<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: el_don_almighty</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=el_don_almighty</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 20:19:43 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=el_don_almighty" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by el_don_almighty in "Delta’s Biscoff cookies were supposed to be temporary"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I love these cookies</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2026 16:12:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50105808</link><dc:creator>el_don_almighty</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50105808</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50105808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by el_don_almighty in "Asciinema CLI 3.0 rewritten in Rust, adds live streaming, upgrades file format"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I, for one, look forward to our new RUST overlords...</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2025 17:23:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45252432</link><dc:creator>el_don_almighty</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45252432</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45252432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by el_don_almighty in "Nanonets-OCR-s – OCR model that transforms documents into structured markdown"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I have been looking for something that would ingest a decade of old Word and PowerPoint documents and convert them into a standardized format where the individual elements could be repurposed for other formats.  This seems like a critical building block for a system that would accomplish this task.<p>Now I need a catalog, archive, or historian function that archives and pulls the elements easily.  Amazing work!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2025 13:11:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44289189</link><dc:creator>el_don_almighty</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44289189</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44289189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by el_don_almighty in "The Tongue Is a Fire"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is what makes Hacker News such an astounding resource for thought provoking insight.  I take the American perspective on free speech as nearly a theological imperative despite the problematic side effects.  The alternatives strike me as far worse.  Free speech drives faster resolution and remediation to the socially unacceptable.  The ideas and behaviors highlighted by the reviewer are not new to society and collectively we do not stand in a place in a place, "never before seen."  Our tools for communicating, identifying, and correcting the evils in this world are better than ever.  Evil is just so damned ingenious.  That isn't speech's fault.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2025 15:07:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44030670</link><dc:creator>el_don_almighty</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44030670</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44030670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by el_don_almighty in "Palm phytoliths in subarctic Canada imply ice-free winters 48M years ago"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The kimberlite source of these phytoliths and their age makes me question our confidence in their origination from the arctic surface.  Is it at all possible this material was cycled through plate tectonics which subducted it from a southern source and eventually ejected far north through volcanic action?  I mean, a lot could happen over 48M years...</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2025 22:55:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43285866</link><dc:creator>el_don_almighty</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43285866</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43285866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by el_don_almighty in "The Physics of Sailing (2003)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Real sailors arrive using the "colada" effect but lately there's been a growing reliance on the "chelada" effect since Modelo introduced those tasty red cans!  They go down fast and make a day of sailing go even faster.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 29 Nov 2024 18:10:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42275743</link><dc:creator>el_don_almighty</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42275743</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42275743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by el_don_almighty in "Whole-body magnetic resonance imaging at 0.05 Tesla"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This problem has already been solved by the MRI machines at your local airport.  Cost and performance are not the issues.  For $25 your luggage gets an MRI that automatically differentiates between organic molecules in seconds.  How easily could this be adapted for free annual screenings at the mall?<p>But that's not the objective, and so your research is doomed<p>The medical equipment industry will not suffer fools who don't understand 'regulatory capture' and 'rent seeking.'<p>Those hospital machines are expensive and rare for reasons that have very little to do with cost or performance</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2024 19:40:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40347439</link><dc:creator>el_don_almighty</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40347439</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40347439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by el_don_almighty in "Windows 10 reaches 70% market share as Windows 11 keeps declining"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>"put down the release and step away"</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2024 18:26:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40227201</link><dc:creator>el_don_almighty</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40227201</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40227201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by el_don_almighty in "Ubuntu 24.04 Noble Numbat"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>love this</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2024 16:11:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40159340</link><dc:creator>el_don_almighty</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40159340</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40159340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by el_don_almighty in "TikTok CEO expects to defeat US ban: 'We aren't going anywhere'"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>so put your big boy pants on and compete!!<p>Don't run under grampa Biden's rocking chair and hope he doesn't glide over your tail.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2024 18:57:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40148152</link><dc:creator>el_don_almighty</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40148152</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40148152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by el_don_almighty in "Work begins on a $12B high-speed rail line between Las Vegas and Los Angeles"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Ooops, it was ppp pp p pp  Porky PP p pp PP P PIg</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2024 16:25:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40133777</link><dc:creator>el_don_almighty</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40133777</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40133777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by el_don_almighty in "Work begins on a $12B high-speed rail line between Las Vegas and Los Angeles"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I saw Bugs Bunny take a train to Rancho Cucamonga<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWHYRjYYLqY" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWHYRjYYLqY</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2024 16:22:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40133746</link><dc:creator>el_don_almighty</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40133746</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40133746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by el_don_almighty in "It's the End of the Web as We Know It"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Every night is the end of the world as you know it</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2024 16:18:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40133695</link><dc:creator>el_don_almighty</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40133695</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40133695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by el_don_almighty in "Most CO2 emissions were in the last 30 years"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Burning oil is what?  CO2 time travel from the past?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 25 Mar 2024 16:47:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39818517</link><dc:creator>el_don_almighty</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39818517</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39818517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by el_don_almighty in "America's elite universities are bloated, complacent and illiberal"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>hmmm.... u.s. government and 'mental health' you say?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 08 Mar 2024 01:01:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39636556</link><dc:creator>el_don_almighty</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39636556</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39636556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by el_don_almighty in "Plastic Found Inside More Than 50% of Plaques from Clogged Arteries"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><inside head><p>do not say covid do not say covid do not say co...<p></inside head></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 08 Mar 2024 00:52:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39636495</link><dc:creator>el_don_almighty</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39636495</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39636495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by el_don_almighty in "The Race to 2nm: RISC-V Chips in Japan – By Dr. Ian Cutress"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You mean "2,000 picometers"<p>Because, I stayed in a Holiday Inn last night and now I am a Marketing professional</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 08 Mar 2024 00:37:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39636380</link><dc:creator>el_don_almighty</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39636380</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39636380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by el_don_almighty in "The Uncomfortable – a collection of deliberately inconvenient objects"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>/. Effect?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jan 2024 18:54:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39133328</link><dc:creator>el_don_almighty</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39133328</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39133328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by el_don_almighty in "Ask HN: What are the important problems in your field?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Providing up to 6 MW of electricity to a battery-electric mining truck while traveling<p>Existing options are based on 100-year-old overhead trolley lines which work ok, but come with dramatic downsides in capital costs and operational limitations.<p>Static charging takes too much time and happens frequently due to battery size limitations.  (There's a huge tradeoff between carrying a lot of battery versus payload.)<p>Induction efficiencies are too low, so direct contact is required at these power levels<p>As mining transitions to zero-emissions, these infrastructure systems require the same attention and innovation</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jan 2024 20:35:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39109387</link><dc:creator>el_don_almighty</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39109387</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39109387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by el_don_almighty in "Ford's new 48-inch digital dashboard is a lot of Android for one car"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Vehicle design or operator usage?<p>Do new cars appear to be safer because new car owners drive more defensively?<p>Perhaps bad drivers can only afford old cars and smash them up?<p>Data is a slippery fish</p>
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