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@flyingsaceur@ioc.exchange
Sigh. Bad tests give testing a bad name.
Clean-data assertions as pre- and post-conditions aren't just for tests
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@flyingsaceur@ioc.exchange
I'd much rather write my tests first than debug crappie untested code later!
(And no, XKCD covers far more than recidivist software devs)
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@nblr as squirelly as EBITDA (normal definition) is (not considered GAAP, iirc), this isn't outrageously different.
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@muddle@infosec.exchange @sophieschmieg@infosec.exchange
There are a number of sects, some moderately large, that self-identify as Christian (and more or less so accepted by others) but are *not* Trinitarian, so the delightful joke is only _technically_ correct if restricted to Nicene Trinitarian faiths.
OTOH, if faith is modeled in Group Theory, the unity of the Trinity could also be consistent if S3 is an Ideal of the larger Ring or Field of the model representation?
So mod 2 isn't the unique representation, just one of ...
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@muddle@infosec.exchange @sophieschmieg@infosec.exchange
Ahh. Yes.
There are B.A. that aren't Nicene,
and there are other, B.A. and otherwise, supposedly Nicene sects that don't elucidate the esoteric nuances for the plebes. (the original meaning of esoterica!)
[ If you like this kind of nuance, I recommend the card game Credo!, which is like the Nuckear War card game, but for Ecumenical Councils, hersey&creed, and one counts souls saved not burned. ]
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@muddle@infosec.exchange @sophieschmieg@infosec.exchange
Indeed.
E.g., a Celtic pantheon's Ideal or Kernel might be S3×C2 a duality of trinities, male and female. Or S3×S3, depending on the structure of the theory.
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@sophieschmieg@infosec.exchange
If that's a math joke on the christologic unity of the nicene trinity,
3 ≅₂ 1
I quite like it,
and will endeavor to remember it,
for later use.
#IWishIdSaidThat
#DontWorryOscarYouWill
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@gtsadmin @KevinFlynn
Which is why we technically knowledgeable folk need to exercise what in International Relations is called 'soft power'.
It feels wrong to need to because facts should be sufficient, dealing with squishy people goes against the tisms and is dismissed as 'politics', but that's how we get Budget and Schedule to get things done.
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@spaf
As a longtime fan of both Igs and yourself, indeed I remember the ACM chapter picnic BBQ stunt. 💔
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@cm @KevinFlynn
Yes, unfortunately.
Which is why it's an important observation.
When the wrong way is enough faster that it's desirable, we need to plan to remedial correctly.
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@nfgusedautoparts@en.osm.town @arstechnica@mastodon.social
And government specified massive waterfall-process of a total forklift replacement, which is hard enough when customer is a commercial firm, and extra risky with government.
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@arstechnica@mastodon.social
Yet again, a project for total big-bang replacement fails, while incremental improvement of the 'legacy' system is succeeding.
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@emjonaitis
a local DBMS instance with appropriate indexes defined and using the relevant R-dbms interface might be worth the hassle in this case? (Or pre-processing in DBMS to small extract files.)
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@sophieschmieg@infosec.exchange
Bonus point for rear-view mirror point-of-use warning label allusion in title! ❤️
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@soatok
Re lack of Fuzz puns, for me, fuzz testing was intrinsically at least Furry-adjacent, no additional pun needed? 😉
( [Fuzzy, Furry, Plushie] being almost an [adjective, comparative, superlative] triple, in _inanimate_ toys at least? So that fuzzed is the degraded state from Furry, as well as from correct code?
When your fursuit is merely fuzzy, it's time to get a new one?
[Or change fabric softener? My experience as a parent with cleaning plushies might have benefited furry advice!] )
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@soatok
I particularly liked the note that
-1>>8 == -1>>9
so that mutant is only a syntactic change for same semantic or result.
OTOH depending on the processor, >>8 and >>9 may perform differently, so isochron properties may be affected (hence my suggestion above).
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@clive@saturation.social
recycled ThinkPads are my favorite laptop Linux platform!
(For many years I found a refurb/used Dock to match, and that was my desktop. Particularly convenient when i could match the dock for my $work laptop (MSWin+mksTk&cygwin+HummingbirdX and VPN to our Linux&Unix servers))
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@clive@saturation.social
I've got different ids here because of different communities of interest - so far, 2 🦣🦣 and one PixelFed 📷, and am also on 🟦🦋 because some people I liked at the former place will only/mostly be there.
Some of the alternative Fedi apps look interesting. I'm using github.io for MD->HTML blogging so haven't jumped on a Fedi long-form app yet, but it may happen.
(I might need to add ➕️ a mathstodon ID to more easily interact with their math-enhanced linear text in browser.)
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@clive@saturation.social
Your sample of course is skewed by who'd follow you here.
I expect a similar survey by some other FediFolk would get different results.
