PolarKraken

Sounds like a certain lake troll is agitating to improve his lake-dwelling experience, if ya ask me.

So I think I was wrong, but you are too lmao.

10^120^ is the number of valid game-trees, or valid ~80 move games.

The much smaller number I quoted above, though, IS the valid positions, I was thinking it was actually the trimmed down "truly valid" game-tree sequences.

Isn't math fun? Limitless ways for us to be wrong!

valid chess positions is in the neighborhood of 10^40^ to 10^44^

Lol, big board you're playing with....

I enjoy and appreciate nature in nearly all its forms. Even mosquitos just tryna live, they're born required to bite somebody 🤷‍♂️

Fuck the Canada goose.

Fuck em as a group, fuck their whole flocks, fuck a flying V of Canada geese. Fuck em as an entire grand, branching lineage of this strange fractal miracle we call life, get rid of the Canada goose and our timeline returns to the more harmonious path it had been on before everything stopped making sense.

Canada is cool, fuck that goose tho.

Yeesh. For the privilege of yourself and your users working with a horrible buggy mess of half replaced, half duplicated (triplicated? worse?) apps and features.

And a near guarantee that in a 5 year timeframe, you see 1+ others who paid for that "data in my own jurisdiction" service somehow get fucked in ways they shouldn't, be it leak or strongarm or whatever.

I'm not suggesting Windows is doomed or anything extreme, but they have cratered their credibility with anyone paying attention. Whole thing feels closer to poorly strung together malware than a serious OS to me.

Sounds like Copilot pulled their programming socks WAY UP that day

This is hilariously autistic sounding for a machine.

Auto PDF text extraction caught your eye too? Got a solution you like currently?

Did not even realize you could do this. Then again I'm now realizing I don't even remember the last time I went there to browse anyway, so maybe I'm cured 🤷‍♂️

Hate to be the bearer of bad news, but only the "2 of 2" appears (incl. in your comment history) from my perspective.

That's a useful way to look at it, as verbose / extended documentation (amounts to exhaustive usage examples, if you've got thorough tests).

I don't have a metric that's quick to relate, but for me the...attractiveness or value in testing relates heavily to:

• Project lifecycle - longer and slower -> more tests
• Team size (really more like 1st derivative of team size...team "churn"?) - larger, changing faster -> more tests

Both of these are influenced by your description of tests as docs. Onboarding new engineers is way, way easier with thorough tests, for the reasons you've mentioned. Plus it reduces that "gun shy" factor about making changes in a new codebase.

But it's not always better. I've been writing less (few, honestly) the last year or so, sadly.

Frankly you sound like you have a great chance of moving past this, and it's not weird to need some help or feedback from others, most of us do. It's a shame the folks you found previously were such idiots, lots of people are really unqualified to give advice there. Keep pushing!