#edge cases

[todays-xkcd]

Slowly progressing from 'how do protons behave in relativistic collisions?' to 'what the heck are protons even doing when they're just sitting there?'

Actual Progress [Explained]

[silverliningsrr]

Character Focus: Derivan!

artist is zoanluen on Twitter!

Oh man, Derivan.

I mean, his character concept was kind of what started this whole thing, right? I like monsters - if the tags on some of my other posts haven't made it obvious - and 'living armor' pushes a lot of buttons for me. There's a lot in the idea of being othered that resonates with the queer experience, and Derivan embodies a lot of that in a lot of ways by being, uh, a suit of armor that's afraid to let other people know that he's a suit of armor?

(It turns out they knew all along. Not completely, but they figured something was up, considering he never took off his helmet. 0 of his friends were surprised when it was eventually revealed.)

Derivan spent most of his formative years in a dungeon (the video game equivalent of a dungeon, as in a 'challenging location', not someone's basement), so he's very fascinated by the world at large - which explains a lot of his connection to Vex, who loves explaining just about everything in too much detail. Unlike most people who talk to Vex, Derivan sits and listens to every word attentively.

What's sort of funny is that a lot of people assume he's ace? I do have an ace character, but that's Sev. Derivan is demisexual. I leave further thoughts on this as an exercise to the reader. (Or you can respond to this post with theories.)

Derivan represents an outside-context problem for the system in the world of Edge Cases. He's essentially an embodiment of an issue I often find in video games - that video games will often designate 'monster races' that are all enemies, despite several of them being very clearly sapient. He's meant to be commentary on that aspect of the reductiveness of video game logic, so to speak.

He's very formal and thoughtful, he uses the lights in his helmet to express most of his emotions, and is otherwise protective of his friends, who were the first people to accept him. Found family vibes baybeeeeee

For those not familiar, Derivan is from my book, The Fabric of Reality.

[fern-spotting]

Columbo S1E6: “Short Fuse” (1972)

Fern...spotted? At 33:45, we see what appears to be a plastic feather-leaf fern. What do we think, does this count as spotting a fern?

Bonus: a lovely rubber tree at 3:13.

[nonstandardrepertoire]

this actually does happen sometimes! i can't find the case from my hometown that happened when i was in high school, but here's a similar case reported on by ABC from a few years back: https://abcnews.go.com/Lifestyle/twins-daylight-saving-time-birth-results-bizarre-age/story?id=43468433

what if you’re giving birth to twins and it’s the end of daylights savings day and the older twin was born first but the second twin travels back in time and is born an hour before the first twin, would that be fucked up or what.

[keploy12]

E2E Testing Strategies: Handling Edge Cases while Testing

End-to-end (E2E) testing, often considered the guardian at the gates of software quality, plays a pivotal role in the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC). In a world where user expectations soar daily, ensuring an application's robustness is paramount. This is where E2E testing steps into the limelight.

Think of it as a vigilant guard. This guard constantly checks every part of your web application. Its purpose is to ensure that your application remains strong.Keploy performs this action even in unusual situations, which people know as "edge cases."

In this blog, we explore end to end testing Strategies, with a focus on dealing with tricky edge cases. But before we dive into the strategies, let's first understand what edge cases are.

Understanding Edge Cases 🧑🏻‍🏫

Edge cases, often referred to as boundary cases, are scenarios in software development that represent extreme or uncommon conditions and inputs. These are situations that fall at the very edges or boundaries of the expected or typical behavior of a system. They exhibit their uniqueness and typically involve uncommon or unforeseen user interactions, data inputs, or system conditions.

The critical role of involving edge cases while testing is because they help in:

Identifying vulnerabilities: Edge cases are often where vulnerabilities and unexpected behavior are most likely to occur. These scenarios may not be well-covered in standard testing procedures. Entering a long password, submitting an empty form, or using special characters in data inputs can all expose vulnerabilities.

Enhancing Software Reliability: By testing edge cases, you ensure that your software can gracefully handle unusual circumstances. This enhances the overall reliability of the system.

Meeting User Expectations: Users can be unpredictable, and they might use your software in ways you didn't anticipate. By testing edge cases, you align your software with user expectations. If someone enters a birthdate from more than 100 years ago, your app should handle it well, even if it's uncommon.

Avoiding Costly Failures: Neglecting edge case testing can lead to costly failures and security breaches in a production environment. It's much more cost-effective to identify and address these issues during the development and testing phases.

