Hacker News: emeril

New comment by emeril in "Dear people who work at the airport"

emeril — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 14:54:17 +0000

sadly, the best way to get data on flights it to use the airlines app - not anything you'd find at the airport

also, it's easiest to use that same app for the boarding pass too these days

once I printed them out (with the provided pdf) thinking it would be easier, the printed paper didn't work and they said I HAD to install and use the app or go back to a kiosk and use one of their printouts and lose my place in line...)

New comment by emeril in "Microsoft Word for Windows 1.1a, Native X64 Port"

emeril — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 12:04:49 +0000

maybe so but that would imply the end user is opening sketchy files - most of the time these products are for low risk files

New comment by emeril in "Microsoft Word for Windows 1.1a, Native X64 Port"

emeril — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 14:37:35 +0000

so true - modern windows has no contrast between windows - so terrible

New comment by emeril in "Microsoft Word for Windows 1.1a, Native X64 Port"

emeril — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 14:36:30 +0000

office 2003 (for word + excel at least) were peak - after the ribbon it all went downhill

New comment by emeril in "Delta flight hit by firework while landing at Midway Airport on Fourth of July"

emeril — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 21:07:36 +0000

-having lived in MO, yeah, pretty scary

-don't miss the hill restaurants

-maybe still stick around if you own a house such as to help prevent it being set ablaze that night inadvertently...

New comment by emeril in "Microsoft new Outlook takes 10 seconds to do what Outlook Classic does instantly"

emeril — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 17:00:25 +0000

so true - I use some outlook vba to send mass emails programmatically

New comment by emeril in "4 things to know about the new sunscreen ingredient the FDA approved"

emeril — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 13:26:42 +0000

why not just get the least obtrusive physical sunscreen like "clear" thinksport?

My fear is that all of these chemical based ones increase the rates of disease in susceptible populations which is hard to detect

New comment by emeril in "EY Canada published a cybersecurity report and most citations were hallucinated"

emeril — Sun, 31 May 2026 00:54:35 +0000

this is not surprising at all - much of Big 4 is BS

New comment by emeril in "Coursera and Udemy are now one company"

emeril — Tue, 12 May 2026 15:51:04 +0000

umm, perhaps because it's offensive?

New comment by emeril in "Windows quality update: Progress we've made since March"

emeril — Sun, 03 May 2026 23:46:31 +0000

I much prefer an ahk script to move the mouse a few pixels periodically...

New comment by emeril in "Are We Idiocracy Yet?"

emeril — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 00:29:31 +0000

Yes

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...)