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  • I made my statement as a BDD/TDD practitioner.

    The code goal of software engineering is not to deliver said code, but to deliver it in a framework that lets others—and consequently me in a week’s time—to contribute easily. This makes both future improvements and bug fixes easier.

    Dumping a ~25000 lines changeset with a git history that’s almost designed to confuse is antithetical to both engineering and open source.





  • Slotos@feddit.nltoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.worldAm I dumb
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    2 months ago

    we age due to our telemere buffer shortening

    Telomere shortening is a marker and there is a correlation, but aging is a process that happens on multiple levels and many of those aren’t fixable by DNA restoration.

    We experience wear and tear, we accumulate damage, we accumulate waste, we lose body parts, we constantly fuse our bones together, we have body parts that grow surrounded by tissues capable of maintaining them but then operate outside of them, the list goes on.

    But most importantly, death is such a beneficial feature, that it outcompeted everything else. Producing new generation of individuals regularly is a simple and terrifyingly effective solution to a vast array of problems. Many aspects of aging can be seen as adaptations to inevitability of procreation and death.

    That aside, I like pointing people at professor Michael Levin’s work. Be very skeptical, as it’s a small field in a world that goes through reproducibility crisis, but it does fill me with a cautious hope.






  • Using single vim.pack.add() call to load all necessary plugins at once and later configure in a series of require() calls

    How about not using require for configuration at all? Although I wouldn’t expect it from this particular author - he shoves require().setup even into plugins that literally have nothing to configure and should just work.

    The whole thing is a remnant of an old misinformed plugin template repository made by someone with no knowledge of vim startup sequence.