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Not only did it physically hurt to hear, but it also made me realize that Test Driven Development is another one of those Agile Software Practices which may seem like an urban legend. To that avail, I would like to use this article to address it’s doubters directly. What about writing tests for the tests?
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TDD is essentially what AIs do; we just don't get to see how they're doing it. So it's one of those things that computers do really well, but is not for people.
It's the same as with data and information: Computers deal with data, people deal with information. If you try to blur that line, things go wrong pretty damned quickly, because computers can't deal with information (because they don't understand it), and people can't deal with data (because their brains switch off, so you end up with systems that are heavily bogged down with dehumanising processes).
So leave data-crunching AIs to crunch data, getting results TDD-style (with humans providing information on what's correct and incorrect), and let humans do development human-style.
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It'd be great to have an AI look at code and write tests for it.
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Create it 
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
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[thinks for several seconds]
That might actually be doable, although you'd probably want it to just give "advice" ("this requires this kind of test on these values/parameters/outputs") which could then be picked up by a procedural back end.
That would keep it slimmer, and allow for a more plug-in approach to using the output (meaning that you wouldn't have to get it absolutely dead-on b@lls accurate -- retraining trained AIs can have unpredictable results).
Next time a victim someone in the lounge asks for project ideas, bring it up.
[edit] fixed the My Cousin Vinnie quote [/edit]
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modified 30-Jan-20 3:55am.
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Let's take a step back.
Agile is overrated.
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The Maze ransomware ring has taken extortion to new heights by publicly posting breached data on the Internet—and threatening full dumps of stolen data if the ring's "customers" don't pay for their files to be unencrypted. "Pay us because we've already dumped your data", doesn't seem like a great business model to me.
But I guess that's why I'm not rich (or a criminal).
Well, rich.
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Both are just definitions
What defines you as rich today, is not relevant tomorrow. As for criminals, you'd need a record. You don't have one, so you're not.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Scientists have released the highest resolution observations of the Sun ever captured, which reveal our star’s surface in unprecedented detail. What did they use for lighting?
And now I want some caramel corn
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You know I hate to burst people's balloons, but that ain't the Sun's surface.
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what's it the surface of then? Your face?
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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TheGreatAndPowerfulOz wrote: what's it the surface of then?
It's not the surface of anything.
This really ain't rocket surgery.
The photos are of the Sun's corona, not its surface.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: The photos are of the Sun's corona, not its surface.
Nope.
The corona[^] is the whispy streamers of gas flying away from the sun; it's only visible when (like during a total eclipse) you completely block out the rest of the sun.
The granulation[^] shown in those pictures is the top of the convective cells in the photosphere. The latter is the layer of the sun that transitions from opaque to transparent; and which is the functional black body surface equivalent that produces almost all of the light we can see.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Debatable.
If you're looking head-on at the Sun, the first light that reaches your eyes is from the corona, emitted from the "centres" of the C-cells, and the "black" surroundings are where the corona isn't.
You can't consider the corona as an independent entity; it's just the brightest parts of the photosphere, so with filters set that high, it's all you see.
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The corona is 2 layers above the photosphere (the chromasphere is between the two); but is a zillion times dimmer. You can't see it and the rest of the sun a the same time and cameras (even really high end ones have less dynamic range than the human eye) can't take a picture of it and the rest of the sun at the same time. The images in question are of the photosphere (all the detail is from this level); lightly tinted by the chromasphere above.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Dan Neely wrote: The corona is 2 layers above the photosphere (the chromasphere is between the two); but is a zillion times dimmer
And it's several zillion times dimmer, by the time it reaches the Earth (the inverse-square law is a real thing, unlike a lot of the guff spoken by astronomers).
Like I said, don't make the mistake of thinking that it's a separate thing from the photosphere; it is simply the particles of photosphere as they move further out, and the line of definition that people have pencilled in between the two is entirely arbitrary, based on how much the moon occludes during an eclipse (which itself is different, every time, sometimes by by thousands of miles -- that's a Hell of a thick pencil).
Hot stuff comes out from the Sun. There ain't no lines of definition, that far out.
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The Sun doesn't have a surface
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I think you are either an alien, or a politician.
Both your and mine are statements without argumentation and proof, and can be dismissed as such. It is not just a waste of space, but a waste of time. I hate to burst your balloon, but you're not what you are posing to be.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: Both your and mine are statements without argumentation and proof, and can be dismissed as such.
Um, no.
The pictures are not of the surface of the Sun, just like photos of clouds are not pictures of the surface of the Earth.
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 That is gorgeous! (and much less like caramel popcorn)
TTFN - Kent
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I wonder how minute the aperture was.
Or, does this question make sense for the type of camera they used?
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A temporary malfunction aboard the interstellar spacecraft triggered an automatic fail-safe to conserve power. They just don't build them like they used to
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Kent Sharkey wrote: They just don't build them like they used to
Really.
How long did your last three cars last? I'll bet VGer's got their mileage beat all to Hell.
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modified 29-Jan-20 16:39pm.
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