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901.
by vkou 1y ago
That depends on what your error recovery plan is. If the code's running in a space shuttle, you probably want to test that path. If it's bootstrapping a replicated service, it's likely desirable to crash early if a config fil
902.
by vkou 1y ago
All rules exist to be broken in the right circumstances. But in 99.9% of test code, there's no reason to do any of that.
903.
by vkou 1y ago
> This blog post talks as if mocking the `open` function is a good thing that people should be told how to do. It does. And this is exactly the problem, here! > TFA: The thing we want to avoid is opening a real file No! No, no, no! Yo
904.
by vkou 1y ago
Your mind will be really blown when you consider how far all people in the world walk in a week.
905.
by vkou 1y ago
> I've gotten myself out of so many binds by being able to repurpose something out of the junk pile When you have money, you can just buy the thing you need, instead of hoarding five metric tonnes of crap that you'll never us
906.
by vkou 1y ago
Go with a good vendor and you won't have a problem. The problem is, of course, that both good and bad vendors will charge similar amounts.
907.
by vkou 1y ago
> ...for leasing to a hotel chain that later went bankrupt? No, the story in the great-grandparent's post is not about a hotel, it's about a residential lease where: 1. They were paying rent to a property management company who
908.
by vkou 1y ago
This is unreasonable. In any just society, the bailiffs would be slapping cuffs on the owners of the management company, while the tenants would get notice. You can't throw someone out of their home without notice because you have a
909.
by vkou 1y ago
A good franchise will bring in X million in profits and a bad one will bring in XYZ million in reputational damage. A good unicorn will bring in XYZ billion[1] in profits and a bad one will bring in XYZ million in reputational damage. Which
910.
by vkou 1y ago
> and then try and rectify those reasons. Those reasons are simple. People they trust are lying to them for monetary and political gain about a subject they personally know nothing about. That's it. That's all there is to it. -
911.
by vkou 1y ago
The 2020, in hindsight was largely correct. COVID was a highly infectious disease, it put a lot of people in the hospital, and a lot of people in the morgue. Social distancing and wearing masks slowed its spread, until an effective, safe va
912.
by vkou 1y ago
> The federal government shifts the responsibility to the provinces It's not a 'shift'. Healthcare has always largely been in the hands of the provinces. The federal government funds research, distributes money from have r
913.
by vkou 1y ago
We're also told to do a lot of things by officials because it's correct most of the time, but with the benefit of 20/20 hindsight, generally correct advice can turn out to be dead wrong for you. Sometimes doing what you'
914.
by vkou 1y ago
The heartland of this mostly white christian country is currently busy othering their mostly-christian non-white neighbours (Against whom they are weaponizing ICE) and their mostly-christian mostly-white city dwellers (Against whom they are
915.
by vkou 1y ago
> There's no genuine support for it from the public. 90% of the genuine public couldn't find Iraq on the map on September 12 of 2001, but that didn't stop half of them from becoming utterly convinced that going on an imper
916.
by vkou 1y ago
That's not the trend that we're observing. As much as publishers and developers want to control their sales channels, the current trend is for them to move towards Steam, not away from it. The more likely outcome is that developer
917.
by vkou 1y ago
> What's the benefit of protecting monetary IP rights to art? What's the benefit of protecting monetary IP rights to software? What's the benefit of consolidating all meaningful access to computing services to a few trilli
918.
by vkou 1y ago
You have no opinion on single-payer versus obamacare funded-mandate versus unfunded-mandate versus free-for-all deny-pre-existing conditions health insurance? You have no opinion on the removal of the legislature as a branch of government,
919.
by vkou 1y ago
Weird that this onus is being put on the developers , and not on their employers . I constantly use FOSS for the commercial gain... Of someone who isn't me.
920.
by vkou 1y ago
They are being used to perform another kind of crime. Much of ICE behaviour this past year has been highly criminal. Redmond is under no obligation to assist them.
921.
by vkou 1y ago
You're asking for a monkey's paw. The current ruling party in the US has given its voters exactly what they think they wanted, and it's a fucking disaster.
922.
by vkou 1y ago
That works for people coming from upper-quintile backgrounds. What about the other 80% of the population, and any hope of social mobility for them?
923.
by vkou 1y ago
Which is, of course, the meat of the matter. Nobody 'needs' to hire a junior anymore.
924.
by vkou 1y ago
What kind of real people will the average new grad have in their network? A bunch of other new grads, all in a cage match over entry level that don't exist? Where are the nativists, and why aren't they demanding a $100,000/li
925.
by vkou 1y ago
It would not be good to allow malcontents to spread disharmony.
926.
by vkou 1y ago
If you don't like the people you're working with, you could quit. You could also vote no on a unionization vote, or just not join. I'm sure your loyalty will get a special consideration when the next round of arbitrary layoff
927.
by vkou 1y ago
Valve charges 30% for access to their marketplace, and allows you to sell Steam keys for your game at whatever price you want through your own sales channels, without paying Valve a cent. I'm not sure how any of that is sketchy or gr
928.
by vkou 1y ago
There's a simple way to do that. Legislate a requirement for ID, the users will provide it to the platform, the platform will provide it to law enforcement when requested. Kind of like how South Korea (where you need a national ID to
929.
by vkou 1y ago
Your argument is one of spherical cows. I'm giving specifics. You can walk into a TD branch today, and get the same shitty service as you will from Wells Fargo. TD is a large, but not a dominant bank in the US. If anything, this is pro
930.
by vkou 1y ago
> Unless something is preventing that. It's not! I've given you four examples of large foreign banks that you - you can walk into your nearest US branch of and open an account with, today. For some strange reason, you'll

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