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New comment by kichimi in "Dutch central bank moves share of gold from U.S., Canada to London"

kichimi — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 13:40:58 +0000

To add to this, because I think it is important context for Americans who may not be aware, football is seen very officially by many European nations and national governments as a cultural counterpart to many international treaties within Europe that were born out of the desire to bring our respective cultures closer together after the second world war.

It is so important, that many countries make it illegal to hide international football matches behind paywalls, specifically.

It is so important, that there are articles written about its importance on EU institutes websites. For example, this one reflects on Footballs importance in relation to the First, Second and Cold wars. https://www.iss.europa.eu/publications/alerts/european-footb...

To see Trump so flagrantly manipulate it sends a cultural signal that is hard for those outside of Europe to see, and that by some can be seen as the cultural equivalent of the political threats Trump has made against NATO.

At this point, your average European Trump supporter/right wing populist needs only reminding of Trumps interference to get a complete positional change - that's how bad it is.

New comment by kichimi in "“Microslop” filtered in the official Microsoft Copilot Discord server"

kichimi — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 13:19:19 +0000

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

>Please don't post comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills.

New comment by kichimi in "But how to get to that European cloud?"

kichimi — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 07:38:01 +0000

This is not true, the problem is greed and imo a lack of ROI.

New comment by kichimi in "But how to get to that European cloud?"

kichimi — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 07:36:06 +0000

This is not their last, there is another one with funding thats building off the learned lessons of Gaia-X.

New comment by kichimi in "NCSC, GCHQ, UK Gov't expunge advice to "use Apple encryption""

kichimi — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 18:41:41 +0000

You know this is just making fun of the poor working class? It's offensive.

New comment by kichimi in "It is no longer safe to move our governments and societies to US clouds"

kichimi — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 20:43:53 +0000

They can do even better. I don't know how much I can say but there is an EU funded alternative in the works.

New comment by kichimi in "Ask HN: Am I the only one here who can't stand HN's AI obsession?"

kichimi — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 13:03:25 +0000

Don't forget another stuck in the past minimal semantic css based web framework that's almost unusable on anything more complex than its own demo. Complaints about react too, because its new (its 13 years old).

New comment by kichimi in "'I grew up with it': readers on the enduring appeal of Microsoft Excel"

kichimi — Sat, 02 Nov 2024 23:26:25 +0000

I feel like this is a pretty important thing for the technically minded to get their heads around.

Doesn't the fact that you can't imagine a single reason why youd want multiple fonts on a spreadsheet alarm you?

New comment by kichimi in "Alan Turing’s 1950 manual for the Mark I electronic computer [pdf]"

kichimi — Mon, 23 Sep 2024 15:54:42 +0000

>Men in black always want popcount (it's been added to various architectures over the years at their request)

I've heard this a few times, do you have anything that explains this?

New comment by kichimi in "CrowdStrike fixes start at "reboot up to 15 times", gets more complex from there"

kichimi — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 17:44:13 +0000

No it really is not. If you have a service contract, you do not touch it.

New comment by kichimi in "Ask HN: What is the best code base you ever worked on?"

kichimi — Sat, 29 Jun 2024 05:56:33 +0000

I think skill is also an issue here, in both directions. I have worked with a company that followed the opposite of move fast and it just turned into a 'who is the most correct' and 'what is the most elegant code' competition. We didn't push out a single new feature in the three years i'd worked there at that point. There was so much focus on code that we gave almost no time to business requirements.

The wider implication of this was that the number of tickets we got dropped dramatically, because users knew they'd never be resolved anyway.

Balance is key.

New comment by kichimi in "I've compared nearly all Rust crates.io crates to contents of their Git repos"

kichimi — Sun, 16 Jun 2024 18:56:36 +0000

Isn't this gentoo?

New comment by kichimi in "The Downfall of DeviantArt"

kichimi — Fri, 17 May 2024 06:57:12 +0000

I don't think you understand where he's coming from, DA literally became filled with My Little Pony porn. I'm as open minded as can be but, that's too much, I also left for the same reasons.

New comment by kichimi in "Deutsche Bahn introduces "MetaWindow""

kichimi — Fri, 17 May 2024 06:50:37 +0000

Defacing is your opinion, I think a city without graffiti is a dead city, it's an improvement.

New comment by kichimi in "I don't want to spend my one precious life dealing with Google's AI search"

kichimi — Thu, 16 May 2024 18:19:11 +0000

Perhaps not a popular opinion - and slightly besides your point, but english that is too formal and too correct can sound unnatural.

New comment by kichimi in "Superfile – A fancy, pretty terminal file manager"

kichimi — Mon, 13 May 2024 12:19:27 +0000

Sadly by the looks of some of the replies here, never will recover from, since people seem unaware that it never used to do that, and would delightfully size itself to the content. This is the #1 feature that I really loved about Mac OS window management.

New comment by kichimi in "Superfile – A fancy, pretty terminal file manager"

kichimi — Fri, 10 May 2024 17:54:19 +0000

Mac OS itself confuses things by forcing apps to be full screen, rather than sizing to the content

New comment by kichimi in "PeOS – Windows-like OS mockup in web browser"

kichimi — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 06:01:29 +0000

Projects like these will always have a special place in my heart, and I've always wished I could have a use case for professional applications developed inside environments like this, to serve as a bridge between the desktop and web world of user interface design.

New comment by kichimi in "'We had to educate Oracle about our contract,' CIO says after Big Red audit"

kichimi — Wed, 06 Mar 2024 21:25:13 +0000

01974?

New comment by kichimi in "Berlin, the European city where selfies are 'awkward'"

kichimi — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 18:46:09 +0000

Berlin is not the largest city in europe, not even in the top three, not even the biggest in the EU.