Hacker News: Mayzie

New comment by Mayzie in "Why is almost everyone right-handed? A new study connects it to bipedalism"

Mayzie — Wed, 20 May 2026 02:33:56 +0000

Fun little nugget, Australian Sulphur Crested Cockatoos almost universally favour their left feet as a holdfast. They're also left eye dominant.

New comment by Mayzie in "PYREX vs. pyrex: What's the difference?"

Mayzie — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 08:07:23 +0000

Relevant video from Ann Reardon's How To Cook That about exploding Pyrex (and the difference between all capitals and all lowercase): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVbkDAw4aJs

Turned out that distinction isn't too reliable when it comes to determining whether a product used soda lime glass or borosilicate glass instead.

New comment by Mayzie in "Apple violated antitrust ruling, judge finds"

Mayzie — Thu, 01 May 2025 06:59:28 +0000

Odd. That is not there for me and I cannot add it :( I have the same problem as OP. I wish it were simple.

New comment by Mayzie in "How I use Kate editor"

Mayzie — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 00:06:58 +0000

FWIW, in the future, the recommended way to build KDE applications (including Dolphin) on macOS is by using Craft[1]

Much easier and quicker than going the kde-builder route, and it should package applications properly :)

[1] https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved/development/Mac

New comment by Mayzie in "Ask HN: Is anyone still using Dreamweaver?"

Mayzie — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 00:23:50 +0000

> I think it was Microsoft FrontPage that had the most undigestible output at the time.

Nah, I would argue that was Microsoft Word's (Office?) Save as Web Page feature. Which is what I built my first few websites in as a kid haha before learning about FrontPage and pirating that (back in 2003). FrontPage was a dream in comparison. Then I learned that FrontPage was also not as good, and learnt Dreamweaver is the better option so pirated and tried to use that shortly after, but the WYSIWYG of FrontPage was leagues better to my little child brain. Ah, nostalgia :')

New comment by Mayzie in "MapTCHA, the open-source CAPTCHA that improves OpenStreetMap [video]"

Mayzie — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 03:32:45 +0000

I had a go, but there were a few I wasn't really sure by. To the creator, can you add a "Not sure" option?

New comment by Mayzie in "DeepSeek releases Janus Pro, a text-to-image generator [pdf]"

Mayzie — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 00:57:45 +0000

> The reason this causes so much suspicion is because we westerners are terrified of what that would mean for the rest of the world.

It would mean having to eschew the neoliberal ideals that impede research and development in favour of the old that made America and to some extent the rest of the West the dominant superpower in R&D for many decades. We should be familiar with it, even if we have lived all or most of ours lives in the former.

Or it would be hard to convert back and we'd have a war first.

New comment by Mayzie in "Show HN: Interactive systemd – a better way to work with systemd units"

Mayzie — Sun, 19 Jan 2025 03:16:37 +0000

It's been a decade at this point since the last big distro (and surrounding drama), Debian and Ubuntu following shortly after, moved to systemd.

New comment by Mayzie in "Moving to a World Beyond "p < 0.05" (2019)"

Mayzie — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 13:49:51 +0000

And where will the money come from for this second study? What about a third? Fourth?

We live in a money-dependent world. We cannot go without it.

New comment by Mayzie in "Ask HN: What should I buy in Japan?"

Mayzie — Sun, 06 Oct 2024 08:24:55 +0000

Haircare as well :)

New comment by Mayzie in "Why are my ZFS disks so noisy?"

Mayzie — Fri, 27 Sep 2024 06:50:46 +0000

> I don't know if this exists or not, but I'd like to try something like a fuse filesystem which can transparently copy a file to a fast scratch SSD when it is first accessed.

You may be interested in checking out bcache[1] or bcachefs[2].

[1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/admin-guide/bcache.ht...

[2] https://bcachefs.org/

New comment by Mayzie in "MPPP – The first 'designer drug' disaster (2023)"

Mayzie — Wed, 24 Jul 2024 04:04:20 +0000

Relevant /r/todayilearned thread from a few hours ago about this: https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1eanz3p/til_...

New comment by Mayzie in "Tell HN: your next idea should focus on aged care"

Mayzie — Sat, 13 Jul 2024 03:54:59 +0000

There have been and are attempts at addressing the usability gap of tech by the more tech illiterate over the years. Particularly, Linux projects such as Ordissimo[1], Eldy[2], and Endless OS[3]. I am sure there are plenty of other projects, as well (including Apple's new iPhone Assistive Access mode[4]. As sad as it may be, the market would probably be non-existent in a decade or two as newer generations enter aged care having already been somewhat familiar with computers and phone technology.

[1] https://www.ordissimo.com/en/why-ordissimo

[2] http://www.eldy.eu/

[3] https://www.endlessos.org/

[4] https://support.apple.com/en-au/guide/assistive-access-iphon...

New comment by Mayzie in "Julian Assange has reached a plea deal with the U.S., allowing him to go free"

Mayzie — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 06:42:11 +0000

> The main problem with canaries is that it's dead easy for a government to remove them from existence, simply issue subpoenas to every website that has one.

Why can't social media platforms implement warrant canaries per user profile?

New comment by Mayzie in "Windows File Explorer will be more powerful with version control and 7z"

Mayzie — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 03:49:33 +0000

Oh my gosh, TortoiseSVN and TortoiseCVS. Now that's a blast from the past. Wow.

New comment by Mayzie in "AutoDev: Automated AI-driven development by Microsoft"

Mayzie — Sat, 16 Mar 2024 12:15:50 +0000

Are we at a fifth-generation programming language yet?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth-generation_programming_l...

New comment by Mayzie in "Mass trespass on Dartmoor to highlight England's 'piecemeal' right to roam laws"

Mayzie — Sat, 24 Feb 2024 08:31:14 +0000

This is also a cultural thing. Compare the US to Australia for example, Australia is often remarked as very clean in comparison and the culture in Australia is to hold onto trash until it can be placed in the nearest trash bin and everything remains relatively clean in comparison (whether in urban areas or campgrounds).

New comment by Mayzie in "Indexing a billion pages"

Mayzie — Sun, 24 Dec 2023 14:56:46 +0000

What you’re likely referring to is Common Crawl: https://commoncrawl.org

New comment by Mayzie in "Children of married parents do better, but America is moving the other way"

Mayzie — Sun, 22 Oct 2023 13:52:37 +0000

You can’t survive or support a family with a single income these days.. It’s required for both partners to work.

New comment by Mayzie in "LK-99 research continues, paper says superconductivity could be possible"

Mayzie — Sun, 01 Oct 2023 05:46:03 +0000

It's in the first paragraph of the article: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2309.07928