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New comment by manaskarekar in "Time to talk about my writerdeck"

manaskarekar — Sat, 23 May 2026 19:32:15 +0000

Doogie Howser M.D. vibes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EX0_Tuzr4wE

New comment by manaskarekar in "MacBook Air with M5"

manaskarekar — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 01:00:58 +0000

There’s still temporal dithering.

It can be disabled but it doesn’t seem to help.

https://github.com/aiaf/Stillcolor

New comment by manaskarekar in "Asahi Linux with Sway on the MacBook Air M2 (2024)"

manaskarekar — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 06:55:37 +0000

Thanks.

I’ve had issues with T14s for a couple of gens where the machine wakes up during the closed lid and runs the battery down. I’ve tried the usual troubleshooting.

This has been a non issue on Dell machines for almost 20 years.

New comment by manaskarekar in "Asahi Linux with Sway on the MacBook Air M2 (2024)"

manaskarekar — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 06:18:57 +0000

Does lid close to sleep and open to wake work as expected?

New comment by manaskarekar in "Rue: Higher level than Rust, lower level than Go"

manaskarekar — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 23:25:20 +0000

Since it's framed as 'in between' Rust and Go, is it trying to target an intersection of both languages' use-cases?

New comment by manaskarekar in "Show HN: HN Wrapped 2025 - an LLM reviews your year on HN"

manaskarekar — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 20:13:10 +0000

Haha, mine’s funnily somewhat on the nose.

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The Rust-Evangelizing Hardware Romantic

A developer who believes every global outage is just a missing question mark away from salvation and spends their weekends reapplying thermal paste to fanless MacBooks while reminiscing about the tactile superiority of 2010 Dell Latitude trackpads.

Roasts

You post about Cloudflare outages caused by a single unwrap while your own codebase probably looks like a game of Russian Roulette played with Result types.

Your obsession with the thermal conductivity of fanless laptops is just a coping mechanism for the fact that your Rust builds take so long you could literally cook an egg on your chassis.

You have a very specific kink for 2010 Dell trackpads that makes me think you are either a Linux philosopher or someone who is no longer allowed within 500 feet of a Best Buy.

Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025 – Caused by single .unwrap()

manaskarekar — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 01:38:06 +0000

Article URL: https://old.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/1p0susm/cloudflare_outage_on_november_18_2025_caused_by/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45974850

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by manaskarekar in "From M1 MacBook to Arch Linux: A month-long experiment that became permanenent"

manaskarekar — Sat, 23 Aug 2025 18:02:27 +0000

And they're too large. I know, super unpopular opinion. I prefer the middle of the road size on trackpads with the physical buttons form the dell latitudes of 2010s. They work remarkably well with linux too.

The clickpads are pretty imprecise and poor, and compared to this the Macbook is much nicer.

Explicit tail calls are now available on Rust Nightly (become keyword)

manaskarekar — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 03:51:11 +0000

Article URL: https://old.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/1mjb7w6/explicit_tail_calls_are_now_available_on_nightly/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44820404

Points: 14

# Comments: 2

New comment by manaskarekar in "Repasting a MacBook"

manaskarekar — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 02:30:35 +0000

Thanks for the anecdote. I like the simple, well designed, silent, cool and fanless design.

If I were to need any more performance I'd just swap it out for a newer MBA or a MBP with a fan.

New comment by manaskarekar in "Repasting a MacBook"

manaskarekar — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 15:53:38 +0000

It's pulling the heat away from a concentrated region into a larger region.

Performance numbers reflect the optimization. I personally haven't done it for fear of affecting the battery lifespan (and possibly other components' lifespans.)

Really hard to resist due to its simplicity and noticeable improvements.

New comment by manaskarekar in "Tools: Code Is All You Need"

manaskarekar — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 15:15:49 +0000

Off topic: That font/layout/contrast on the page is very pleasing and inviting.

New comment by manaskarekar in "Qwen2.5-VL-32B: Smarter and Lighter"

manaskarekar — Tue, 25 Mar 2025 02:04:20 +0000

jschoe's post is actually a Turing test for us. :)

(just kidding jschoe)

New comment by manaskarekar in "Qwen2.5-VL-32B: Smarter and Lighter"

manaskarekar — Tue, 25 Mar 2025 01:11:51 +0000

Parent is thinking Semantic Versioning.

New comment by manaskarekar in "Beej's Guide to Git"

manaskarekar — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 17:31:55 +0000

First followed you on flickr ages ago, then your networking guide! Thanks for the amazing resources.

New comment by manaskarekar in "M4 MacBook Pro"

manaskarekar — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 15:36:25 +0000

Yes, it's just easier to call it that without having to sprinkle asterisks at each mention of it :)

And yes, the impressive part is that this kind of bandwidth is hard to get on laptops. I suppose I should have been a bit more specific in my remark.

New comment by manaskarekar in "M4 MacBook Pro"

manaskarekar — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 15:32:33 +0000

Thanks, but just to put things into perspective, this calculation has counted 8 channels which is 4 DIMMs and that's mostly desktops (not dismissing desktops, just highlighting that it's a different beast).

Most laptops will be 2 DIMMS (probably soldered).

New comment by manaskarekar in "M4 MacBook Pro"

manaskarekar — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 15:13:28 +0000

If the 2x multiplier holds up, the Ultra update should bring it up to 1080GBps. Amazing.

New comment by manaskarekar in "M4 MacBook Pro"

manaskarekar — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 15:09:39 +0000

The M3 Max was 400GBps, this is 540GBps. Truly an outstanding case for unified memory. DDR5 doesn't come anywhere near.

New comment by manaskarekar in "I rebuilt my algorithmic trading platform in Rust. I'm filled with regret"

manaskarekar — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 16:30:54 +0000

The example author shows as unreadable is perfectly readable to me.