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New comment by trinix912 in "Show HN: Open-source engine running Gemma 4 26B in 2 GB RAM on any M-series Mac"

trinix912 — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 09:10:30 +0000

If they feel the need to polish their texts with LLMs because they’re not comfortable with English, how would they tell the output is bad?

I can tell you first hand it’s sometimes hard to figure out what is LLM writing and what isn’t, English isn’t my first language either.

New comment by trinix912 in "It's a shame what's happened to radio"

trinix912 — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 09:49:08 +0000

I could pick the LW up at night in my car from Slovenia!

New comment by trinix912 in "Interrail: 6,379Km and 13 Countries over 7 weeks"

trinix912 — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 10:40:24 +0000

As a Slovenian I’m always impressed when tourists take the train and make it through the country without huge delays or replacement bus service. The trains here are just awful, the main line (Koper-Ljubljana-Maribor) is the worst. Lots of construction work that never seems to end. There are still Yugoslav cars in use occasionally on some more remote lines.

New comment by trinix912 in "Unified Memory, Explained: Why Mini PCs Can Run 70B Models a Big GPU Can't"

trinix912 — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 17:25:53 +0000

...and disable swap.

New comment by trinix912 in "Every new car sold in the European Union must include a driver monitoring camera"

trinix912 — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 21:25:09 +0000

There are some German cities (Munich) where you can’t enter the city center with a diesel car that doesn’t meet the EURO 4 standards. EURO 4 is a low bar but there’s really nothing stopping them from eventually implementing it more widely and upping the requirement to EURO 5, 6, etc.

New comment by trinix912 in "Every new car sold in the European Union must include a driver monitoring camera"

trinix912 — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 21:20:55 +0000

Seatbelts are actually heavily enforced around the EU, most people would rather just belt up than pay the fine.

New comment by trinix912 in "Every new car sold in the European Union must include a driver monitoring camera"

trinix912 — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 21:17:00 +0000

It won’t be long until someone finds a way to flash the firmware or install a bootleg sensor or something else. You can already get a lot “chipped” on VAG and BMW cars.

New comment by trinix912 in "Every new car sold in the European Union must include a driver monitoring camera"

trinix912 — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 21:13:53 +0000

That camera isn’t on all the time scanning your face. God knows what sort of sketchy implementations car companies will come up with.

New comment by trinix912 in "Every new car sold in the European Union must include a driver monitoring camera"

trinix912 — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 21:11:30 +0000

Not really, it will still be fully road legal, at least in my EU member state.

New comment by trinix912 in "Why skilled workers come to Germany and then leave again"

trinix912 — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 20:35:31 +0000

You are kind of expected to adjust yourself to the culture of the country you’re immigrating to. If you fail (or refuse) to do so in the most obvious/visible ways possible (like clothing), I think you shouldn’t be surprised when people look at you weird because you look out of place.

New comment by trinix912 in "Completing a computer science degree on Coursera"

trinix912 — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 08:23:04 +0000

Depending on the country in question, SWE jobs might be quite scarce, so companies can afford to be picky about the candidates.

You have outliers in both ways (companies that don’t care and companies that will ask you about your uni grades) but the general sentiment in my (EU member) country is that you do need at least a two if not a three year degree to get a decent SWE job. Most of the time it’s explicitly listed as a requirement in job listings too.

New comment by trinix912 in "CarPlay Is Additive"

trinix912 — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 08:32:56 +0000

I agree. I find it tacky when people buy old BMWs and Mercedeses just to throw the original (often mint condition) radio unit out and put in a cheap carplay display.

Like you have this 30 year old car with a pristine wooden trim where all components align nicely in design and you decide to ruin it for the convenience of having notifications in your face while driving? A phone holder looks much less invasive.

New comment by trinix912 in "Android Developer Verification: Threat masquerading as protection"

trinix912 — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 11:58:54 +0000

Right, until you have to use a mobile app to pay for parking or validate your bus/train ticket and so on. Yeah, "I can use my physical card", for now. Long-term we need a better solution than keeping an extra up-to-date phone.

New comment by trinix912 in "Android Developer Verification: Threat masquerading as protection"

trinix912 — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 11:16:56 +0000

Good for Germans then. Slovenian banks won't let you use physical 2FA authenticators (for personal accounts and maybe even business ones at this point) anymore and will also require you to constantly update their stupid app (I've had to replace some otherwise good phones because the OS version wasn't supported anymore).

New comment by trinix912 in "Android Developer Verification: Threat masquerading as protection"

trinix912 — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 11:13:21 +0000

It's all good until your European bank starts requiring unrooted Android and iOS for their mobile banking app, then tries to force you to use that app instead of letting you sort things out at their building. Then the government starts requiring you use unrooted Android or iOS to sign into their website for administrative tasks, and so on.

New comment by trinix912 in "Show HN: LookAway, a Mac break reminder that knows when not to interrupt"

trinix912 — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 09:14:45 +0000

Firefox 152.0.2, try scrolling to the bottom and back up at different speeds, keep the page open for a few minutes, try again... Dunno if it's the case with yours but many similar looking websites use a lot of resource-heavy gradient/shadow calculations.

New comment by trinix912 in "The last Romans are still around"

trinix912 — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 06:31:06 +0000

That’s the German Holy Roman Empire, not the classical Roman Empire.

New comment by trinix912 in "Show HN: LookAway, a Mac break reminder that knows when not to interrupt"

trinix912 — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 21:49:30 +0000

Two things regarding the website:

- scrolling is so extremely laggy that the website is almost unusable on Firefox on macOS on an idle MacBook Pro (even if it seems smooth at first, scrolling up and down a few times slows it down significantly)

- I assume the code editor screenshot should actually be some sort of animation, it doesn't seem to work (although right clicking shows options like Pause, Loop...).

New comment by trinix912 in "The deadly rise of giant trucks and SUVs"

trinix912 — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 21:02:31 +0000

There’s plenty of people spending hours commuting by car each way over here too.

New comment by trinix912 in "The deadly rise of giant trucks and SUVs"

trinix912 — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 20:51:07 +0000

There’s plenty of rural Europe too, but Europeans mostly use vans (tradesmen) or tractors (farmers) instead. Both have much better visibility than those tall trucks with a long hood, at least from my experience.