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New comment by manwe150 in "It's not empowering to hand off the details"

manwe150 — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 02:07:45 +0000

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

New comment by manwe150 in "US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during airport search"

manwe150 — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 01:40:07 +0000

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.

New comment by manwe150 in "Show HN: I replaced a $120k bowling center system with $1,600 in ESP32s"

manwe150 — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 03:04:23 +0000

But at least now I know why the lane near me just has a physical button next to each lane (and manual scorecards)

New comment by manwe150 in "Goodbye, and Thanks for All the Bikesheds"

manwe150 — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 10:54:59 +0000

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

New comment by manwe150 in "Funny item co-occurrences in 3.2M Instacart orders"

manwe150 — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 12:25:52 +0000

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.

New comment by manwe150 in "The politics of air conditioning in Switzerland"

manwe150 — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 14:26:19 +0000

That dehumidifier is also AC, just done much more wastefully (because it dumps the waste heat into your house instead of outside the house)

New comment by manwe150 in "The politics of air conditioning in Switzerland"

manwe150 — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 01:50:27 +0000

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

New comment by manwe150 in "Notes on Software Quality"

manwe150 — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 16:25:17 +0000

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

New comment by manwe150 in "Aluminum foil (2021)"

manwe150 — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 19:50:32 +0000

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

New comment by manwe150 in "Aluminum foil (2021)"

manwe150 — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 19:10:10 +0000

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.

New comment by manwe150 in "Global review confirms mRNA vaccines are safe, effective and full of promise "

manwe150 — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 13:31:02 +0000

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.

New comment by manwe150 in "Improvements to Std:Format in C++26"

manwe150 — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 02:53:56 +0000

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.

New comment by manwe150 in "Global review confirms mRNA vaccines are safe, effective and full of promise "

manwe150 — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 02:50:56 +0000

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”

New comment by manwe150 in "Global review confirms mRNA vaccines are safe, effective and full of promise "

manwe150 — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 02:42:06 +0000

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.

New comment by manwe150 in "Suspicious Discontinuities (2020)"

manwe150 — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 03:56:06 +0000

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.

New comment by manwe150 in "Extreme Heat conference cancelled due to extreme heat warning"

manwe150 — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 04:27:03 +0000

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.

New comment by manwe150 in "Improvements to Std:Format in C++26"

manwe150 — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 11:26:38 +0000

> 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

New comment by manwe150 in "Temporary Cloudflare accounts for AI agents"

manwe150 — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 16:22:44 +0000

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.

New comment by manwe150 in "Modos Color Monitor Pushes E-Paper Displays Further"

manwe150 — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 03:24:52 +0000

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

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.