I write python code for a living. There is no way to sugarcoat it, the new unittests are slop. There already exists a good writeup of why, which I’m going to quote here:

So, look. One shot rewriting the whole test suite in another language is probably not great to do, but what happened here is so much worse than you are expecting. https://github.com/RsyncProject/rsync/pull/903/
This does not “translate tests into pytest” or a unit testing framework, it writes its own testing framework where tests are whole python scripts that redefine basic test functions in every script. Surely there would be a single way to “run rsync and get the results” - nope, well, there is, but then every test file will randomly redefine its own _run_and_capture function. So like now rsync needs a test suite for its test suite.
If instead of telling an LLM to “rewrite the tests in python” you just searched “python testing” you would find the pytest docs. And then you would find examples. And then you could write fixtures to deduplicate all the prior shell script setup and teardown stuff, and so on. But since it was just “rewrite the tests in python” its now worse than before, and the odds of the rewrite actually being a 100% faithful translation are close to 0.

https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/116666900898570791

Yes right - and after reading about a dozen of the test scripts I can definitely see why using pytest would be useful here to consolidate some of the behavior that was repetitive and ad-hoc in the original testing scripts. Like the tests need to do repetitive things like set up test directories with different names and structures, run and capture results, setup and teardown a server, parameterize over a range of values. Done right, a pytest suite would have made perfect sense and improved both the existing tests by making them more systematic and uniform, but also made it easier to add new tests over time. However that is not what happened, and what did happen is much worse because it did the opposite of almost all those desirable qualities.

https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/116671260017373441

You should read the whole thread, the author goes into more detail, as to why you cannot trust the software any more after the rewrite of the unittests and why you should avoid any new release of rsync since then.

He’s been in a good-but-not-great car so far, this is his chance to win the championship, but he’s getting beaten by the team’s young new guy and now his car gives in at a decisive moment. It honestly sucks for him.

OpenKeychain has an implementation like this (not 100%) maybe that fits your use case?

https://www.openkeychain.org/

Despite the DDOS they still have better uptime than GitHub.

Get a fire-blanket for the small stuff as well. Powder extinguishers make a huge mess, they need to be maintained and eventually replaced, whereas fire blankets basically last forever and for small fires or grease fires they are the better choice.

Pancreatic cancer is pretty fatal even without an alternative approach

He had the one treatable form of pancreatic cancer though. Of course that’s not a guarantee that treatment would have saved him but it would have greatly increased his odds of surviving.

Give it to someone like Styropyro, they’ll figure out how to break it.

You’re one of the people the meme is talking about.

If you look at the older titles, there’s so much love and passion that went into the artworks. 1404 is 16 years old and has aged incredibly well, because of the high quality of the work that went into it. This is missing in 117.

They tried to build a lot of hype around the game and get people to preorder. Maybe those numbers were (far) below expectations?

The most recent release is probably Anno 117 which came out yesterday. While decently looking it’s lacking features of the previous title (like coop mode and mod browser) with the promise they will be added later and is priced at around 60€ or 90€ if you want to gamble on the quality of the promised to be released DLC. They also relied on AI generated images in some of the assets used in the game instead of paying their artists. Optimisation for the game seems to be ok, but not great but it might be too early to judge that fully yet.

I swear, reading error messages shouldn’t be a god damn super power.

If the author had any reading/writing skills, he’d not be using a slop generator.

I generally agree with your statement, just one thing to keep in mind: Mypy sucks for any library larger than a few thousand lines spread over a couple of files, but pyright is developed by M$ and might be part of their usual Embrace, extend, and extinguish strategy. The other two contenders are pytype (google) and pyre (facebook), so it’s not like there’s a good selection of independent, good and FOSS type checkers out there at the moment.

Astral - the people behind the ruff linter - are currently developing ty, yet another static type checker for python, with a lot of promise, but it’s going to be a couple of months, maybe a year before it is in any shape to be used in production code.

In that case you can still use open source messaging apps that you could compile yourself if you don’t trust the distributor.

Teams pretends it’s an app that can do a lot of things at once but for literally all of the things it pretends to be good at it is the worst possible choice.