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Found plenty of bugs by reading/doing code review.


As other's already pointed out, the author argues about the primary intent of code review. Of course you find bugs while doing it, and that's a nice side effect, but doing code reviews to assert correctness is maybe suboptimal QA. At least that is my take ...


The author made multiple statements, and one of them was “it is not in general possible to find bugs by examining the code”, which is simply false.


He just has that much money and his 'whatever ecosystem this is' continues to work, it has to be a kind a playground for him.

He could invest in paying back society but he cares more about continuing his ignorance.

Just imagine how his ego got stroked when he was agreeing with trump like a bootlicker but still sitting at a table at the Whitehouse.

Even with this clown this has to count for something in his books.


It's not zero proof

It's moving the goal post from one entity to another.

You can also fake it by letting someone else solve it for you.


> You can also fake it by letting someone else solve it for you.

Fair enough, that's true. But there is no solution that could ever prevent this, right?


Yeah exactly.

I find the naming and the way it gets sold wrong because of it.


Never forget:

For all the little bit of positive results for a placebo there are also negative effects due to noceboeffect.

Also it's very common in esoterica that if it works it was the healer if it didn't it was something you did wrong.


That nocebo effect is dangerous!

People in traditional cultures are inclined to believe that there is an evil influence involved whenever anything goes wrong. If you're in a culture like that and people believe you can throw curses, you can get material benefit through the threat of throwing curses or make a living throwing curses.

When people were [1] prosecuted for "practicing witchcraft" courts record testimony that promises were made, payments were made, all of that.

Effective curses are not an application of psi (you zapped someone with telepathy) or an evocation of evil spirits, but are loud, noisy, public and supported by the whole social environment, see

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voodoo_death

I can't say that any magic-user today should practice that sort of stuff, there is the "it gets returned you (3|10) times" bit and that you don't have the social support that the African "witch doctor", Chinese fox medium, Navajo skin-walker, or Italian Nonna who casts the "evil eye". But if you're looking for a social-scientific explanation of how magic works it is a dramatic example.

[1] and still are in some places


What is "noceboeffect"?


In drug trials if a person knows about the side effects of a drug (e.g. nausea, headaches) they may get them even if they were in the control group.

I'm not sure how it applies here though because alternative therapies rarely state expected negative effects.


If you believe in alternative/ esoterica the chance that you get sick from things just because is higher

Like 5g or Electromagnetic waves


Just like something that has no direct physical/chemical/biological mechanism to improve your condition can still do so if you believe it will (the placebo effect), it can also worsen your condition if you believe it will - that's the nocebo effect.



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nocebo

Sometimes called non-cebo/none-cebo though I avoid that as starting with “nonce” can be a trigger for the easily befuddled and offended (“Could you be experiencing a noncebo type effect?”, “WHAT DID YOU CALL ME?!”).

As the wikipedia page points out, this is not to be confused with knowcebo, which sounds the same. This is where information leaks break blinding measures and render test results less (or completely not) meaningful.


Even apple jumps on it now with apple container.

It's time


Is devens something else than nix shell?


devenv is really nice.

devenv brings modularity to development shells.

For example, you could configure your devenv module for the shell you want (which env vars you want set, which packages you want available, etc.), and then re-use this module in other shells.

As such, one of the nice things devenv provides is modules with the compilers/lsp/etc. for different languages, so getting a rust environment is about as simple as `languages.rust.enable = true;`.

I haven't explored using the services/processes aspect of it, but it's got support for things like that to. -- I saw it put somewhere: "oh, like docker-compose, but you can compose the configuration".


devenv is essentially a convenience wrapper around nix shell with some nice tooling


I'm borderline motivated putting Ubuntu onto my parents computers.

Win11 was frustrating ...


Chrome OS Flex has worked out nicely for my mother-in-law's potato


Absolutely.

The language is just nothing for a casual Linux user.

Arch? Easy. Gentoo love it. Ubuntu for all my servers.

But nix and nix os, nah.


Yep!

Just waiting for the dgx spark style system with proper bandwidth as nd a price point of max 1500 or winning the lottery.

But in 3 years I bet I will have Jarvis.

Told my wife already thatwe need a lab room


Solar power still can take a certain amount of load from any other source and saving money and CO2 while doing so.

And grid battery works and is cheap enough now.


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