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New comment by solumunus in "I Moved My Digital Stack to Europe"

solumunus — Wed, 13 May 2026 14:04:30 +0000

Trump wasn't threatening to invade European countries and supporting Putin's position in an ongoing war in term 1. He has been far more outwardly anti-EU in term 2.

New comment by solumunus in "Instructure pays ransom to Canvas hackers"

solumunus — Wed, 13 May 2026 12:01:17 +0000

Good luck when most of the random gangs are in countries that, at best, don’t care about this, and often encourage or support it.

New comment by solumunus in "Palantir to be granted "unlimited access" to UK NHS patient data"

solumunus — Mon, 11 May 2026 20:25:07 +0000

I’m just totally black pilled on politics at this point. There’s just no hope.

New comment by solumunus in "Casio S100X Japanese Lacquer Edition (JP Page Only)"

solumunus — Sun, 10 May 2026 14:11:35 +0000

Water is water but tap water is not tap water.

New comment by solumunus in "Rotten Dot Com"

solumunus — Sun, 10 May 2026 11:52:49 +0000

Surely correlation and not causation.

New comment by solumunus in "Rotten Dot Com"

solumunus — Sun, 10 May 2026 11:51:37 +0000

Feels like it would be 0 or extremely close to 0.

New comment by solumunus in "Two Home Affairs officials suspended after AI 'hallucinations' found"

solumunus — Sat, 09 May 2026 05:25:23 +0000

> I wouldn't write them off just because they're ethnically segregated.

Amazing.

New comment by solumunus in "Tesla is recalling its cheaper Cybertruck because the wheels might fall off"

solumunus — Fri, 08 May 2026 15:22:52 +0000

Do you think these cars are well engineered and reliable?!

New comment by solumunus in "Mercedes-Benz commits to bringing back physical buttons"

solumunus — Wed, 06 May 2026 06:43:54 +0000

It’s better than you?

New comment by solumunus in "Urban Birds Are Rising Earlier Because of Traffic Noise (2013)"

solumunus — Wed, 06 May 2026 06:35:33 +0000

They’re a benefit to the lives they’re attempting to save.

You’re objectively wrong about the nose but it could be that the sound is particularly annoying to you for some reason, or that your brain has not yet been conditioned to automatically tune it out like it has with ICE engines.

New comment by solumunus in "GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay"

solumunus — Tue, 05 May 2026 16:29:36 +0000

Ryan is committed to not taking a salary, unless this changes the only way he stands to gain is by doing the opposite of this and undressing the share price long term.

New comment by solumunus in "GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay"

solumunus — Tue, 05 May 2026 10:41:31 +0000

It's not "as of a few months ago", he has never taken a salary as GameStop CEO.

New comment by solumunus in "Bun is being ported from Zig to Rust"

solumunus — Tue, 05 May 2026 08:41:39 +0000

Well those people are simply wrong. Go and Rust type systems don't even remotely compare. Go types suck.

New comment by solumunus in "GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay"

solumunus — Mon, 04 May 2026 16:58:05 +0000

It’s wild to me that you believed that they would make an impossible offer.

New comment by solumunus in "GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay"

solumunus — Mon, 04 May 2026 16:55:30 +0000

Ryan Cohen doesn’t even take a salary. I guess that’s extremely notable then?

New comment by solumunus in "GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay"

solumunus — Mon, 04 May 2026 16:35:13 +0000

He wants to be the next Warren Buffett, I believe this is a stated goal, or at least he’s been very clear that this is his inspiration. He wants GameStop to become the next Berkshire.

New comment by solumunus in "The 'Hidden' Costs of Great Abstractions"

solumunus — Mon, 04 May 2026 07:09:03 +0000

Why?

New comment by solumunus in "People who are blind from birth never develop schizophrenia"

solumunus — Sun, 03 May 2026 20:26:39 +0000

“That sample of blind children is small, but the pattern holds across more than 70 years of evidence: not a single congenitally blind person with schizophrenia has ever been reported.”

New comment by solumunus in "People who are blind from birth never develop schizophrenia"

solumunus — Sun, 03 May 2026 20:24:46 +0000

> Also, in India, the voices are actually nice and encouraging I’ve heard.

And you’re not as skeptical of this claim?

New comment by solumunus in "Show HN: I wrote a DOOM clone in my own programming language"

solumunus — Fri, 01 May 2026 09:28:41 +0000

Ah, you're going for that engagement at all costs approach. It's desperate but I hope it works out for you.