Hacker News: magicbuzz

New comment by magicbuzz in "My Experience as a Rice Farmer"

magicbuzz — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 07:27:05 +0000

As someone producing food, it’s pretty much a given that something in nature will seek to consume what you are producing. I was waiting for it, and in this case, wild boar.

Love Dart

magicbuzz — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 20:50:27 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_dart

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47579546

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by magicbuzz in "Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux"

magicbuzz — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 17:40:18 +0000

I love the poem at the end

New comment by magicbuzz in "The Rise of the Japanese Toilet"

magicbuzz — Sun, 01 Jun 2025 06:13:32 +0000

"In current models, the water spray is kept at a precise 100.4 degrees Fahrenheit" - so actually 38 Celsius because that's the temperature scale that Japan (and almost everywhere else) use.

New comment by magicbuzz in "Battle Scenes depicted in moving pictures before CGI"

magicbuzz — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 22:14:01 +0000

The most marked comparison I’ve seen is between the B-25’s in Catch 22 and the aircraft in Masters of the Air. The real B-25s struggle and climb into the air on takeoff and it’s evidently real. Masters of the Air just had shot after shot of aircraft sitting dully in the sky - so eminently artificial.

New comment by magicbuzz in "Jimmy Carter has died"

magicbuzz — Sun, 29 Dec 2024 23:42:44 +0000

The term ‘climate change’ didn’t exist 45 years ago (except perhaps in a few technical circles). You’re using current knowledge/terminology/perspective to comment on things that were not in the mindset of the general populace or politicians at the time. I know this as I was there.

New comment by magicbuzz in "Show HN: We open-sourced our compost monitoring tech"

magicbuzz — Thu, 21 Nov 2024 03:51:47 +0000

I love it, but surely just a temp gauge for running a hot compost is nice & simple? If mine is over 45C, I'm fairly sure that means the thermophiles are present and doing their thing

New comment by magicbuzz in "Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?"

magicbuzz — Mon, 30 Sep 2024 02:24:18 +0000

I'm working on a solar forecast for my off-grid PV installation. It's a small install of 1kWp (2 bifacial panels) with a 4kWh battery. I chew through about 25% of my battery each day and so a forecast of the next few days or so is very useful to help me decide whether I can dip heavily into the battery or whether I should be a bit more conservative about power use.

https://tim-burgess.observablehq.cloud/pvoutput/solar

SolCast (solcast.com.au) has a free API for home users and also some historical data. So it's essentially just some D3 code running on Observable.

New comment by magicbuzz in "Show HN: My $1k self-install, off-grid solar backup build for renters"

magicbuzz — Sat, 13 Apr 2024 22:21:40 +0000

The all-in-one 3kW inverter/controller that he uses is for 110V AC output (using the 48V battery). In the article he linked to, the system uses an EG4 3000EHV-48 that also outputs 110V AC.

Are there equivalent all-in-ones that would provide 230/240V AC for use in Australia/New Zealand?

New comment by magicbuzz in "Helio: Libre Music Composition Software"

magicbuzz — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 06:23:14 +0000

Interesting - but no audio on a pretty generic version of Ubuntu 23.10

Looks like it needs Jack rather than Pipewire

New comment by magicbuzz in "Helio: Libre Music Composition Software"

magicbuzz — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 06:22:49 +0000

interesting - but no audio on a pretty generic version of Ubuntu 23.10

Looks like it needs Jack rather than Pipewire

New comment by magicbuzz in "LuaX: A Lua Dialect with JSX"

magicbuzz — Sun, 31 Dec 2023 18:27:46 +0000

The component model is a very powerful technique for keeping large amounts of complex code maintainable. I worked in large amounts of tricky jQuery before the component model and I would never wish to go back.

JSX works well for a component approach because you’re expressing the component in a fully functional programming language. Doing a lot of that work tends to make the developer quite capable in Javascript.

New comment by magicbuzz in "Ask HN: Share an important life lesson that took you a long time to figure out"

magicbuzz — Thu, 09 Nov 2023 12:30:13 +0000

Ability to communicate trumps actual competency every time in a typical career.

People who are senior to you got there because they have a superior ability to communicate, not because they have any competence. This will range from people who are so communicatively capable they can silvertongue their responses to utterly conceal incompetence/laziness to their own management to people who have slight competence but better communication and so get promoted over the most knowledgeable/experienced/capable in their domain.

Twenty years ago I thought these type of people were an aberration. I’ve come to realise that in fact, they are the majority in any business/corporate hierarchy.

Qantas now from an old Qantas pilot

magicbuzz — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 21:54:51 +0000

Article URL: https://www.smh.com.au/national/a-mayday-message-from-the-flight-deck-for-qantas-new-ceo-20230905-p5e27l.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37426130

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by magicbuzz in "Firefox has surpassed Chrome on Speedometer"

magicbuzz — Tue, 18 Jul 2023 14:04:32 +0000

I just wish that Teams would load in a reasonable time on Firefox. It's a corporate enforced need and it takes minutes to load the web Teams version in Firefox. Microsoft seem not to treat Firefox as a legitimate web client.

New comment by magicbuzz in "How my children (n=2) acquired absolute pitch"

magicbuzz — Thu, 22 Jun 2023 01:16:29 +0000

One of the challenges of being a piano player - youtube search for a new piece you're interested in and there will be a video of a 4-5 year old playing it on a baby grand somewhere :-)

New comment by magicbuzz in "Take more screenshots (2022)"

magicbuzz — Sun, 29 Jan 2023 00:11:09 +0000

Absolutely. When I do front-end work, I screenshot every visual change in the PR. Boss wants a look at the current work -> screenshot Users want to see a difference -> screenshot.

But the most valuable it that it builds up a visual history of changes in my Screenshots dir.

New comment by magicbuzz in "Balloon framing is worse-is-better (2021)"

magicbuzz — Wed, 14 Dec 2022 03:45:26 +0000

In the appendix links at the bottom, there's a comment that a large percentage of houses in Japan are still built with post & beam. I've been prompted with a slew of recent "Japanese carpentry videos" that seem to sync with this.

I'm curious why it's still prevalent in Japan? Most new Japanese houses are not built in the old machiya style.

New comment by magicbuzz in "Systemd support lands in WSL – unleash the full power of Ubuntu today – Ubuntu"

magicbuzz — Sun, 25 Sep 2022 18:14:53 +0000

Yep. I have a corporatised Win 10 install so shame about that.

New comment by magicbuzz in "Include diagrams in your Markdown files with Mermaid"

magicbuzz — Mon, 14 Feb 2022 23:02:33 +0000

Been doing this for ages with GitLab