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Problems in existing API Testing Tools. Are these problems real?
Hello, I have been developing a no-code API testing tool for last 6 months to solve some really painful problems I felt in API Testing. Please give me your honest and toughest feedback.

The problems I felt are -

1. There are a lot of tools, but none of them covers all the aspects of API Testing i.e. Functional (hit-n-trial), assertions, scenario (flow of APIs) and load testing
2. Because of lots of tools, its redundante to do configurations in each tool seperately when there are changes in APIs
3. All different tools requires us to go through a new learning curve to understand their usage, GUI, terminology and configuration options
4. JMeter has a complicated UI in comparison with Postman, which in 2021 looks to be more complicated then it needs to be
5. For scenario testing (flow of APIs) or assertion testing of APIs in Postman, you need to learn and write JavaScript
6. Devs use postman during development. They just test if APIs are working, but they don't test how their APIs will behave under load, and how the host machine's resources are being utilised with their API. I think the only reason for this is because JMeter looks more complicated and ancient than Postman. And its very time consuming to run multiple apps, do configurations, then run tests.
7. Since we use a lot of ORMs like Django-ORM, Mongoose, Sqlalchemy and tools/libraries these days, it is hard to understand what is running under the hood hence its hard to debug. Developers spent a lot of time tracking what stored and loaded in database. There should be a single unified monitor to debug all these info (just like an APM)
8. Because no single tool covers all needs, there is need to purchase licenses of multiple tools. Breaking the whole API testing scene even more broken
9. Devs can write better code if they themselves test and monitor how their APIs are performing under load
The model description doesn't label axes. The biggest faux-pas in data visualization, so let's fix it:

X: Days between October 1951 to April 1954.

Y: City-wide electricity consumption (Megawatt-hours (?)) in increments of 5MWh.

Z: Half-hours in day.

Additional info on daily card:

- sunrise-sunset time.

- several fields for weather information.

- illumination.

- free form "notable events" annotated on card.

Unbelievable someone cut these cards by hand in half-hour, 5MWh increments. Together with keeping track of notable events related to electricity consumption, some administrator filled a full-time job generating this data.
Can only agree. There is a really simple reason for not allowing naked short selling and that is the potential for effectively creating a divide by 0 error, when the short sellers have to cover their short, and there aren't enough shares available. It really is that simple.

While this doesn't mean a price of infinity, since price is also constrained by the available money for the purchase, in reality this then becomes a liquidity trap which is guaranteed to bankrupt the least liquid short sellers until enough positions have gone under to bring the short position down under the float size. So whilst some flexibility may make sense to resolve some of the buffering issues with settling, if that is being deliberately exploited as claimed in the article, that is a huge regulatory problem.
> When nVidia got what it wanted from Linux by dominating compute space using CUDA, they've just left visual part of their drivers to rot.

Have they ever taken proper care of the visual part? I've thought that it exists in the first place because of the SFX industry's heavy use of GNU/Linux and Nvidia. That's a fraction of their market share so only got a fraction of their attention, likely mainly to avoid vacating the area for competitors than to actually make money (bad ROI compared to Windows).
Ticker – Terminal stock watcher and stock position tracker written in Go
Missing Gov.uk link has potentially cost taxpayers £50m
The military were the genocidaires though, so this is hardly an improvement.
I think the actual "problem" that this article brings up is German law, and ProtonMail in Switzerland would be no better from what I can tell (and I live here). From the article:

> Tutanota said it plans to appeal the November ruling from a regional court in Cologne, arguing that it contradicts an earlier decision from another German court.

> “This decision shows again why end-to-end encryption is so important,” Pfau said via email. “According to the ruling of the Cologne Regional Court, we were obliged to release unencrypted incoming and outgoing emails from one mailbox. Emails that are encrypted end-to-end in Tutanota cannot be decrypted by us.”

