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New comment by _elf in "Show HN: New Ensō – first public beta"

_elf — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 13:04:14 +0000

I've always felt that the best part of writing on a computer is the ability to edit while you write, however, I also understand that doesn't work at all for a lot of people, so I think this app is neat even though I personally wouldn't use it.

New comment by _elf in "Juneteenth in Photos"

_elf — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 23:19:02 +0000

I'm unaware of a large non-Christian population living in the Confederate States of America.

New comment by _elf in "RFK Jr.: HHS moves to restore public trust in vaccines"

_elf — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 22:37:45 +0000

Everyone in the VC community who helped elect President Trump is partially responsible for each child that suffers and dies from a vaccine-preventable disease due to this action.

New comment by _elf in "NLRB acting general counsel rescinds non-compete labor policy"

_elf — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 00:08:26 +0000

I'm not sure why companies would want a patchwork of regulations across 50 different jurisdictions versus normalized national regulations.

Non-competes are anti-competitive nonsense, which is why the oligarchs love them.

New comment by _elf in "Florida man eats diet of butter, cheese, beef; cholesterol oozes from his body"

_elf — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 22:41:54 +0000

This gentleman is turning himself into wagyu.

New comment by _elf in ""We ran out of columns""

_elf — Sat, 03 Aug 2024 13:54:56 +0000

Databases have built-in features for this now. What the author is talking about is a regular table.

In reality, that wasn't too unusual to see because frameworks would use that technique because it's a lowest common denominator across RDMS.

New comment by _elf in "Three years in North Korea as a foreigner (2021)"

_elf — Fri, 12 Jul 2024 13:51:40 +0000

You frame this as a contradiction but a moment of reflection reveals that it's not.

If the US continues to aid Ukraine, then it's likely that Ukraine will be able to beat Russia eventually, due to the West's superior military equipment and tactics.

If the US stops aiding Ukraine, it will be much more difficult for Ukraine to beat Russia. If Russia achieves its goals and gains control of Ukraine, then yes, other NATO countries will be in danger.

Some of the "russia is loosing hard" news is propaganda of course, to raise the morale of people fighting for their homeland. I find it hard to get too mad about that.

New comment by _elf in "Changes we're making to Google Assistant"

_elf — Sat, 13 Jan 2024 04:52:12 +0000

It works in Firefox and Safari too. I like it a lot and pay for it.

New comment by _elf in "Google is already pushing WEI into Chromium"

_elf — Wed, 26 Jul 2023 15:15:08 +0000

I hope this is something that non-Chrome Chromium-based browsers can omit from their builds.

New comment by _elf in "Dril is everyone. More specifically, he’s a guy named Paul"

_elf — Sun, 16 Jul 2023 02:16:23 +0000

Dril is the undisputed king of Twitter.