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New comment by dkn in "A new era for software testing"

dkn — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 20:01:44 +0000

Yep, and wasted token spend on an ongoing basis.

I instruct the LLM to follow TDD practices in certain areas, but otherwise prioritize integration style tests at the edges.

New comment by dkn in "A new era for software testing"

dkn — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 18:35:23 +0000

I am curious in your experience how often the LLM must also update the tests. I find that if LLMs write tests after the implementation exists, they are either extremely brittle because they are coupled to the implementation, or they cover little of value because they mock everything to the point of testing nothing.

New comment by dkn in "The great AI delusion is falling apart"

dkn — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 18:53:44 +0000

I question your assertion that more commits and releases per week is more productivity. There could be unexpected effects from your commits that create more work for you or for others and that could be hard to quantify.

Doing bad things faster might feel more productive to you, but it doesn’t mean that you are delivering more value. You might be, but the metrics you have shared to not prove that.

New comment by dkn in "Deno Queues"

dkn — Wed, 27 Sep 2023 17:49:11 +0000

When deployed to Deno Deploy, KV is a wrapper around FoundationDB, selected for its use in the distributed/edge environments that Deno operates in. When used locally, it's a wrapper around SQLite.

The API is standardized for both.

New comment by dkn in "Deno Queues"

dkn — Wed, 27 Sep 2023 17:47:24 +0000

Deno is not a programming language though. It's a JavaScript (TypeScript) runtime.

Deno is basically trying to be an infrastructure framework for JavaScript.

New comment by dkn in "TikTok’s algorithm keeps pushing suicide to vulnerable kids"

dkn — Thu, 20 Apr 2023 16:17:59 +0000

I think the parent poster is pointing out that there are more ways of discriminating traffic than just a domain name. Such as geographic location, device IDs, etc. All of which are commonly used.

It's not proof of what is being claimed, but they are variables that would need to be controlled before being confident that Douyin is or is not adjusting content to foreign or domestic users.

New comment by dkn in "Fly fishing holds lessons about art and design (2014)"

dkn — Sat, 17 Sep 2022 16:11:10 +0000

In Canadian provinces, bait fishing in streams is often illegal.

New comment by dkn in "MIT researchers propose Brazil-sized fleet of “space bubbles” to cool the Earth"

dkn — Wed, 29 Jun 2022 17:59:20 +0000

From the perspective of users of solar energy on Earth, wouldn't an increase over billions of years appear constant? My intuition tells me that evolution is much faster than that, and any fluctuations due to solar cycle dynamics would already be mitigated as expected by the same process, if it is indeed so regular.

New comment by dkn in "Oil plunges below zero for first time with May contract ending"

dkn — Mon, 20 Apr 2020 14:46:52 +0000

Is this the same thing as... not pumping it?

New comment by dkn in "Actix – Actor Framework for Rust"

dkn — Thu, 13 Feb 2020 15:55:17 +0000

I think this is a great summary, and also highlights much of what Joe Armstrong talked about when comparing Erlang to other OO languages, and his earlier decisions to design Erlang to work in the same way whether in a single-node or multi-node environment.

New comment by dkn in "Google's 'two-tier' workforce training document"

dkn — Wed, 12 Dec 2018 15:08:53 +0000

How else do you suppose all those AI efforts are fulfilled?

New comment by dkn in "Diaspora: Hello and a big welcome to everyone arriving from Google+"

dkn — Fri, 02 Nov 2018 14:39:05 +0000

Sure but the real-life equivalent of that would be God telling Nike what kind of shoes you and your friend were talking about in secret.

New comment by dkn in "Against Facebook"

dkn — Tue, 01 May 2018 15:53:57 +0000

They aren't forced to, they are trained to. The usage of a social network is innocuous at first.

Similarly, a person is not necessarily forced to start using narcotics to develop a dependency.

New comment by dkn in "After 37 years, Voyager has fired up its trajectory thrusters"

dkn — Fri, 01 Dec 2017 21:37:58 +0000

It's a lot easier when it's literally impossible to change the functionality.

New comment by dkn in "Facebook's Aggressive Moves on Startups Threaten Innovation"

dkn — Wed, 25 Oct 2017 19:47:31 +0000

I think money can be a more significant persuader than you are letting on, especially after months of startup stress pile up on a decision maker.

New comment by dkn in "Ask a Female Engineer: Thoughts on the Google Memo"

dkn — Tue, 15 Aug 2017 20:01:32 +0000

Are intersex or transgender considered to be viable sexes though?

What seems reasonable to me is M/F/N where N is not capable of reproduction due to some kind of outlying error, so they cannot be a part of sexed reproduction. Are they omitted?

Sex and reproduction seem binary to me and most people. We should ignore technological or medical assistance and sort those results through the gender buckets which are more important to how they are perceived semantically, as you said.

New comment by dkn in "AMD unveils its Vega 10 GPU architecture"

dkn — Mon, 31 Jul 2017 15:03:14 +0000

Unlikely considering 275W+ TDP

New comment by dkn in "Deadmau5's mansion and its tech setup [video]"

dkn — Fri, 07 Jul 2017 19:47:52 +0000

Which is easily remedied by using MIDI controllers.

New comment by dkn in "Is it possible to host Facebook on AWS?"

dkn — Thu, 29 Jun 2017 01:14:13 +0000

This is the file in question: https://github.com/facebook/react/blob/master/PATENTS

New comment by dkn in "Gender-neutral Chromium code"

dkn — Tue, 18 Apr 2017 19:33:39 +0000

Yeah I envision this being something that is just fixed over time as people are exposed to new and different ideas.

Yet, it seems to me that a lot of these documents are written and intended to enforce overnight changes in people's unconscious biases.

From the document:

> Each of us has the right to enjoy our experience and participate without fear of harassment, discrimination, or condescension, whether blatant or subtle.

I don't know about you guys but I hardly enjoy reading technical documentation. It's not meant to be an enjoyable experience. It's meant to convey complex meaning in a (hopefully) short amount of time. I don't think gendered pronouns add to the effectiveness of this communication method, but I also don't think we need to formalize their usage (or non-usage).

I guess I'm asking why this can't be a natural progression that we all wish to undertake as cooperating organisms rather than enforced with competition and penalties? It seems like a wasted opportunity and unnecessarily polarizing.