It seems like this openness of the CEO about the warrant and their actions taken indicate that they are trying to do everything they can without brazenly breaking local laws where they operate. "Unfortunately," if you use an email provider based in a country with a system of judicial proceedings and warrants this will always be a concern, and if you use one in a country without these things you instead lose any semblance of checks on these powers. They offer end-to-end encrypted emails that cannot be decrypted, and their clients have long been open-source to verify this unlike ProtonMail.
How about this very reasonable request to "Remove current Song from Playlist" [1]? Filed in 2012, status shows as "Not Right Now", has collected 1343 votes and counting... They're even worse than Atlassian.

I really hate Spotify for everything except their pretty complete library and reasonable pricing. Discovery, searching, UI, everything just plain sucks, I miss 8tracks.

1: https://community.spotify.com/t5/Live-Ideas/Mobile-Remove-cu...

Edit: I've been hoping for years 8tracks would be back, and low and behold, they have relaunched: https://blog.8tracks.com/2020/04/19/welcome-back-8tracks/

Edit2: not really, still not available outside of USA/Canada
Apart from general unavailability, I've had, since yesterday evening, intermittent failures while sending email over Protonmail bridge. Maybe they're over now though, as I've sent an email an hour ago without problems.
And the whole "fractional" word. You can't lend someone 10 shares based on the one you bought.
Re: takeover by US firms, note that while Murdoch was born Australian he gave up Australian in favor of US citizenship... precisely because it would have been illegal to own such a stake in US media firms as a non- or dual-citizen.

We would also like the Murdoch media and/or tech giants to pay tax in Australia, yes, but neither do at the moment.
I find that streaming services push me to this weird loop that I never feel like I have to go out of my way to discover music, because it's always pushing me music the platform wants to promote.

Of course they're not literally preventing me from doing anything, after all I can just search for the music I want, but often times I would find myself hours into music I've never heard of because the platform decided to play it after what I chose to listen to was over.

That's not necessarily a bad thing, it's just not the way I enjoy listening to music. For me the process of discovering a new album is part of the experience, and i missed doing it when it was so convenient for me not to.
It's interesting that they say they've been logged out of Signal/Telegram and can't log back in due to being unable to receive a confirmation code as the cell services have been shut down.

This type of thing seems to be happening more and more frequently. It is sad to see that there's not more of an effort to build (decentralized) communication technology independent from government/private infrastructure. I think we have the knowledge and affordable technology available to create something ripe for mass-adoption but there doesn't seem to be a real concentrated effort.

The writings are on the wall and if it ever happens to us, nobody can act surprised.
You can’t go to jail for that. If you spend any time on Chinese social media you’ll see how silly of a notion it is.

Perhaps you should consider who convinced you of this falsehood.
Heat sink under the 'N' key, try playing an advernture game without being able to 'go North'
A lot of things look like cheating, when one only skims the first page of the rule book and then plays.
The 'redeeming' aspect of this is that it is doomed to fail.

The machine learning systems here are just 'automation by averages' -- they are incapable of measuring any variables which could actually estimate your emotion.

Emotions are 'conceptualized bodily states' that the brain adopts in order to atune our motivation/etc. to our environment.

Indeed it isn't clear there are any devices we can attach to computer to even take measurements. At best, something like a continuous webcam feed would improve accuracy a little from "almost coinflip", and only for quite extreme emotions.

The problem with these systems is precisely that we are fed 'averages'. NOT that they are 'capturing sentiment' (ad-tech propaganda to sell their apps and ads).

My concern is that this propaganda is leading to people changing their behaviour: unaware they are being fed 'generic content' for some accidental, meaningless 'singanal' they sent, their habits/emotions/self-perception is being distorted to fit the stupidity of the average.
I can’t guess. What?
How to Build a Marketplace Startup That Scales
By the sounds of it, cooking....
I didn't had any problems with ProtonMail last year; tutanota on the other hand had this issue in early December where my ISP was locked out from accessing login page for few days - it wasn't a single case since I saw other people with Orange services facing same problem.
Isn’t this related to the head general not being able to extend his term... how is china involved?
I think utility is all relative. Your contract has utility among those who want to use it. It’s sort of like what my dad used to tell me about baseball cards: they’re only valuable if someone wants to pay you for them.