Some Common Edge Cases 😶‍🌫️

It's important to know typical edge cases because they can cause errors or unexpected behavior in the application. Here are some common examples:

Extreme Data Sizes:

Large File Uploads: Evaluate the application's ability to handle large file uploads, which can strain server resources and impact performance.

Overflow and Underflow: Check if the app can handle extremely big or small numbers without any errors or crashes.

Rare User Interactions:

Network Failures: Introduce network disruptions or slow connections during user interactions to assess how the application gracefully handles such situations.

Concurrency Issues: Test for race conditions and concurrency problems, where multiple users or processes interact with the application simultaneously.

Boundary Conditions:

Boundary Values: Check how the application works when using the lowest and highest values for age, quantity, or price.

Pagination: Test how the application handles edge cases in pagination, like the first and last page or cases where the number of items per page doesn't evenly divide the total.

Data Integrity and Database Edge Cases:

Assess how the application handles situations like database connection failures, duplicate records, or constraint violations.

Unusual User Inputs:

Special Characters: Test how the application handles user inputs with special characters, such as symbols, emojis, or non-alphanumeric characters.

Long Inputs: Test the application's response to unusually long input strings, which may exceed character limits or cause layout issues.

Addressing edge cases like these proactively during testing can significantly improve the overall quality and user experience of your web application.

Challenges in Testing Edge Cases with E2E Testing

Limited Visibility: E2E testing faces challenges in identifying and addressing edge cases because of their unexpected nature. Since E2E testing typically follows predefined user flows, testers may overlook edge cases that fall outside these flows.

Data Variability: E2E testing must account for data variability, especially in edge cases where input data may be extreme or unusual. Ensuring that the application handles such data gracefully in an E2E testing environment is essential for comprehensive coverage.

Complex Interactions: Edge cases often involve complex user interactions or sequences of actions. E2E testing tools and scripts need to accurately simulate these interactions to ensure the application behaves as expected.

Resource Constraints: E2E testing doesn't always mimic real-world limits, such as high CPU or memory usage, leading to unusual situations. This lack of resource emulation can hinder thorough testing.

Cross-Browser and Cross-Device Compatibility: E2E testing needs different browsers and devices, but situations may differ on each platform. Ensuring consistent behavior across the entire spectrum of supported environments can be challenging.

Strategies for effective E2E Testing by handling Edge Cases ⚡

By implementing specific strategies and planning your tests, you can easily conduct effective testing to ensure a robust application. Here are some of the best strategies to implement in your testing lifecycle:

Identifying and Prioritizing Relevant Edge Cases: Begin by identifying the significant uncommon scenarios for your application. Then, prioritize them based on their potential impact on the functionality and user experience of the app. Focus on testing the most critical edge cases first.

Test Data Generation: Develop a systematic approach to generate test data that covers various edge cases. This may involve creating scripts or using data generation tools to simulate unusual inputs and scenarios.

Leverage Test Automation Frameworks: Use test automation frameworks to automate end-to-end tests, including scenarios that cover edge cases. These frameworks allow you to define test cases and automate repetitive testing tasks.

Error Handling and Validation: Pay special attention to error handling and validation mechanisms in your application. Check how the system acts in unexpected situations and make sure it shows the right error messages or responses.

Parameterized Testing: Use parameterized testing to run the same test case with different input values, including edge cases. This helps ensure comprehensive coverage.

Conclusion 👋🏻

In summary, E2E testing is like a watchful protector in the world of software quality assurance. As user demands rise, ensuring your applications are strong is crucial, and that's where E2E testing shines. It's like a vigilant guard, thoroughly checking every part of your software, especially in those tricky situations called "edge cases."

Understanding these edge cases is essential, as they represent the extremities of expected software behavior. They are unique, often unexpected scenarios that can challenge the resilience of your application.

[spyderschaos]

OTP

[d-feng]

i have a bunch of shrimpo and dandy doodles piled up since they became accidental narrative and game mechanic foils in my fangame idea. really funny how they did that

[edgy-senju]

Pillar siblings, Whamseph & Modern AU

[crowlecroux]

FARRYN WINS!

Congrats to this lovely satyr lady from the woods! She's proven her worth as a devoted lover, and won the tournament as The Best Wifeguy.

[4denthusiast]

Why would you accept the linear map but not the corresponding matrix? Rejecting both would seem kind of dubious, but rejecting only one of them just seems bizarre to me. [] does everything an ordinary matrix does. What did this poor little thing do to deserve this treatment? With such a definition, every linear map from one vector space with a finite basis to another corresponds to a matrix except if the bases (or maybe only one of them) are empty, but as far as I'm aware the exception is entirely unnecessary.

