Mayzie

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by Mayzie 4mo ago
Fun little nugget, Australian Sulphur Crested Cockatoos almost universally favour their left feet as a holdfast. They're also left eye dominant.
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by Mayzie 1y ago
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 t
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by Mayzie 1y ago
Odd. That is not there for me and I cannot add it :( I have the same problem as OP. I wish it were simple.
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by Mayzie 1y ago
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:/&
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by Mayzie 2y ago
> 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 be
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by Mayzie 2y ago
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?
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by Mayzie 2y ago
> 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 t
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by Mayzie 2y ago
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.
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by Mayzie 2y ago
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.
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by Mayzie 2y ago
Haircare as well :)
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by Mayzie 2y ago
> 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
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by Mayzie 2y ago
Relevant /r/todayilearned thread from a few hours ago about this: https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1eanz3p/til_...
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by Mayzie 2y ago
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
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by Mayzie 2y ago
> 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
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by Mayzie 2y ago
Oh my gosh, TortoiseSVN and TortoiseCVS. Now that's a blast from the past. Wow.
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by Mayzie 3y ago
Are we at a fifth-generation programming language yet? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth-generation_programming_l...
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by Mayzie 3y ago
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 everythin
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by Mayzie 3y ago
What you’re likely referring to is Common Crawl: https://commoncrawl.org
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by Mayzie 3y ago
You can’t survive or support a family with a single income these days.. It’s required for both partners to work.
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by Mayzie 3y ago
It's in the first paragraph of the article: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2309.07928
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by Mayzie 3y ago
Really only needs to be done once daily. Twice daily is recommended because people tend to not brush their teeth properly and miss things. Doing it twice tends to hit the areas missed in the first pass.
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Australian regulator sues PayPal over unfair term in small business contracts(reuters.com)
39 points by Mayzie 3y ago|2 comments
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by Mayzie 3y ago
I backed this game on Kickstarter back in 2012. I don’t care for all this focus on multiplayer, I was just in it for the singleplayer aspect. I wish they would just deliver that.
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by Mayzie 3y ago
Yes, you’re exactly right. Humanity tinkered with it by deliberately not wearing masks and vaccinating, which caused it to mutate and spread. If only everybody just wore masks and isolated for a couple of weeks, there’d be no COVID at all
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by Mayzie 3y ago
I understand the desire for multi-threaded CPython scripts, but why not do a PHP5 -> PHP7 and focus on single-thread performance more, particularly around implementing a JIT? We know from PyPy (and other JIT-enabled languages like NodeJS
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by Mayzie 3y ago
Is Tailwind the new Bootstrap?
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by Mayzie 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Island_(2005_film)
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by Mayzie 3y ago
I'd love to be able to purchase something like this and a weather station that will submit data to a free public service so people can receive better and more accurate / timely weather data. I can't tell if that is possible o
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by Mayzie 3y ago
Yep! I have the Evolv, and I use the third-party MedM BP apps[1][2] to sync the readings from the device via bluetooth to my phone (and HealthKit). No first-party app needed. [1] (iOS) https://apps.apple.com/au/app&#x2F
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by Mayzie 3y ago
PYREX, all capitals. pyrex, all lowercase, are soda lime glass and terrible.

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