My contract was more traditional. We needed to mint NFT and sell them in a single transaction. Normally an NFT is minted and transferred then the user can sell it to other people later. In our case, we were selling a very specific asset that demanded payment before (or at the same time) as the NFT was being minted. So I wrote an ERC721 contract that also included Escrow payment capabilities.

It was definitely a good experience, but if I was doing this on my own and not for my job, there’s no way I’d pay almost $300 to deploy a smart contract.
I think people's beef with it is that it's hard to understand when things go wrong, Lennart's projects don't leave the best initial impression, and it's had significant scope creep since it was initially introduced.
Gemini is to a large degree a reaction to the commercialization of the web, all that huge load of Javascript etc. arose through the ad economy. Accessibility isn't that, accessibility is something that people trying to do business would prefer to avoid. But letting the disabled be first-class citizens in an online community alongside the rest of the population is a matter of justice. Adding accessibility features isn’t making a standard "bloated", it is simply doing the right thing.
Thanks for clarifying. I watched that film (though a long time ago), and I’m familiar with the issue. In my mind, coordinated surveillance by the state or any single entity is highly undesirable, but is a different concern. Surely if one can be held liable for, e.g., using a visible act of filming in an attempt to make someone [physically stronger or better equipped] stop breaking the law, one may end up feeling fairly powerless in a variety of situations.
Australia could build its own Baidu, or Naver. I agree it's an exciting opportunity.
It doesn't look like how I remember it.
What is “mi”?
Maybe the question should be “what freelance developer has the time and energy to try to do the job of a lawyer” whenever they have some legal issues to resolve.
I too have an Evergreen GPU that supports OpenGL 4.5 in hardware (and on Windows with AMD's proprietary drivers) but only 3.3 on Linux with Mesa.
If it's a free market economy why would shorting be banned? When it comes to that, why would naked short selling be banned? Free market means the market would decide on whether they want it or not and regulations would be gone.
It’s curious because platinum is worth less than gold right now and I’m not sure why. It’s funny because years ago when looking for rings, my spouse and I chose platinum over yellow gold because of the color and it was quite a bit more. I wish I had bought white gold.
10 BORDER 0: PAPER 0: INK 2

20 PLOT 70,120: DRAW 4,4,4040
Actually it is how inflation works. The BLS actually goes out and buys a basket of household items and groceries at regular intervals across the USA
So no-one noticed or raised the issue that the online form was not used much and that people were sending paper forms instead? For 5 years?

Wow.
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>quality of workmanship.
>I find the mechanism's complexity and delicacy beautiful.

The way I see it these are just self-deceptive rationalizations. You don't need to __own__ an expensive or complicated mechanism to "appreciate it". It's enough for it to exist in the world. I appreciate the ingenuity of ITER, I don't want to own it.

Also, it can be argued that pointless mechanical complexity (mechanical watches are truly pointless today) is immoral profligate decadence, and misallocation of human labor. Some grand complication watches cost obscene money.

>I find its ability to keep time through purely mechanical rather than digital processes fascinating

The price ceiling for a well crafted relatively complicated mechanical watch minus the status, prestige etc is $1000, and automatic mechanical Seikos start from around $100. Doesn't explain the $7000 for cheapest steel Rolex, or most watches interesting to an average watch nerd.

>when I am 80 years old and I can give it to my son

Modern quartz watches can also do that, and won't require any part swapping due to wear.

