Hacker News: ngc248

New comment by ngc248 in "US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during airport search"

ngc248 — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 14:44:16 +0000

probably South Africa?

New comment by ngc248 in "Microsoft new Outlook takes 10 seconds to do what Outlook Classic does instantly"

ngc248 — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 20:16:40 +0000

Windows defender has the uncanny ability of spiking up its resource usage at just the wrong time. Add in MS teams into the mix and the system just starts screaming.

New comment by ngc248 in "Microsoft new Outlook takes 10 seconds to do what Outlook Classic does instantly"

ngc248 — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 14:43:17 +0000

True ... my company recently started deploying endpoint protection like crowdstrike, beyondtrust, zscalet onto our macs and these have slowed my machine considerably. They somehow spike the CPU just when I am doing something important.

New comment by ngc248 in "Challenging the Narrative of European Decline"

ngc248 — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 13:44:04 +0000

> We used to have a global economic system overseen by a mostly benign and in any case law-abiding hegemon

This is probably due to the op being the denizen of a country which has not been affected by the aforesaid hegemon

New comment by ngc248 in "US holds off blacklisting DeepSeek, more than 100 firms deemed security risks"

ngc248 — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 13:35:49 +0000

Bro, you have "grass is greener on the other side" syndrome. China is a totalitarian state not comparable to the US. Take this from a non-US citizen. There maybe some backsliding or ppl may think things are worsening in the US, but US citizens always have the power to make things right, coz they are free and they can bear arms.

New comment by ngc248 in "Midjourney Medical"

ngc248 — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 10:43:11 +0000

One meal ... many snacks?

New comment by ngc248 in "PgDog is funded and coming to a database near you"

ngc248 — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 10:58:57 +0000

If you know your access patterns really well and they are non-relational, then you can design the best possible tables for dyanmoDB. In such a case DynamoDB works and scales amazingly. Ofc, you cannot do multi table relationships etc shoehorning a relational scheme onto DynamoDB does not work.

New comment by ngc248 in "Microsoft starts canceling Claude Code licenses"

ngc248 — Sat, 23 May 2026 06:19:31 +0000

"AI" is just a cover for laying ppl off and saving cost. But the pendulum will swing the the other way and the companies will realise that knowledgeable ppl are still required to generate and utilize the generated code. No serious company can run with vibe-coded apps generated by laymen.

New comment by ngc248 in "The bottleneck was never the code"

ngc248 — Wed, 06 May 2026 16:51:54 +0000

Exactly goalposts need to keep moving

New comment by ngc248 in "Do you even need a database?"

ngc248 — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 07:19:41 +0000

NOSQL works out really well when you know the access patterns you are working with, if not it will be like pegging a round hole with a square peg

New comment by ngc248 in "We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git"

ngc248 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 09:52:45 +0000

"Pull requests" are part of git though since it was originally a DCVS it meant you would pull from an individuals git repo ... services like github etc centralized the concept

New comment by ngc248 in "EFF is leaving X"

ngc248 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 05:32:21 +0000

What does it take to characterize legit users also as bots

New comment by ngc248 in "What 81,000 people want from AI"

ngc248 — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 14:55:01 +0000

They probably surveyed their own Agents

New comment by ngc248 in "Afroman found not liable in defamation case"

ngc248 — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 14:14:33 +0000

Mega-streisand effect ... they stacked together so many of em

New comment by ngc248 in "How will OpenAI compete?"

ngc248 — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 09:57:15 +0000

Nah, IBM watson jeopardy version was a one-off. It was an app specifically tuned for that usecase. IBM Watson is not a single product or app. It is more of a marketing term

New comment by ngc248 in "I pitched a roller coaster to Disneyland at age 10 in 1978"

ngc248 — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 10:33:24 +0000

Kids come and go, whereas the teachers stay there. I feel a lot of school teachers are jealous of the kids and hence all the bullying by them.

New comment by ngc248 in "I pitched a roller coaster to Disneyland at age 10 in 1978"

ngc248 — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 10:30:45 +0000

Exactly ... Used to play buggy games and used to absolutely love them, nowadays it seems like everything has to be beyond perfect.

New comment by ngc248 in "I'm helping my dog vibe code games"

ngc248 — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 08:01:22 +0000

Management would get us all dogs and they would get cats for themselves ... like blofeld from James bond ...

New comment by ngc248 in "I'm helping my dog vibe code games"

ngc248 — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 07:54:16 +0000

Management already got us all copilot licenses .. soon they will get us all a dog

New comment by ngc248 in "Looks like it is happening"

ngc248 — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 07:39:05 +0000

looks like history runs in cycles ... Knowledge was strictly guarded and the powers that be used to decide who gets an education. Looks like you are espousing the same, discounting all the good that has come about because of open education.