Also, if you take the definition of the determinant to be something based on the matrices, with a theorem that it's basis-independent, define the determinant of a linear map to be the determinant of the corresponding matrix for any basis (not necessary, but a possible definition), and refuse to consider the 0x0 matrix a valid matrix, then the empty map would still, exceptionally, not have a determinant by this definition.

Poll time, but this time linear algebra.

Arguments for any position appreciated!

[silverliningsrr]

hehe book

[abstractfrog]

that doesn't sound right but i don't know enough about receiving valentines to dispute it

[flightdescending]

does anyone else follow secret rules about which way familiars are allowed to face

[pastafossa]

DDBA THOUGHTS, FIRST TWO EPS.

It's been roughly 90 minutes and I am still processing, jesus fucking christ.

Set behind a cut due to spoilers but my thoughts are pretty positive, even if that shit ran my heart over like a dump truck. Below you will find:

My frantic reaction thoughts I wrote down during or immediately after (character dissections will be marked)

My overall thoughts on the first 2 eps as a whole

Dissection of Matt and where I think he's at currently in this headspace

Yes that's right, I'm using the sad gif. Spoilers ahead. Feel free to skip down to whichever part you like!

I will have more thoughts tomorrow but I am still feeling fucking weird because I'm trying to process both the new series events and the fact that Our Man is back after 6 years in show format and I feel like someone who's gone from starving to suddenly full of food and my body is CONFUSED

The mood whiplash in the first 15 mins going from, yup we're all happy, to absolute fucking building dread and then horrified agony was, I won't lie, well done. You made me want to vomit, thanks writers.

Spent the whole fight with Bullseye just sobbing and whispering, 'oh no, oh no, oh Foggy, baby, no, Matt, no-', pretty sure some part of me inside is stiiiiiiiiill sobbing, it will always be sobbing, gonna relive that for days 😭

Matt crying on the rooftop? Him being so fucking distraught that all he could do was lean on Dex even though Dex was the killer? Just fucking gut me. Worst we've ever seen him, bar none.

DISSECTION MOMENT: He pushes Dex over the edge. I'd wondered if he'd try to kill Dex, with that being his, 'A Line Was Crossed', and tbh I think if any canon death could make Matt kill, it would be Foggy's. And he certainly tried. Matt's always walked such a fine line when it comes to murder, and he's come VERY close before, usually only dodging it because the baddie gets lucky or we can squint and say they did it to themselves. Welp, here we are again, and this time I think the only reason Dex is alive is because of all that technology we saw them packing into Dex at the end of S3. To Matt? To Matt, he killed. That Dex technically lived is a coincidence. Matt tried to break his rule. He tried.

Yes I am still parked in Denial Hill wondering if Foggy will come around somehow, I need some time to organize my thoughts, but even if he's dead dead, I'm going to wait and see if they pull an Elektra and find some way to revive him.

DISSECTION MOMENT: Matt's new apartment (RIP our beloved old loft cause someone's living there now from what I understand) is nice but something I noticed is it's... a little colder. And I think that's intentional. Matt's old apartment was rougher around the edges, warmer, and I'd argue a little more symbolic both of the Kitchen and who he was each night on the streets. Half the reason he chose that old apartment was the roof access. This new apartment is for a Matt who's trying very hard to be done with Daredevil and live life only as Matt. He's locked away from the streets with no easy way to go running, he's situated high and cool and distant, with all those floors to slow him down if he gets impulsive.

Matt just disassociating his way through his breakfast and morning coffee, yup he's totally fine, definitely not trying to block out all those screams.

DISSECTION MOMENT: EXCUSE ME, CARRYING AROUND FOGGY'S MEMORIAL CARD. 😭 Personal theory is he's not just carrying it to have a little of Foggy with him, but because he's trying to remind himself why he's not being Daredevil anymore since he thinks that doing that got Foggy killed.

Queenpin, good for her.

Really liked the touch of Matt cooking in the dark because he doesn't need light. And I liked the addition of the neon lighting flashing in his windows, a good callout to his old apartment.