>You conflate "rational" with "utilitarian" or "practical"

rational is defined as "based on sensible practical reasons rather than emotions" in MacMillan dictionary for example.
Unfortunately I've also had all of this confused nonsense explained in real life to me from people I respect. I think people are bored from the pandemic and the excitement of something nefarious to rail against prevents them from looking into the facts
Ah okay thanks. I always just considered professional market makers (as described there) as just another kind of participant or counter-party who just has a particular strategy and maybe takes advantage of volume rebates or similar (but basically transparent) incentives to act as a liquidity provider.

But I see that you're making a comparison about bitcoin markets where that kind of structure is mostly not there.

That reminds me. For anyone interested, there's an interview with a HFT market-making guy here who set up the LXDX exchange for crypto derivatives and who talks a bit about the differences in market microstructure: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkhLZXLb8mU
England "Includes Scotland and Wales" - that's called Great Britain. Does it keep score? I can't see my history or how I've been doing.

Beautiful videos, though (except the head bobbing).

Also if I've picked a country, start the map centred on that country.
They generally do, with some exceptions from time to time.
> the only way to watch The Wolf of Wall Street or The Big Short this weekend is to pay a little extra cash back into the big financial machine.

Should I tell them?
> gemini, Urbit, IPFS

There could be a distributed blogging/wiki platform where the articles are all written in Gemini markup (or maybe Markdown) and hosted over IPFS.
You're trying to justify present day imperialism by the US with past imperialism by the US and Britain?
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> I just wanted to point out that naked shorting is very easily hidden. It’s hard to prove and the system is built for allowing shadiness.

Is it though? Regulation SHO seems to make it quite hard for brokers to hide it these days. What makes you say it's easily hidden?

Pardon the question - thing is, i don't know if you have expertise in this, or if you're just another random internet guy expressing his biases.
WhatsApp was free. At least for the 1st year it was, and then you were supposed to pay 1 USD per year. 0.084 cents per month, which was also basically free. I paid till FB made it totally free, but I know a lot of friends that did not pay and they had their "free-year" extended. At least in Android.
Yeah, same here, the only explanation I can think of is that the scammers have someone on the inside approving these fake apps.
better pray there would be no customs charges the time
you will get it...
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That isn't correct. He complains in incredibly hyperbolic terms about short-selling in general. For example, "It is important to understand that selling a stock short is not an investment in American enterprise. [...] A successful short manipulation takes money from investment in American enterprise and diverts it to feed Wall Street's insatiable greed—the company that was attacked is worse off and the investing public has lost money. [...] This national disgrace is a parasite on the greatest capital market in the world."

The tone of this is just short of complaining about "the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids". But what they say is all exactly true of all speculation, short and long. The only thing that's actually an "investment in American enterprise" is buying new shares in a public offering. The rest is just gambling on the outcome to "feed Wall Street's insatiable greed".

Indeed, one could argue, as short-sellers do, that unchecked positive hype is more damaging to market participants, because it obscures the underlying value of a instrument causing people to overpay. When people buy something overvalued, they've already lost money; they just don't know it yet. Shorting helps keep those dastardly long-sellers in check, keeping them from stealing the hard-earned money of retail investors everywhere. If shorts manage to momentarily drive a price down below the intrinsic value, why they've just created a bargain for savvy investors. They are in fact doing a public service that otherwise would have to be performed by intrusive regulators. Etc, etc.

I think the truth lies between. Speculation, short and long, is economically valuable because it aids in price discovery, creating a liquid market so that actual investors in a company can exit, freeing up capital for further new investment. One could argue (and I often do) that we have way more speculation than we need to fill that economic purpose. But complaining bitterly about just the skeptical side of that speculation is like arguing that Hacker News should only allow positive comments about startups.
Both are religious in nature
> What I've done personally, is started making backups to an SSD. In the event of a problem, I buy a new Mac and restore it to that, in a very fast manner. This means that, including shopping, roughly half a day of work will be lost. This is acceptable to me.

