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elygre

1,565 karma · joined November 7, 2015

Information technology by day, tango by night.

There is no high like a tango high. There is no low like a tango low.

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elygre··on War may be coming. Are we psychologically ready?
Some people said two days, some said ten days. Russian officials thought they would get a short war, and they were wrong. Wikipedia will point you to a bunch of references.

A Russian war with Europe would not be the short war that the original poster alludes to by invoking statements from a Russian official.

elygre··on War may be coming. Are we psychologically ready?
Probes are not worth going to war for. Russian boots on Baltic grounds would be.
elygre··on War may be coming. Are we psychologically ready?
As would the special military operation. Three days short, it was promised.
elygre··on Mold: A Massively Parallel Linker
I guess this sentence from the Wild readme is also relevant:

  Mold is already very fast, however it doesn't do incremental linking and the author has stated that they don't intend to.
elygre··on Woman in Brazil enslaved for 55 years by 3 generations of the same family
Not a bad deal for who?
elygre··on Norway's 2 petabytes of Huawei flash storage and LLM training
Love America? Yes, we did.
elygre··on I moved my digital stack to Europe
The A380 is a fantastic airplane to ride, so if that is the end result I’m a fan!
elygre··on Tell HN: MitID, Denmark's digital ID, was down
Same in Norway.
elygre··on Luce: First Electric Ferrari
We will have some Amish people driving around in petroleum cars, trying to preserve the old days and the old ways.
elygre··on Euro firms must ditch Uncle Sam's clouds and go EU-native
I think it’s more about the absolutely stripped model vs the loaded one.

The basic services are more or less the same, but the hyperscalers provide hundreds of services where smaller providers have only ten.

elygre··on Porsche sold more electrified cars in Europe in 2025 than pure gas-powered cars
Norway cars on the road, December 2025:

  Elbil: 31,78 prosent
  Diesel: 31,76 prosent
  Bensin: 23,90 prosent
  Hybrid (not plug-in): 5,38 prosent
  Plug-in hybrid: 7,18 prosent
elygre··on Kidnapped by Deutsche Bahn
Your quote is missing a crucial bit. The full quote is «we're not registered to do so, so we are on the wrong tracks».

You were supposed to take the last exit, to be on the local road instead of the highway. No, we cannot let you off on the highway. We are not allowed to stop here. There are no stops. We wait for another exit. Sorry.

elygre··on We invited a man into our home at Christmas and he stayed with us for 45 years
My sympathies. And it’s sad to see you call it “what it is you did wrong”. Thus, also my apologies, for whenever I am on the wrong side of such interactions.
elygre··on Rue: Higher level than Rust, lower level than Go
What’s with all the periods, one at the end of each paragraph? Fully wasted.
elygre··on Norway wealth fund to vote for human rights report at Microsoft, against Nadella
Is the full proposal available online?
elygre··on Linux Kernel Explorer
My message here is off-topic, probably a rule violation, but…

I love this. I love how the users of Hacker News provide deep, real insights on pretty much any topic. Thank you!

elygre··on SVG.js v3.2
Maybe it's ease of development, and resulting readability?

I did enjoy the example code, compared to the native javascript (both shown in the article):

  var draw = SVG().addTo('#drawing')
    , rect = draw.rect(100, 100).fill('#f06')
elygre··on Waiting for SQL:202y: Group by All
Let me reference fields as I create them:

  select xxxxx as a
       , a * 2 as b
elygre··on Amazon strategised about keeping water use secret
It sounds like we know the water usage for growing almonds.

It feels reasonable that we should have the same detail of information for data centers.

elygre··on Advent of Code 2025: Number of puzzles reduce from 25 to 12 for the first time
Norway, too.
elygre··on Foreign hackers breached a US nuclear weapons plant via SharePoint flaws
Is that a supported method?
elygre··on Build your own database
Back in the 80s a professor at our college got a presentation on the concept of «write-only memory» accepted for some symposium.

Good times.

elygre··on Meta erases Gaza journalist's Instagram
I think we don’t know if he backed up his data.

We do know that he is dead, though.

elygre··on How to save the world with ZFS and 12 USB sticks: 4th anniversary video (2011)
Unfortunately, I’m absolutely watching it :-(

It happens whenever there is a progress indicator. I get obsessed with monitoring and verifying.

elygre··on IKEA Catalogs 1951-2021
I was 13, delivering advertisement to mailboxes (basically a newspaper boy, but delivering to every mailbox).

Most weeks it was one bag for my route. Except when the ikea catalogue arrived… I went back and forth and back and forth — that thing was thick and heavy!

elygre··on Pop OS 24.04 LTS Beta
Even with a single screen I sometimes want a video in full screen, while keeping an app window (email, excel, whatever) in a window in front of it.
elygre··on “No Tax on Tips” Includes Digital Creators, Too
Yeah, I don't know anything about the majority of establishments.

My single reference is the Norwegian upscale restaurant Theatercafeen, which introduced tip pooling across waiters and kitchen. It was highly contentious when introduced by the restaurant: The waiters took the case to the courts, and it went all the way to the supreme court of Norway [1], where it was decided that the employer could decide rules for tip-sharing.

[1]: https://www.arbeidsrettsadvokater.no/domstolsnytt/dom-deling...

elygre··on Why our website looks like an operating system
The same spine that makes companies say "No, I think we will keep our DE&I programs".
elygre··on Why our website looks like an operating system
For that specific question, none. End.
elygre··on Why our website looks like an operating system
> You're legally required to let me opt out of that cookie. Unless it's essential to the site functionality, in which case you don't need the banner at all.

Isn't it even simpler: Unless the cookie is used to track, you don't need the banner? For example, a cookie used to remember sort order would not require a cookie banner, I think.

(It's not about cookies. It's about tracking.)

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