Hacker News: elheffe80

New comment by elheffe80 in "Notepad++ for Mac – Independent community port"

elheffe80 — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 15:24:45 +0000

At home I have a MacBook, but everything else I use is Linux. At work, I am stuck on windows 99% of the time for most work. I manage Linux systems, but mostly through the windows desktop. I use notepad++ every single day. I lamented not having it on my Mac, but every replacement is not... right? comfortable? implemented right? I don't know. Still haven't found something that does what little I use in notepad++ and I can tell you now this app's ui is not what I am looking for.

New comment by elheffe80 in "Microsoft keeps reinstalling Copilot, so I found a way to rip it out for good"

elheffe80 — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 21:55:52 +0000

This is what I am strongly considering doing. In my list of games I regularly play only one or two don't fully support linux. I have 10, and ran never 11 so I dont get pestered, but the time is rapidly approaching for my semi-annual windows refresh. I am trying to find reasons to upgrade to 11 and so far the list is empty.

New comment by elheffe80 in "Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now"

elheffe80 — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 18:47:13 +0000

I am going to try the straight shooting custom instruction. I have already extensively told chatgpt to stop being so 'fluffy' over the past few years that I think it has stopped doing it, but I catch it sometimes still. I hope this helps it cease and desist with that inane conversation bs.

GPT edit of my above message for my own giggles: Command:make this a good comment for hackernews (ycombinator) Resulting comment for hn: I'm excited to try out the straight-shooting custom instruction. Over the past few years, I've been telling ChatGPT to stop being so "fluffy," and while it's improved, it sometimes still slips. Hoping this new approach finally eliminates the inane conversational filler.

New comment by elheffe80 in "JetKVM – Control any computer remotely"

elheffe80 — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 13:59:01 +0000

Check to see if they are connected via usb 2? I know in the past I have had problems with older hardware on a usb 3 port vs a usb 2 port...

New comment by elheffe80 in "Donors for Trump's $300M White House Ballroom Include Google, Apple and Palantir"

elheffe80 — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 14:53:35 +0000

Sweet! Can we get advertising on the inside of the WHB for all the sponsors? Maybe some cameras connected to AI to ensure people are enjoying themselves...

New comment by elheffe80 in "Sea Rise Simulator (2023)"

elheffe80 — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 20:36:35 +0000

This project does have the developers (nagix) API key in the code but you could clone it yourself:

https://github.com/nagix/sea-level-rise-3d-map

New comment by elheffe80 in "Indefinite Backpack Travel"

elheffe80 — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 16:30:25 +0000

So, this article is great and has some great items in it if you fit them. The pants look great but max out at 34" waist in the pair I checked. The towel is barely 4.5 feet and is far too short for a beach towel for someone who is 6' (though I still want it because I love these types of towels). I could not do this lifestyle though, not now in my life. I was in the military and traveled a lot for extended periods of time (year long deployments to the ass end of nowhere) and we traveled HEAVY. HEAVY heavy. Not my favorite way, and I got to the point where I would ship everything home and when we traveled I had a day bag with 3 days worth of clothes and such. So there is a crossover of this and that lifestyle. I still wouldn't want to go to it, I like having a home too much, even if I am renting.

New comment by elheffe80 in "Apple Debuts iPhone 17"

elheffe80 — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 15:04:33 +0000

I am with you- magsafe is great for charging all the things and it is how I charge all my stuff currently. I will say that despite that, moving to USB-C is a big deal for me. As a household of 7 having different cables for everything becomes a chore whereas standardizing on USB-C saves us a ton of headaches. Kids phones need charging? Grab one of our dozens of USB-C cables and one of our many USB bricks and go. For me- it has been a slow climb but I have been slowly moving everything we have over to USB-C. When completed I can put all the other cables (mini usb, micro usb, lightning, that weird usb-3 thing some androids/ext harddrives used, etc) into my old cable foot locker.

New comment by elheffe80 in "iMac G4(K)"

elheffe80 — Thu, 27 Feb 2025 02:32:21 +0000

Glad I saw I wasn't the only one who found this. Nice easter egg indeed!!

