I tout sometimes my knowledge of 20th c American pop. All proud and such like.
Here's a thing, tho. I knew "Beyonce Knowles" from Destiny's Child, which was, don't play me, strong.
But I did not discover Beyonce until like 2008.
Look. I don't *listen* to 21c music.
Someone insisted, as good friends do.
Holy shit. This woman is *century* class. They'll be playing her in 2100 and drawing influence trees.
My youtube fades into "Hold Up", which is merely astonishing.
...I don't wanna lose my pride but I'm gonna fuck me up a bitch...
You think I'm just exuberant, but look, this woman plays in Armstrong's league. There is very little music you've heard from American that isn't two degrees of separation from Louis, the most influential musician of the 20th. I'm saying Beyonce may very well be this for the 21st.
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Microtest Test-Driven Development is a strategy for *change*. To understand the case, we need to answer two questions: 1) Why have a strategy for change? 2) How does TDD provide one? Let's take up the first question today.
(Before we begin, I remind you of the relative unimportance of geekery to me just now. This is just respite.
Please work for change and support the others who are doing so.
Black lives matter.
Stay safe, stay strong, stay angry, stay kind.)
Why is having a change strategy so urgent?
The TL;DR is dead simple:
Because continuous ongoing change is at the base of all software development, both before and after our software is in the field.
ONI: Since I had to back-skip past a bunch of work I never showed, let me show it this time. I jumped back to c226. This is c238. I basically did two things in those twelve cycles: got my base-cooling rig, got my water geyser capped & tapped.
Here's the geyser on the left. It's dead simple: a box with an infinite reservoir below it. Water geysers are nice because they're nearly always wildly productive. This guy's generating about 2kg/s.
That power stuff is incidental: my heavy power spine runs up that side of the map. My basic idea is that a long vertical spine lets me drop transformers wherever. Once you get to the oil biome, lead is plentiful, so you can use it for all your wiring that isn't heat-sensitive.
Of course, having shared Va's tear-swallower from "Little Earthquakes", I might as well share mine, too.
Here's Tori Amos again, from her '92 debut album. "Silent All These Years".
The opening verse alone.
"Excuse me but can I be you for a while? My dog won't bite if you sit real still, I got the anti-christ in the kitchen yelling at me again. Yeah I can hear you."
You understand, I wasn't fifteen, I was thirty-two, she twenty-nine.
"But what if I'm a mermaid, in these jeans of yours with her name still on them?"
This is from Amos's first album, "Little Earthquakes", from '92. The album skyrocketed her to world fame, as it's a tour de force.
Va swallows tears when she hears this song. He relationship with her Dad was not this, but she imagines it might have been. And as a mom, she understands perfectly "When you gonna make up your mind? When you gonna love you as much as I do?"