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New comment by nogbit in "Car headlights don't have to be this blinding"

nogbit — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 17:22:36 +0000

Night visón comment is 100% spot on. Most haven’t even experienced it. Here’s a trick, when you go to the bathroom in the middle of the night, keep one eye closed the whole time if there are lights. When back in bed open that eye. That’s night vision.

New comment by nogbit in "Ask HN: Why is the HN crowd so anti-AI?"

nogbit — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 18:17:38 +0000

If you enjoyed programming prior to LLM’s, like it was actually a fun thing for you to do, why would you use an LLM? You wouldn’t, it’s depressing.

Similar to an artist who enjoys drawing or painting, would they use an LLM? No, because they like doing that craft.

Would a programmer who loves programming use it to create marketing materials? Absolutely.

New comment by nogbit in "Photo GIMP – A Patch for GIMP 3 for Photoshop Users"

nogbit — Tue, 19 May 2026 22:34:51 +0000

Habit, shortcut memory and more. But, it’s not 100% that, gimp over complicates itself.

New comment by nogbit in "Photo GIMP – A Patch for GIMP 3 for Photoshop Users"

nogbit — Tue, 19 May 2026 18:06:46 +0000

Thank you so so much!

I cant stand Gimp UI, so not intuitive. And over 25 years of Photoshop use has me locked into a way that image editing should work. This is fantastic and timely.

New comment by nogbit in "Steam Frame"

nogbit — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 13:34:55 +0000

These new steam sites are non functional in Firefox iPhone.

New comment by nogbit in "Have ‘hobby’ apps become the new social networks?"

nogbit — Sun, 08 Sep 2024 14:51:16 +0000

The point that is being made is that you do new things you haven’t done before. Explore!

For example, If you are a gym rat in the morning you can still do that yourself without the other person and then later in the day do the new things you never done before. The other person benefits as well. You don’t always have to be glued to the hip of the other.

New comment by nogbit in "Ask HN: Should we bring software dev in-house?"

nogbit — Fri, 09 Aug 2024 20:07:53 +0000

What are your differentiators and what are commodities that can be better served by better SaaS alternatives? Whatever you do invest in the differentiators and manage risk (secure and compliant solutions).

New comment by nogbit in "Scientists wonder if shape of the universe is like a doughnut"

nogbit — Sun, 09 Jun 2024 03:34:23 +0000

It’s more like a bagel, with everything.

When the bagel began it had everything all at once in one place.

New comment by nogbit in "Calorie restriction in humans builds strong muscle and stimulates healthy aging"

nogbit — Sat, 14 Oct 2023 23:58:34 +0000

Why 8hr? For the entire day eat 5 times and 200 plus grams is very doable. I only have one scoop of whey, and sometimes a bar, but everything else is lean Protein or carbs and fat that also have protein (oats, pb, yogurt)

New comment by nogbit in "Many of today’s unhealthy foods were brought to you by Big Tobacco"

nogbit — Sun, 01 Oct 2023 16:17:31 +0000

Your plate should be full of food from the outside edges of the grocery store. If it’s primarily full of food from the isles then you are eating wrong. There are exceptions (rice, oats etc) that are in the isles.

New comment by nogbit in "The art of the desk setup (2021)"

nogbit — Sat, 29 Oct 2022 15:26:22 +0000

Exactly, where’s the dirty bowl of mostly eaten oatmeal, the three empty cups of tea and the plate with sandwich crumbs. Add to that two cell phones, three laptops (one for each of your clients) and cables everywhere because the only tidy ones are your KVM cables for your personal PC and your employers laptop.

New comment by nogbit in "How to create a Python package in 2022"

nogbit — Thu, 28 Jul 2022 13:53:16 +0000

Fantastic article. A clickable TOC at the top would be a great addition.

New comment by nogbit in "Cooling related failure (in Google London DC)"

nogbit — Wed, 20 Jul 2022 14:31:27 +0000

That’s expected, Cloud SQL is not multi region. Clouds define HA as being multizonal, which you were.

Try Spanner if one region is not enough.

New comment by nogbit in "We could have universal Covid vaccines soon"

nogbit — Sun, 17 Jul 2022 04:37:09 +0000

Two JJ vaccines. Two years I get by without getting it and living with someone who had it.

Got it this week, in my 40’s, it sucks and I haven’t been sick for 3 years.

New comment by nogbit in "How to make decisions like a poker player"

nogbit — Thu, 02 Jun 2022 19:31:50 +0000

Poker players use “pot odds”.

The odds of winning a hand with a future card in order to estimate the call's expected value.

New comment by nogbit in "Ask HN: If Kubernetes is the solution, why are there so many DevOps jobs?"

nogbit — Thu, 02 Jun 2022 01:14:43 +0000

Love Dask. Very robust and therefore very easy to get wrong. When you need a longer term solution that uses Dask, it pays to architect things well, in advance vs on the fly in a sandbox.

New comment by nogbit in "Schools should be using open source software"

nogbit — Mon, 30 May 2022 17:37:00 +0000

I do right now see Google Workspace being used as the primary goto for office docs and email at a very large company. It’s happening.

O365 is a mess, with Excel online I can’t even create a named range, something so basic that has been in Google Sheets since day one. As an example.

New comment by nogbit in "Running Containers on AWS Lambda"

nogbit — Wed, 27 Apr 2022 22:18:39 +0000

Until it it fails, and the backing CF errors and won’t resolve itself for over 24rs. Bit twice, never again with Copilot. Good idea they had, just shaky foundation.

New comment by nogbit in "Running Containers on AWS Lambda"

nogbit — Wed, 27 Apr 2022 22:16:21 +0000

Simply the best cloud service from any of the three big CSP’s bar none. The day AWS supports this more out of the box on Lambda (no, I will not use your required base image or signatures) will be the day containers and serverless become one (like it is already on GCP).

New comment by nogbit in "Ask HN: What do you wish you had done/known in your 30s?"

nogbit — Thu, 24 Mar 2022 01:53:02 +0000

I did the following, and seeing others who did not I don’t know how they manage when older.

Have kids, while you are young. Your body will be able to do all the fun things along side them without worry about a bad back or something else.

Don’t worry about career progression, worry instead about adding value to yourself that transcends (think education, various employment and domain knowledge in various industries).

Have work life balance, which maybe means working at places (think public services or health care) so you can spend time doing the things you enjoy, which very well may be moonlighting on tech that is 100% your IP (to each their own)

Get a house, they never get cheaper overtime.

Then when you are in your mid 40’s and your kids are moving out you can quickly catch up in no time at all, because remember, you have been building skills and a network that are now in bat shit crazy demand.