cemoktra's comments

On: Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish?

[cemoktra]

A huge part for me is how they handle employees and how that makes employees steal things.

My wife ordered an iPhone and we received a salt mill and a flashlight. Called them, they said sorry send it back. But then they would not return the money cause we did not return the phone. At that point Amazon accused us for betrayal and forced us to take a lawyer to get parts of the money back.

That was our last day of using Amazon or prime video.

On: 418 I’m a teapot

[cemoktra]

The password is "I'm a teapot" right?

[core-utility → cemoktra]

I definitely thought about it but that seemed a bit too crackable

On: Displaying My Washing Machine's Remaining Time with Curl, Jq, and Pizauth

[cemoktra]

My washing machine displays a remaining time when you start it but is constantly wrong. So you go to the basement to find out it needs 15 more minutes. You go down 20min later and still 5min left. It is very pleasant to know when it is ready without going to the basement

On: Volkswagen Originalteil

[cemoktra]

Its one of the best currywurst available in germany

On: Which face is real?

[cemoktra]

pretty easy. mostly there are artifacts in the background/hairs

On: Don’t mock what you don’t own

[cemoktra]

Please mock everything. It's just annoying when your CI starts failing because a third party service is down multiple times a month

[wizofaus → cemoktra]

And even if not, your CI tests take hours to run because of all the network calls. Automated tests that do real calls to 3rd party services are essential too, but they should almost never be part of your standard CI scripts that get triggered by every push. But I think the article was mostly talking about mixing network/http level mocking with business logic tests, which I'd admit isn't always ideal, but IME complex test cases often require some level of compromise.

On: Facebook-owned sites were down

[cemoktra]

Imagine this happening to AWS

On: Bespoke Synth 1.0 – open-source software modular synthesizer

[cemoktra]

even with ubuntu its not working cause it cannot resolve python 3.8 as latest ubuntu only ships 3.9 and 3.10

On: Stop mocking your system

[cemoktra]

I oppose to that. We have unit tests calling API endpoints of third party sandbox. Once a week all of our CI fails cause third party sandbox is down

On: All problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone (2014)

[cemoktra]

Not true. I can sit in a pub a whole day with friends talking less then 500 words