But yes, those of us who are passionate about FLOSS are likely to use one or more Linux distros &/or {net,open,free}-BSD and want to make this Fediverse open protocol federation thing (not just Mastodon 🦣) work.
(And given a choice of M$Win or Mac laptop by employer, we'd prefer real BSD to WSL comp[a|os]tability layer.)
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@clive@saturation.social (I'm currently typing with thumbs on the android glass brick 📱 because I was watching sportsball, not yet glued to my Linux desktop for the evening, which has a larger screen than the TV, how's that for priorities? 😉)
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@clive@saturation.social
WellActually(tm) the MacBook is running BSD Unix, that of which Linux was an imitation, so you're in the larger POSIX or *nix camp.
I'm almost sufficiently annoyed with Linux today to install a noncommercial BSD on desktop. (I already prefer BSD for servers.)
Of course, everyone using Android phones&tablets as their daily-driver in lieu of laptop/desktop are also Linux users, whether they know it or not. (Ditto Samaung TV with YouTube App.)
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@awb
(I only ever used REXX on VM/SP, before it was released to regular mainframe customers. But after the toolsmithing fun I had with that and virtual punches & readers, I was ready for Unix PWB at my next gig! If REXX was available for AIX 5L in the new century i didn't notice it.)
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@felix@wandering.shop so you weren't there when Sys V & SysVinit were new?
You have longish history with Linux but not Bell Unix, Sys iii, old BSD, modern *bsd, commercial Unix?
I'll acknowledge you've got a clue, but just the one. Some of us remember how BSD variants were incorporated back into SVR2, and the chaos that reined before that.
I think we're in agreement about (un)desirability of the SystemD Universal Attack Surface, so I'm not sure why you feel the need to argue with me.
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@awb @Boston_PM
I suspect gnu&bsd BASH(es) would have absorbed most (best) KSH93 extensions quickly whenever license made it feasible.
Whether that would have pruned the proliferation of variant shells or ignited it, IDK!
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@paul@notnull.space @srtcd424@mas.to @felix@wandering.shop @zzt@mas.to
BSD and Gnu/Linux are both re-implementations of the Unix later POSIX interfaces, and BSD and GNU have cross-fertilized over the decades, so there's less re-learning than one might expect.
Seriously considering going home to *BSD ...
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@n1xnx
With LOS on the backside, it raises the question whether the DSN is correctly named; more like Slightly-Deep-Space-Network AMIRIGHT?
Long term we may need TDRS-Lunar units in orbit around Luna — polar orbit constellation, with relay all around? possibly several on highly elliptical orbits slantwise so that one is always seeing backside orbits and earth, and another could see low power transmitters on front side ground ?
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@awb I was a summer intern '79 at IBM CSC, original home of VM, so had internal access to prerelease REXX, PL/S, and XEDIT on VM; and again a couple years later on a confidential contract for IBM for which they provided internal tools they'd want us to use.
From there I went to PWB Unix 6, System III, BSD, etc., and hardly looked back.
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@copper_tunic @ZachWeinersmith
FWIW preteen me was also fascinated with Sea Habitat, and thought there was a future for underwater resorts ... in retrospect, glad that gave me a BFF in trigonometry only!
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@zzt@mas.to is the problem with Devuan the forum admin(s) and Lunduke posturing (known, awkward), or the core devs too (did I miss something)?
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@n1xnx
Unclear to me what they mean by a Solar Eclipse From the Moon (upcoming); is Earth eclipsing the sun for Artemis? They'll need eclipse glasses for 2 min of initial contact then can take those off and look at stars??
So another new science for human eyes (with natural HDR plus onboard curiosity, pattern matching)
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@brouhaha@mastodon.social @kamstrup@fosstodon.org
(Basal area of dead trees is less interesting than of live trees to the foresters)
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@felix@wandering.shop
right.
OTOH if one is picking next one's next distro for avoiding the SystemD universal attack-surface, one is opting into sysadmin differences from mainstream already.
(Having started on PWB before BSD 3&4, and suffering thru multiple Gnu version churns, I alas expect flags to vary unexpectedly.)
(We had a client last decade that used *BSD for prod nodes (security out of the box) and CENTOS for internal dev nodes & desktops. Their problems weren't sysadmin.)
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@neverpanic @filippo
We inventoried _everything_ once for Y2K and once for DST 2007 🇺🇸 , at least here.
We _can_ and _will_ do it again.
(Doing it for both CRQC and Y2038 simultaneously would be a cost-savings.)
(If you can't make a 100% inventory, ask your Red Team or contact a gray-hat hacker, see if they'll take $ for becoming white-hat red-vest on Red Team.)
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@ConnyDuck @Tusky
Does this mean Tusky Test will also display 'quote' notification, when my post is quote-posted?
(I just got the unknown notification, please tell Tusky non-notification warning for 'quote' literal. Which helpfully said may render on the web version, which it indeed did. Useful messages are good, thank you devs.)