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It's all plain JSON files and binary blobs, though. I'm not sure why they thought the humans would want in anyway.

Note that banks aren't very robbable anymore anyway. You might get a couple thousand out of the cash drawer. The rest is on a time lock or not even held locally because cash isn't universally used anymore. You're still jailed as if you stole millions.

First off, thanks for the help!

Really responsible devs write the unit tests first, because you should know what you’re going to put in and what you’ll get out before you start writing anything.

I've obviously heard the general concept, but this is actually pretty helpful, now that I'm thinking about it a bit more.

I've written pretty mathy stuff for the most part, and a function might return an appropriately sized vector containing what looks like the right numbers to the naked eye, but which is actually wrong in some high-dimensional way. Since I haven't even thought of whatever way it's gone wrong, I can't very well test for it. I suppose what I could do is come up with a few properties the correct result should have, unrelated to the actual use of it, and then test them and hope one fails. It might take a lot of extra time, but maybe it's worth it.

How do you deal with side effects, if what you're doing involves them?

That's double-digit. How many would qualify as a lot?

The lights turn on, and the cockroaches scatter. Look at that.

I actually respect people who are racists and open about it, in a way. They're very wrong, and obviously resistant to education on why, but at least they're being true to what they think is right. A lot of these people have to know they're rotten on some level.

Interesting. I wonder why they didn't just move it to somewhere with less radiation? And clearly, they have another more trustworthy machine doing the checking somehow. A self-correcting OS would have to parity check it's parity checks somehow, which I'm sure is possible, but would be kind of novel.

In a really ugly environment, you might have to abandon semiconductors entirely, and go back to vacuum as the magical medium, since it's radiation proof (false vacuum apocalypse aside). You could make a nuvistor integrated "chip" which could do the same stuff; the biggest challenge would be maintaining enough emissions from the tiny and quickly-cooling cathodes.

That's what I would have thought. What exactly is a typical alternative approach, commercially? Open source projects might maintain a wiki or traditional website, and documentation files within the source itself.

Also in professional env if a company cares about it’s trade secrets it will not rely on 3rd party solutions for all of it’s communications.

This one is big, and shouldn't just be professional environments. People rely on open spy devices in both environments because they're dumb.

Element would be a great alternative. Signal would also be decent.

So how do you write a good test? It's like you have to account for unknown unknowns, and I don't really have a good theory for doing that.

Right now, I usually end up writing tests after the code is broken, and most of them pass because they make the same mistakes as my original code.

I wonder if there's an available OS that parity checks every operation, analogous to what's planned for Quantum computers.

Crops in western America might fail, but the whole world isn't America. Yields move, and 2023-2024 was a record harvest globally.

Don't take my word for it, there's an actual scientist elsewhere in the thread.

Humans are fucking stupid.

Well, we can agree on that. The human reaction to "the world is ending" is usually giving up. Which is why we shouldn't say that unless the science supports that, which it doesn't quite.

Exactly. Those are puppets. Nobody's expecting the puppeteer to fight the puppets.