I do something similar. I run Time Machine backups, then have what I call “hot backups.” These are CCC bootable clones to a zippy external SSD. I update them every 4 hours.

Also, most of my crucial data is “cloudy,” in things like GitHub.

APFS has the new “split” system, with a separate “data” volume. This can be used for Restore Mode rebuilds.

I have not had to rely on a full backup restore from Time Machine in years. The hot backup has been fine. It also means that I don’t have an issue wiping my computer and taking it in for service. I have the luxury of having a backup device (usually a couple of years older model of my primary).
True here the statements of ProtonMail, Threema, Tresorit and Tutanota:

https://protonmail.com/blog/joint-statement-eu-encryption/

And

>>Does this resolution affect Proton?
This resolution is non-binding. On its own, it does not change the current EU framework but rather points the direction the EU may take in the future. ProtonMail is also protected by Swiss jurisdiction (Switzerland is not a member of the EU). Any request for us to develop a backdoor to ProtonMail under this hypothetical anti-encryption law would need to pass the scrutiny of Switzerland’s strict criminal procedure and data protection laws.

https://protonmail.com/blog/eu-attack-on-encryption/

>It seems like this openness of the CEO

Yes, tutanota seems to be a really nice place to work for.
I just stop myself when I detect tab-driven development. Readability and function have to trump aesthetic concerns about indentation level.
One of the many problems here is that the IAP section in the App Store doesn't seem to support subscriptions at all.

Unlock keyboard £14.99 KeyWatch - Watch Keyboard PRO £7.99 KeyWatch - Watch Keyboard VIP £29.49 KeyWatch - Watch Keyboard VIP £2.99 Premium £14.99

That's the IAPs for the scam app. If it wasn't a scam app then £7.99 to unlock all the features might be fine. But £7.99/wk subscription is obviously wildly different, and you wouldn't know that's what's going on from the App Store.
This doesn’t seem to have anything to do with the current events. There are lots of movies you can’t stream at any point in time.
Nobody's terrified and Wall St is going to zero out all these idiots' accounts on the way down.
What could be dangerous with sleeping on a train? I always sleep on trains and buses, I even change when I go to sleep, so I'm tired when on the train, so I can fall asleep.

M5x7wI3CmbEem10, I first thought you were worried about sleeping too long, getting off at the wrong station

I suppose it's getting robbed? And that you live in a quite different part of the world than me :-/
This is the problem - someone is selling something they don't own. It's like you borrowed a car from a rental company and then you sold it to someone. Pretty sure that's a crime. If this is allowed on the stock market, then I think this is laziness of law enforcement that they don't know what to do with it. What if the owner wants the item back and the person you sold it to won't sell it? It seems like this may be the problem with Gamestop. If people hold on to their shares, whoever "shorted" them is in a big trouble and rightfully so.
Just to be really clear here - accessibility isnt a "niche". People being able to use software (which presumably is what gemini is about??) is important for everyone, obviously.

Imagine saying accessability hardware - like corrective lenses - is niche.
Maybe they should focus on their client apps instead. I havent seen a worse ux in such a widely used app probably ever. From the apple tv os app to the web app there are so many appalling decisions and missing basic features.
Not sure if this is relevant but the Tatmadaw are majority owners of Mytel, which has one of the largest networks in subscriber base and hardware infrastructure. They never really gave up control of Myanmar in a strategic sense.
This is not entirely accurate. It is the same position as borrowing some amount of money to buy the stock. If I buy a put and call and the price at expiry is exactly that strike I am guaranteed to lose money.
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Not always. Saudi Aramco went public with only 1.5% of their value, and that was 25 Billion dollars, a good amount by any measure, specially useful when you need $$$ for weapons for your war in Yemen.

Besides the money, they also wanted to test the waters before going in with a larger percentage and I don't know if the market could have handled a new 1.7 Trillion dollar company joining all at once.

https://www.investopedia.com/what-is-saudi-aramco-4682590