New comment by elheffe80 in "Quickemu: Quickly run optimised Windows, macOS and Linux virtual machines"

elheffe80 — Tue, 30 Jan 2024 13:59:06 +0000

Probably going to catch some flack for this comment but... if you are that concerned with it, and have some free time, you could always use chatgpt to talk about the code. A prompt could be: "You are a linux guru, and you have extensive experience with bash and all forms of unix/linux. I am going to be pasting a large amount of code in a little bit at a time. Every time I paste code and send it to you, you are going to add it to the previous code and ask me if I am done. When I am done we are going to talk about the code, and you are going to help me break it down and understand what is going on. If you understand you will ask me to start sending code, otherwise ask me any questions before you ask for the code." I have used this method before for some shorter code (sub 1000 lines, but still longer than the prompt allows) and it works pretty well. I will admit that ChatGPT has been lazy of late, and sometimes I have to specifically tell it not to be lazy and give me the full output I am asking for, but overall it does a pretty decent job of explaining code to me.

New comment by elheffe80 in "A Single Small Map Is Enough for a Lifetime"

elheffe80 — Thu, 25 Jan 2024 14:55:20 +0000

In the US we also have the largest park system that is quite cheap/free. Not every area is covered with parks, but there are enough green spaces within a short distance (less than 1 hour) that exploring should be possible. Further, a lot of people will let you go on their land if you ask them and are polite about your time on their land. Regardless- I agree that we do not have it as fun as they do in the UK and some other areas that treat land like they do.

New comment by elheffe80 in "Ask HN: How are you using ChatGPT for yourself?"

elheffe80 — Tue, 26 Dec 2023 15:54:50 +0000

I took the list my wife gave me of her Christmas present requests and asked it to extrapolate other ideas. It did so quite successfully.

I used it to generate a balanced list of who gets to open which advent calendar because we have five kids and stupidly bought five advent calendars. It worked really well until the littles started stealing candy. I use to it check the tone of messages to my ex wife to ensure I’m not being too aggressive or combative. I use it to help generate basic letters to people I don’t really care about but want it to be formalish. Ie the landlord of my exwife who threw out a bunch of the kids stuff when asking permission to get it from the trash after exwife had been evicted. I’ve used it to help come up with silly ideas for kids story time at night. I use it almost everyday at work to check my code, emails, and any bullets I have to write about coworkers or myself.

New comment by elheffe80 in "Ask HN: How are you using ChatGPT for yourself?"

elheffe80 — Tue, 26 Dec 2023 15:48:27 +0000

Love the Christmas card generator! That was awesome.

New comment by elheffe80 in "Notesnook – open-source and zero knowledge private note taking app"

elheffe80 — Wed, 20 Dec 2023 11:55:43 +0000

From my extensive browsing of their website(/s… less than a minute… ) I couldn’t find their server/sync component being open sourced. I did see they open sourced all their clients though.

New comment by elheffe80 in "Intel says one of its 13th Gen CPUs will hit 6GHz out of the box"

elheffe80 — Mon, 12 Sep 2022 13:22:20 +0000

What happens in the bedroom stays in the bedroom, and we don't kink shame here. :P

I would imagine some machine learning/development or video editing. Or playing dwarf fortress.

New comment by elheffe80 in "Detecting unauthorized physical access with beans, lentils and colored rice (2021)"

elheffe80 — Tue, 28 Jun 2022 11:09:14 +0000

Can we get a warning to those of us with a clearance so that we don't have to self report? Thanks. This turned my day right the hell upside down. Still cool article.

Author- portion markings like that are cool and all, but fml.

Where to find C2C/1099 work?

elheffe80 — Fri, 15 Apr 2022 18:12:19 +0000

Trying to transition to completely 1099/C2C work but finding the jobs is quite difficult. Especially when all the job postings say NO C2C! Anyone have any clues/hints/leads?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31043608

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New comment by elheffe80 in "The journey of sharing a wired USB printer over the network"

elheffe80 — Mon, 04 Apr 2022 20:31:36 +0000

I love reading these articles. Just me I am sure, but yea. Reading/seeing/hearing how people figured out things makes me pumped for some reason.

New comment by elheffe80 in "Sputnik V vaccine peer reviewed with efficacy of 91.6%"

elheffe80 — Wed, 03 Feb 2021 03:56:41 +0000

Agreed. I looked at the list of countries it is approved in and said I trust NONE of those countries. Lets find a country which has reviewed it where I find them to be at least somewhat trustworthy.

New comment by elheffe80 in "GFXBench: Apple M1"

elheffe80 — Sat, 14 Nov 2020 02:42:44 +0000

Try changing it to compare the M1 against a 2080. This is only one generation behind yes? If I could just paste a pic in I would, but I will let you do the work yourself. It is similar. Amazing IMO, and I am no longer an apple fan.