mempko

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by mempko 2y ago
I've been doing this style of software development for 16 years (out of 28 years programming) across various projects. If you want a small project that I wrote to look at, see henhouse https://github.com/mempko/hen
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by mempko 2y ago
First, users don't use string.indexOf(string). Users use software that uses string.indexOf(string). Second, I would write a test that takes generates a variety of inputs to cover the domain of string.indexOf(string) and have it call th
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by mempko 2y ago
It's not absurd. Unit test are expensive and slow you down while at the same time not targeting the part of software where bugs occur. It's usually HOW functions are composed that cause bugs, not the functions themselves. Contract
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You would obviously test the software before it goes to the users. With contracts you would be able to have information from your users that make it MUCH easier to fix. Without contracts you will have a much harder time fixing the bugs. Con
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by mempko 2y ago
The client doesn't run your unit tests, but will run you contracts (because contracts deploy with you software while unit tests dont). You might have realized users of software do things the engineers don't expect, which are not c
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by mempko 2y ago
Unit tests are a waste of time. Design by Contract + system tests are a far superior technique that take less time and find more bugs.
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by mempko 2y ago
I don't take climate deniers like yourself seriously.
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"Write everything twice" is a great heuristic. Extreme programming and unit tests is a dumb and wasteful technique. You end up cornering yourself.
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by mempko 2y ago
Interesting fact, police seizure (police stealing from people who are arrested, even if they are never prosecuted) is more than criminal theft. In other words, police steal more from people than criminals.
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by mempko 2y ago
Like, not even with a computer?
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by mempko 2y ago
Uh, the IPCC, which is a CONSERVATIVE organization, careful in it's language, has been saying this. In private, climate scientists say worse.
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Climate Experts on the Musk-Trump Interview(theguardian.com)
4 points by mempko 2y ago|7 comments
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Got it, so you are just guessing.
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I didn't make my comment in a vacuum. Look at the context. Notice we aren't talking about rape, or financial ponzi schemes. Context clues people, context clues.
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Ok, but not all correlations are spurious. What makes that research spurious?
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IQ is a bullshit measure.
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Crime is a function of inequality.
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by mempko 2y ago
Looks like global warming is killing the horseshoe crabs too. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/08/100830131344.h...
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by mempko 2y ago
How is global warming progress? Or are you saying the consequence of progress is massive amounts of pollution, and that anyone trying to stop said pollution is out there to stop progress? Nothing is indicating to me that we are actually pro
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by mempko 2y ago
You don't think increased volatility in weather and storms is bad? I would love to hear how increased uncertainty over next year's growing season, floods, storms, etc would be a good thing. It's not like deserts become green
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by mempko 2y ago
Try https://maps.here.com
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Read the paper, the problem is each generation forgets information. Starting at the tails of the distribution they learn. No amount of filtering/selecting would help here. People would need to fill in missing information without AI hel
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by mempko 2y ago
If tail events aren't produced by these models, no amount of human filtering will get them back. People would not just need to filter or adjust AI generated content, but create novel content of their own.
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by mempko 2y ago
No, I'm talking about the section 174 update. Great explanation here. https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/section-174/
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I blame the tax changes that went into affect at the time of the peak tlfrom the Trump tax cuts. It made engineers more expensive. While interest rates make bank money more expensive, they make government bonds more attractive and the gover
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by mempko 2y ago
Obstinate people are stubborn about the approach to solving a problem, Persistent people are flexible in how they solve a problem. Both don't give up solving the problem. The latter solves them better because of they learn, adjust, and
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by mempko 2y ago
Some beautiful visualizations here. However, one problem with it is that we are still talking about averages. This doesn't demonstrate the increase in weather variability that global warming will bring. These climate zones will have cr
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by mempko 2y ago
Most people are missing is that there was a tax code change as part of the Trump tax cuts that made engineers much more expensive in the short term. Companies, especially startups, were hit with a high tax bill. The layoffs are, I believe,
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by mempko 2y ago
The U.S. is about to put the hammer down on TikTok, eliminating a large foreign competitor to their social media empires. Protectionism is how countries develop local brands in the first place. Protectionism works for the U.S., it will also
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Tesla may be in trouble, but other EVs are selling just fine(arstechnica.com)
4 points by mempko 2y ago|0 comments

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