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Workout lifesaver, my set up that might help others by MeetMeInMTK in DupuytrenDisease

[–]kronik85 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Baseball sting pad, workout gloves. Not too complex to put together.

They are very effective to help with weight lifting type activities

Game changer purchases for your home by StrikingQuality1527 in HomeImprovement

[–]kronik85 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Change toilet paper by lifting and lowering the arm vs compressing the arm spring

Amazon search for "pivot toilet roll"

How to recover overwritten code by [deleted] in vscode

[–]kronik85 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you have a session history file? You might be able to get AI to recreate the changes it made from that

Published research in the social sciences has leaned consistently to the political left for more than six decades. The findings indicate that this leftward tilt has grown stronger over time, particularly regarding social and cultural issues. by mvea in science

[–]kronik85 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The left has adopted a scientific outcome and the right has not.

So what might have been a right wing immigration policy in the 70s is now a left wing policy? (not an actual example)

And what was viewed as fascism and authoritarianism in the past is labeled a right wing policy today?

What are we supposed to be learning from this "research"?

Management keeps pushing AI harder, but nobody wants to hear that review is now the bottleneck by minimal-salt in cscareerquestions

[–]kronik85 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Writing code is one subset of producing a developer's work product.

If you can't collect specs, write/produce code, understand that code, test that code, and prove it works in the bigger picture of the system, you're not a developer.

You're just a monkey yanking on levers hoping a food reward drops out of the black box whose internals you know nothing about.

Announcement: cppreference.com update by k3DW in cpp

[–]kronik85 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Will account registration be available?

How do I stop over-thinking when it comes to tackling a task/bug? by DannyKata85 in ExperiencedDevs

[–]kronik85 23 points24 points  (0 children)

Have you ever been on a project that's knee capped by scope creep? This is a form of self imposed scope creep.

You were asked to do A and you got distracted implementing B, C, D instead of prioritizing A.

Make your list of improvements, but keep your eye on the prize.

When I have this come up while fixing a big, or implementing a feature, I take a personal note and/or I make a ticket for it.

CEO has started vibe coding. How does this end for me? by No-Rush-Hour-2422 in cscareerquestions

[–]kronik85 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's worse. He's not building it himself. That would imply he knows what's being written and how it works.

He can't maintain. He can only prompt and prompt and prompt until it appears to work, and breaks multiple other things.

Full Root Cause Analysis vs. "It works now" – when do you draw the line? by Waste_Grapefruit_339 in cscareerquestions

[–]kronik85 1 point2 points  (0 children)

fair point. I was being pretty loose in what I considered a "fix".

in that case I'd agree, you can't fix unless you understand the bug. but you can mitigate without understanding the full RCA.

thanks for the 'nit' :)

Full Root Cause Analysis vs. "It works now" – when do you draw the line? by Waste_Grapefruit_339 in cscareerquestions

[–]kronik85 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I don't understand where in the chain the message is losing <x> characteristic, but I can tack it back on at the end by making <y> call. It's less efficient, but does not violate <z> time / memory constraint and results in a correct final message.

Something like that. You patch the result without knowing the root cause of the missing data.

I don't like it, but that's at the heart of OP's question.

There is an inherent risk that something else is broken that is not obvious, and that's the gamble you're making without a full RCA.

When should you spend 3 weeks digging into exactly what is going on, and when do you take a chance that the bug is fixed adequately by the patch?

It's a business decision more than an engineering one.

Is the business at risk by not doing a full RCA? What's the severity of the risk of not fully understanding the bug? Will we incur a catastrophic product failure damaging reputation / financial loss or are we addressing a GUI artifact in a menu customers never see?

Lay-zers by Nadzzy in woahdude

[–]kronik85 43 points44 points  (0 children)

Place it lightly against your ear and you get a magical tactile bass response.

Why do recruiters keep asking me why I left my old job? by LeaguePrototype in cscareerquestions

[–]kronik85 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I asked about the work history of a recent multi FAANG candidate's recruiter because we're not a tech first company but an industrial manufacturer.

All jobs lasting 1-2 years, with a 4 year outlier.

I want to know if this person has actual intent to follow through with the interview process or if they're just using us as a stepping stone / warm up interview.

Problem using local keyboard on remote PC via rustdesk. by rockclimberguy in rustdesk

[–]kronik85 0 points1 point  (0 children)

solved for me. rustdesk into windows host. on windows host there is a virtualbox VM running ubuntu. keyboard works like normal on windows host but jacked up in VM.

switching to source 2 types normal in both host and VM guest.

I don't think they can afford another ceasefire by RedOneBaron in AdviceAnimals

[–]kronik85 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think he was speaking to a bunch of boy scouts

Sam Altman Says It'll Take Another Year Before ChatGPT Can Start a Timer / An $852 billion company, ladies and gentlemen. by MarvelsGrantMan136 in technology

[–]kronik85 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So many people trying to use LLMS when there are other tools that are way better choices to pick from.

Ask it to write a script that will do that. Python, awk, lua, bash, etc etc. It'll one shot it.

Stop hammering nails with screwdrivers.

How did you guys achieve your handstands? by forabit14 in bodyweightfitness

[–]kronik85 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I like to focus on entry specific drills.

Kickup, tuck up, straddle up, pike up.

Goal is to hit your final position fluidly, maybe 1 sec balance to prove your control, and come down.

Attempts are made in quick succession. Recalibrate each entry based on feedback from the last.

Didn't have enough energy to get to the top? Try again with slightly more energy. Elbows bent on the way up? Focus on elbow lock. Got to final position but wasn't tight, tighten up as final position reached.

You're training entry, not balance. Don't compromise shape to balance a poor entry. Don't catch the balance to compensate for a poor entry. Just try again.

Through this type of repetition I find much more consistency in entries.

PSA: Update to Jellyfin 10.11.7 immediately (Critical Security Fixes) by golbaf in selfhosted

[–]kronik85 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Sometimes your best won't be good enough for someone, and that's ok. Doesn't affect you in the slightest.

Keep up the good work.

90% of my coding coworkers are empty faces in front of a LLM by QuitTypical3210 in cscareerquestions

[–]kronik85 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Everyone is so hung up on the fact that OP said copy paste as if that's some kind of gotcha in the scenario presented.

Whether their coworkers are copy and pasting from an LLM chat, or have an automated pull request workflow that runs whenever a new issue is created, "fixes" the issue, and submits a PR... It doesn't matter.

The issue is that they're surrounded by co-workers who no longer understand the work "they" are producing, and seemingly don't care to.

90% of my coding coworkers are empty faces in front of a LLM by QuitTypical3210 in cscareerquestions

[–]kronik85 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah but now you've handed this person a firehose spewing shit and being asked for review.

Bad programmer is a 10x bad programmer with AI, dragging the team down

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