You should end to end test. If it’s slow, do it less often. If it’s costly, again do it less often. But this is your last line of defense against bugs.
Now, every service should also unit test, with mocks of all the other services that they call. I assume this is what you mean by pact testing. These should be locally runnable, as the mocks are cheap offline things. If you need data from a database, I’d recommend mocking the data too.
I mean my stance is anarchism or left libertarianism, and I agree with most of what you said. But I also am just totally unfamiliar with these regimes. The only thing I’ve ever been taught is “bad”. I don’t really trust what I have been taught to be honest. I feel like there is a lot more nuance than the American POV. Also I’ve traveled enough to know that propoganda is EVERYWHERE. Every country propagandizes every other country. So it’s just hard to know what’s true about geopolitics tbh.
I think China and the USA are both terrible regimes, but in such a way that it’s generally fine to live there, which is a weird modern phenomenon. I bet Russia and Cuba aren’t what the US teaches. I suspect NK is a repressive hellscape IRL same as on TV lol.
This. I’d really love it if someone could go through these links one by one and provide a detailed summary and rebuttal. I just want to know both sides of the issue. I totally believe in US propaganda, but highly doubt this is purely that.
Can I just say I’m pretty tired of democracy in general. Thing is that democracy always leads to simple majority rule, and let me be frank, the majority is racist, stupid, selfish, etc. The anti trans stuff proves this. As far as governments go I’m most in favor of our Republic which protects our rights, and I wish we had more right and not just those which defend capitalism. However beyond that I’m leaning anarchy. This is as a leftist.
“Reactions are often strong and include tachycardia [increased heart rate], sweating, and severe vomiting … followed by a state of apathy and drowsiness,” the Frontiers in Pharmacology paper said.
Lastly I’ll also just say that I don’t think any existing “communist” country still wants to return the means of production to the workers. That’s one of my biggest faults with Leninism, no way in hell will a vanguard party once it takes power follow through with communism, and indeed it never has, or even tried.
So I’ll do more research on NK but it’s kinda hard under the assumption that most sources will be propaganda. I don’t believe every communist country is like this but I do think that we are more free by being able to travel. Freedom to emigrate is a BIG deal. You are always a slave if you can’t choose to leave. We have lots of slaves in our prisons, and lots of slaves to capitalism, but equally being stuck in a country you can’t leave is slavery. Russia and China don’t restrict travel, and Cuba doesn’t anymore. NK still does. I think the conditions of all of these countries founding is likely in the right, not considering their actions, and yes I think the US both fucked them up and is itself a shit show, but we can leave the US and even emigrate to one of these countries if we want. So I’m not reactionary “communism bad,” especially when it comes to China (I think China is pretty much equally good and shitty as the USA. I think the news way overblows their general news. I think they are genociding, America genocides a LOT, and I think their president for life has no right to give himself a lifetime term, but we don’t exactly have democracy here either. Cuba is also a mixed bag.
I’m AuDHD but didn’t know the Autism element till this year at 31. For 20 years approximately until I was 25 ish I took adderall. Diagnosed with ADHD young and took it mostly for inattention it did several things to me. First thing is it turned me into a productivity machine. Yes it works great. Second thing is it kept me thin, that’s a plus. Now on to the drawbacks. Third thing is it made me a very angry and reactive person, especially as a child. This is a well known side effect, but if you take it as a kid I’m afraid at least for me it became my personality. Also extra productivity, especially for someone with existing social problems like Autism, made productivity what defined me. Up until 25 and even now, I feel defined by my work more than my relationships. Anger issues almost had me get in trouble in my masters, and productivity focus caused me to totally burnt out. I became suicidal feeling that the only worth I had and the only thing my life would be is the 9-5 grind. Then it hit me: anxiety. Panic attacks I had only experienced a few times in my life became a daily occurrence. I quit adderall. Now I have enough internal motivation to do my job because it overlaps with my hyperfocus, so I’m lucky in that regard, and it took YEARS to regain skills I leaned on with my adderall, and I’m no where near as productive, and I now have MASSIVE anxiety I never had before, but I think the worst is behind me. I think adderall use over 20 years caused or elevated my anxiety disorder, because its not something I consider part of my base personality, I think it created the conditions in my personality that led to burnout and depression, but I also think it got me my current job. I also think if you don’t work out while you’re on it, you will develop heart trouble, and if you don’t sleep you are increasing your risk of a thousand neurological disorders.
My advice is to just be careful. It’s a blessing and a curse. I would not prescribe it to anyone under 18. All the pressure we feel under 18 is made up by society. Be an annoying, hyper, inattentive kid.
So as for the first thing, I live by the policy “all assholes are assholes”. Saying NK is an asshole doesn’t mean I deny the USA is an asshole. I think people who defend these authoritarian regimes tend to whatabout USA. USA is shit hands down.
I’ll check to see if the claims are unsubstantiated like you say, it’s kinda hard to know facts. So all that would lead one to is agnosticism. I don’t think that most of the claims about NK are lies but that’s just my gut feeling. But we’d need a lot of evidence to say that they are in fact thriving in there, under something other than an authoritarian regime, which seems hard to believe since they basically have a monarch.
Edit: one of my baseline tests too is just the freedom to leave. You can run whatever social experiment in government you want short of imprisonment and murder, but you have to give your citizens the freedom to leave. That’s a basic human right above all the others. If you can’t leave a situation you are a slave to that situation, in all cases.
You should end to end test. If it’s slow, do it less often. If it’s costly, again do it less often. But this is your last line of defense against bugs.
Now, every service should also unit test, with mocks of all the other services that they call. I assume this is what you mean by pact testing. These should be locally runnable, as the mocks are cheap offline things. If you need data from a database, I’d recommend mocking the data too.