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Inertia dampeners.

Their power lies elsewhere. Have you ever seen a tall person at a grocery store trying to dig out a product from the back of the bottom shelf?

I think they are intended to, and they actually do... once (child teeth). Probably just broken due to genetic decay or environment (e.g. if humans are no longer fully maturing and what we call adult teeth are actually "intermediate" teeth). I suspect a deeper understanding of the recent tooth-regrowth drug(s) may provide a clue as to why it is currently broken.

I would whole-heartedly recommend Robert Martin's clean coding lecture series. It may be many hours of your life, but it is free on youtube and well worth the time. I don't exactly recall what he says about testing in his lectures, but it's probably pretty close. If nothing else, it will teach you to critically consider programming structure in the abstract (instead of following formulae), and to write code with the intent for it to be read and maintained by humans.

I think he also has a series that includes "structured programming" (like early return vs deep nesting), but was unable to find it last time I looked for it. I recall having a shocked epiphany when he (i THINK it was Martin) demonstrated the exact way to clean up a function, that started out ugly, and ended up being reduced to literally nothing (the function was removed).

I was going to post something to CL a month or two ago, but was shunned away by new & intrusive PII collection... seemed offensive and discordant with the original spirit of CL, and I ended up "nope'n out" instead. RIP another internet era/icon.

Many code-reviewers likewise devalue tests, giving only a cursory skim over the unit-test section of PRs, if they examine them at all, and sometimes code-review itself is devalued to the point of a rubber-stamp (e.g. "great, we need someone from team X to approve it too... doesn't matter who, though...").

If I could tell you, you would be SHOCKED at how high-profile and recent this sordid project was; it's literally in the news and discussed in my podcasts.

I think it rubs people the wrong way because (though it looks like code) in some sense it is not programming... it's like the negative image of a program... like a mold or specification-box that contains and fits around the code, which reverses several key principles.

It also can highlight if the code needs to be moved or reorganized, and let me tell you... the LAST thing that devs want is to interpret the struggle to write a unit test as a sign the code needs rework, they would MUCH rather keep unit tests as an after-thought; like some kind of mandated torture-ritual that produces a thing of no value.

Speaking of not valuing tests... I've literally seen devs blithely invert test assertions (that where clearly valid), those that made sense in context, and even some that were PART OF THE TEST'S NAME... just to brush the "meaningless failures" out of their way... as if they could not be bothered to even read one sentence to understand the "why"... uggh.

Anyway, I digress and ramble. If you really want more of me in the industry, I can provide one more! If you happen to know of any teams that need a professional-unit-testing-developer, I'm recently on the market! :)

Can we get a lemmy community for whatever this is? I want to subscribe!

Apparently no-one wants to write unit tests, but I enjoy it, do it well, and even find it relaxing.

I'm always confused by my peer's reluctance and grumbling thereabout, and horrified to see the incomprehensible mess of (often useless) tests they produce in the end.

Come on... would your first customer be YOURSELF? :)

I'm convinced that Linux' mere presence has already stymied the development of the worst possible technocractic nightmare. I shudder to think of the thick tech-chains that would bind us if there was not an anchor/reference point... or if there was not even the small contingent that knows what it is like to use a liberating platform.

Thanks, as you wish!

Weaponized information.

A man without any hair kinda suggests he can take out any foe in one punch.

You had to go and make it weird...

Yes, and such pairings occur way more frequently than "one of a kind".

Pedantically speaking, he never got in, so the curse should not have taken effect, no? Also, the scope was not defined, and their are new humans born at a faster rate than can get to the pool, so everyone's safe! :)

This is how conspiracy theories ought to work. Perfectly fine to raise a question, and dismissed when you get the answer. Absent is the rampant speculation and unfounded claims.

I seem to recall OpenAI saying they guarded against captcha solving...

When you stare into the AI, the AI stares back at you.