Hacker News: emeril

New comment by emeril in "How Invisalign became the biggest user of 3D printers"

emeril — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 23:10:29 +0000

fwiw, if your sleep apnea is when you're on your back, consider somnopose/torena and put your phone is a running vest like https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D24X29WQ

life changing for me

New comment by emeril in "Federal Surveillance Tech Becomes Mandatory in New Cars by 2027"

emeril — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 04:32:07 +0000

isn't this already possible via a breathalizer?

New comment by emeril in "Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous 'Stop Cop City' Protester"

emeril — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:46:02 +0000

I generally just use tor browser and proton (verified through a disposable email address only accessed via the tor browser) - seems secure enough for me?

I use it often...

New comment by emeril in "Lenovo’s new ThinkPads score 10/10 for repairability"

emeril — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 02:41:14 +0000

my dell is hot garbage from work

New comment by emeril in "RAM now represents 35 percent of bill of materials for HP PCs"

emeril — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 14:02:07 +0000

ive found the web versions use a similar amount of memory and have fewer features

my issue is that my company won't issue laptops with more than 16 gbs of ram

guess i'm not virtualizing anything...

New comment by emeril in "LibreOffice blasts OnlyOffice for working with Microsoft to lock users in"

emeril — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 22:21:25 +0000

that's not 100% true

excel 2003 did 95% of what "modern" excel does without most of those issues...

New comment by emeril in "Pi for Excel: AI sidebar add-in for Excel"

emeril — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 12:24:34 +0000

why not use a vm/wine for a native experience (though, tbf, native excel is kind of hot garbage these days compared to older versions...)

New comment by emeril in "Lessons you will learn living in a snowy place"

emeril — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 12:29:10 +0000

Norway is probably one of the better managed countries on earth

New comment by emeril in "European Commission Trials Matrix to Replace Teams"

emeril — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 21:53:19 +0000

yeah, it's fine for me - probably as good as an electron app can get (def not good as a true native app but it's def better than having to use my phone...)

New comment by emeril in "CIA to Sunset the World Factbook"

emeril — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 17:47:31 +0000

Trump will soon be issuing the "World Alternative Factbook" as a natural replacement

New comment by emeril in "Amazon's Spending on 'Melania' Is a Barely Concealed Bribe"

emeril — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 15:05:53 +0000

that's optimistic

New comment by emeril in "430k-year-old well-preserved wooden tools are the oldest ever found"

emeril — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 21:06:53 +0000

maybe the trump administration can learn something from these tools to offset the 10k STEM PhDs that have resigned and moved onto to greener pastures...

New comment by emeril in "Bugs Apple loves"

emeril — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 02:50:25 +0000

I'm still waiting for apple to fix ringtones on siri generated alarms

New comment by emeril in "We put Claude Code in Rollercoaster Tycoon"

emeril — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 19:13:57 +0000

yeah really - ramp.com is a credit card/expense platform that surely loses money right now...

pretty heavy/slow javascript but pretty functional nonetheless...

New comment by emeril in "PCs refuse to shut down after Microsoft patch"

emeril — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 15:36:37 +0000

-omg, I always disable windows update -more harm than good unless you're in some more sensitive position

New comment by emeril in "Microsoft May Have Created the Slowest Windows in 25 Years with Windows 11"

emeril — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 21:28:13 +0000

or just buy a cd key from a wholesaler for $20 :)

probably won't be disconnected... been using such a cd key for months w/o issue and my win11 experience isn't that painful

New comment by emeril in "Microsoft May Have Created the Slowest Windows in 25 Years with Windows 11"

emeril — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 21:23:37 +0000

web is, frighteningly, much faster and more responsive than local desktop apps are now (e.g., gmail is infinitely more responsive than desktop modern outlook generally speaking - even web spreadsheets are superior to modern Excel (though not, say, Excel 2003...))

New comment by emeril in "New information extracted from Snowden PDFs through metadata version analysis"

emeril — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 16:27:36 +0000

I suppose I'd just save the pdf to tiff/png then remake back into a pdf from there to avoid printing and scanning?

if really paranoid, I suppose one could run a filter on the image files to make them a bit fuzzy/noisy

New comment by emeril in "Start your meetings at 5 minutes past"

emeril — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 15:09:07 +0000

yeah, 90% of meetings are wastes in most companies

New comment by emeril in "ChatGPT Health"

emeril — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 13:24:13 +0000

well, to the credit of Bayes, dementia is likely a safe choice (depending on age/etc.) but dementia is largely a diagnosis of exclusion and most doctors, besides being unfamiliar with Bayes, are also just plain lazy and/or dumb and shouldn't immediately jump to the most likely explanation when it's one with the worst prognosis and fewest treatments...