Hacker News: mzi

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.

New comment by mzi in "Stop picking my Go version for me"

mzi — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 05:47:48 +0000

What hacks are you relying on that makes it impossible to upgrade to 1.25 or even 1.26?

New comment by mzi in "Cat Itecture: Better Cat Window Boxes (2023)"

mzi — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 01:40:09 +0000

There's a book about the sibling construction: the cat ladder. It's called "Arcatecture"[0].

0: https://brigitteschuster.com/swiss-cat-ladders

New comment by mzi in "Restoring a Sun SPARCstation IPX part 1: PSU and NVRAM (2020)"

mzi — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 16:42:23 +0000

At work in the 90s we gave tons of old Sparcstation 10s away. They rapidly replaced all IPX and IPS at the computer clubs around Sweden. One Volvo was destined for Luleå and was really weighted down with a trunk full of pizza boxes.

New comment by mzi in "AI and the Ship of Theseus"

mzi — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 04:27:36 +0000

GPL was a response to Symbolics incorporating public domain into their software without giving back to the community (and Lisp Machines).

New comment by mzi in "Microsoft announces new "mini PCs" for Windows 365"

mzi — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 06:36:44 +0000

1990 DEC VT1000

New comment by mzi in "Across the US, people are dismantling and destroying Flock surveillance cameras"

mzi — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 08:14:53 +0000

> soaked with tempera paint Or even etching liquid, then you need to replace the lens.

New comment by mzi in "I found a vulnerability. they found a lawyer"

mzi — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 20:09:14 +0000

Dan Europe has a flow as discussed in the article and both the foundation and the regulated insurance branch is registered in Malta.