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by motorest 1y ago
> Or just use Firefox because even using chromium is empowering Google to keep playing these games. This. People like to complain about problems, but I wonder why they don't invest half that energy in actually fixing the problems. &
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by motorest 1y ago
> Does nobody find this intrusive when it appears on sites like pornhub? It's extremely intrusive, regardless of which site it shows up. It's a reminder that the likes of Google are collecting all the personal information they
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by motorest 1y ago
> And yes, Google killed one particular flavor of startup that paid its employees with smoke To me, it reads like a desperate far-fetched argument to deny employees a fair compensation for their work. As if there is any virtue in stiffin
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by motorest 1y ago
> Acceptance criteria is a human-readable text that the person specifying the software has to write (...) You're not familiar with automated testing or BDD, are you? > (...) to fill-up a field in Scrum tools (..) It seems you are
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JavaScript metaprogramming with the 2022-03 decorators API (2022)(2ality.com)
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by motorest 1y ago
> Please reread tbe comment you replied to and address its points. It has already countered the "but it's replacing fossil fuels!" point. It doesn't counter it. At best, it plays on a fallacy that burying the lead onl
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by motorest 1y ago
> The line you wrote does not describe a feature. I'm describing a scenario as implemented in a gherkin feature file. A feature is tracked by one or more scenarios. https://cucumber.io/docs/gherkin/referenc
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by motorest 1y ago
> It's explained in the article. People aren't going to starve to fill their gas tank so you need to grow more corn to offset that used for biofuel. To do that can require destroying other carbon sinks (wetlands are the example
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by motorest 1y ago
> Imagine a world in which there are ten thousand phone platforms, some of them are developed by communities rather than business entities, and anyone can easily create a new one. You'd be imagining a world that's very differen
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by motorest 1y ago
> I know about BDD frameworks. I’m talking higher level than that. What level do you think there is above "Given I'm logged in as a Regular User When I go to the front page Then I see the Profile button"?
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by motorest 1y ago
> I think tests should be rewritten as much as needed. Yes, I agree. The nuance is that they need to be rewritten independently and without touching the code. You can't change both and expect to get a working system. I'm speaki
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by motorest 1y ago
> The original example was (paraphrasing) "rerunning 10-100 tests that take 1ms after each keystroke". Yeah, OP's point is completely unrealistic and doesn't reflect real-world experience. This sort of test watchers i
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by motorest 1y ago
> You need some of way of precisely telling AI what to do. I think this is the detail you are not getting quite right. The truth of the matter is that you don't need precision to get acceptable results, at least in 100% of the cases
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by motorest 1y ago
> When you give up the work of deciding what the expected inputs and outputs of the code/program is you are no longer in the drivers seat. You're describing the happy path of BDD-style testing frameworks.
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by motorest 1y ago
> That would be interesting. Of course, gherkin tends to just be transpiled into generated code that is customized for the particular test, so I'm not sure how AI can really abstract it away too much. I don't think that's
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by motorest 1y ago
> You don’t need to write tests for that, you need to write acceptance criteria. Sir, those are called tests.
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by motorest 1y ago
> There's no way this would work for any serious C++ codebase. Compile times alone make this impossible There's nothing in C++ that prevents this. If build times are your bogeyman, you'd be pleased to know that all mainstr
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by motorest 1y ago
> Thought experiment: as you write code, an LLM generates tests for it & the IDE runs those tests as you type, showing which ones are passing & failing, updating in real time. Imagine 10-100 tests that take <1ms to run, being
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by motorest 1y ago
> There is some amusing irony in the EU relying on the US for furthering its own authoritarianism. I think you're trying too hard to post cynical remarks as if the were this major gotcha. Even though the bill is quite awful, Occam&#
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by motorest 1y ago
> The idea that you're going to hand-roll a parser generator and then use that to generate a parser and the result is going to be less buggy than just hand-rolling a recursive descent parser, screams "I've never written co
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by motorest 1y ago
> You miss the whole point and the author is correct about this: your comment is funny, because you are so wrong you aren't even aware how and why you are wrong. It's in "not even wrong" territory. I'll explain y
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by motorest 1y ago
> Your customers will pay more for things that are hard to do. Ask ASML. What a silly example. ASML is valuable because it does something no one else does. It's not because it's hard, it's because they have the know-how an
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by motorest 1y ago
> People say that about hard things, and I only want to do hard things. That's perfectly fine. Your time, your hobbies. > Nobody wants people who can do easy things, people want people who can do hard things. No, not really. Peop
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by motorest 1y ago
> That's what it took to not write my own date parsing library. If you wrote your own date parsing library, there would be six ISO 8601 parsers available, all bad. You should feel grateful for not having wasted your time.
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by motorest 1y ago
I don't know why you are being downvoted. I also clicked on the link expecting another article on exploits being found on cycling gear. Last week I posted one about Shimano. The top comment was a joke about SRAM. https://new
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by motorest 1y ago
> You don't have "ownership" over something you stole. You have possession of it. Possession != ownership. You need to develop your functional literacy skills because you clearly are failing to even understand the topics b
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by motorest 1y ago
> Legally they have no right to anything. What are you talking about? The scenario involves someone stealing from you. Do you think the legality of it is a dissuasion? Also, OP's point was that "Physical ownership = real owners
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by motorest 1y ago
> The United States is about half of the "collective West", the EU being the other largest single body. The EU represents 27 sovereign states. NATO has 32 members. The US population is around 75% of the population of the EU. An
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by motorest 1y ago
> In that case it's super cheap. It might be, but it's also pretty stupid to use that as a selling point to convince the west to welcome that play as something remotely in their best interests. It isn't.
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by motorest 1y ago
> Physical ownership = real ownership. That's how it's always been and should've stayed that way, if it weren't for the greedy megacorps. Playing devil's advocate, what are your security expectation when someone

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