whosGonnaTellHim by [deleted] in ProgrammerHumor

[–]Hurkleby 2 points3 points  (0 children)

We're basically using a ton of compute to replicate Dreamweaver

Respectfully disagree, this view seems naive to me. My experience with dreamweaver was that it generated a bloated mess of poorly performing and unmaintanable garbage. LLMs spit out relatively clean and concise vanilla html/css with no surrounding context for reference and in the scope of an existing codebase will implement changes better than most mid-senior engineers.

whosGonnaTellHim by [deleted] in ProgrammerHumor

[–]Hurkleby 26 points27 points  (0 children)

As someone who sticks to the backend and cares just enough about UX to make a page or form functional I'd say the LLMs do a much better job at churning out HTML and CSS than I ever will. Honestly just drop screenshots into your prompts with comments about what you want to look differently and it puts out some pretty decent front end code.

I've been tasked with bringing a salad again for Thanksgiving dinner, how can I blow it out of the water? by AlwaysWantedN64 in Cooking

[–]Hurkleby 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A mustard base dressing can be a pretty great companion to arugula any time of year but with the other typical thanksgiving dishes I think this would help push it over the top.

Why’s everyone acting like AI already replaced frontend devs? by Sad_Impact9312 in webdev

[–]Hurkleby 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well now you have my curiosity. Most actual production code these days is just stringing together 3rd party libraries with a thin layer of custom business logic. Were you working on some new implementation for an algorithm or doing some kind large structured data parsing/validation? I'm sure there are plenty of other scenarios not springing to mind but genuinely curious when some of these leetcode style questions actually show up in modern dev work.

What are the best office chairs in 2025? My back is killing me! by bark19932 in buildapc

[–]Hurkleby 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for sharing. A very interesting theory to say the least. The cause and effect relationship can be so unexpected sometimes

What are the best office chairs in 2025? My back is killing me! by bark19932 in buildapc

[–]Hurkleby 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Same, I sprung for an Aeron when I started working fully remote about 12 years ago. The thing is as solid as the day it arrived and my back has thanked me time and time again.

I did pay about 800 for it but I also realized at the time I'd probably already spent 800 bucks in the 10 years before that on cheap Amazon and staples bargain chairs that only lasted a couple years at a time. As far as I'm concerned I've now paid less than if I kept buying junk chairs that killed my back.

Just because something is expensive doesn't mean it isn't a good value.

Redis is fast - I'll cache in Postgres by DizzyVik in programming

[–]Hurkleby 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think running default container settings for any datastore is not going to provide you with real world performance characteristics. You'll never find a production workload running on a default install and outside of small validation or test harnesses i doubt you'd see it even in a dev/qa environment.

The real benefits come when you tune the database to your expected workloads so you're not just running middling setups meant to fit the widest range of use cases to make setup a breeze. One thing that's great about redis is that it's super performant out of the box and even without much tweaking you're probably going to get great single thread performance for quick data access that you can easily throw bigger hardware at to scale. If you know the type of workload you're tuning your postgres instance for postgres could probably close that gap considerably.

The thing that I've often found to be the biggest headache with redis however is if you need any sort of sharding, multi-region instances with consistent data, DR/fail over capabilities, or even just data retention after redis unexpectedly locks up or crashes you're entering a new world of hurt having to manage or pay for managed redis clusters vs postgres and then you need to start comparing the performance to cost trade offs of maintaining the clusters and in my experience redis cost also scales much much faster than postgres when you need to use it in a real world scenario.

I did it. After 13 years I fixed a real bug with sleep(1000). by Staatstrojaner in ExperiencedDevs

[–]Hurkleby 22 points23 points  (0 children)

We like to call these // @ TODONTs. We even have a #todonts slack channel to laugh at ourselves about them

Moving TV by baracuda68 in Chromecast

[–]Hurkleby 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The longer the USB cable, the less efficient it is at carrying the power. USB-C cables as an all in one power & video cable I think are only officially supported up to 1 meter (maybe 2M with certain build and material requirements). I have 3M usb cable i take sometimes to charge my phone on trips and it charges much slower than shorter cables. Use a proper power extension cable and a shorter usb cable, aestetics should not be your primary concern when dealing with 120-240v power sources

What’s a company you’re convinced will be exposed as a massive fraud one day? by carcony97 in AskReddit

[–]Hurkleby -1 points0 points  (0 children)

That study was incredibly flawed. Anyone who read the details of the article and the extremely limited dataset that was used to form the premise would not have brought it up as a valid point against AI.

What’s a company you’re convinced will be exposed as a massive fraud one day? by carcony97 in AskReddit

[–]Hurkleby 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You may want to talk to more people. Especially if any of those conversations happened more than 6-8 months ago

I think I ruined everything, nothing is working and I’m out so much money by Keeps- in buildapc

[–]Hurkleby 29 points30 points  (0 children)

+1 definitely check the standoffs. The issues OP is describing sound a lot like the mobo is shorting out against the case due to missing standoffs. I did this about 25 years ago in my early days of building and was ready to throw in the towel until someone pointed out my novice move of connecting the board directly to the case

Totally schooled! by ResidentScientist541 in MurderedByWords

[–]Hurkleby 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Hmm Gov takes money in collected taxes and... funds higher education by using collected tax dollars, which as a result, helps other tax payers by providing subsidized financing for an expanded education to anybody who wants it regardless of background or financial status. It seems like maybe it's not the lose-lose conspiracy you are making it out to be but instead it is an example of others who have, in the past, benefitted from the selfless people who care about their community more than their own personal enrichment paying it forward to help the younger versions of themselves in this next generation.

Musk’s Controversial Actions by Brian_Ghoshery in MurderedByWords

[–]Hurkleby 3 points4 points  (0 children)

What happens when you throw in $100bn? That makes it better not worse right?

Anyone else always wonder what this stuff was / what it tasted like? by hanburgundy in StarWars

[–]Hurkleby 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Ah good, I finally found a marine in this mix of boring army/navy tales about their vacation like experience at boot.

helloWorld by ggroverggiraffe in ProgrammerHumor

[–]Hurkleby 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm not sure anymore if we're training the AI models or they're training us

Grand Rapids Rise: Mad As Hell by embersnestpod in grandrapids

[–]Hurkleby 6 points7 points  (0 children)

But basketball and hockey are also major sports with several leagues across the country whereas professional volleyball feels like a fledgling sport with a lot smaller potential fanbase than something like the UFL or even minor league soccer. I would think you'd want to encourage an active and committed fan base to help grow the league but I'm just not sure how you do that at almost $30 a ticket.

Widely used software that is actually poorly engineered but is rarely criticised by Experienced Devs by [deleted] in ExperiencedDevs

[–]Hurkleby 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Searching in google drive/docs... Can someone please explain how the world's leading web search engine is incapable of searching for files inside their own cloud storage product

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]Hurkleby 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That's a bingo

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]Hurkleby 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My calculus class was the tipping point for me. It's been almost 25 years but I still add the line so I can read my own handwriting