I'm also digging both Kirsten and Heather, esp Heather who we get more of. There's chemistry there, and she rolls with Matt pretty well. I'm very interested to see how she handles the Shenanigans TM that I'm sure he'll get up to later. I'd love if he could have a healthy canon relationship for once but this is also matt soooo. And that KISS, damn, when is it my turn

THE DINER SCENE WAS EVERYTHING I NEEDED, THESE TWO ARE SO FUCKING PERFECT IN EVERY SCENE YOU HAVE THEM IN TOGETHER, GD

DISSECTION MOMENT: No but I really do think this is something that would keep Matt out of Hell's Kitchen for a bit as he struggles with his identity, his trauma, his fear, and with the 'costs' of what he does. All that work and he feels like he failed. He couldn't save the one person that mattered most to him. On top of that? He crossed his line. He tried to kill someone and would have succeeded if Dex hadn't been built different. All of that trauma around what happened... yeah I could see him trying to hang the cowl up and move to a new neighborhood in hopes that he'd be able to escape. And he is trying to escape. He's pushing all that down, pushing and pushing and I'm Fine-ing like he has with every previous death in his life, holding up like a good Catholic boy, but the cracks are showing. He's a powder keg.

YET MORE DISSECTION: And holy fucking shit when he blows up does he go. That fight at the end of the 2nd Episode had me feral. Definition of FAFO. I know I've seen some mixed opinions on the opening fight, but that fight at the end of ep 2 is exactly what I wanted, that was perfect. Him begging them to stop because he's trying not to do this, trying not to fight, he's afraid of what he'll do if it gets out, but the second that blood droplet hit the floor (LOVED that shot), you knew that was it, ding ding, Round One. I loved how vicious that fight was, I need to rewatch it 10 TIMES.

That final scream. What's that Matt? You're saying you're not fine? You're not handling this well? Whoever could have predicted that you mashing all that grief and rage down would come out like that, not me it was me though i predicted that.

Intrigued by that Punisher tattoo the dirty cop had on him.

OH MY GOD SHE'S THEIR MARITAL COUNSELOR, GOOD FUCKING LUUUUUCK

Man, Karen just fucking skedaddled and I'm wondering if this isn't because she's going to spiral out in CA like she does in the comics so she comes back having also gone through it (I realize it was because, in reality, they had to explain why she wasn't there because otherwise they'd have to rewrite and reshoot everything, but we're talking in universe here). Karen also has a tendency to run, much like she tries to do in S3. We know she'll be back though.

MY THOUGHTS OVERALL:

So.

(puts hands together and breathes because this was a lot and I'm still processing both the return of our man after 6 years and the show events themselves)

So.

So.

I'm obviously gutted over Foggy, I'll be crying over that for a bit even if I still have a lil hope, and am willing to just fix it in fanfic otherwise. But... I liked this. A lot. It's not exactly the Netflix show, which I'll always be nostalgic for, but quite frankly it was never going to be that show - too much time has passed, and batons have changed hands in terms of writing, directing, cinematography, etc. I'm ok with this being a little different. I'm ok with there being some small humps to get over, cause god knows S2 had its issues too (I love you, OG DD, but it's true). I'm really really optimistic about this.

I do think you can also see some slight tonal shifts between stuff that was salvaged from the original writing arc, and what Scardapane has added in during reshoots. And those moments Scardapane's got control are the best, even if I think they've done pretty damn good during the rest of it considering all the shakeups during production. I'm going to be very interested to see what happens in S2 where you've got a singular creator with consistent control, and I'm very excited for the final two episodes of S1 which are both all under Scardapane's hand. The best part is Matt is still Matt. The dialogue, what he's trying to do, even him pulling a, "that part of my life is over" is very him. His resistance to becoming DD again (though as my dad snorted when we were watching and Matt told Fisk that part of his life was over, 'HA! Horseshit.' Cue dad's smug 'HA! Told you.' During the ep 2 fight) feels... like a natural progression, and Charlie's playing it well.

MY THOUGHTS ON MATT, PLEASE STAND BY FOR ULTIMATE DISSECTION.

Oh boy. Oh boy. As predicted, our man is going through it and you can see it (God bless you Charlie, you're as wonderful an actor as ever). He's convinced, of course, that he's doing ok. He's holding down a good job, he's got a new apartment, he's managing to ignore the screams at night even if he has to drown it out with music and live up so high to try to muffle it, he's not laying in bed like a lump, he's not going out to fight, whatever you do, don't go out there, if I go I'll slip again. But this isn't a man who's ok. This is a man who's terrified and wracked with guilt because not only did his life as Daredevil (in his mind) lead to his best friend's death, but he broke his rule. He made the kill move, gave into his grief and his rage, and it was only through luck that Dex lived. It would only eat at him more that it was over Foggy, one of the people who regularly encouraged Matt to hold back from taking that final step. Matt knows Foggy wouldn't have wanted that for Matt.

