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hashmush··on MiMo v2.6
"Pareto" is many things, but here it does indeed refer to the frontier: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_front
hashmush··on Comma openpilot – Open source driver-assistance
That's covered by:

> Some cars it does not support because nobody has been interested in testing it out.

The issue is that the percentage of new cars that could be supported drops as more and more starts encrypting the CAN bus.

hashmush··on The $LANG Programming Language
I use that every day at $WORK!
hashmush··on Finland gave two groups identical payments – one saw better mental health
The incentive is to not be poor and have more than the bare minimum.

I, for one, am happy to pay taxes to fund this.

I've never understood the argument that people would choose to live like that. It doesn't make any sense.

hashmush··on Avoid UUID Version 4 Primary Keys in Postgres
Agree, I did a double take on this too.

Values of the same type can be sorted if a order is defined on the type.

It's also strange to contrast "random values" with "integers". You can generate random integers, and they have a "sorting" (depending on what that means though)

hashmush··on Read your way through Hà Nội
Ehm, like in Vietnam's neighbors Laos (ພາສາລາວ) and Cambodia (ខ្មែរ)? Sure Vietnamese used to (a long time ago) be written in its own version of the Chinese script, I'll give you that. But most languages in the region do not use a script derived from Chinese.
hashmush··on Offline card payments should be possible no later than 1 July 2026
> But also, does that mean that you have to pay a bank transfer fee every time you buy anything?

No, not at all. The Swish rails are free to users. But I've never had to pay any transfer fees for domestic transfers anyway. They are just much slower than using Swish (instant transfers) and much more clunky (bank account number etc. vs. phone number/QR-code).

hashmush··on AI is different
I dunno, it seems you have figured it out too, probably before LLMs?

I'd say all speakers of all languages have figured it out and your statement is quite confusing, at least to me.

hashmush··on Curl: We still have not seen a valid security report done with AI help
As much as I'm also annoyed by that phrase, is it really any different from:

- I had to Google it...

- According to a StackOverflow answer...

- Person X told me about this nice trick...

- etc.

Stating your sources should surely not be a bad thing, no?

hashmush··on Interviewing a software engineer who prepared with AI
The one without that clause was still fun to think about, so no harm done!
hashmush··on Interviewing a software engineer who prepared with AI
> You have a 50/50 chance of getting it right.

What is the right answer? Doesn't it depend on the DB? Postgres at least shows rows ordered by last updated time (simplified, I know).

I would be fine if it was "... near the top or bottom" though.

(Or maybe this comment is the correct answer?)

hashmush··on Show HN: Seven39, a social media app that is only open for 3 hours every evening
You know what? I've noticed the same thing with eating snacks etc., if you don't buy any, you won't eat any. It's amazing!
hashmush··on Show HN: I made a site to tell the time in corporate
Uhm? The site doesn't show what week it is..? It's currently week 9 of 2025, but the site shows W7 of Q1. (Maybe that's what you meant? Searching for the current week in the quarter?)
hashmush··on When your last name is Null, nothing works
Sweden has a sensible solution to this (im sure others do too). When you register a name you specify which part is the tilltalsnamn (lit. name of adress). In your case, the names would be disambiguated as Joe Frank Smith and Joe Frank Smith.

Not all systems use that piece of information, but most do.

hashmush··on Many of the Pokemon playtest cards were likely printed in 2024
It absolutely helps. It tells everyone that the car is on!

Anecdote: coming from a country where this is mandatory, visiting a country where it's not, I almost got run over because I assumed a car was parked when I glanced left before crossing the road.

Of course, might not prove that one or the other is safer, but it did show me how often I subconsciously use headlights as an indicator of off (=> stationary => safe) vs. on (=> potentially moving => potentially a "threat")

hashmush··on Swede dreams: How Sweden is embracing its sleepy side
25 days are the mandated minimum. Many have 30 days or more.

Buy not only that, you are entitled to 4 consecutive weeks during the summer months.

Having 4 (or more) weeks off during summer is the norm in Sweden.

So the question is rarely about if you're gonna be off, but rather how you're going to spend that time.

hashmush··on Why is zero plural? (2024)
This is incredibly confusing. Of course the plural of zero (as a noun) is zero(e)s. But then you state that you understand that it's not about the noun, and still go on to say that the answers sharing your view are wrong..?
hashmush··on Self driving 1993 Volvo with open pilot
There are constant debates about them in Sweden. Especially after fatal accidents or incidents involving teens driving at speeds above 100 kph. [1][2]

The original law considered tractors and other farm equipment, AIUI. You can drive these so called A-traktor with only a moped or tractor license when you're 15.

[1] Swedish article from 2022 with some examples (there are many more since then): https://www.svt.se/nyheter/inrikes/ungdomar-manipulerar-a-tr...

[2] Example police chase: https://youtube.com/watch?v=CqcEqhXWiYE

hashmush··on Enum of Arrays
I don't get it, why wouldn't you just store tag + count instead? Am I missing something?
hashmush··on Review of Mullvad VPN
But it's not free and legal where they are from, obviously, since they wouldn't need the VPN in that case.
hashmush··on Turkish language has a gossip tense
Right, because "present" is the tense here and "perfect" the aspect.

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

hashmush··on NIST to forbid requirement of specific passwords character composition
Perhaps old stuff like LM/NTLM:

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LAN_Manager#LM_hash_details

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTLM

hashmush··on Dokku: My favorite personal serverless platform
The actual meaning of words is defined by how people use them. Serverless has a very specific, well-defined meaning despite its seemingly contradictory etymology.
hashmush··on Caltrain's new electric trains
Sounds like Sweden, except the chaotic booking system.

I don't think I've ever seen a diesel train, ever. In fact, for a long time I was (blissfully) unaware of their existence and the fact that they do exist still surprises me...

hashmush··on If we want a shift to walking, we need to prioritize dignity
Only English is not a problem in Sweden (especially Stockholm), and we hire foreign engineers all the time. Some companies have a majority of foreign born engineers, with a wide range of backgrounds (Brazilian, Russian, Spanish, American, etc.)

Ofc, salary comparisons are hard to make vs. the US, but you can live comfortably on an engineer's salary in Sweden.

Some of the biggest "modern" companies include DICE, Klarna and Spotify. More traditional ones are Ericsson, Scania and Volvo.

Hiring is a bit slow right now though, so that has to be kept in mind.

hashmush··on I mapped almost every USA traffic death in the 21st century
The fancy name is "false dichotomy", and you're completely right.
hashmush··on Georgia Tech, Meta create open dataset to advance solutions for carbon capture
Because Earth is not an isolated system.
hashmush··on Greenhouse gas emissions might have already peaked
Yes, a reduction in yearly emissions. But that doesn't mean that the CO2 in the atmosphere suddenly disappears. We're still adding to it, just not as much as before (hopefully).
hashmush··on Show HN: Retriever – Securely share secrets over the internet
We use self-hosted yopass at work. Works great and since the link only works once you can simply send the URL with the decryption key to the receiver. If they can open it, the secret is safe to use!

https://yopass.se/

hashmush··on How to pronounce the trickiest English words
But at age 6 you've already been immersed in the language for 6 years. The problem there is to link it to its written form.

When you learn a second language you have the baggage of the first language hindering you (talking about orthography here), and you normally don't start by speaking the language exclusively for 6 years before learning how to read. If you don't know what the language is supposed to sound like, of course it's hard to understand how to read in it.

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