Hacker News: manwe150

New comment by manwe150 in "Show HN: Homebrew 6.0.0"

manwe150 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 03:23:58 +0000

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.

New comment by manwe150 in "Show HN: Homebrew 6.0.0"

manwe150 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 03:21:23 +0000

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.

New comment by manwe150 in "Faking keyword arguments to functions in C++"

manwe150 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 03:12:44 +0000

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

New comment by manwe150 in "A greyscale iPhone setup that works in everyday life"

manwe150 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 03:05:28 +0000

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

New comment by manwe150 in "A greyscale iPhone setup that works in everyday life"

manwe150 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 03:01:25 +0000

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

New comment by manwe150 in "Car headlights don't have to be this blinding"

manwe150 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 01:53:14 +0000

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

New comment by manwe150 in "Car headlights don't have to be this blinding"

manwe150 — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 16:16:16 +0000

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.

New comment by manwe150 in "Sweet Jeebus, macOS 27 Golden Gate Removes the Dumb Icons from Menu Items"

manwe150 — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 15:47:52 +0000

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)

New comment by manwe150 in "Claude Desktop spawns 1.8 GB Hyper-V VM on every launch, even for chat-only use"

manwe150 — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 03:44:50 +0000

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)

New comment by manwe150 in "Ask HN: Why hasn't there been a real competitor to Ticketmaster yet?"

manwe150 — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 03:57:23 +0000

Was it possibly actually a podcast? https://www.npr.org/2025/10/23/nx-s1-5582775/are-concert-tic...

New comment by manwe150 in "Siri AI"

manwe150 — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 23:43:44 +0000

Replacement TCP/IP stack sounds like a VPN—which iOS allows

New comment by manwe150 in "macOS needs its grid back"

manwe150 — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 02:25:42 +0000

That’s likely not quite the reason. It is to make you have to pause to think if this is the action you want to take.

On the flip side, many websites ask if I want to allow notifications. I almost never do. I was looking at settings recently and surprised how often I’d clicked yes by accident (maybe about 5% false click rate?)

New comment by manwe150 in "Why _Am_ I Interested in Your Company?"

manwe150 — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 17:24:22 +0000

From a hiring side, he seems to be missing context that any of those answers are fine, since they show he at least read the job description. The point is probably show you have the barest clue what job you are applying for, since a surprising number of applicants will say something nonsense like “I want to work on embedded because I’m great at JavaScript and certified with Microsoft Word” and then not actually be able to name a difference between running on a microcontroller and AWS. I’d want to know if you can learn the work, but also that you won’t flee for greener pastures and more interesting problems after investing in training, once you do learn what the tasks are

New comment by manwe150 in "DuckDuckGo search saw 28% more visits after Google said people love AI mode"

manwe150 — Thu, 28 May 2026 03:51:10 +0000

Not sure this is better, but if they don’t pay, most of the first page will instead point to random unrelated competitors and the search result will become visually harder to find. It is basically legalized mafia tactics (“you’ve got a nice business, shame if something were to happen to it if you don’t pay up”) since supposedly you could pay someone else to SEO the site and achieve the same result without just buying ads

New comment by manwe150 in "Search engines alternatives now that Google isn't Google anymore"

manwe150 — Mon, 25 May 2026 18:18:50 +0000

To be fair, being a solid block of ice would impair eatability

(I agree that AI result summaries would be quite handy, if Google's results weren't also so frequently incorrect at a basic or numeric level)

New comment by manwe150 in "Why is Vivado 2026.1 dropping Linux support for free tier?"

manwe150 — Sun, 24 May 2026 15:42:47 +0000

The open source community has hijacked VBox drivers to get USB pass through working and is the official solution from Microsoft to that problem (since it requires a signed driver on the host, and RedHat was authorized to sign drivers, so Microsoft can provide their drivers to work around the signing requirements of the OS)

New comment by manwe150 in "Why is Vivado 2026.1 dropping Linux support for free tier?"

manwe150 — Sun, 24 May 2026 15:38:52 +0000

Although it also means Windows could rely on Intel so long for compiler tools, that when I was trying to build for ARM customers, I realized a lot of the expected developer tools are just barely functional or don’t exist (ifort, MKL, gdb, mingw, etc)

New comment by manwe150 in "Waymo pauses Atlanta service as its robotaxis keep driving into floods"

manwe150 — Fri, 22 May 2026 17:16:17 +0000

The news tends to exaggerate a bit (quite a bit) for effect. Where the storm hits is devastating, but a mile away can be basically fine. So percentage wise very little of Florida gets destroyed, but of the part that gets flattened, it may be entirely destroyed. Same thing can happen periodically near virtually any body of water or stream. But hurricanes are something that can be observed and predicted in advance instead of being out of nowhere like flooding

New comment by manwe150 in "Waymo pauses Atlanta service as its robotaxis keep driving into floods"

manwe150 — Thu, 21 May 2026 20:26:52 +0000

> This isn't like other software "recalls" where the result is just an over-the-air update or a request to bring your car to a dealership when you have time, in this case they have actually physically removed the recalled vehicles from the road.

But that is what it was: the remedy in the recall was an over-the-air update and was already universally applied several weeks time before the recall was actually formalized.

Also seems linguistically complex, since the dictionary meaning of recall is an "official order to return item to a manufacturer", but Waymo doesn't sell the vehicle itself.

New comment by manwe150 in "Waymo pauses Atlanta service as its robotaxis keep driving into floods"

manwe150 — Thu, 21 May 2026 17:28:21 +0000

That title sounds so much more dramatic than it seems it actually was. I imagine headlines like: “Billions of python 3.14.4 programs were recalled today when a bug was found in the core itself. No word yet on whether the successor product, Python 3.14.5, will avoid a similar fate. How long will we tolerate being used as test subjects in the developer’s risky games?”