𝚜𝚑𝚊𝚍𝚎𝚊𝚛𝚐

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  • Meh. Pedant time.

    The first step of every testcase is supposed to fail to ensure a testing framework can fail in the scope of the testcase. In practice nobody acknowledges this, much less incorporates it.

    Without, one is forced to concede that the test environment is not sane—and, therefore, no case under test is certifiable—because it cannot be known, for certain, if failure was a possibility.

    Nobody cares.





  • Would you kindly find a source for that?

    I can personally speak from the 80s, so that’s not exactly a golden age of reliable information. There was concern about scale of infinite growth and power requirements in a perpetual 24/7 full-load timeshare by people that were almost certainly not qualified to talk about the subject.

    I was never concerned enough to look into it, but I sure remember the FUD: “They are going to grow to the size of countries!” - “They are going to drink our oceans dry!” … Like I said, unqualified people.

    Another factor is that there aren’t that many supercomputers in the world, a handful of thousand of them.

    They never took off like the concerned feared. We don’t even concern ourselves with their existence.

    Edit: grammar