One of the guys at my old job submitted a PR with tests that basically just mocked everything, tested nothing. Like,
with patch("something.whatever", return_value=True):
assert whatever(0) is True
assert whatever(1) is True
Except for a few dozen lines, with names that made it look like they were doing useful.
He used AI to generate them, of course. Pretty useless.
Maybe because extra-judicial “punishment” is unAmerican, no matter who it is.
I don’t know, lynchings are kind of quintessential american.
In the United States, where the word lynching likely originated, the practice is associated with vigilante justice on the frontier and mob attacks on African Americans accused of crimes. The latter became frequent in the South during the period after the Reconstruction era, especially during the nadir of American race relations.[7] Black people were the primary victims of lynching in the U.S. (about 72% of the total), which was often perpetrated to enforce white supremacy and intimidate ethnic minorities along with other acts of racial terrorism.[8]
Do you actually do work or are you one of those middle-men that add dubious value?
And, like, do you think I can read my coworker’s screen from across the room and be like “Ah yes, that is TransferProjectView.py. I should tell him that I am also planning on touching that file”?
And adults can learn to explicitly communicate. It’s not impossible. You just type into the box.
I don’t think microsoft understands shit. I think their leaders are out of touch, lying, idiots. They continue to exist based on inertia and past success.
It’s frustrating because management are so colossally, transparently, stupid but they get the big paychecks and the workers get fucked. And then like half the workers sit there going “Well this is just and fair. this is a good world. If the people actually doing the work had more of a say, that’s communism and thus axiomatically bad”
That’s not really small town though, in my mind. I was thinking of like suburbs where people drive everywhere.
People in walkable cities tend to be hottest. Daily exercise does a lot of good for bodies.
Some people need an out-group to hate. That’s it. Everything else is a justification for the good chemical feels they get for subjugating the outsiders.
A lot of people struggle to read, and it’s kind of sad. https://features.apmreports.org/sold-a-story/ was an interesting post about it (available as a podcast and transcripts).
That said, some people really just do wallow and the slop and that’s an embarrassment.
It’s not a set, so you can have duplicate values. So no, probably not.
Like you have a list and the range of its values is [0 … 1]. You can have a whole lot of 1s, but none of them are the sole biggest value.
Good version control hygiene is important. My most recent job we were pretty good about commit messages for the PR, and then squashing that into a single commit when putting it on main. As you say, avoid unrelated things going together. You don’t want to have to revert a whole major feature because your “I’ll just fix it here” broke something.
There’s a guy one of my old coworkers has been complaining about who never writes anything useful in his commit messages. It makes the git log useless and the code reviews harder.
As for abstraction and such, sometimes it feels like it’s just coupling unrelated things together. It can be annoying when it’s like “I want to change this…and it’s used in 17 places for some reason. Guess I’ll check if all of those can handle this change, or this will be the one weird place that’s different…”
I also worked with a guy that was a big fan of having two dozen one line functions. Monster functions are often bad, but a whole separate function like get_last_item(stuff): return stuff[-1] can be excessive.
Every accusation is a confession.
I think it’s also the thing that we act like republicans have no agency. They’re like a fire or a disease - they’re just awful, innately, and there’s nothing we can do about it. Might as well get mad about the tide.
This is nonsense. They have agency. They choose to be horrible. It’s just that too few people are willing to hold them to any standards.
Moved to Linux (popos on desktop, mint on ancient laptop). Been fine. Don’t miss windows. Play games and browse the web without issue.
Emulators are pretty great. The touch screen isn’t an ideal interface, but for less action-y games like final fantasy it’s fine.
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A worker is getting out of his car at the company parking lot when the company owner pulls up in a new sports car.
“Wow,” says the worker. “How did you afford that beauty?”
“I’ll tell you what,” says the owner. “If you work hard, put in some extra hours, hit all our numbers, I can buy another one this quarter.”
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Wage theft is bigger than all other theft. Some people are happy to be a cog in the machine.
Thiel is a dangerous piece of trash and I’m disappointed he hasn’t… let’s say… been beamed up like kirk.
When I was making money, I’d buy albums from bands I liked. Built up a nice library.
Some people buy albums
I used to try to explain to management that some debt is high interest.