Hacker News: mzi

New comment by mzi in "KICKI: a DECsystem1060"

mzi — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 05:48:47 +0000

That's Peter's old machine! Used to be in the care of Stacken, the computer club at Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. It's named Kicki because of the dual CPUs (KI KI). She had a sister named Katia ("a ten" in Swedish is "tia" and she had a KA CPU).

According to DEC you could only run one KI CPU, and then changed that when challenged to MAX two CPUs. So briefly she ran with three.

New comment by mzi in "A graphical desktop for the ZX Spectrum"

mzi — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 16:23:39 +0000

Nothing else than a bit of prompting went in to this.

New comment by mzi in "Jellyfin 12.0"

mzi — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 04:06:57 +0000

I have a lifetime pass as well, but switched to Jellyfin years ago.

New comment by mzi in "Live map of public transport in Belgium"

mzi — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 16:30:23 +0000

The app for public transportation in the Stockholm region give real time location updates for its busses, and station-to-station updates for tram and commuter trains. With the constant delays for the operator in my area it is invaluable for catching busses.

New comment by mzi in "A PCB business card with a batteryless LED, powered by the phone that taps it"

mzi — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 04:08:42 +0000

My guess is that the whole project including the selection of chips was made by an AI.

New comment by mzi in "Cheap GPS jammers are filling the world with navigation dead zones"

mzi — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 11:09:38 +0000

A bunch of us old salty sailing nerds were actually discussing Decca Navigator System¹ the other day that was still very present in the 90s on the ships we were sailing. Now all replaced and removed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decca_Navigator_System

New comment by mzi in "A 'cold blob' in the Atlantic could be a sign of AMOC shutdown"

mzi — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 15:59:41 +0000

You should.

New comment by mzi in "Intelligent Terminal 0.1"

mzi — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 18:07:21 +0000

This describes how you turn off telemetry: https://github.com/microsoft/intelligent-terminal/blob/main/...

New comment by mzi in "Child marriages plunged when girls stayed in school in Nigeria"

mzi — Thu, 07 May 2026 15:10:27 +0000

This kind of data was shown by late Hans Rosling and his foundation Gapminder¹. He gave a Ted talk² about similar subjects as well, and I find him an excellent lecturer.

¹ https://www.gapminder.org/

² https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVimVzgtD6w

New comment by mzi in "First Tesla Semi Rolls Off High-Volume Production Line"

mzi — Mon, 04 May 2026 05:30:01 +0000

But you can go 1500 miles on a full tank, so with electricity you have to account for three times as many vehicles as well (given the stated range is correct)

New comment by mzi in "Ask HN: Is the Job Market Actually Bad?"

mzi — Sat, 02 May 2026 18:12:39 +0000

What did you do to start getting traction for senior positions? You were struggling in the beginning of the year.

New comment by mzi in "The More Young People Use AI, the More They Hate It"

mzi — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 15:49:03 +0000

> In the past, a job that would have given me two months and paid $5,000 is now expected to be completed in two weeks for the same $5,000.

So you have quadrupled your income? That seems like the opposite of a collapse.

New comment by mzi in "Monumental ship burial beneath ancient Norwegian mound predates the Viking Age"

mzi — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 15:29:43 +0000

I had to look into this again. In Valsgärde, close to Uppsala, Sweden you have confirmed ship/boat burials from 600CE. At the same time as the ship burials at Sutton Hoo in England. The "Swedish" (at the time national borders were different) had more in common with "Denmark" that in turn had closer relations to England. Tröndelag Norway had less of international trade leading up to the Viking age, at least compared to Denmark/Jutland and the Baltic.

New comment by mzi in "Monumental ship burial beneath ancient Norwegian mound predates the Viking Age"

mzi — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 07:32:17 +0000

Tjelvar on Gotland are presumed to be from 750BCE, and I don't think that is the oldest in Scandinavia.

New comment by mzi in "Monumental ship burial beneath ancient Norwegian mound predates the Viking Age"

mzi — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 06:31:45 +0000

Stone ships had been burial sites for two thousand years before the Vikings came to Lindisfarne. And long distance trade has been established and given the extent of the Battle of Tollense contact between tribes must have stretched far and deep. And Britain was an important source of tin so trade routes both started and ended there.

New comment by mzi in "Monumental ship burial beneath ancient Norwegian mound predates the Viking Age"

mzi — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 05:10:47 +0000

It isn't like boats were invented in Scandinavia by the vikings. At Tanum, close to the present Norwegian border we have rock carvings dating back to 1700BCE, with prominent ships depicted. Boatrs have been important in Scandinavia for a long time.

https://www.tanumworldheritage.se/rock-carving-facts/?lang=e...

New comment by mzi in "JVM Options Explorer"

mzi — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 11:31:10 +0000

One of my nerd-quizzes I hade at interviews before was "what letters in what case are NOT flags to GNU ls".

New comment by mzi in "We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git"

mzi — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 04:20:00 +0000

À pull request is just you requesting someone to pull from you in git proper.

So the maintainer adds you as a remote and pulls from you.

New comment by mzi in "New Washington state law bans noncompete agreements"

mzi — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 19:01:43 +0000

Yeah, those contracts are not valid here as the right to livelihood will trump that contract.

So even if you sign that clause you are not bound by it.

New comment by mzi in "New Washington state law bans noncompete agreements"

mzi — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 18:36:25 +0000

Here in Sweden non-competes without a financial agreement is void. And those that offer some financial are probably OK, but haven't been tried extensively.

The non-competes I've signed have offered 60% of my base pay for six months (the length of the non-compete) if I cannot find a job because of the contract if the company exercise it.

They never have exercised it for me.