Curtis the Cowboy Tester

After two years of questioning why Cowboy Testing continues to languish I’ve realized I have been waffling all this time. I need to make a real go of it or shut it down completely.

Part of the difficulty people are having with finding tech employment is the flood of unqualified applicants who swarm any posting. LI is insane right now. I’m debating abandoning it as a gateway service because it’s hard to distinguish yourself among 1500 others.

If you cannot answer why you are executing the specific test case in front of you as opposed to the 349 other test cases you could be executing right now you are seriously misunderstanding what intention and risk is within software testing.

Someone popped up on my LinkedIn wall and got me thinking. Does anyone else find a middle aged white single guy who decides to suddenly relocate to Thailand sort of immediately suspect? No? It's not just me?

So you have no data you can use for historical risk analysis? Awesome ….

Cool

Conceding your point changes nothing about my comment except what I call it. But yes, it’s a compatibility layer.

I’ll concede the point but it does not change anything about my comment except what I call it.

There are two kinds of emulators, software and hardware. You just successfully defined the later.

Please explain how Proton is not a Windows emulator.

Neither? It was an explanation of what it is as the person who mentioned it seemed unsure. I don't like emulators because I don't like waiting for an open source community to address patches and updates just to play my game. I'd rather deal with Windows. That's my call and not a recommendation.

That Linux distro is indeed much better than Windows 11, but you still won't wipe your laptop and install it instead. You love The Sims too much.

I'm just a boy scrolling on a social media platform randomly following people from Seattle because this weather has made me nostalgic. I may not have been grunge, but I was grunge adjacent. Maybe "groth" describes me best.

My power and my curse is that I have the ability to anticipate unlikely risk but lack the motivation to address it.

It's still technically a Mozilla fork. The part where Google is butt hurt are the parts where they added proprietary things they want to keep like data tracking and Google ecosystem integration.

Proton is basically an emulator. It creates an interface layer for interpreting the Windows commands into something your Linux distro will recognize and support. It's only as good as its ability to correctly interpret those handshakes. Updates in either can require you wait on community.

Good. You were starting to look like a hippy.

The Venn diagram between people who think the NBA has a "three point problem" and the people who mock the WNBA is a near perfect circle. Basketball is not a gladiatorial cage match. You shouldn't require seeing muscular giants fighting under a net to be amused.

Google was a search engine that pioneered building search indexes using probabilistic logic algorithms (AI). Chrome was originally a Firefox fork with which they skirted open source licensing issues by claiming Chrome is also open source. So technically Mozilla made Chrome.

If you can perfect a fading jumper to land the three point shot you are basically in god mode, even under the old rules. The only way to stop you is make sure you never keep the ball or someone at least 12" taller is guarding you.

This is also impacting residencies. Many people are leaving forced birth states for their residency because they cannot meet the standards required to become certified unless they can perform now illegal procedures.

Doctors all across the country are making this choice by leaving places where they cannot ethically practice medicine. Multiple women in Idaho are suing the state legislature because there are no obgyns in the panhandle anymore. Women must travel out of state for basic healthcare.

I am running windows and it sometimes needs patches and updates. Every now and then .....

All cloud backup services compress the photos resulting in degraded quality. I store originals on a physical disc to support the "let's get some professionally printed" use case.

I put a recent backup on a physical hard drive and stored it in a fire safe. I am now worried I will not be able to open said safe if I need it. Before the safe, I was afraid I would misplace the drive.

Get your partner a sword for the holidays. An actual metal sword. Don't worry if they'll not like it. If they don't, they are weak and will not protect you during the apocalypse. They are not for you.

Sword. We don't currently need a sword and yet we also do. I personally have a Scottish basket hilt long sword. It's sits in my closet quietly whispering "freeeedoommmm ..." to me.

People pushing hard for Linux don't seem to get it. it's not about whether a Linux distro is better than Windows. It is. They all are. It's about whether or not I can play Roblox with the people on my Discord server without needing to use VMs or 3rd party emulators.

When I can play the $35 survivor games I purchased off Steam on Linux without needing to use VMs, I will seriously consider switching. Until then it may as well be OSX to me.

Face or head?