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New comment by manwe150 in "YouTube Premium just went up to $15.99 / mo (US)"

manwe150 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 02:56:15 +0000

Seems like current monthly plan subscribers (like myself) haven't changed price. YouTube historically seemed to grandfather the monthly plans to stay at the old price for a while.

New comment by manwe150 in "Microsoft is employing dark patterns to goad users into paying for storage?"

manwe150 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 02:30:24 +0000

Myself–and many redditors–got this erroneous notification too. I don't think Microsoft ever sent out an "Oops, sorry, you don't actually need to pay us" correction though.

New comment by manwe150 in "LittleSnitch for Linux"

manwe150 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 02:32:20 +0000

More the opposite. macOS is a veneer of nix, but underneath it is the XNU microkernel. Lots more nuance since Apple took over and added a lot of their own performance and API improvements to

New comment by manwe150 in "Expanding Swift's IDE Support"

manwe150 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 21:09:04 +0000

Just to nit pick a bit, that link is for Android Studio and downloads from the "Google for Developers" website, then instructs how to install and manage the the command line tools using the GUI

New comment by manwe150 in "Expanding Swift's IDE Support"

manwe150 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 21:05:42 +0000

Not certain if this answers the question, but it seemed like you're generally expected to install Android Studio to get the correct build versions of all of the tools and libraries. I guess theoretically you could repackage them yourself, but also not entirely clear why you would—other than perhaps download size. The tools can be driven externally, once installed, but so could XCode projects (with `xcodebuild`).

New comment by manwe150 in "Microsoft to force updates to Windows 11 25H2 for PCs with older OS versions"

manwe150 — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 22:53:41 +0000

I’ve been noticing (because of user bug reports) that the security policies are now AI driven. If you haven’t use a feature in x-days or y-reboots or other heuristic, it becomes an application crash the next time an application tries to use that OS feature (such as loading dlls or usb drivers)

New comment by manwe150 in "Good ideas do not need lots of lies in order to gain public acceptance (2008)"

manwe150 — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 15:52:56 +0000

The IRS rules on AMT for that transaction might have you thinking it was generally booked. Though any sensible accounting seems like it wouldn’t book it.

New comment by manwe150 in "The Claude Code Source Leak: fake tools, frustration regexes, undercover mode"

manwe150 — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 02:53:54 +0000

What is microcompaction? I didn’t realize there was any thing time based in CC, when I go eat dinner and come back it compacted while I was gone?

New comment by manwe150 in "Car Seats as Contraception"

manwe150 — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 12:01:15 +0000

Kids want to get out of them into adult seats as soon as they can. Actual comfort not relevant.

New comment by manwe150 in "Coding agents could make free software matter again"

manwe150 — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 23:26:56 +0000

I’d been hoping to finally train a replacement and code myself out of a job for years. I just didn’t know I was the replacement too, working with AI.

New comment by manwe150 in "Everything old is new again: memory optimization"

manwe150 — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:45:33 +0000

That’s true on most systems (modern or not), but actually never been true on Windows due to PE/COFF format limitations. But also, that system doesn’t/can’t do effective ASLR because of the binary slide being part of the object file spec.

New comment by manwe150 in "What Does a Hologram Trademark Signify When the Hologram Isn't There?"

manwe150 — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 01:57:02 +0000

The second question seems legally interesting, since trademarks generally aren’t copyrightable, but are an entirely different protected class, which prohibits using in any form to deceive the consumer. But a photograph of a hologram which is obviously not holographic doesn’t seem like an attempt to deceive the consumer, so it could be legal

Though overshadowed by your larger point that unauthorized reproduction of the rest of the creative work seems to be simple copyright infringement

New comment by manwe150 in "Olympic Committee bars transgender athletes from women’s events"

manwe150 — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 17:42:18 +0000

Because in a specific minority of the population it disagrees with the gender assigned at birth for obvious reasons. There are plenty of resources you could read on intersex instead of lol at something you don’t understand

New comment by manwe150 in "Looking at Unity made me understand the point of C++ coroutines"

manwe150 — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 12:48:30 +0000

Boost has stackful coroutines. They also used to be in posix (makecontext).

New comment by manwe150 in "Data centers are transitioning from AC to DC"

manwe150 — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 03:19:37 +0000

That’s true, but my understanding is the main contributor is skin effect, since AC travels only on the surface of the wire, while DC uses the whole area, resulting in lower resistance loss (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skin_effect)

New comment by manwe150 in "Data centers are transitioning from AC to DC"

manwe150 — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 03:08:31 +0000

I suppose that still begs the question somewhat, since the US does have 240V (2 phase) already driving many appliances. Why hasn’t it ever become standard for luxury kitchens to have a European-style outlet for use with a European kettle? I know the US already has a different 240V plug shape, so it might have to be an unlicensed installation, but surely someone wanted hot tea faster and did that calculus before?

New comment by manwe150 in "My first patch to the Linux kernel"

manwe150 — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 12:15:05 +0000

It was implementation defined for shifting negative numbers, but now the standard specifies twos-complement for this and all related IB

New comment by manwe150 in "I haven't used a mouse for 14 years"

manwe150 — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 19:17:43 +0000

Gotcha. I remember those not working well.

I believe all newer models still do that too since 2016, but just not the UI (force touch was mostly only on phones in my recollection). It can be used as a fairly accurate kitchen scale even: https://github.com/KrishKrosh/TrackWeight

New comment by manwe150 in "No AI in Node.js Core"

manwe150 — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 02:51:09 +0000

Which does pull into question the future stability or quality of bun. As much as I don’t think nodejs should ban AI, the quality of some recent robobun AI commit message and code quality looked like hallucinated slop to me.

New comment by manwe150 in "I haven't used a mouse for 14 years"

manwe150 — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 23:38:05 +0000

Not sure exactly which company you are referring to, but Apples clickpads haven’t had any moving parts for a long time—there is just a force sensor and a physical actuator to make it vibrate when tapped that makes it feel as if it moved. But it does not actually move, so there’s nothing to push unevenly about it. It can be a bit uncanny to use when the machine is powered off since the haptic feedback is designed just to trick the brain into thinking it moved.