isn't someone else around to light up the distant part of the road for you--and which depends on how often you drive remote roads.
manwe150··on Sweet Jeebus, macOS 27 Golden Gate Removes the Dumb Icons from Menu Items
Toolbars (pre office-ribbon design era) were understood to only have frequently used items which are the ones that also happen to have icons. Then the office-ribbon thing happened, and everyone complained about that because it meant everything had to have an icon and everyone had to memorize what every icon meant (I’m exaggerating slightly)
manwe150··on Claude Desktop spawns 1.8 GB Hyper-V VM on every launch, even for chat-only use
Gmail spam filtering also used to be revolutionary and an unsung hero. I haven’t put effort into finding out if other options have caught up with that (because of aforementioned tedium of changing email addressed)
manwe150··on Ask HN: Why hasn't there been a real competitor to Ticketmaster yet?
Was it possibly actually a podcast? https://www.npr.org/2025/10/23/nx-s1-5582775/are-concert-tic...
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