I wrote some code, and was able to manually test that it worked, but the automated tests were failing
after a week of trying to work on it, I have finally fixed the automated tests!

and now the manual tests are failing

I hate compuers
foone b. turing: celebrating over 34 years of being into computers, but not being able to spell the word
I distinctly remember going to my library's fancy new computer catalog (Dynix, of course) and typing "COMPUTTER" into the search field and getting annoyed at the lack of results
it turns out I have crashed the chatbot emulator
honestly if people would just start paying me based on how much I break stuff, it'd be much simpler and less hassle
do you have a system that works?
would you like me to fix that oversite?
well send me a call!
sometimes I wish I was a deer eating a leaf in the forest and didn't have to know what "Your lockfile needs to be updated, but yarn was run with `--frozen-lockfile`" meant

WHAT DO YOU MEAN THAT THE COVERAGE FOR STATEMENTS IS BELOW THE MINIMUM TESTABLE THRESHOLD TO ACCEPT THE COMMIT?!

*throws computer out window*

the worst thing about getting sassed by computers that are in the cloud is that they're already out the window, so you can't defenestrate them
I just spent a week trying to fix the fact we can't test an untestable module and now it won't accept my fix because it didn't test the untestable module
ERROR: CODE SUBMITTED DOES NOT SOLVE HALTING PROBLEM
THE TURING POLICE HAVE BEEN INFORMED

but I'm in San Francisco, so there's a pretty good chance this "cloud" is nearby.

YOUR DAYS ARE NUMBERED, CIRCLECI DOCKER EXECUTOR NUMBER 51824!

@foone This whole thread is the most relatable thing I've read all year. 😂
@foone the turing police comes for us all, in the end
@KitRedgrave @foone Gotta look at the knuckles. The surgeons never get those right.
@KitRedgrave @foone Yeah, well, in the end, your *mom*, uh-- never mind.

@foone

Turing Police is my favorite Radiohead song

@foone I can only imagine that the turing police are similar to the jackbooted thugs over at the phone police https://archive.org/details/the-tale-of-the-phone-police
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@foone
I suppose it was only a matter of time before your shenanigans/crimes against computing led to having your own personal police force...
@foone I misread module as molecule and it actually didn’t change the flavor of the post that much
@SynapticRewrite yeah, I'm a programmer, not a chemist or physicist. given my stellar failure rate, that is probably for the best.
@foone While you're at it, if you could explain, in detail, the physical nature of a black hole's singularity, that'd be great.
@foone even if you deleted them, you depend on the smug bastards and the next one you instantiate will sass you too...
@foone "the cloud" is just another term for "someone else's defenestration task"
@smellsofbikes @foone By design cloud computers are stored in buildings without windows (Windows?) to mitigate the risk of defenestration.
@foone there's always room for further defenestration!
@foone on the way down it shouts "click here to generate enough trivially coverable statements"

@foone I once ran into a CI system that was refusing to accept any commits because, no matter what anyone did code coverage was too low to pass.

The CI system was accidentally configured to analyze the unit tests as application code, saw that the unit tests didn't have unit tests, and was carping.

@drwho Quis tests ipsos tests?
@foone
@foone @jeremyabbott that fruit from the tree of knowledge might have been a mistake
@dplattsf @jeremyabbott yeah why can't I go back to hanging out naked in a garden, eating a fruit and talking to a snake w/ my husband who is busy naming all the animals?