He was warned that one day he'd kill someone. And he tried to do it.

Giving up Daredevil is what Foggy would have wanted. I have no doubt he's telling himself that.

But you can only cut away part of yourself for so long before it finds a way out. Matt will never be able to resist going to help those who need it. He'll never be able to fully turn away, and he enjoys those fights.

That's where that scream comes from at the end of Ep 2. He has done everything he's supposed to. He's given it all up, he's moved, he's focused on the law only, and he even fucking begged them to leave him be. He let them beat him and beat him and beat him, and still he didn't raise a hand.

Not until that gun came out.

And he snapped.

Everything done right, and still he finds his way here again, with blood on his fists and his adrenaline up and, I'm sure, no small bit of guilty enjoyment over suddenly being back in a fight that he won.

Our man is not ok, and I think he's going to realize that going forward.

This IS our man. There's some frayed edges here - there usually are in pilots, in shows that had this many production issues. But there is so, so much good here too to build on and I'm eager to see where Charlie and them take it even if it winds up crushing my heart a bit more in the process.

[unpretty]

Kink taxonomy hell makes me a) very glad I am ace & don't have to deal with these problems & b) lowkey thinking about how I'd approach running a porn production company whose entire output is like 15 minute porn shorts based on these asks. I mean, I wouldn't actually want to start a porn production company, because that would require way more start up capital & effort than it would be worth to me personally (see: ace, but also burn out re: small production companies). But, see, I do work in the production industry at a small production company on the non-porn side of things (we make stuff for like Netflix/HBO/Hulu & shit) & often make or consult on budgets, so it's a bit of a fun thought exercise about how to approach it.

Get a core cast you can rotate through for different scenarios (6-10 ppl for cast; though actual # each day might be much lower); ideally have a studio space + production off with edit suite; aim for ~2-3 set ups each day depending on complexity/# of on-screen orgasms (goal for these is short so might not be a full scene/scenario); in-house equipment as much as possible (cameras, lights, but also build up a sex/prop repository that can be resued); two-camera; relatively small crew, -- Director, producer, AP, DP, A/C, sound, gaffer, DIT (can be the AE), safery coordinator, PA x2, HMU+asst, wardrobe + props + art dept float -- so ~16 set crew, plus on the post/in-house side you'll need: editor x2, production accountant, AE (can be the same person as DIT), post super. Plus then unlike the companies I work at you'd want probably a marketing person & web dev.

Schedule would look something like: 3 weeks prep // 2 wks shoot w/ goal of getting material for ~24 shorts // 8 wks edit to get through all material (could start posting scenes finished sooner before all scenes are edited, obvs; this is assuming 3 edit days per 15 min short on average, but it all depends on how complex you want to get with the edit; if it's just 15 minutes of one shot getting played out with a few cut aways, then edit time could get cut down by a lot. But I'm assuming some stuff is going to get more complex edits; it also might work better to have three editors going so that edit time & prep+shoot time are roughly equal)

The issue here is that, ok, start up costs to get gear, etc will always be high, so setting those aside for the moment but overhead costs + staffing costs are going to get pricey. Granted, I don't know what the going rates are for folks either behind or in front of the camera in porn, but I do know the going rates outside of porn & I also know what I think are fair rates for these positions / what I would want to pay people. So imo for a single shoot day, you're looking at well over $10k for labor alone. All in, with what I described, my slapdash back of the envelope math says you're looking at $350,000+ in labor costs for the whole shebang & that's before fringe (je refuse to 1099 everyone; that way lies audits by the irs), equipment, overhead, etc. Easily I can imagine a half million dollar budget here in total.

& I guess that's where I start stalling out, because I know how to set up a shoot, get insurance, have legal buttoned up, but there's so much free porn out there that breaking even, much less monetizing it!, seems even harder than non-porn stuff these days. (& that's a struggle too! A huge part of why I'm burned out.) I mean, even if people like, pay to have their prompt included, folks aren't going to want to pay THAT much to cover costs. I guess aiming for lots of subscription fees on different platforms? But that's a lot of marketing elbow grease & takes time to build up, making starting capital essential. The stuff I'm familar with wrt indie filmmaking -- grants or corporate sponsors -- seem less likely for porn. & sure I could cut corners in my hypothetical budget, find savings, pay people less (ugh), but like, no. Maybe if I actually watched porn I'd know more about how it makes money, but that's a bridge too far.

Anyway, the government should give us all free money to pursue making art, even (especially?) when that art is porn. Or something.

there's nothing i can add to this, really

[glassrunner]

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